Rose of the Year Collection

Preparing the Soil for Roses
Roses grow best in fertile, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil. Before planting, dig the soil thoroughly, remove weeds and incorporate plenty of well-rotted garden compost or manure to improve the soil structure and fertility.

Choosing a Position
Choose a sunny position with good air circulation where the plants have room to develop. These three roses make excellent border plants, while their relatively compact growth also makes them suitable for growing in large containers.

Planting Bare-Root Roses
Unpack bare-root roses promptly and soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting. Dig a generous hole wide enough for the roots to spread naturally without bending or bunching them. Position the rose with the graft union around soil level, backfill with soil, firm gently and water thoroughly.

Planting Potted Roses
Water the rose thoroughly before planting. Dig a hole slightly wider than the root ball, remove the pot and gently loosen any tightly packed roots. Plant at the same depth it was growing in the pot, backfill with soil, firm gently and water well.

Watering
Water regularly during the first growing season, particularly during warm, dry weather. Give the soil a thorough soak so moisture reaches down to the roots rather than watering little and often.

Feeding & Mulching
Apply a rose feed as growth gets underway in spring and again after the first main flush of flowers. Mulch around the base with well-rotted garden compost or organic matter to help conserve moisture, suppress weeds and improve the soil.

Top Tip
When growing roses in containers, choose a generous pot with good drainage and allow plenty of room for the roots. Container-grown roses dry out more quickly than those planted in the ground, so check them regularly during warm weather.

Pruning
Prune in late winter or early spring, beginning by removing dead, damaged, weak or crossing stems. ‘You’re My Everything’ is a Hybrid Tea, so it can be pruned more firmly to encourage strong new flowering stems. ‘Coral Gardens’ and ‘Art Deco’ are Floribundas, so concentrate on maintaining a healthy, open framework while shortening the previous season's growth.

Deadheading
Remove faded flowers regularly through summer to encourage the next flush of blooms. With the cluster-flowering Floribundas, remove the finished flower cluster once it has faded rather than picking off individual petals.

Keeping Roses Healthy
Remove fallen leaves and unhealthy foliage from around the plants rather than allowing it to build up underneath them. When pruning, remove congested or crossing growth where necessary to maintain good airflow through the plants.

Refreshing Older Roses
As established plants mature, remove an occasional old or unproductive stem close to the base to encourage fresh replacement growth. Avoid removing too much mature wood in a single year.

Top Tip
Don't prune all three roses identically simply because they're planted together. Keeping the slightly different natural shapes of the Hybrid Tea and Floribundas will give you stronger plants and a more interesting display.

Make the Three Colours Work Together
These roses give you a changing palette of pink, cream, coral, apricot and white. Repeat a few blue, purple or soft mauve perennials around all three plants to link the different rose colours together and give the planting a more cohesive look.

Perennial Planting Partners
Nepeta, hardy geraniums, salvias and veronicas make excellent companions, adding lower-growing flowers and contrasting shapes around the roses without overwhelming them.

Add Earlier Colour
Spring bulbs such as tulips and alliums can fill the spaces between the roses before their main flowering season begins. As the bulb foliage fades, the roses and surrounding summer perennials take over the display.

Top Tip
Rather than spacing the three roses evenly in a straight line, work them into a wider planting of perennials and bulbs. You'll still see the three award-winning roses together, but the finished border will feel much more established and natural.

Your Roses – Hybrid Tea & Floribunda
This collection brings together three consecutive Rose of the Year winners. ‘You’re My Everything’, Rose of the Year 2025, is a Hybrid Tea with beautifully formed cream and pink flowers. Rose of the Year 2026 ‘Coral Gardens’ and Rose of the Year 2027 ‘Art Deco’ are Floribundas, producing their flowers in clusters for a generous garden display.

Other Types of Rose

Hybrid Tea Roses
Hybrid Tea roses are prized for their large, beautifully formed flowers, usually carried individually or in small groups on strong stems. Many are highly fragrant and their strong stems make them particularly good roses for cutting.

Floribunda Roses
Floribunda roses produce their flowers in generous clusters, creating plenty of colour over a long period. They usually have a bushy habit and repeat flower through summer, making them excellent choices for beds, borders and larger containers.

Shrub Roses
Shrub roses develop into naturally shaped bushes and are particularly useful for adding height and structure to borders. Their flowers vary from simple open blooms to large, fully double roses, depending on the variety.

Climbing Roses
Climbing roses produce long flowering stems that can be trained over walls, fences, arches and other supports. They don't cling by themselves, so their stems need to be tied to a suitable support as they grow.

Rambling Roses
Rambling roses generally produce longer, more flexible stems than climbing roses and are excellent for covering larger structures, pergolas and mature trees. Many produce impressive displays of smaller flowers carried in generous clusters.

Ground Cover Roses
Ground cover roses have a low, spreading habit, making them useful towards the front of borders and for covering banks, slopes and larger areas. Planted in groups, they can create a broad carpet of flowers while helping to cover bare ground.

Flower Carpet Roses
Flower Carpet roses are a range of ground cover roses bred for their spreading habit, long flowering season and good garden performance. They're particularly useful for creating low-maintenance colour in borders, banks and larger planting schemes.

Persica Roses
Persica roses are instantly recognisable by the contrasting eye at the centre of their flowers, a characteristic inherited from Rosa persica. Modern varieties combine this unusual colouring with repeat flowering and strong garden performance.

Bare-Root Roses
Bare-root roses are supplied dormant without a pot or compost. Once planted, they will establish their roots and begin producing fresh growth as temperatures rise in spring.

Potted Roses
Potted roses are supplied established in compost with a developed root system. Their appearance naturally varies through the year, so the amount of foliage, buds or flowers present will depend on the season.

If You Can't Plant Straight Away
Keep bare-root roses cool and don't allow the roots to dry out. If planting has to be delayed, heel the roots temporarily into moist soil or compost until you're ready to plant. Keep potted roses watered until they can be planted.

Mature Plant Sizes
All three make relatively compact garden roses. ‘You’re My Everything’ reaches around 75–90cm high with a spread of around 60cm. ‘Coral Gardens’ grows to around 80cm high and 50–60cm wide, while ‘Art Deco’ reaches around 80cm high with a spread of approximately 70cm.

Growing On
Once established, the roses will develop into fuller, bushier plants and produce repeat flushes of flowers through the growing season. Their similar heights make them particularly easy to combine in the same border while still giving each variety enough room to develop.