Updated information. January 2025
NEW Growers added Ashridge Nurseries & Cottage Memories nursery have now been added to this site. There varieties and full nursery details are now complete.
If you are a grower not included and would like to be then please contact for details email findthatgrose.co.uk.
The planting season for bare root roses is in full swing, and will continue in open weather until late March early April. There is no hurray to plant, it is however important to prepare the site in advance so it is ready for planting. If you receive plants when the weather is inclement, they can be kept in a cool shed/garage as they are packed for a little while. January has started with very severe weather conditions so if you are receiving plants and unable to plant them, you can heel them in. If you have a unheated garage or shed then get a big pot or large tub or even a wheel barrow put the roots of the roses in and put damp potting compost over the roots. Alternatively if you have a sheltered part of the garden where you are able to dig a trench deep and wide enough to accommodate the roots then replace the soil. The plants can be placed in the trench at an angle as much as 45 degrees. The plants will be happy there for weeks and even months. Do not keep them in a greenhouse as a heated one would be unsuitable and a cold green house the temperature can fluctuate considerably. Meaning plant can freeze and then defrost too quickly.
You might like to have the New Rose of The Year for 2025 which should be widely available The rose is ‘You’re My Everything’ See illustration; growers are listed in the variety section.
Although it is much better and cheaper to purchase bare root roses during the traditional planting season, if you purchase containerised roses at this time of the year they will have only just been potted. When potting the root system often has to be cut to be accommodated in the pot. Any new season potted roses should be kept in the pots until at least late March.
Please give British growers/suppliers a boost by purchasing from those listed on this website. With the ever increasing costs in the pipeline they need all the help they can get.
The site is loosely based on the 38th Edition* of Find That Rose covering season Autumn 2020-Summer 2021. Most growers have now given me updated details of the varieties they now offer.
ALL SUPPLIERS LISTED ON THE SITE HAVE BEEN INVITED TO UPDATE THEIR VARIETIES, MOST HAVE SUPPLIED THEIR LIST AND THIS YOU WILL FIND NOTED IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL GROWERS DETAILS. MORE ARE COMING FORWARD SO PLEASE GO BACK TO THE SITE FREQUENTLY. Equally if you cannot find the information you need on the site, then please do use the contact form to submit your question or email findthatrose.co.uk
New varieties are always being added; the site includes the Rose of The Year 2022 ‘ It’s A Wonderful Life ‘ ‘Peach Melba ‘ Rose of The Year for 2023 and ‘Meteor’ Rose of The Year for 2024 and NOW Rose of The Year 2025 ‘You’re My Everything’.
Do also remember that just because a name of a rose comes up on the internet it doesn’t necessarily mean it is in commerce in the U.K. It maybe that our climate is not suitable for a particular variety, or it may have ceased being produced due to various reasons.
Angela Pawsey (Editor)
UPDATING FOR AUTUMN 2024-SUMMER 2025. If you are a grower/supplier and can supply a ‘proper’ list of varieties which have been grown in the U.K and would like to be included, please use CONTACT FORM to ask for further information.
*Find That Rose was a published booklet for over 38 years (the first of the Finder nursery books) but the cost etc. has meant the website is now the only way to obtain the basic information the book was based on; varieties and growers.
The original domain for this site was www.findthatrose.net. Using www.findthatrose.co.uk is better as it identifies where this site is based.
Every effort is made to be as accurate as possible and is produced with the complete support of those growers and outlets featured. In many cases other rose finding sites just indicate the name of a variety and little else. Many varieties cease to be produced each season as new varieties take their place. Some sites give names of varieties no longer in production and many are not U.K. based.
I am not promoting the the book as this is now out of date, but will willingly try to help with any questions and to see if I can locate new varieties which have not been covered. Please use the Contact form. .
Angela Pawsey –Editor
The Rose Society UK
With the demise of the Royal National Rose Society in May 2017, a group of enthusiastic amateur rose lovers formed The Rose Society UK. Their first aim was to protect the many Rose Shows where they competed. The Society has however become a very well respected Society which still takes part in Shows and have several affiliated Societies. Their mission is to promote roses and rose growing. They are a mind of information with lots of ‘publications’ including a quarterly magazine. The membership fee remains the same as in 2017 at a very modest £10 a year. Although essentially an online Society they can provide a mail order service but this may cost a little more. Such a bargain in these days, and a must for all rose lovers. For further information go to their website www.therosesociety.org.uk
