The Best Fragrance Rose Collection

Planting Bare-Root Roses
Unpack your roses promptly and soak the roots in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before planting. Dig a generous hole, spread the roots out naturally and position each rose with the graft union around soil level. Backfill, firm gently and water thoroughly.

Planting Potted Roses
Water well before planting and dig a hole slightly wider than the root ball. Remove the rose from its pot, gently loosen any tightly packed roots and plant at the same depth it was growing in the pot. Backfill, firm gently and water thoroughly.

Supporting ‘Scent From Heaven’
Provide this climbing rose with a sturdy support from the start. Tie new stems in with soft ties as they grow, training some horizontally or at an angle to encourage flowering shoots along more of each stem.

Watering
Water regularly during the first growing season while the roses establish, particularly in warm, dry weather. Pay extra attention to ‘Scent From Heaven’ when grown against a wall, as the soil here can remain considerably drier.

Feeding & Mulching
Feed with a suitable rose fertiliser in spring as growth begins and again in summer to support further flowers. Mulch with well-rotted garden compost or organic matter to help retain moisture and suppress weeds.

Top Tip
When training ‘Scent From Heaven’, don't let every new stem grow straight upwards. Fanning stems out across the support encourages flowering shoots along their length and can give you a much fuller display.

Plant for Fragrance
Make the most of this collection by planting it around the parts of the garden you use most. Paths, patios, entrances and seating areas all give you plenty of opportunity to enjoy the roses' perfume through summer.

Beds & Borders
Grow ‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’ through a sunny border, where their upright, bushy growth works well among flowering perennials. Their strong stems also make it easy to cut a few blooms to enjoy indoors.

Walls & Fences
Use ‘Scent From Heaven’ to take the display upwards, training its long stems across a sunny wall or fence. Plant a little way out from the base of a wall to avoid the driest soil and angle the stems back towards their support.

Arches & Pergolas
‘Scent From Heaven’ is particularly effective trained over an arch or pergola, where its coral-apricot flowers can be enjoyed closer to eye level and its fragrance catches you as you pass underneath.

Grow for Cutting
‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’ give you fragrant flowers to bring into the house as well as enjoy outdoors. Cut blooms as the buds begin to open, preferably in the cooler part of the morning, and place the stems into water promptly.

Pruning the Bush Roses
Prune ‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’ in late winter or early spring, first removing dead, damaged, weak or crossing stems. Shorten healthy growth to maintain an open, balanced shape and encourage strong new flowering stems.

Pruning ‘Scent From Heaven’
Prune the climber differently, keeping the main framework of long stems in place. Shorten the side shoots that flowered the previous year and remove any dead, damaged or badly placed growth. Older stems can be removed gradually when needed to encourage fresh growth from lower down.

Deadheading
Remove faded flowers regularly through summer to encourage further flushes and keep the plants looking their best. Cut back to a strong leaf rather than simply removing the spent flower head.

Summer Care
Water thoroughly during prolonged dry spells and give the roses another feed in summer to support continued growth and flowering. Check the ties on ‘Scent From Heaven’ as its stems thicken, loosening or replacing any that are becoming tight.

Cutting Flowers
‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’ are particularly lovely for bringing indoors. Cut stems as the buds begin to open, ideally during the cooler part of the morning, and leave plenty of foliage on the plant to keep it growing strongly.

Top Tip
Don't prune all three roses in the same way. ‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’ benefit from regular bush-rose pruning, while ‘Scent From Heaven’ needs its long main stems retained to build up a permanent climbing framework.

Create a Scented Garden
Continue the fragrance beyond the roses with lavender, dianthus and sweet rocket. Plant scented companions in small groups rather than packing everything together, giving each fragrance and the roses themselves room to be enjoyed.

Soften Around the Roses
Hardy geraniums and nepeta make excellent lower-growing companions, filling the space around the base of the bush roses and ‘Scent From Heaven’ without hiding their flowers. Their blue and violet shades also work beautifully with the collection's yellow, magenta and coral-apricot blooms.

Add Height & Contrast
Salvias, veronicas and penstemons bring upright flower spikes between the rounded rose blooms and help create a relaxed, layered border. Position taller companions around ‘Arthur Bell’ and ‘Pure Poetry’, leaving ‘Scent From Heaven’ to provide height against its support.

Start the Display Earlier
Plant spring bulbs between the roses for colour before the main rose season begins. Alliums are particularly useful, with their rounded flower heads appearing as the roses are beginning to put on strong new growth.

Top Tip
Keep companion plants a little way back from the base of newly planted roses during their first season. This reduces competition for water while the roses are establishing, and you can allow the planting to knit together more closely as they mature.

Bare-Root Roses
Bare-root roses are supplied during autumn and winter while dormant, without a pot or compost around their roots. They usually arrive with woody stems and exposed roots, with little or no foliage. This is completely normal and fresh growth will appear as temperatures rise.

Potted Roses
Potted roses are supplied established in compost and can be planted for much of the year, avoiding frozen, waterlogged or extremely dry conditions. Their appearance varies naturally with the season.

If You Can't Plant Straight Away
Keep bare-root roses cool with their roots moist and protected from drying out, and plant as soon as possible. Potted roses can be kept in a sheltered outdoor position and watered as needed until you're ready to plant.

What to Expect After Planting
The bush roses will gradually develop a fuller framework as they establish, while ‘Scent From Heaven’ produces longer stems that should be trained onto a suitable support. Don't expect all three roses to develop the same shape or height.

Mature Size
The collection contains both bush and climbing roses, so their eventual sizes differ considerably. Allow the bush roses room to develop naturally and give ‘Scent From Heaven’ plenty of vertical space and a permanent support to climb.