Rose 'You are my Sunshine' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A radiant hybrid tea rose that brings pure joy to any garden with its abundant bright golden-yellow blooms, cheerful sweet fragrance, and exceptional flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by vibrant green foliage and vigorous upright growth that makes it ideal for sunny borders, cutting gardens, and uplifting garden displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1.0m
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: May to September
- Flower Colour: Bright golden-yellow with lemon highlights
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, upright, and well-branched
- Flower Type: Large double blooms with classic hybrid tea form
- Fragrance: Sweet, cheerful rose fragrance with citrus notes
Overview
Rose 'You are my Sunshine' embodies the essence of garden happiness, producing continuous displays of brilliant golden-yellow blooms that radiate warmth and joy throughout the growing season. This spectacular variety creates uplifting garden moments with its perfectly formed flowers that showcase classic hybrid tea excellence, where each bloom features luminous golden-yellow petals with bright lemon highlights that bring sunshine to any garden setting. The vibrant colour palette makes this rose particularly striking in garden plantings, representing optimism, happiness, and garden vitality. The flowers emerge continuously from early summer through autumn, opening from beautifully pointed buds that promise the cheerful displays ahead. The sweet fragrance with delightful citrus notes enhances the brilliant visual impact, creating energising garden experiences that complement both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with radiant beauty and dependable performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'You are my Sunshine' lies in its abundant large blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea formation with brilliant colour intensity and joyful garden presence. Each flower displays classic high-centred structure with fully double petals featuring bright golden-yellow colouring in harmonious arrangements, creating blooms of exceptional beauty and cheerful charm. The luminous colour palette provides uplifting displays that maintain their brilliance throughout the flowering season, creating radiant colour impact that symbolises happiness and garden energy. The flowers are produced abundantly with excellent repeat blooming, opening from attractively formed buds that add elegant anticipation to the joyful garden display. The sweet fragrance with citrus undertones complements the brilliant visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both cutting garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with vibrant colour warmth and delightful aromatic charm.
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 essential. The vibrant green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the bright golden-yellow bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and garden appeal. The vigorous upright growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from mixed borders to feature plantings, with the moderate size making it suitable for both established gardens and prominent positions where its brilliant colour can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to autumn, 'You are my Sunshine' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant spectacular large blooms consistently, creating brilliant visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect golden-yellow colour and radiant tonal quality, whilst the elegant high-centred shape ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and colour brilliance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing bright blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their luminous colour palette and sweet fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'You are my Sunshine' thrives in full sun with fertile, well-prepared, 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 performs excellently in an open, bright position where the brilliant golden-yellow colours can be fully appreciated. For best results, plant in sunny locations with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy 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 feature plantings where its cheerful qualities and brilliant colour can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'You are my Sunshine' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with good disease resistance. The variety shows strong resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable uplifting plantings. The vibrant green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with good disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable 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
'You are my Sunshine' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour intensity. 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 good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with cheerful impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the brilliant 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
'You are my Sunshine' excels in cheerful garden displays and uplifting garden features where its radiant beauty and brilliant colour can be fully appreciated. The bright golden-yellow colour makes it ideal for sunny gardens, joyful displays, and energetic landscapes where vibrant colour impact and dependable performance are essential. Perfect for mixed borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with luminous golden-yellow colour for special occasions and cheerful displays. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating striking 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 brilliant colour creates maximum uplifting impact.
Container Growing
The vigorous upright growth makes 'You are my Sunshine' well-suited to container cultivation in large containers for patios, terraces, and cheerful displays. The rose thrives in substantial containers where its golden-yellow bloom colours can create striking focal points and radiant displays, making it perfect for outdoor living areas and sunny spaces where brilliant colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 45cm 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 exceptional qualities and brilliant displays make this worthwhile for special uplifting plantings and joyful garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'You are my Sunshine' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous golden-yellow colour and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of vibrant green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main brilliant flowering display. The spectacular golden-yellow blooms from summer through autumn provide months of radiant colour that maintains its brilliance throughout the season, creating consistent uplifting impact. The attractive green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the brilliant flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'You are my Sunshine' features sweet fragrance with delightful rose and citrus notes that complements the brilliant visual display and enhances the cheerful garden experience. The pleasant scent adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual radiance and sweet aromatic interest are desired for joyful occasions. The sweet fragrance with citrus undertones enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the uplifting garden experience, particularly during morning and evening garden enjoyment when the delightful perfume creates lasting cheerful impressions.
Companion Planting
The bright golden-yellow colouring of 'You are my Sunshine' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and vibrant colour schemes. The golden-yellow tones work beautifully with blue and purple flowers for striking contrast that highlights both the radiant qualities and garden joy, whilst deep green and bronze foliage plants complement the brilliant tones effectively. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the golden-yellow hues to shine, whilst the sweet fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other aromatic plants that enhance the garden's cheerful atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'You are my Sunshine' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring brilliant beauty indoors for special occasions and cheerful arrangements. The strong stems, abundant large blooms with bright golden-yellow colouring, and sweet fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the joyful significance of the radiant colour brilliance. The prolific flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional cheerful arrangements that provide uplifting statements for indoor spaces and special celebrations with excellent vase life.
Exhibition and Show Potential
The spectacular high-centred blooms and perfect hybrid tea form make 'You are my Sunshine' an excellent choice for exhibition purposes and flower shows where brilliant colour and classic form create memorable displays. The large double blooms with their bright golden-yellow colouring provide consistent show-quality flowers that demonstrate outstanding hybrid tea rose breeding, making this variety particularly valuable for competitive gardening and horticultural exhibitions where exceptional qualities and brilliant colour contribute to judging success.
Colour Impact and Joy
'You are my Sunshine' carries special significance as a brilliantly coloured garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking maximum visual impact and uplifting displays. The bright golden-yellow colour combined with sweet fragrance makes it suitable for gardens that require ongoing cheerful seasonal interest, whilst the reliable performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide radiant displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour brilliance.
Why Choose 'You are my Sunshine'?
Rose 'You are my Sunshine' represents the perfect combination of radiant beauty, joyful charm, and outstanding performance. The abundant large blooms in brilliant golden-yellow with their sweet fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for cheerful gardens, uplifting displays, cutting gardens, or simply for its spectacular beauty and reliable nature, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers distinctive value that combines joyful appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates happiness and garden vitality with colour brilliance that enhances any garden setting where radiance, reliability, and uplifting impact 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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