Rose 'Southampton' - Floribunda Rose
A magnificent award-winning floribunda rose that produces spectacular large trusses of double blooms in apricot-orange flushed with scarlet-red, combining exceptional fragrance with outstanding disease resistance and continuous flowering performance from spring through to the first frosts, making it perfect for hedging, bedding, and cut flower arrangements.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to November
- Flower Colour: Apricot-orange flushed with scarlet-red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, bushy, vigorous
- Flower Type: Large double blooms with slightly ruffled petals in trusses
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM)
Overview
Rose 'Southampton' stands as one of the finest apricot-coloured floribunda roses available, earning the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding reliability. This distinguished variety produces magnificent large trusses of fragrant double flowers in warm apricot-orange beautifully flushed with scarlet-red, creating a spectacular display of vibrant colour that captures attention throughout the extended growing season. The healthy dark green glossy foliage provides perfect contrast to the warm-toned blooms, whilst the delightful light scent adds pleasant garden ambience. With good disease resistance, very upright and bushy growth habit, and continuous repeat flowering from spring until the first frosts, 'Southampton' represents one of the most versatile and rewarding roses for contemporary gardens.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Southampton' lies in its generous large trusses of beautifully structured double blooms that showcase warm apricot-orange colouring beautifully flushed with scarlet-red tones. Each flower displays large, lightly fragrant double form with slightly ruffled petals that create texture and visual interest, combining warm orange and red hues in sophisticated colour combinations. The flowers are produced in substantial trusses that create impressive visual impact with their abundant display of vibrant warm colours. The double form with ruffled petals combines classic rose elegance with modern garden performance, whilst the light fragrance provides delightful garden atmosphere. The exceptional colour combination and substantial flower size make this rose particularly suitable for hedging, bedding displays, and cut flower arrangements.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally very upright and bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for hedging applications and formal displays. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned shrub with excellent branching structure, reaching approximately 90cm in height with a 60cm spread. The upright yet vigorous-growing nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, substantial size perfect for creating impressive garden features. The bushy growth habit makes it ideal for large beds, hedging, mass plantings, or positions where its spectacular beauty and substantial presence can be fully appreciated. The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the large flower trusses, making this variety particularly suitable for formal garden applications and cut flower production.
Flowering Performance
From spring through to the first frosts, 'Southampton' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent double blooms held in large trusses, creating substantial visual impact with repeat flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase warm apricot-orange colouring beautifully flushed with scarlet-red, creating ongoing visual interest and vibrant elegance. The excellent repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its warm colour combination and substantial presence. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest from late spring through to autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Southampton' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil types providing adequate drainage is maintained and benefits from soil improvement with organic matter. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained soil ensuring consistent moisture throughout the growing season whilst avoiding waterlogged conditions. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage and performs well in various exposures, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions. This adaptable variety succeeds in a wide range of garden situations whilst maintaining its exceptional flowering performance and vibrant colour.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the notable features of 'Southampton' is its good disease resistance, which reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy dark green glossy foliage remains attractive and vigorous, with good natural resistance to common rose diseases. This disease resistance makes it a suitable choice for organic gardening approaches and reduces the need for chemical interventions, making it particularly suitable for busy gardeners seeking reliable performance with vibrant visual impact.
Care and Maintenance
'Southampton' requires standard rose maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it suitable for gardeners with basic rose experience. Apply a balanced rose fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of fertiliser in early summer to support continuous flowering. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly in the first year after planting, helps establish strong root systems. Regular deadheading is essential for best results and continued flowering throughout the season. Annual pruning in late winter maintains the upright shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance and hedge maintenance.
Garden Applications
'Southampton' excels in formal and informal garden settings where its continuous apricot-orange flowering provides exceptional versatility and warm colour impact. The upright bushy growth habit makes it ideal for hedging, large beds, mass plantings, and formal displays where its reliable performance and substantial presence can be appreciated. The warm apricot-orange flowers flushed with red suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, creating vibrant displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various warm colour schemes. The rose works beautifully as hedging or in massed plantings, creating impressive displays that provide months of continuous warm colour. The substantial size and excellent cut flower qualities make it particularly suitable for cutting gardens, large borders, and anywhere consistent warm colour and fragrance are required.
Container Growing
The upright growth habit and good disease resistance make 'Southampton' suitable for large container cultivation, though its substantial size requires generous containers. The rose can thrive in very large containers on terraces and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it suitable for urban gardening applications where sufficient space is available. Choose a container at least 60cm wide and deep with adequate drainage holes, and use high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than those planted in the ground, and the upright habit means they remain attractive whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and vibrant colour throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Southampton' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy dark green glossy foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from spring to first frosts ensures months of warm apricot-orange colour flushed with red, with the abundant blooms creating vibrant displays that showcase remarkable consistency and warm colour combination. The healthy glossy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the warm-toned flowers. Even in winter, the strong upright branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Fragrance Profile
'Southampton' features a light, pleasant fragrance that provides delightful garden ambience whilst complementing the spectacular visual display. The fragrant blooms enhance the garden experience with their gentle scent that adds to the overall appeal without being overwhelming. This makes it particularly suitable for areas where both visual beauty and fragrance are desired, such as near seating areas, pathways, and entrances. The combination of warm colour and pleasant fragrance makes this rose excellent for sensory garden experiences and cut flower arrangements.
Companion Planting
The warm apricot-orange colours flushed with red of 'Southampton' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and warm colour schemes. The vibrant warm blooms work beautifully with cream and yellow flowers, creating harmonious warm displays that enhance both plants. The rose pairs exceptionally well with blue and purple perennials, creating stunning complementary displays that highlight the warm colours. Bronze and copper foliage plants provide perfect colour echoes, whilst white flowers create fresh, clean combinations. The substantial habit makes it suitable for planting with shrubs, perennials, and climbers, creating layered gardens that provide continuous interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Southampton' has achieved the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), confirming its exceptional garden performance, outstanding reliability, and enduring appeal to gardeners. This recognition reflects superior performance in diverse growing conditions and demonstrates the successful combination of warm colour beauty with excellent garden reliability. The RHS AGM is awarded only to plants that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions, marking this variety as one of exceptional merit. The award recognition confirms that this rose combines stunning beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets the highest standards for reliability, colour, and overall garden value.
Heritage and Innovation
'Southampton' represents excellent floribunda breeding that successfully combines warm colour beauty with outstanding garden performance and reliability. The variety demonstrates the successful integration of vibrant colour with modern garden performance, creating a rose that satisfies both hedging and decorative gardening needs. This breeding excellence brings characteristics including exceptional colour warmth, reliable repeat flowering, and outstanding garden adaptability that sets this variety apart from many other apricot-coloured roses.
Hedging Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Southampton' is its excellent suitability for hedging applications, with its upright growth habit and continuous flowering providing both structure and colour throughout the growing season. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for creating flowering hedges that provide privacy whilst delivering spectacular seasonal colour. The hedging capability ensures this variety offers both practical and aesthetic value in garden applications.
Cut Flower Quality
The exceptional large trusses and pleasant fragrance of 'Southampton' make it particularly valuable for cut flower arrangements, with the substantial blooms providing long-lasting beauty indoors. This characteristic provides additional value and ensures that the garden beauty can be enjoyed both outdoors and as indoor arrangements. The cut flower quality makes it particularly suitable for gardens where both landscape and cutting requirements are important.
Why Choose 'Southampton'?
Rose 'Southampton' represents the perfect combination of RHS recognition, exceptional reliability, and outstanding warm colour beauty. The large trusses of fragrant apricot-orange double blooms flushed with scarlet-red provide continuous flowering displays from spring through to first frosts, whilst the good disease resistance ensures healthy growth with standard rose care. The upright, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for various garden applications, from hedging to large bed displays. Whether grown for its spectacular warm-coloured blooms, excellent hedging qualities, or as an RHS AGM winner, this outstanding rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable warm colour 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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