Updated information. May 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.
Now is the time when containerised roses will be on sale. and ready to plant. You may get instructions to keep them in the pots for a few more weeks whilst their root systems get established. If not then they will be ready to plant. It is important to make sure that the compost does not come away from the roots as you plant. You do not need to rush to plant them as they will continue to grow whilst in the pots! Do make sure that you regularly water the plants particularly as we do seem to be in a very dry circle of weather.
If you purchased bare root roses last autumn-spring it will be essential to keep these well watered. Established plants hopefully will have reach the water table and usually can look after themselves. Those in permanent containers will need regular watering. Do not be tempted by any ‘tempting’ offers to purchase bare root roses which you might see advertised. This is not the time of the years to purchase bare root roses.
Please give British growers/suppliers (who in the main are small businesses) a boost by purchasing from those listed on this website. With the ever increasing general costs they face; including Government N. Insurance and hike in minimum living wage they need all the help they can get. When you look at the price of a rose do remember that a rose plant ready for sale takes sometime to produce. Stocks planted Jan-March this year are ‘budded’ with the cultivated rose this summer but will not be ready to lift until Autumn 2026. During that time there are certain procedures to follow and also general care to be maintained. Also many varieties are subject to royalty payments to the Breeder. Usually on all the plants of that variety budded. So if the plant fails or not sold the Grower still has to pay this royalty. Remember a rose can give you pleasure for decades with simple care.
Most cheap offers in newspapers are for varieties not subject to royalties because the time has run out, also they are often more susceptible to disease.
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 ARE NOW BEING INVITED TO UPDATE THEIR VARIETIES, FOR AUTUMN 2025-SUMMER 2026 YOU WILL FIND NOTED IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL GROWERS DETAILS WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN UPDATED. 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 Rose of The Year 2025 ‘You’re My Everything’. Soon details and photo of the Rose of The Year will be realest and once I have this I will update the site accordingly.
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 2025-SUMMER 2026. 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
