Rose 'It's a Wonderful Life'

Bloom after bloom of beautiful apricot tones
Just £19.99
1 x Bare Root - SKU: 540233 - *Despatched from 08/11/2024
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  • Enjoy bloom after bloom of delightful apricot flowers that grow for months on end
  • Healthy and glossy green foliage acts as a perfect backdrop to showcase the pretty flowers in summer 
  • Repeat flowering Floribunda rose with a delicate and sweet fragrance
  • Highly disease resistant - one of the best!
  • Supplied as a bare root shrub, ready for planting
Description

Crowned 'Rose of the Year' in 2022, so you can be sure of the remarkable pedigree of 'It's a Wonderful Life'!

This Floribunda rose boasts healthy and glossy green foliage that makes the abundance of apricot double blooms stand out from the crowd. The leaves hold well and remain late in the season to cover upright stems.

This free-flowering variety produces a multitude of stunning double blooms that continue to impress across a long period, providing an eye-catching focal-point to attract pollinators and beneficial insects, including bees and butterflies, to the garden.

Rose 'It's A Wonderful Life' is hardy, strong, and reliable - a superb addition to patios and sunny borders.

Supplied as a bare root rose, ready for planting.

Top Tips
Add mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help the plant establish quicker.
Care Information
  •  Plant your rose where it can get plenty of sun for at least half of the day, and where it will be sheltered from the wind.
  •  Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, so add plenty of well-rotted manure into the hole if necessary.
  • Dig a hole twice the width of the roots, forking over the bottom to loosen the soil, and add some good quality fertiliser such as Blood Fish & Bone (wash your hands afterwards!).
  • Plant so that the graft union (the swollen area when the stems meet the roots) is around 3cm below soil level.
  • Holding the tree or plant upright in position with one hand, slowly backfill the hole with soil, and gently shake the plant, so the soil falls back around the roots.
  • Use your heel to compact the soil around the plant to ensure good contact around the roots.
  • Water in well.
  • Established roses can be watered around once a week through spring and summer - more if the weather is hot.
  • For best results, feed roses in late-March/April and again in late July.

Pruning Advice:

  • To prune, remove any dead, dying, damaged and diseased stems and also deadhead regularly.
  • Traditionally, you would cut just above a leaf joint with a sloping cut away from the bud, however, this isn't necessary, and don’t worry about pruning too much - roses are very resilient and will grow back.
  • When pruning, make sure that your secateurs are clean and sharp to prevent squashing stems and introducing disease.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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2. Should any hardy plant fail to thrive thereafter, we'll replace free of charge - you just pay the P&P
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