Rose 'Sweet Haze' - Floribunda Rose (Also known as 'Tan97274')
A captivating compact floribunda rose that produces abundant masses of single, lilac-pink blooms with pronounced golden centres and sweet fragrance, exceptional disease resistance, and ground cover growth habit, making it perfect for contemporary gardens, wildlife gardens, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 70cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Lilac-pink with pronounced golden centres
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, ground cover, low and spreading
- Flower Type: Single blooms with flat petaled form in large clusters
- Fragrance: Light but sweet fragrance
- Wildlife Value: Extremely attractive to bees and beneficial insects
Overview
Rose 'Sweet Haze' represents a stunning example of modern floribunda breeding that perfectly balances natural beauty with exceptional garden performance. This remarkable variety produces magnificent masses of large clusters of lilac-pink blooms with distinctive pronounced golden centres that create a truly mesmerising display in the garden landscape. The flowers literally blur into a sweet haze of beauty, living up to their evocative name with their dreamy, soft colouring and abundant flowering habit. With its compact ground cover growth reaching 60-80cm in both height and spread, excellent disease resistance, and exceptional repeat flowering from June through to September, 'Sweet Haze' delivers outstanding garden performance whilst providing invaluable nectar sources for bees and beneficial insects, making it ideal for wildlife-friendly gardens and contemporary landscaping where both beauty and ecological value are prioritised.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Sweet Haze' lies in its remarkable ability to produce masses of large clusters of single lilac-pink blooms with distinctive pronounced golden centres that create an enchanting cottage garden atmosphere. Each flower displays beautifully structured single form with flat petaled design measuring approximately 3 inches across, providing excellent weather resistance and outstanding visual impact. The flowers are produced in very large clusters that create substantial displays throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms sitting perfectly among the dense, glossy, dark green foliage. The single form combines natural simplicity with modern garden performance, whilst the light but sweet fragrance provides gentle garden ambience. The exceptional flowering abundance ensures this rose delivers continuous colour impact despite its compact size, making it particularly suitable for situations where maximum visual appeal with ecological benefits is required from a manageable plant.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, ground cover growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and contemporary landscaping schemes. The vigorous yet manageable nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, spreading form perfect for front-of-border plantings and mass displays. The low, spreading growth habit makes it ideal for ground cover applications, rock gardens, and areas where consistent low height with substantial spread is important. The strong branching structure provides excellent support for the abundant flower clusters, making this variety particularly suitable for naturalistic and wildlife garden applications where reliable performance and ecological value are essential.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Sweet Haze' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent single blooms held in very large clusters, creating substantial visual impact with excellent repeat flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase distinctive lilac-pink colouring with pronounced golden centres that maintain excellent colour retention and weather resistance, creating ongoing visual interest and natural charm. The exceptional repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the masses of blooms providing spectacular displays that capture attention with their dreamy lilac-pink tones and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and valuable nectar sources from early summer through to late autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Sweet Haze' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, moist yet free-draining 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 incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and bonemeal when planting to encourage strong root development. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained soil that has been improved with organic matter, ensuring consistent moisture throughout the growing season. 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 wildlife value.
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 most notable features of 'Sweet Haze' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The dense, glossy, dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous, with outstanding natural resistance to common rose diseases. This exceptional disease resistance makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches and eliminates the need for chemical interventions, making it particularly suitable for busy gardeners and wildlife-friendly gardens seeking low-maintenance excellence with continuous flowering and ecological benefits.
Care and Maintenance
'Sweet Haze' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and naturalistic garden settings. 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. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an easy-care option. Light deadheading encourages continued flowering whilst allowing some hips to form for wildlife value, and annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance and nectar production.
Garden Applications
'Sweet Haze' excels in contemporary and wildlife garden settings where its continuous lilac-pink flowering provides exceptional versatility and natural charm. The ground cover growth habit makes it ideal for front-of-border plantings, mass displays, naturalistic gardens, and areas where low-maintenance ground cover with flowering excellence is required. The lilac-pink flowers with golden centres suit both modern and traditional garden settings perfectly, creating romantic displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various colour schemes. The rose works beautifully in wildlife gardens and pollinator-friendly plantings, providing valuable nectar sources whilst creating impressive displays that provide months of continuous soft colour. The manageable size and exceptional reliability make it particularly suitable for entrance plantings, foundation gardens, and anywhere consistent flowering with ecological benefits is required from a low-growing plant.
Container Growing
The compact ground cover habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Sweet Haze' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers on terraces and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays where its sweet fragrance and wildlife value can be fully appreciated. Choose a container at least 50cm 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, but the compact habit means they remain manageable whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and valuable nectar sources throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Sweet Haze' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, dense, glossy dark green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from June to September ensures months of lilac-pink colour with golden centres, with the large clusters of blooms creating dreamy displays that showcase remarkable consistency and weather resistance. The dense foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular flower displays whilst supporting garden wildlife. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering and ecological benefits.
Fragrance Profile
'Sweet Haze' features a light but sweet fragrance that provides gentle garden ambience without overwhelming the spectacular visual display, allowing the dreamy colour impact to take centre stage. The sweet fragrance enhances the garden experience whilst remaining subtle enough to complement other fragrant plants and create layered aromatic experiences. This makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings and areas where the focus is on visual beauty and wildlife value with complementary aromatic appeal. The light scent adds to the overall cottage garden charm whilst ensuring the rose remains suitable for those sensitive to strong fragrances.
Wildlife Value
One of the most remarkable features of 'Sweet Haze' is its exceptional value to garden wildlife, being extremely attractive to bees and beneficial insects. The single flower form with pronounced golden centres provides easily accessible nectar and pollen sources that support pollinator populations throughout the extended flowering season. The abundance of blooms ensures consistent nectar availability from early summer through to autumn, making this rose invaluable for wildlife-friendly gardens and ecological gardening approaches. This characteristic makes it particularly suitable for pollinator gardens, wildlife corridors, and anywhere supporting beneficial insects is a priority alongside beautiful flowering displays.
Companion Planting
The soft lilac-pink colours with golden centres of 'Sweet Haze' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and harmonious colour schemes. The gentle lilac-pink blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers, creating soft, romantic displays that highlight both plants. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating sophisticated combinations that enhance the lilac-pink tones. Purple and blue flowers create harmonious monochromatic displays, whilst yellow flowers complement the golden centres perfectly. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with herbs, perennials, and other pollinator-friendly plants, creating layered wildlife gardens that provide continuous interest and ecological benefits throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
Bred with the cultivar name 'Tan97274' and representing contemporary rose breeding excellence, 'Sweet Haze' demonstrates the successful development of wildlife-friendly characteristics combined with outstanding garden performance and dreamy visual appeal. The variety represents innovative breeding that successfully integrated ground cover proportions with exceptional flowering power and ecological value, creating a rose that satisfies contemporary gardening needs for both beauty and environmental responsibility. This breeding excellence brings unique characteristics including exceptional wildlife value, remarkable flowering abundance, and outstanding garden adaptability that sets this variety apart from traditional floribunda roses.
Ground Cover Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Sweet Haze' is its natural ground cover growth habit that delivers spectacular impact whilst maintaining manageable dimensions perfect for contemporary gardens. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for modern landscaping applications where consistent low height combined with spreading habit and continuous flowering is required. The ground cover excellence ensures maximum impact from horizontal space whilst maintaining all the benefits of traditional floribunda performance with added wildlife value.
Masses of Large Clusters
The exceptional flowering abundance of 'Sweet Haze' ensures that gardens receive maximum visual impact from this lilac-pink rose, with very large clusters of blooms creating spectacular displays throughout the growing season. This remarkable characteristic provides ongoing dreamy impact and ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for both visual appeal and wildlife support. The large cluster formation with easily accessible single flowers makes it particularly suitable for situations where maximum flowering impact combined with ecological benefits is required.
Why Choose 'Sweet Haze'?
Rose 'Sweet Haze' represents the perfect combination of dreamy beauty, exceptional reliability, and outstanding ecological value. The masses of lilac-pink single blooms with pronounced golden centres provide continuous flowering displays from June through to September, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact ground cover growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from contemporary borders to wildlife gardens and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular abundant lilac-pink blooms, exceptional wildlife value, or as a low-maintenance ground cover rose, this outstanding floribunda offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure, dependable dreamy colour impact, and invaluable support for garden wildlife 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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