Rose 'Together Forever' - Floribunda Rose (Also known as 'Noack Rose')
A spectacular award-winning floribunda rose that produces abundant clusters of semi-double blooms in coral-pink tones that evolve from strong orange to beautiful shades of peach and pink with sweet fragrance, excellent disease resistance, and compact upright growth habit, making it perfect for borders, hedges, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Coral-pink evolving from orange to peach and pink tones
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Semi-double blooms in large clusters
- Fragrance: Sweet and pleasant
- Awards: Rose of the Year 2009
Overview
Rose 'Together Forever' stands as one of the most celebrated floribunda roses of recent years, winning the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2009 for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding visual impact. This remarkable variety produces magnificent clusters of semi-double blooms in captivating coral-pink tones that create a truly mesmerising display as they evolve from strong orange to beautiful shades of peach and pink throughout their lifespan. The continuously changing colour palette provides ongoing visual interest and ensures that gardens maintain dynamic beauty throughout the extended flowering season. With its compact upright growth reaching approximately 80-100cm in height, excellent disease resistance, exceptional repeat flowering from June through to September, and sweet fragrance, 'Together Forever' represents one of the finest examples of modern floribunda breeding for gardeners seeking reliable performance with evolving colour beauty and romantic appeal.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Together Forever' lies in its remarkable ability to produce large clusters of semi-double coral-pink blooms that showcase an enchanting colour evolution from strong orange through to beautiful shades of peach and pink as they mature. Each flower displays beautifully structured semi-double form with excellent substance and weather resistance, creating a constantly changing display of warm tones that maintains garden interest throughout the flowering period. The flowers are produced in abundant large clusters that create substantial visual impact, with the evolving blooms providing spectacular displays against the healthy, glossy foliage. The semi-double form combines classic rose elegance with modern garden performance, whilst the sweet fragrance provides delightful garden ambience. The exceptional colour-changing characteristic ensures this rose delivers continuous visual interest and romantic appeal, making it particularly suitable for situations where dynamic colour evolution with reliable performance is required.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, upright and bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for diverse garden applications and contemporary landscaping schemes. The healthy and vigorous nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable form perfect for borders, hedge plantings, and formal displays. The compact upright growth habit provides excellent structure for the abundant flower clusters, making this variety particularly suitable for middle-of-border plantings and areas where consistent moderate height with substantial flowering is important. The strong branching structure supports the large clusters effectively, ensuring reliable garden performance throughout the growing season.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Together Forever' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent semi-double blooms held in large clusters, creating substantial visual impact with excellent repeat flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase the captivating colour evolution from strong orange through coral-pink to beautiful peach and pink tones, maintaining excellent weather resistance and creating ongoing visual interest throughout their development. The exceptional repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the clusters of evolving blooms providing spectacular displays that capture attention with their dynamic colour changes and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and romantic appeal from early summer through to late autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Together Forever' 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. Notably tolerant of poorer soils, this adaptable variety performs well even in challenging conditions, making it suitable for a wide range of garden situations. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage and performs well in various exposures, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions. This remarkably adaptable variety succeeds in diverse garden situations whilst maintaining its exceptional flowering performance and evolving colour beauty.
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 'Together Forever' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, glossy 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 dynamic colour evolution and reliable performance.
Care and Maintenance
'Together Forever' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and diverse 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 and tolerance of poorer soils means this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an exceptionally easy-care option. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display of evolving colours, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Together Forever' excels in contemporary and traditional garden settings where its continuous coral-pink flowering with evolving colours provides exceptional versatility and romantic charm. The compact upright growth habit makes it ideal for middle-of-border plantings, hedge applications, mixed borders, and formal displays where its reliable performance and dynamic colour changes can be appreciated. The evolving coral-pink to peach and pink flowers suit both modern and traditional garden settings perfectly, creating warm displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various colour schemes. The rose works beautifully in mixed plantings and cottage garden settings, creating romantic displays that provide months of continuous evolving colour. The manageable size and exceptional reliability make it particularly suitable for foundation plantings, entrance gardens, and anywhere consistent flowering with dynamic colour interest is required.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Together Forever' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers on terraces and areas where dynamic colour displays are desired, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays where its sweet fragrance and evolving colours 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 and excellent disease resistance ensure they remain manageable whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and evolving colour beauty throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Together Forever' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months and individual flower development. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, glossy foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from June to September ensures months of evolving coral-pink colour, with the large clusters of blooms creating dynamic displays that showcase remarkable colour transitions and weather resistance. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular evolving 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
'Together Forever' features a sweet and pleasant fragrance that provides delightful garden ambience whilst complementing the spectacular evolving visual display. The sweet fragrance enhances the garden experience and creates romantic garden atmospheres that complement the evolving colour beauty. This makes it particularly suitable for areas where both visual beauty and aromatic appeal are desired, including seating areas and pathways where the fragrance can be appreciated. The pleasant scent adds to the overall romantic charm whilst remaining accessible to those who appreciate gentle fragrances. The sweet fragrance makes this rose particularly suitable for cutting gardens and indoor arrangements.
Colour Evolution Excellence
One of the most remarkable features of 'Together Forever' is its exceptional colour-changing characteristic, with blooms evolving from strong orange through coral-pink to beautiful shades of peach and pink as they mature. This unique characteristic provides ongoing visual interest and ensures that gardens maintain dynamic beauty throughout the flowering period. The colour evolution creates constantly changing displays that provide new interest daily, making this rose particularly valuable for gardeners who appreciate dynamic garden features. This remarkable trait ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for visual interest and garden impact throughout the extended flowering season.
Companion Planting
The evolving coral-pink to peach and pink colours of 'Together Forever' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and harmonious colour schemes. The warm coral-pink blooms work beautifully with cream and white flowers, creating elegant, sophisticated displays that highlight the colour evolution. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating refined combinations that enhance the warm tones throughout their development. Purple and blue flowers create complementary displays, whilst yellow flowers provide vibrant, energetic combinations that highlight the orange phases. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with perennials, herbs, and other moderate-sized plants, creating layered gardens that provide continuous interest and romantic beauty throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Together Forever' achieved the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2009, confirming its exceptional garden performance, outstanding reliability, and remarkable visual impact with its unique colour-changing characteristics. This recognition reflects superior performance in diverse growing conditions and demonstrates the successful combination of dynamic flowering beauty with reliable garden performance. The Rose of the Year award is given only to roses that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions, marking this variety as one of exceptional merit that combines evolving colour beauty with outstanding garden reliability and disease resistance.
Heritage and Innovation
Bred by Noack and representing contemporary rose breeding excellence, 'Together Forever' demonstrates the successful development of colour-changing characteristics combined with outstanding garden performance and reliable beauty. The variety represents innovative breeding that successfully integrated dynamic colour evolution with exceptional garden reliability, creating a rose that satisfies contemporary gardening needs for visual interest with minimal maintenance. This breeding excellence brings unique characteristics including remarkable colour evolution, exceptional disease resistance, and outstanding adaptability to various soil conditions that sets this variety apart from traditional floribunda roses.
Large Cluster Formation
The exceptional flowering abundance of 'Together Forever' ensures that gardens receive maximum visual impact from this award-winning rose, with large clusters of blooms creating spectacular displays throughout the growing season. This remarkable characteristic provides ongoing dynamic impact and ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for both colour evolution and garden presence. The substantial cluster formation makes it particularly suitable for situations where maximum colour impact with evolving interest is required from individual plants.
Soil Tolerance Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Together Forever' is its exceptional tolerance of poorer soils, making it suitable for challenging garden conditions where other roses might struggle. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for diverse garden applications where reliable performance in varying soil conditions is required. The soil tolerance excellence ensures successful establishment and performance whilst maintaining all the benefits of award-winning floribunda characteristics including colour evolution and disease resistance.
Why Choose 'Together Forever'?
Rose 'Together Forever' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, colour evolution beauty, and exceptional adaptability. The large clusters of coral-pink blooms that evolve from orange to beautiful peach and pink tones provide continuous flowering displays from June through to September, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact upright growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from borders to hedge plantings and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular evolving colour displays, sweet fragrance, or as a Rose of the Year 2009 winner, this outstanding floribunda rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable dynamic colour evolution 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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