Rose 'Together Forever' – The Perfect Wedding and Anniversary Floribunda
Rose 'Together Forever' stands as the ideal celebration rose for marking special occasions and lifelong commitments. This superb floribunda variety from Dickson produces stunning deep orange cup-shaped blooms that gradually fade to shades of peach and pink as they age, creating a constantly evolving display of romantic colours. With its meaningful name, pleasant fragrance, and excellent garden performance, 'Together Forever' represents the perfect combination of symbolic significance and horticultural excellence, making it ideal for weddings, anniversaries, and commemorative planting.
Headlines
- Type: Hardy floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering: Repeat flowering from late spring to autumn
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright to bushy, compact form
- Colour: Deep orange fading to peach and pink
- Form: Cup-shaped, full double blooms
- Size: Large flowers, 6-8cm diameter
- Fragrance: Pleasant medium fragrance
- Clustering: 3-5 flowers per stem
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Together Forever' lies in its striking colour transformation as the blooms mature. These large, cup-shaped flowers begin as deep bronze-orange at mid-opening, displaying prominent yellow stamens that add to their visual appeal. As the blooms age, they gradually fade to soft peach with delicate pink tones, creating a romantic progression that mirrors the evolution of lasting relationships.
The full double blooms are perfectly formed with the classic cupped shape that characterises the best floribunda varieties. Each flower measures 6-8cm in diameter and is produced in attractive clusters of 3-5 blooms, ensuring substantial impact throughout the flowering season. The prominent yellow stamens create additional visual interest and make the flowers particularly attractive to beneficial insects.
Pleasant Fragrance
'Together Forever' offers a delightful medium fragrance that enhances its appeal as both a garden rose and cut flower variety. The pleasant perfume provides an olfactory dimension that complements the visual beauty of the colour-changing blooms, making this rose perfect for positions where both sight and scent can be appreciated, particularly in wedding gardens or romantic garden settings.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This vigorous and hardy floribunda demonstrates excellent health and easy-to-grow characteristics that make it suitable for gardeners of all experience levels. The variety features attractive mid-green, semi-glossy foliage that provides the perfect backdrop for the striking orange to pink blooms whilst maintaining its appearance throughout the growing season.
'Together Forever' exhibits an upright to bushy growth habit that creates a well-balanced plant ideal for various garden positions. The hardy, very healthy constitution ensures reliable performance year after year, making it perfect for commemorative plantings that need to maintain their significance over time.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Together Forever' provides continuous blooms from late spring through to autumn, ensuring months of spectacular colour evolution. The reliable flowering performance means the rose maintains its celebratory function throughout the extended season, providing ongoing beauty for special occasions and everyday garden enjoyment.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering performance
- Soil: Well-draining, fertile soil with good organic content
- Spacing: Plant approximately 70cm apart for optimal growth
- Care: Standard floribunda care applies - regular watering during dry periods, feeding twice yearly with rose fertiliser, and moderate pruning.
Regular deadheading encourages continued cluster production throughout the season.
The easy-to-grow nature and excellent disease resistance make this variety particularly suitable for various garden conditions whilst maintaining consistent performance.
Garden Uses
'Together Forever' offers exceptional versatility for meaningful garden applications:
- Wedding Gardens: Perfect for celebrating marriages and new beginnings
- Anniversary Commemorations: Ideal for marking relationship milestones
- Middle Border Positions: Excellent height for mid-border planting
- Hedge Formation: Can be used to create attractive flowering hedges
- Large Bed Displays: Suitable for substantial garden plantings
- Gift Planting: Makes a deeply meaningful present for special couples
- Mixed Borders: Provides structure and continuous colour in perennial plantings
Perfect Celebration Rose
The combination of romantic colour progression, meaningful name, and reliable performance makes 'Together Forever' the ideal rose for celebrating relationships and special occasions. Whether planted to commemorate weddings, anniversaries, or other significant milestones, this rose provides lasting beauty that grows more meaningful with time.
The gradual colour change from deep orange to soft peach and pink creates a visual metaphor for the evolution of lasting love, making it particularly appropriate for romantic garden settings and commemorative plantings.
Wildlife Value
The prominent yellow stamens and cup-shaped flower form make 'Together Forever' particularly attractive to bees and butterflies. This wildlife-friendly characteristic adds ecological value to its ornamental appeal, supporting local pollinator populations whilst providing beautiful garden displays.
Breeding Heritage
'Together Forever' was bred by the renowned Dickson nursery of Northern Ireland and introduced in 2007. The variety's parentage includes 'Gold Finch' x 'Euphoria', contributing to its excellent garden performance and attractive flower characteristics. This prestigious breeding background ensures quality and reliability.
Companion Planting
The warm orange to peach and pink tones of 'Together Forever' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. The evolving colours complement both warm and cool colour schemes, making them particularly valuable for sophisticated garden designs. Purple perennials like lavender create striking contrasts, whilst cream and white companions allow the colour progression to take centre stage.
Care and Maintenance
'Together Forever' requires standard floribunda care with moderate pruning in late winter to maintain the upright to bushy form. The hardy, very healthy nature means minimal intervention is required for pest and disease management, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable, low-maintenance commemorative roses.
Regular deadheading of spent flower clusters encourages continued blooming throughout the season, whilst the easy-to-grow nature ensures long-term success for meaningful plantings.
Why Choose 'Together Forever'?
Rose 'Together Forever' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a floribunda rose that combines symbolic meaning with exceptional garden performance. Its combination of colour-changing blooms, pleasant fragrance, hardy constitution, and meaningful name makes it both a stunning garden feature and deeply significant commemorative choice.
Whether you're planning wedding gardens, commemorating anniversaries, or seeking the perfect gift rose for celebrating relationships, 'Together Forever' delivers outstanding 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 meaning through their enduring beauty and romantic symbolism.
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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