Rose 'Uncle Walter' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A vigorous tall-growing hybrid tea rose producing abundant large blooms in stunning crimson scarlet tones with light fragrance, complemented by distinctive matt green foliage, exceptionally tall upright growth, and excellent repeat flowering performance, making it perfect for back borders, tall displays, and dramatic garden features.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 150cm
- Eventual Spread: 120cm
- Flowering Period: June to November
- Flower Colour: Deep crimson scarlet to blood red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Very tall, vigorous, and free-branching
- Flower Type: Large high-centred blooms with about 30 wide petals
- Fragrance: Light to moderate fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Uncle Walter' stands as one of the most distinctive garden performers, producing abundant spectacular blooms that showcase extraordinary crimson scarlet colouring with light fragrance intensity. This exceptional variety creates memorable garden displays with its large high-centred flowers that display classic hybrid tea form, where each bloom features incredible deep crimson scarlet tones that create stunning dramatic effects throughout the extended flowering season. The distinctive tall stature makes this rose particularly outstanding among garden plantings, representing grandeur and garden presence. The flowers are produced continually from summer through autumn, often carried in open clusters on very tall stems, with this remarkable variety bred by Samuel Darragh McGredy IV offering exceptional height and vigour. The light fragrance complements the extraordinary visual appeal, creating outstanding garden experiences that enhance both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional height and reliable performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Uncle Walter' lies in its abundant large blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional height and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic high-centred formation with about 30 wide petals featuring deep crimson scarlet colouring in harmonious arrangements, creating blooms of remarkable visual beauty and dramatic appeal. The extraordinary colour intensity provides distinctive displays that maintain their vibrancy throughout the flowering season, creating dynamic colour impact that symbolises strength and garden drama. The flowers open rather loosely on very tall stems and are often carried in open clusters, with the overall effect being more like a big shrub than a large flowered bush. The light fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both cutting garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional height and colour intensity.
Growth Characteristics
The exceptionally strong tall stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for back border placement and dramatic garden applications where exceptional height and flower presentation are crucial. The distinctive matt green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the deep crimson scarlet bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The very vigorous growth with tall, free-branching habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that requires careful positioning, with the exceptional height making it suitable for back borders or treatment as a short climber with support where its remarkable stature can be fully appreciated without dominating smaller neighbours.
Flowering Performance
From June through to November, 'Uncle Walter' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent continuity of bloom that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant flowers well and maintains continuity through summer and autumn, creating substantial visual impact with outstanding performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form carried in open clusters, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect crimson scarlet colour and dramatic tonal quality, whilst the high-centred shape ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and colour intensity for extended periods. The free-flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the ongoing deep red blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their distinctive colour palette and impressive height.
Growing Conditions
'Uncle Walter' 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 crimson scarlet 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 exceptional height makes it suitable for back border positions or as a short climber with support where its remarkable stature and heritage breeding can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Uncle Walter' demonstrates good hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with reasonable disease resistance. The variety shows adequate resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable tall plantings with dramatic impact. The distinctive matt green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with standard disease resistance, making it a suitable choice for gardeners seeking reliable heritage 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
'Uncle Walter' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour intensity, with particular attention to positioning due to its exceptional height. 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 reasonable disease resistance means this variety requires standard intervention with regular care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with dramatic height impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous tall shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and colour development.
Garden Applications
'Uncle Walter' excels in back border displays and dramatic garden features where its exceptional height and crimson scarlet significance can be fully appreciated without dominating smaller plants. The deep blood red colour makes it ideal for dramatic gardens, tall displays, and impressive landscapes where striking height impact and dependable performance are essential. Perfect for positioning towards the back of borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with very tall long stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with deep crimson scarlet colour for special occasions and dramatic displays. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating impressive focal points in established gardens, whilst the exceptional height ensures it provides commanding presence in diverse garden settings where its remarkable stature creates maximum dramatic impact.
Container Growing
The very vigorous tall growth makes 'Uncle Walter' challenging for container cultivation except in very large containers for patios, terraces, and dramatic displays where exceptional height is desired. The rose requires substantial containers where its crimson scarlet bloom colours can create striking focal points without overwhelming the space, making it more suitable for ground planting in appropriate positions. If attempting container growing, choose containers at least 60cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require frequent watering and feeding with strong support, but the exceptional height and heritage qualities make ground planting the preferred option for optimal performance.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Uncle Walter' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous crimson scarlet colour and outstanding height performance. Spring brings the emergence of distinctive matt green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main dramatic flowering display. The spectacular crimson scarlet blooms from June through November provide months of intense colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent dramatic impact. The attractive matt foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the striking flower displays, whilst the exceptionally tall branching structure provides impressive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Uncle Walter' features light to moderate fragrance that complements the dramatic visual display and enhances the impressive garden experience. The pleasant scent adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual drama and subtle aromatic interest are desired for special occasions. The light fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the dramatic garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the gentle perfume creates lasting impressions alongside the commanding height presence.
Companion Planting
The deep crimson scarlet colouring of 'Uncle Walter' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and bold colour schemes, though positioning requires careful consideration due to its exceptional height. The crimson scarlet tones work beautifully with purple and blue flowers for striking contrast that highlights both the heritage qualities and garden drama, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the deep tones effectively. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the crimson scarlet hues to shine, whilst the light fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other aromatic plants that enhance the garden's dramatic atmosphere, positioned appropriately to avoid overwhelming smaller companions.
Heritage Breeding Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Uncle Walter' is its exceptional breeding heritage by Samuel Darragh McGredy IV, representing outstanding achievements in hybrid tea rose development and making it uniquely meaningful for heritage garden displays. The prestigious breeding heritage combined with the distinctive cultivar name 'Macon' symbolises excellence, tradition, and garden distinction. This heritage significance, combined with exceptional garden performance and remarkable height, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both meaningful breeding history and practical excellence for dramatic garden themes and impressive landscape applications where heritage and stature are valued.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Uncle Walter' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring dramatic beauty indoors for special occasions and impressive arrangements. The very tall long stems, abundant large blooms with deep crimson scarlet colouring, and light fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the heritage significance of the extraordinary colour intensity and remarkable stem length. The free-flowering nature ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional dramatic arrangements that provide commanding statements for indoor spaces and special celebrations with excellent vase life and impressive height.
Exhibition and Show Potential
The spectacular high-centred blooms and classic hybrid tea form make 'Uncle Walter' an excellent choice for exhibition purposes and flower shows where dramatic colour and heritage breeding create memorable displays. The large blooms with about 30 wide petals and their deep crimson scarlet colouring provide consistent show-quality flowers that demonstrate outstanding hybrid tea rose breeding heritage, making this variety particularly valuable for competitive gardening and horticultural exhibitions where heritage qualities and exceptional colour intensity contribute to judging success and create impressive displays with remarkable stem length.
Height and Positioning Excellence
'Uncle Walter' carries special significance as an exceptionally tall garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking dramatic height impact and impressive vertical displays. The remarkable height of 150cm combined with deep crimson scarlet colour makes it suitable for gardens that require commanding seasonal impact, whilst the reliable performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide impressive displays throughout the growing season with exceptional height that creates garden drama and architectural interest requiring careful positioning for optimal effect.
Why Choose 'Uncle Walter'?
Rose 'Uncle Walter' represents the perfect combination of heritage excellence, dramatic beauty, and outstanding height performance. The abundant large blooms in spectacular deep crimson scarlet with their light fragrance provide exceptional displays from June through November, whilst the very vigorous growth and good hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance in appropriate positioning. Whether grown for dramatic gardens, impressive displays, cutting gardens, or simply for its exceptional beauty, heritage breeding, and remarkable height, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful breeding history with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates drama and garden distinction with exceptional height and colour intensity that enhances any garden setting where commanding presence, heritage quality, and striking impact are appreciated, provided appropriate positioning is considered for its exceptional stature.
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.
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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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