Rose 'Simply the Best' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Macamster')
An award-winning spectacular hybrid tea rose producing masses of large perfectly formed burnt orange blooms with exceptional fragrance, complemented by glossy dark green foliage with red-tinted young leaves, vigorous growth, and reliable repeat flowering, making it perfect for gift giving, cutting gardens, and sophisticated garden displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 110cm
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Burnt orange with copper and orange blend highlights
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, medium shrub with free-branching habit
- Flower Type: Large fully double blooms with classic spiral bud form
- Fragrance: Medium to strong sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Simply the Best' stands as a truly exceptional award-winning hybrid tea rose, bred by McGredy and introduced in 2002, earning the prestigious Rose of the Year award in recognition of its outstanding garden performance. This magnificent variety produces masses of large perfectly formed burnt orange blooms with exceptional colour depth and sophisticated copper highlights that create stunning visual impact throughout the extended flowering season. The striking burnt orange colouring with orange and yellow blend tones maintains its vibrancy and warmth from late spring to frost, creating consistent colour that symbolises energy, warmth, and contemporary garden sophistication. The large fully double blooms feature classic spiral bud form that opens to reveal perfectly shaped flowers, whilst the medium to strong sweet fragrance enhances the spectacular visual display, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both gift presentations and sophisticated garden themes.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Simply the Best' lies in its masses of large, perfectly formed burnt orange blooms that showcase exceptional hybrid tea form with remarkable colour intensity and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic spiral bud formation opening to large fully double blooms featuring burnt orange with copper highlights and orange blend tones that create sophisticated visual effects throughout the flowering season. The striking colour combination provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity and warmth throughout the growing period, creating consistent colour variation that symbolises contemporary elegance and award-winning excellence. The flowers are produced abundantly with reliable repeat flowering from late spring to frost, creating continuous displays that maintain their spectacular appeal throughout the extended growing season. The medium to strong sweet fragrance complements the exceptional visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both award-winning garden themes and everyday garden appreciation.
Growth Characteristics
The vigorous stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and formal garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The glossy dark green foliage with distinctive red-tinted young leaves is produced abundantly, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the burnt orange blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous medium shrub growth with free-branching habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from borders to containers, with the manageable size making it perfect for various garden applications whilst providing impressive presence.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to frost, 'Simply the Best' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of large perfectly formed fragrant flowers continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect spiral bud formation and remarkable colour depth, whilst the elegant fully double shape ensures each flower maintains its sophisticated appearance for extended periods. The excellent repeat flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the continuous burnt orange blooms providing ongoing focal points that energise garden spaces with their award-winning colour and sweet fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Simply the Best' thrives in full sun with fertile, well-drained soil, adapting well to all soil types whilst preferring bright, open positions for optimal performance. The rose responds excellently to east, south, or west-facing aspects where the burnt orange colours can be fully appreciated throughout the day. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the manageable size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to containers and large planting schemes.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Simply the Best' demonstrates excellent garden hardiness and good health characteristics, supporting reliable growth throughout the season. The variety shows vigorous, free-branching characteristics with its naturally robust constitution, making it particularly dependable for gardeners seeking consistent award-winning rose performance. The glossy dark green foliage with distinctive red-tinted young growth remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, making it an excellent choice for gardeners who appreciate award-winning plantings with reasonable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal variations.
Care and Maintenance
'Simply the Best' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour intensity. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The robust nature means this variety responds well to standard care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable award-winning plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous free-branching shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Simply the Best' excels in sophisticated garden displays and gift presentations where its award-winning significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The magnificent burnt orange blooms make it ideal for contemporary gardens, special occasion plantings, and formal displays where unique colour and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for borders, containers, and large beds, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements for special occasions and gift presentations. The vigorous growth and excellent repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating impressive focal points in contemporary gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from modern borders to traditional rose gardens.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Simply the Best' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and gift presentations. The rose thrives in containers where its burnt orange blooms can create spectacular focal points and sophisticated displays, making it perfect for terraces and special presentations where award-winning colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the spectacular displays and award-winning significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and gift presentations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Simply the Best' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of distinctive red-tinted young leaves that mature to glossy dark green, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular burnt orange blooms from late spring through to frost provide months of award-winning colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent sophisticated impact. The attractive foliage with its distinctive seasonal colour changes remains healthy throughout the season with proper care, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Simply the Best' features medium to strong sweet fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the sophisticated garden experience. The lovely sweet scent adds exceptional aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic interest are desired for special arrangements. The delightful fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the award-winning garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the sweet perfume creates lasting impressions and memorable garden moments.
Companion Planting
The burnt orange colouring of 'Simply the Best' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The orange and copper tones work beautifully with cream and yellow flowers for warm contrast that highlights both the award-winning significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create stunning complementary combinations. Bronze and copper foliage plants complement the orange tones whilst cream flowers provide elegant displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's contemporary atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Awards
'Simply the Best' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by McGredy, introduced in 2002 and honoured with the prestigious Rose of the Year award, recognised as 'Macamster' in professional circles. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated award-winning colour significance with exceptional fragrance and reliable garden performance, creating a rose that satisfies both gift purposes and practical gardening requirements. This award-winning achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and meaningful burnt orange colour that makes this variety particularly valuable for contemporary plantings and special presentations, with proven performance and recognition in the rose world.
Award-Winning Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Simply the Best' is its prestigious Rose of the Year recognition, making it uniquely meaningful for award-winning garden displays and special presentations. The magnificent burnt orange blooms symbolise excellence, contemporary style, and horticultural achievement, whilst the excellent repeat flowering represents the finest achievements in modern rose breeding. This award-winning significance, combined with outstanding garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both recognised merit and exceptional practical performance.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Simply the Best' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring award-winning beauty indoors for special occasions and gift arrangements. The strong stems, abundant large perfectly formed blooms, and sweet fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the sophisticated significance of the burnt orange colours. The excellent repeat flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining impressive garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional arrangements that celebrate special occasions and meaningful presentations.
Why Choose 'Simply the Best'?
Rose 'Simply the Best' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, exceptional performance, and contemporary beauty. The masses of large perfectly formed burnt orange blooms with their sweet fragrance and classic spiral bud form provide spectacular displays from late spring to frost, whilst the vigorous growth and excellent hardiness ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for contemporary gardens, gift presentations, cutting displays, or simply for its exceptional beauty and award-winning colour, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers proven value that combines meaningful recognition with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the finest achievements in modern rose breeding with contemporary appeal and sophisticated charm in any garden setting.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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