Rose 'Thinking of You' – The Perfect Memorial Hybrid Tea
Rose 'Thinking of You' stands as the ideal memorial and remembrance rose, offering both beauty and meaningful sentiment in one exceptional variety. This stunning hybrid tea rose produces rich deep crimson blooms that create a powerful display of enduring love and remembrance throughout the growing season. With its strong old rose fragrance enhanced with hints of lemon, excellent disease resistance, and thoughtful symbolism, 'Thinking of You' represents the perfect combination of classic hybrid tea elegance and heartfelt meaning, making it ideal for memorial gardens, commemorative planting, and as a meaningful gift.
Overview
- Type: Hardy hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering: June to October
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Tidy, bushy plant with upright form
- Disease Resistance: Good disease resistance for reliable performance
- Colour: Rich deep crimson red
- Form: Mid-sized cupped blooms, fully double
- Fragrance: Strong old rose fragrance with hints of lemon
- Foliage: Dark green, semi-glossy leaves with attractive young red foliage
Striking Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Thinking of You' lies in its pointed buds that open to reveal full, rich crimson fragrant flowers. These mid-sized cupped blooms showcase the classic hybrid tea form in stunning deep crimson tones that create a powerful visual impact and lasting impression. The fully double flowers maintain their rich colour well throughout their lifecycle, ensuring consistent beauty from bud to full bloom.
The blooms are perfectly proportioned with the classic cupped form that makes them ideal for both garden display and cut flower arrangements. Each flower opens from elegant pointed buds, creating anticipation as the rich colour is gradually revealed in the unfolding petals.
Exceptional Fragrance
'Thinking of You' offers a strong old rose fragrance enhanced with delightful hints of lemon that creates a complex and memorable olfactory experience. This distinctive scent combines the classic rose perfume with citrus notes, making it particularly appealing and unique among hybrid tea varieties. The powerful fragrance enhances the rose's suitability for memorial gardens where scent holds special significance.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This hybrid tea demonstrates good disease resistance combined with dark green, semi-glossy foliage that provides the perfect backdrop for the rich crimson blooms. The attractive foliage is particularly notable for its young red colouring, which complements the crimson flowers beautifully and adds seasonal interest throughout the growing season.
'Thinking of You' exhibits a tidy, bushy growth habit with upright form, creating a well-maintained appearance that requires minimal intervention. This robust variety is known for its reliability and healthy constitution, making it perfect for gardeners seeking both beauty and dependable performance.
Memorial Garden Excellence
True to its evocative name, 'Thinking of You' has earned recognition as the perfect memorial rose. The deep crimson colour symbolises enduring love and remembrance, whilst the strong fragrance creates sensory memories that enhance the commemorative experience. This makes it an ideal choice for memorial gardens, remembrance plantings, and locations where roses serve as living tributes.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering hybrid tea, 'Thinking of You' provides continuous blooms throughout the growing season, ensuring months of rich crimson colour and meaningful presence. The reliable flowering performance means the rose maintains its commemorative function throughout the extended season, providing comfort and beauty when needed most.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun garden borders for best flowering performance
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil with good organic content
- Care: Standard hybrid tea care applies - regular watering during dry periods, annual feeding with balanced fertiliser, and annual pruning to maintain the tidy, bushy form. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season.
The good disease resistance and hardy nature make this variety particularly suitable for various growing conditions whilst maintaining consistent performance and appearance.
Garden Uses
'Thinking of You' offers exceptional versatility for meaningful garden applications:
- Memorial Gardens: Perfect for commemorating loved ones and special memories
- Remembrance Plantings: Ideal for locations dedicated to reflection and remembrance
- Cut Flower Gardens: Rich crimson blooms excellent for arrangements and tributes
- Gift Planting: Makes a deeply meaningful present for special occasions
- Full Sun Borders: Provides structure and powerful colour in sunny garden positions
- Therapeutic Gardens: Suitable for gardens designed for healing and contemplation
Perfect Memorial Choice
The combination of rich deep crimson colouring, meaningful name, and reliable performance makes 'Thinking of You' the ideal memorial rose. Whether planted to honour loved ones, commemorate special relationships, or mark significant life events, this rose provides lasting beauty that serves as a living tribute with enduring significance.
The strong fragrance with hints of lemon adds another dimension to the memorial experience, creating scent memories that enhance the emotional connection and provide comfort through the seasons.
Gift Rose Excellence
'Thinking of You' makes an exceptional gift rose for times when words are not enough. Whether given to express sympathy, show support, or commemorate special occasions, this rose carries profound meaning whilst providing lasting beauty. The healthy constitution ensures the gift continues to provide comfort and remembrance for years to come.
Companion Planting
The rich deep crimson blooms of 'Thinking of You' work beautifully with white roses and pale-coloured perennials, creating striking contrasts that enhance the dramatic colouring. Silver foliage plants like artemisia or lamb's ear provide elegant companions that highlight the deep red tones whilst maintaining the respectful character appropriate for memorial settings.
The dark green, semi-glossy foliage with attractive young red colouring provides excellent structure and complements a wide range of companion plants suitable for contemplative garden settings.
Care and Maintenance
'Thinking of You' requires standard hybrid tea care with regular watering during dry periods and annual feeding with balanced fertiliser. The good disease resistance means minimal intervention is required for pest and disease management, making it suitable for gardeners of all experience levels whilst ensuring reliable long-term performance.
Regular deadheading of spent blooms encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst annual pruning maintains the tidy, bushy form and encourages vigorous new growth for continued memorial presence.
Hardy and Reliable
Fully hardy in the UK, 'Thinking of You' provides dependable performance year after year, ensuring its memorial function continues regardless of weather conditions. This reliability is particularly important for commemorative plantings where consistent performance honours the memory being celebrated.
Why Choose 'Thinking of You'?
Rose 'Thinking of You' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a hybrid tea rose that combines powerful visual impact with profound emotional meaning. Its combination of rich deep crimson blooms, strong old rose fragrance with lemon hints, excellent disease resistance, and meaningful symbolism makes it both a stunning garden feature and deeply significant commemorative choice.
Whether you're creating a memorial garden, seeking the perfect sympathy gift, or wanting a rose that combines beauty with heartfelt meaning, 'Thinking of You' delivers exceptional results. Its reliable flowering, easy-care nature, and symbolic significance make it an excellent investment for gardeners who appreciate roses that provide both horticultural excellence and emotional comfort through their enduring presence and beauty.
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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