Rose 'Twice in a Blue Moon' - Hybrid Tea Rose
An enhanced award-winning hybrid tea rose producing abundant large blooms in stunning silvery-lilac to pale blue tones with strong fragrance, complemented by outstanding glossy dark green foliage, vigorous upright growth, and excellent repeat flowering performance, making it perfect for garden borders, cutting gardens, and sophisticated display areas.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 120cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to November
- Flower Colour: Silvery-lilac to pale blue with deeper lilac centres
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Strong, upright, and vigorous
- Flower Type: Large fully double spiral-shaped blooms with classic hybrid tea form
- Fragrance: Strong to medium fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Twice in a Blue Moon' stands as one of the most sophisticated garden performers, producing abundant spectacular blooms that showcase extraordinary silvery-lilac colouring with strong fragrance intensity. This exceptional enhanced variety creates memorable garden displays with its large well-shaped flowers that display perfect hybrid tea form, where each bloom features incredible colour variations of silvery-lilac to pale blue tones that create stunning sophisticated effects throughout the extended flowering season. The distinctive rare blue-lilac colour makes this rose particularly outstanding among garden plantings, representing elegance and garden sophistication. The flowers are produced continually from summer through autumn, with this enhanced variety offering improved health and vigour over the classic Blue Moon rose. The strong fragrance complements the extraordinary visual appeal, creating outstanding garden experiences that enhance both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional colour rarity and reliable performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Twice in a Blue Moon' lies in its abundant large blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour rarity and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic high-centred formation with fully double petals featuring spiral-shaped silvery-lilac blooms that appear almost blue in certain light conditions, creating blooms of remarkable visual beauty and sophisticated appeal. The extraordinary colour palette provides distinctive displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating unique colour variation that symbolises elegance and garden refinement. The flowers are produced abundantly with excellent repeat flowering, rarely being out of flower, with the second flush producing small clusters of spiral-shaped blooms on long stems. The strong fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both cutting garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional colour sophistication and aromatic appeal.
Growth Characteristics
The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The outstanding glossy mid-green foliage with attractive red new growth is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the sophisticated silvery-lilac bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The vigorous upright growth with good strong development ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to feature plantings, with the moderate size making it suitable for both established gardens and prominent focal points where its exceptional colour rarity can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Twice in a Blue Moon' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant is rarely out of flower, creating substantial visual impact with outstanding performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form and spiral-shaped perfectly formed swirl-type blooms, allowing gardeners to appreciate the unique silvery-lilac colour and sophisticated tonal variations, whilst the elegant high-centred shape ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and colour intensity for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the ongoing silvery-lilac blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their distinctive colour palette and strong fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Twice in a Blue Moon' thrives in full sun with fertile, well-amended, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the stunning silvery-lilac colours can be fully appreciated. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and outstanding foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the moderate size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to sophisticated garden features where its enhanced qualities and exceptional colour rarity can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Twice in a Blue Moon' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with outstanding disease resistance in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with superior natural resistance to common rose problems. The variety shows excellent disease resistance and good strong growth, making it highly reliable for gardeners seeking dependable sophisticated plantings with minimal intervention. The glossy mid-green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resistance that represents a significant improvement over the original Blue Moon variety, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Twice in a Blue Moon' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour intensity, though its excellent disease resistance makes care significantly easier than many varieties. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it particularly suitable for gardeners seeking reliable sophisticated plantings with reduced maintenance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and colour development.
Garden Applications
'Twice in a Blue Moon' excels in sophisticated garden displays and elegant garden features where its rare blue-lilac significance and exceptional performance can be fully appreciated. The extraordinary silvery-lilac colour makes it ideal for elegant gardens, sophisticated displays, and refined landscapes where unique colour impact and dependable performance are essential. Perfect for beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with long strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with rare silvery-lilac colour for special occasions and sophisticated displays. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating refined focal points in established gardens, whilst the moderate size ensures it provides impressive presence in diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary landscape features where its exceptional colour rarity creates maximum sophisticated impact.
Container Growing
The vigorous upright growth makes 'Twice in a Blue Moon' well-suited to container cultivation in large containers for patios, terraces, and sophisticated displays. The rose thrives in substantial containers where its silvery-lilac bloom colours can create elegant focal points and refined displays, making it perfect for outdoor living areas and contemporary presentations where sophisticated colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the enhanced qualities, excellent disease resistance, and sophisticated displays make this worthwhile for special elegant plantings and refined garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Twice in a Blue Moon' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous silvery-lilac colour and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of glossy mid-green foliage with attractive red new growth and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main sophisticated flowering display. The spectacular silvery-lilac blooms from summer through autumn provide months of elegant colour that maintains sophistication throughout the season, creating consistent refined impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the sophisticated flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Twice in a Blue Moon' features strong to medium fragrance that complements the sophisticated visual display and enhances the elegant garden experience. The powerful well-perfumed scent adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual sophistication and strong aromatic interest are desired for special occasions. The strong fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the refined garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the powerful perfume creates lasting impressions and adds to the overall garden ambiance.
Companion Planting
The sophisticated silvery-lilac colouring of 'Twice in a Blue Moon' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and elegant colour schemes. The rare blue-lilac tones work beautifully with purple and deeper blue flowers for refined contrast that highlights both the unique qualities and garden sophistication, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the silvery tones perfectly. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the lilac hues to shine, whilst the strong fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other aromatic plants that enhance the garden's elegant atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Enhanced Variety Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Twice in a Blue Moon' is its status as an enhanced variety of the classic Blue Moon rose, offering improved health and vigour that represents the finest achievements in modern rose breeding. This enhanced significance, bred in Germany in 2004 by Hans Jürgen Evers and represented by Rosen Tantau, symbolises innovation, improvement, and garden excellence. The sophisticated silvery-lilac colour combined with superior disease resistance makes it particularly meaningful for sophisticated garden displays where both beauty and reliability are essential, whilst the enhanced performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide elegant displays with improved characteristics over the original variety.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Twice in a Blue Moon' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring sophisticated beauty indoors for special occasions and elegant arrangements. The long strong stems, abundant large spiral-shaped blooms with rare silvery-lilac colouring, and strong fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the sophisticated significance of the extraordinary colour combinations. The prolific flowering with rarely being out of flower ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional sophisticated arrangements that provide elegant statements for indoor spaces and special celebrations with excellent vase life.
Exhibition and Show Potential
The spectacular high-centred spiral-shaped blooms and perfect hybrid tea form make 'Twice in a Blue Moon' an excellent choice for exhibition purposes and flower shows where sophisticated colour and enhanced breeding create memorable displays. The large fully double blooms with their rare silvery-lilac colouring provide consistent show-quality flowers that demonstrate the finest achievements in enhanced rose breeding, making this variety particularly valuable for competitive gardening and horticultural exhibitions where unique qualities and exceptional disease resistance contribute to judging success and create standout displays.
Rare Colour Excellence
'Twice in a Blue Moon' carries special significance as a rare blue-lilac coloured garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking unique colour impact and sophisticated displays. The extraordinary silvery-lilac colour that appears almost blue in certain lighting makes it suitable for gardens that require distinctive seasonal impact, whilst the enhanced performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide elegant displays throughout the growing season with consistent rare colour intensity that is seldom found in hybrid tea roses.
Why Choose 'Twice in a Blue Moon'?
Rose 'Twice in a Blue Moon' represents the perfect combination of enhanced excellence, sophisticated beauty, and outstanding disease resistance. The abundant large spiral-shaped blooms in rare silvery-lilac with their strong fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn, whilst the vigorous growth, excellent disease resistance, and enhanced breeding ensure dependable performance with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for sophisticated gardens, elegant displays, cutting gardens, or simply for its exceptional beauty, enhanced heritage, and rare colour, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful innovation with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates sophistication and garden distinction with colour rarity and enhanced performance that enhances any garden setting where elegance, unique colour, and improved reliability are appreciated.
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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