Rose 'Summertime' - Rambling Rose
A spectacular rambling rose that brings enchanting beauty to any garden with its abundant clusters of charming lemon-yellow blooms that fade to pristine white, delightful sweet fragrance, and vigorous rambling performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by healthy green foliage and strong flexible canes that make it ideal for pergolas, large walls, trees, and extensive vertical garden displays where space allows for its magnificent spreading habit.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous rambling rose
- Eventual Height: 3.5 metres
- Eventual Spread: 2 metres
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Lemon yellow fading to creamy white
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Very vigorous, rambling, with long flexible canes
- Flower Type: Small double blooms in abundant clusters
- Fragrance: Light to medium sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Summertime' exemplifies garden magnificence, producing spectacular displays of charming lemon-yellow blooms that gracefully fade to creamy white, creating breathtaking colour transitions throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding variety transforms garden spaces with its vigorous rambling canes that showcase abundant clusters of small double blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful lemon-yellow petals that gradually fade to pristine white in magnificent cascading arrangements that create enchanting visual presence across extensive vertical surfaces. The delightful colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for large-scale plantings and natural garden settings, representing sunshine, joy, and garden abundance. The flowers emerge in spectacular clusters with good repeat flowering from summer onwards, creating sustained displays that reach impressive heights and spreads with consistent appealing beauty. The light to medium sweet fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional garden structures and naturalistic landscape designs with charming beauty and vigorous performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Summertime' lies in its abundant small double blooms that showcase classic cluster formation with spectacular colour transition and commanding rambling presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with delicate petals featuring lemon-yellow colour that gracefully fades to creamy white in magnificent cascading arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and enchanting charm. The colour-changing palette provides captivating displays that evolve throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual interest that symbolises the progression of summer and garden joy. The flowers are produced in generous clusters with good repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the rambling garden display. The light to medium sweet fragrance complements the captivating visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both architectural applications and naturalistic garden enjoyment with charming colour sophistication and delightful aromatic appeal.
Growth Characteristics
The long flexible canes provide excellent rambling support for impressive extensive displays up to 5-6 metres in height with substantial spread, making this variety particularly valuable for large walls, pergolas, and growing through trees where rambling strength and spectacular flowering coverage across wide areas are essential. The healthy green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the yellow-to-white bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and natural appeal. The very vigorous rambling growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial coverage that fits well into large garden settings and naturalistic landscapes, with the extensive habit making it suitable for established gardens and prominent positions where its rambling beauty can be fully appreciated and allowed to spread naturally.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer with good repeat flowering, 'Summertime' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding continuous blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant clusters of small lemon-yellow blooms that fade to white consistently, creating impressive extensive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden magnificence. The individual blooms develop with classic small double formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect colour transition from lemon-yellow to creamy white and charming tonal quality, whilst the abundant cluster size ensures impressive presence across extensive areas for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature with good repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing enchanting blooms providing persistent extensive focal points that enhance garden spaces with their evolving colour palette and sweet fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Summertime' thrives in full sun to light shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal rambling performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and performs excellently on large walls, extensive pergolas, and when grown through trees where the colour-changing blooms can create maximum visual impact across wide areas. For best results, plant in locations with good air circulation and plenty of space for the vigorous growth, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the extensive rambling growth and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding during the growing season and responds well to standard rambling rose care practices, whilst the impressive rambling ability makes it suitable for large-scale architectural situations and naturalistic settings where its charming qualities and colour transitions can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Summertime' demonstrates very good disease resistance characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with outstanding vigour. The variety shows strong hardiness with good cold tolerance, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable extensive rambling plantings. The healthy green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with very good disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable rambling plantings with manageable maintenance requirements despite its vigorous nature. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Summertime' requires standard rambling rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and extensive development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous rambling growth and abundant flower production. The very good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable extensive plantings with charming impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning after flowering involves removing old flowered wood and training new growth, maintaining the rambling structure and promoting strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and extensive coverage.
Garden Applications
'Summertime' excels in large-scale garden displays and extensive vertical features where its charming beauty and colour transitions can be fully appreciated across wide areas. The lemon-yellow fading to white makes it ideal for spectacular rambling displays, eye-catching architectural features on large structures, and naturalistic landscapes where extensive colour impact and vigorous rambling performance are essential. Perfect for training over large pergolas, extensive walls, and growing through trees, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with good stems and attractive colour transitions that enhance floral arrangements with charming seasonal beauty for special occasions and natural displays. The very vigorous rambling growth and good repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning extensive focal points in large established gardens, whilst the substantial habit ensures it provides impressive presence across architectural features where its rambling colour creates spectacular extensive sophistication.
Training and Support
The long flexible canes make 'Summertime' excellently suited to rambling over various extensive support structures including large pergolas, substantial walls, and growing through mature trees. The rose responds well to careful initial training where the rambling canes can be guided to create maximum flowering coverage across wide areas and architectural beauty. Provide very sturdy support systems with strong framework spaced appropriately, allowing the vigorous canes to ramble effectively across extensive structures. Regular training during establishment helps direct growth and ensures optimal flowering coverage across the available extensive support structure, maximising the spectacular rambling display and architectural integration across large areas.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Summertime' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous extensive displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy green foliage and strong new rambling growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent clusters of lemon-yellow blooms fading to white from summer onwards with good repeat flowering provide months of extensive colour transitions that maintain their charm throughout the season, creating consistent enchanting impact across wide areas. The attractive green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with very good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the extensive rambling flower displays, whilst the strong cane structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Summertime' features light to medium sweet fragrance that will delight the senses, complementing the charming visual display and enhancing the garden experience across extensive areas. The sweet perfume adds aromatic appeal to large vertical spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for extensive architectural positions where both visual rambling beauty and fragrant interest are desired for special occasions. The sweet fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for large areas where scent contributes significantly to the garden experience, particularly near extensive seating areas and entertaining spaces where the rambling perfume creates lasting charming impressions across wide areas.
Companion Planting
The lemon-yellow fading to white colouring of 'Summertime' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes across extensive ground areas. The colour-changing blooms work beautifully with plants that complement either the yellow or white phases, whilst natural foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour transitions to shine across large areas. Blue and purple flowers provide harmonious displays that highlight the charming bloom colours, whilst complementary architectural plants and naturalistic perennials can create stunning extensive combinations throughout the growing season.
Architectural Integration
The excellent rambling qualities make 'Summertime' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate charming beauty into large-scale architectural features and extensive structural elements. The strong rambling canes, abundant small blooms with colour transitions, and sweet fragrance create outstanding extensive displays that provide lasting architectural enhancement whilst maintaining the sophisticated significance of the rambling colour drama across wide areas. The reliable rambling growth ensures impressive coverage across large structures whilst creating substantial presence, making it ideal for both large-scale architectural beauty and naturalistic rambling displays that provide charming statements for extensive garden structures and celebrations with excellent performance.
Naturalistic Garden Appeal
'Summertime' represents exceptional rambling rose breeding that combines charming beauty with vigorous performance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive rambling roses with naturalistic characteristics. The colour-changing blooms offer exceptional visual interest whilst maintaining classic rambling rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for large garden designs and naturalistic settings where extensive colour statements and architectural integration across wide areas are important considerations.
Award Heritage
'Summertime' earned recognition as Rose of the Year 2005, building upon its exceptional colour transitions and reliable rambling performance. The variety's charming appearance and dependable vigorous growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual distinctiveness with reliable garden performance and suitability for extensive architectural applications across large areas.
Why Choose 'Summertime'?
Rose 'Summertime' represents the perfect combination of charming rambling beauty, delightful colour transitions, and outstanding vigorous performance. The abundant clusters of small blooms with their lemon-yellow to white colour changes and sweet fragrance provide exceptional extensive displays throughout the summer with good repeat flowering, whilst the very vigorous rambling growth and very good disease resistance ensure dependable performance across large areas with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for spectacular extensive rambling displays, large-scale architectural features, pergola coverage, or simply for its charming beauty and vigorous rambling nature, this outstanding rambling rose offers distinctive value that combines charming appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates joy and garden abundance with extensive rambling sophistication that enhances any large garden setting where charm, reliability, and vigorous extensive impact are appreciated.
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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