• Brings in important pollinators
• Reveals big flowers every year
• Excellent for cutting to sell on

Description: Add rose Royal William to your garden and enjoy beautiful royal red fragrant flowers throughout the summer and well into autumn. A repeat-flowering hybrid tea variety, you get handsome large cherry-red flowers opening up from pretty buds.

The perfect flowers for container displays you can bring a sunny part of your patio or balcony to life with rose Royal William. We recommend you feed Royal William with a granulated rose feed like Westland Rose Food when growing in containers to keep your plants thriving and continually blooming through the summer.

We also recommend you grow rose Prince William in an allotment setting to bring in pollinating insects that stick around to help pea and bean flowers set to fruit for handsome harvests. Perfect as a cut flower, snip some of your flowers to add to vases in the house or to selling on at the allotment.

You receive your rose plants as well-rooted 4.5litre containers in a plastic wrap to encourage a temporary greenhouse effect for your plant stems. Check the moisture within the soil and water well before planting.

When to plant and what to expect at different times of the year

You can plant hardy shrubs, trees and perennials at any time of the year avoiding the two extremes of heat and cold. During the summer months when it is hot and dry the need for watering becomes crucial to aid successful establishment and in the winter when the soil is frozen the plants will not be in active growth either above or below ground and risk getting cold damage. The same is true on the stage or growth you can expect your plants to be delivered in and this will be directly related to the time of year and the season.

When ordering through the year, here’s a summary of what to expect when receiving your plants:

Spring Months: Plants supplied in spring will be starting to show signs of active growth above and below ground.

Summer Months: Plants supplied in the late summer will be more advanced in size and flower stage

Autumn Months: In the autumn plants will be changing colour, showing signs of leaf colour breakdown and be preparing to shut down for winter.

Winter Months: Plants ordered and supplied during the winter months will be dormant and therefore may not be showing growth above the soil level or consist of bare branches with no leaves or bare roots with no soil.

These are all perfectly normal and natural for these types of plants growing in the northern hemisphere. All will still have a very healthy root system that can be planted when the weather is favourable by keeping the new soil level equal to the pot level and therefore not covering the crown of the plant at all. Planting during the autumn and winter months will allow for early establishment in the season and a bigger and better display throughout the main growing season. For more information on our plant sizes click here.