Rose 'Tickled Pink' - Floribunda Rose (Also known as 'Fryhunky')
A spectacular award-winning floribunda rose that produces enormous trusses of ruffled, fully double blooms in rich, seductive pink with delightful fragrance, supreme disease resistance, and vigorous upright growth habit, making it perfect for borders, hedges, cutting gardens, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to August
- Flower Colour: Rich, seductive medium pink with ruffled petals
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Fully double, ruffled blooms in large clusters
- Fragrance: Light, delicate and pleasant
- Awards: Rose of the Year 2007, Gold Standard Award, RHS Award of Garden Merit
Overview
Rose 'Tickled Pink' stands as one of the most celebrated floribunda roses of recent years, winning the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2007 and earning the Gold Standard Award for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding visual impact. This remarkable variety produces magnificent enormous trusses of rich, vibrant pink blooms with distinctive ruffled petals that create truly captivating displays throughout the growing season. The beautifully formed, medium to large flowers showcase classic floribunda characteristics with modern garden reliability, reaching approximately 100cm in height with vigorous upright growth. With supreme disease resistance, exceptional repeat flowering from late spring through to first frost, and a light, delicate fragrance, 'Tickled Pink' represents the pinnacle of modern floribunda breeding for gardeners seeking maximum impact with reliable performance and elegant beauty.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Tickled Pink' lies in its remarkable ability to produce enormous trusses of rich, vibrant pink blooms with distinctive ruffled petals that create an enchanting and sophisticated garden atmosphere. Each flower displays beautifully structured, fully double form with sumptuous ruffled texture in seductive medium pink that maintains excellent colour retention and weather resistance. The flowers are produced in massive impressive clusters that create substantial visual impact, with the abundant blooms creating spectacular displays against the dark, glossy, healthy foliage. The fully double, ruffled form combines classic rose elegance with contemporary garden performance, whilst the light, delicate fragrance provides charming garden ambience. The exceptional flowering abundance ensures this rose delivers dramatic impact with prolific blooming, making it particularly suitable for situations where maximum colour impact with elegant sophistication is required from a vigorous, reliable plant.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally vigorous, upright and bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for diverse garden applications and formal landscaping schemes. The bold and impressive nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable form perfect for borders, hedges, and formal displays. The upright growth habit with strong stems provides excellent support for the enormous flower clusters, making this variety particularly suitable for cutting gardens and formal applications where consistent performance and substantial presence are important. The vigorous growing nature ensures reliable establishment and continuous flowering performance throughout the extended growing season.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to first frost, 'Tickled Pink' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent fully double blooms held in enormous trusses, creating substantial visual impact with exceptional repeat flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase rich, seductive medium pink colouring with distinctive ruffled texture that maintains excellent colour retention and weather resistance, creating ongoing visual interest and sophisticated elegance. The exceptional repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the enormous clusters of blooms providing spectacular displays that capture attention with their rich pink tones and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and cutting material from late spring through to late autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Tickled Pink' 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 vigorous growth.
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 'Tickled Pink' is its supreme disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The dark, glossy, healthy 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 seeking low-maintenance excellence with dramatic visual impact and reliable performance.
Care and Maintenance
'Tickled Pink' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and formal 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 supreme disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an easy-care option. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the upright shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance and fragrance production.
Garden Applications
'Tickled Pink' excels in formal and contemporary garden settings where its continuous rich pink flowering provides exceptional versatility and sophisticated elegance. The vigorous upright growth habit makes it ideal for borders, hedges, formal displays, and island beds where its reliable performance and impressive presence can be appreciated. The rich, seductive pink flowers suit both traditional and contemporary garden settings perfectly, creating vibrant displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various colour schemes. The rose works beautifully in formal plantings and mixed borders, creating impressive displays that provide months of continuous rich colour and elegant sophistication. The vigorous nature and exceptional reliability make it particularly suitable for hedge plantings, foundation gardens, and anywhere consistent dramatic colour with formal presence is required.
Container Growing
The vigorous growth habit and supreme disease resistance make 'Tickled Pink' well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and formal container displays. The rose thrives in large containers on terraces and areas where formal impact is desired, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays where its delicate fragrance can be fully appreciated. 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, but the vigorous habit ensures they deliver exceptional flowering performance and rich colour throughout the season whilst maintaining their impressive stature.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Tickled Pink' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, dark, glossy, healthy foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from late spring to first frost ensures months of rich, seductive pink colour, with the enormous trusses of blooms creating sophisticated displays that showcase remarkable consistency and weather resistance. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular flower displays. Even in winter, the strong upright branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering and award-winning performance.
Fragrance Profile
'Tickled Pink' features a light, delicate and pleasant fragrance that provides charming garden ambience whilst complementing the spectacular visual display. The gentle 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 cutting gardens where both visual beauty and aromatic appeal are desired. The delicate scent adds to the overall sophisticated charm whilst ensuring the rose remains suitable for those who prefer subtle fragrances. The pleasant fragrance makes cut flowers particularly enjoyable for indoor arrangements.
Cutting Garden Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Tickled Pink' is its exceptional value as a cutting rose, with the enormous trusses of richly coloured blooms carried on strong stems providing excellent material for floral arrangements. The fully double, ruffled flowers with their seductive pink colouring create stunning bouquets that maintain their beauty and fragrance indoors. The vigorous growth and prolific flowering ensure abundant cutting material throughout the extended flowering season, making this rose invaluable for gardeners who enjoy fresh flowers indoors. The strong stems and long-lasting blooms make it particularly suitable for formal arrangements and special occasions.
Companion Planting
The rich, seductive pink colours of 'Tickled Pink' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The vibrant pink blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers, creating elegant, high-contrast displays that highlight both plants. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating refined combinations that enhance the pink tones. Purple and blue flowers create harmonious displays, whilst yellow flowers provide vibrant, complementary combinations. The vigorous habit makes it suitable for planting with perennials, herbs, and other substantial plants, creating layered gardens that provide continuous interest and sophisticated beauty throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Tickled Pink' achieved the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2007 and earned the Gold Standard Award, confirming its exceptional garden performance, outstanding reliability, and remarkable visual impact. The variety also holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit, recognising its superior performance in diverse growing conditions and demonstrating the successful combination of dramatic flowering with reliable garden performance. These awards are given only to roses that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions, marking this variety as one of exceptional merit that combines stunning beauty with outstanding garden reliability and disease resistance.
Heritage and Innovation
Bred with the cultivar name 'Fryhunky' by Fryers and representing contemporary rose breeding excellence, 'Tickled Pink' demonstrates the successful development of vigorous growth combined with outstanding garden performance and sophisticated visual appeal. The variety represents innovative breeding that successfully integrated exceptional flowering abundance with supreme disease resistance, creating a rose that satisfies contemporary gardening needs for maximum impact with minimal maintenance. This breeding excellence brings unique characteristics including exceptional disease resistance, remarkable flowering abundance, and outstanding garden adaptability that sets this variety apart from traditional floribunda roses.
Enormous Trusses
The exceptional flowering abundance of 'Tickled Pink' ensures that gardens receive maximum visual impact from this award-winning rose, with enormous trusses of blooms creating spectacular displays throughout the growing season. This remarkable characteristic provides ongoing dramatic impact and ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for the space it occupies. The massive cluster formation makes it particularly suitable for situations where maximum colour impact and formal presence are required from individual plants.
Vigorous Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Tickled Pink' is its naturally vigorous growth habit that delivers spectacular impact whilst maintaining reliable performance perfect for diverse garden applications. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for formal garden applications where consistent vigorous growth combined with continuous flowering is required. The vigorous excellence ensures reliable establishment and performance whilst maintaining all the benefits of award-winning floribunda characteristics.
Why Choose 'Tickled Pink'?
Rose 'Tickled Pink' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, vigorous reliability, and sophisticated beauty. The enormous trusses of rich, seductive pink ruffled blooms provide continuous flowering displays from late spring through to first frost, whilst the supreme disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The vigorous upright growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from formal borders to hedge plantings and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular abundant pink blooms, exceptional cutting value, or as a multiple award winner including Rose of the Year 2007, this outstanding floribunda rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable sophisticated colour impact 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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