Rose 'Super Trouper' – The Award-Winning Vibrant Orange Floribunda
A spectacular floribunda rose that delivers an extraordinary display of stunningly bright, vibrant orange blooms, bred by the renowned Fryers Nurseries. This exceptional variety produces clusters of fully double flowers in warm glowing mandarin-orange that create a mesmerising display of bold, eye-catching colour. Novelty Rose of the Year 2010, Gold Standard Award 2009, and Lord Provost's Cup Glasgow 2011 winner with excellent disease resistance, 'Super Trouper' represents innovation in modern rose breeding, making it perfect for gardeners who appreciate bold, theatrical colour combined with outstanding garden performance and delicate fragrance.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Stunningly bright, vibrant mandarin-orange
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, upright
- Foliage: Matt, mid-green, medium size, disease-resistant leaves
- Fragrance: Delicate scent (lightly scented)
- Position: Full sun to partial shade
- Soil Requirements: Well-drained, fertile soil
Overview
Rose 'Super Trouper' stands as an outstanding floribunda that creates one of the most vibrant displays in the rose world with its stunningly bright, vibrant orange blooms that truly live up to its show-stopping name. This exceptional variety combines bold theatrical colour with reliable modern garden performance, creating a rose that captures attention and admiration. The clusters of fully double blooms with their unfading orange colour and delicate fragrance make it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking a rose that provides both stunning garden presence and exceptional cut flower performance.
Spectacular Flower Characteristics
The defining beauty of 'Super Trouper' lies in its magnificent clusters of fully double blooms that showcase stunningly bright, vibrant orange in warm glowing mandarin tones. The vibrant orange of these double blooms stand out from dense dark green foliage, ensuring each cluster displays bold rose elegance with modern vigour. The unfading orange colour creates constant visual interest throughout the extended flowering season.
A significant advantage of the Super Trooper rose is that the petals retain their color in any weather, although they may fade a little. Each flower displays consistent bright orange colouring that remains vibrant, creating a warm and eye-catching display that brightens any garden space with bold theatrical impact.
Exceptional Garden Performance
This robust variety shows good resistance to disease and makes an eye-catching addition to rose gardens and sunny borders. 'Super Trouper' demonstrates superior garden performance that matches its stunning appearance. The compact bushy growth features matt, mid-green, medium size foliage with excellent health, making the impressive orange blooms really stand out.
Has a long flowering season and is very healthy, this variety maintains excellent health with minimal intervention, making it an exceptional choice for gardeners seeking low-maintenance roses with maximum vibrant impact.
Continuous Flowering Performance
Repeat flowering from early summer to autumn, 'Super Trouper' provides spectacular blooms for an extended season. The variety ends flowering with the onset of frost, ensuring continuous waves of vibrant orange blooms throughout the growing season, creating months of bold garden colour.
Rose 'Super Trouper' is free-flowering, with plenty of bright mandarin-orange blooms throughout the summer, producing generous quantities of high-quality blooms that are excellent for both garden display and cut flower arrangements where the bold orange creates unforgettable impact.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'Super Trouper' thrives in full sun to partial shade where it can develop its most vibrant orange colours whilst maintaining healthy, vigorous growth. It performs well in most garden conditions provided the soil is well-drained and fertile.
The plant is unpretentious to care for, requiring standard rose care practices: regular watering during dry periods and pruning in late winter to maintain shape and encourage vigorous new growth.
Versatile Garden Applications
Beds borders and containers, making 'Super Trouper' exceptionally versatile for different garden situations. This hardy shrub has a compact size and thrives in various garden settings, perfect for rose gardens, mixed borders, and container displays where vibrant colour is desired.
The bold mandarin-orange blooms make it ideal for specimen planting where the theatrical colour can be fully appreciated, creating focal points that demand attention and provide months of eye-catching garden drama.
Breeding Excellence
Bred by Fryers (Breeder synonym: FRYLEYCA), 'Super Trouper' represents expertise in creating roses with unique characteristics and excellent garden performance. Fryers Nurseries is renowned for developing robust, disease-resistant roses that combine outstanding garden performance with exceptional visual appeal.
Awards and Recognition
'Super Trouper' has achieved exceptional recognition in the rose world. Novelty Rose of the Year 2010, Gold Standard Award 2009, Lord Provost's Cup, Glasgow 2011. These prestigious awards recognise both the exceptional garden performance, outstanding visual appeal, and innovative breeding that make this variety truly special.
Seasonal Interest and Maintenance
'Super Trouper' provides substantial seasonal interest beginning with healthy, disease-resistant foliage emerging in spring, followed by spectacular clusters of vibrant orange blooms that continue until frost. The compact bushy growth maintains an attractive form throughout the season, providing structure and continuous colour.
The excellent disease resistance and robust nature translate to lower maintenance requirements, ensuring gardeners can enjoy their plants without constant worry about health problems, making it an ideal choice for busy gardeners seeking maximum impact with minimal effort.
Container Growing Excellence
Suitable for beds borders and containers, 'Super Trouper' performs exceptionally well in container cultivation, making it perfect for patios, terraces, and urban gardens. The compact growth habit and continuous flowering make it ideal for container displays where space is limited but bold impact is desired.
Container-grown plants will require more regular watering and feeding but reward with the same vibrant orange blooms and delicate fragrance as garden-planted specimens, creating stunning focal points in any outdoor space.
Companion Planting
The stunningly bright, vibrant orange blooms of 'Super Trouper' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. The bold orange tones complement many colour schemes, making them particularly valuable for dramatic garden designs. They work exceptionally well with purple perennials like lavender that create striking complementary colour combinations.
For harmonious schemes, pair with yellow or cream roses that enhance the warm orange tones whilst maintaining similar flowering periods. Blue perennials like salvia or catmint create stunning contrasts that highlight the rose's vibrant blooms and add depth to garden displays.
Why Choose Rose 'Super Trouper'?
Rose 'Super Trouper' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly spectacular floribunda that delivers both bold colour and exceptional garden performance. Its stunningly bright orange blooms, multiple award-winning performance, and excellent disease resistance combine to create a variety that's both breathtakingly vibrant and remarkably practical.
Whether you're an experienced rose enthusiast seeking a world-class floribunda with proven award-winning credentials or a passionate gardener wanting a rose that provides months of extraordinary colour and reliable performance, 'Super Trouper' delivers outstanding results. Its combination of spectacular unfading flowers, delicate fragrance, compact growth, excellent health, and expert breeding pedigree makes it an investment in years of garden drama and a rose that truly embodies horticultural showmanship.
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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