Blue For You Rose Bushes

Blue For You Floribunda Rose Bushes. 3 Litre Pots

Still not a truly blue rose (they'll get there one day), the dainty lilac-purple new flowers unfurl and open wide to let the bees in, revealing a white centre as the outer petals fade to a pale lavender-blue. The scent is sweet and pleasant, but doesn't carry far. Very few thorns, dense and bushy habit to 1m. 

Browse our range of Floribunda roses, or all of our rose varieties.

Features

• Colour: Lilac-purple fading to pale lavender-blue, white centre 
• Shape: Medium size, semi-double, open
• Scent: Mild, sweet
• Flowering period: Repeats Jul-Sept/Oct
• Few thorns
• Group: Floribunda
• To 1m

Growing Blue For You Roses

Suitable for any well drained soil, they thrive on clay as long as the site isn't waterlogged in winter. They are quite shade-tolerant, and are suitable for large patio containers. 

They produce rose hips, so dead head them promptly or they will stop flowering well. At the end of the season, you can leave the final ones on the stem for some winter interest, but removing them will help the plant to start flowering again early the following year.  

Did You Know? 

Bred by Peter J. James in 2001, code PEJamblu, it wasn't widely available until 2007. It holds a Royal National Rose Society Show Trial Grounds Certificate, which only confirms that it grows as advertised, but any award from the now former oldest plant society in the world is worth a mention.
It is sold in other countries as Ellerines Rose, Honky Tonk Blues or Pacific Dream.

The seed parent was Natural Beauty (a hybrid tea) and the pollen parent was a cross of Summer Wine (a climber) and an unnamed floribunda. 

How to plant Floribunda Roses

Bare root roses are planted between late autumn and early spring (approx November-March), and container grown plants at any time of year. 

All floribundas like a good amount of sun and hate being under trees. If planting against a wall, leave about a 45cm (18") space.

Dig a hole deep enough to place the graft union between your rose's stem and roots at soil level (so it's at approximately the same level in the soil as it was before being transplanted), with plenty of room for the roots to spread out.
Improve the soil from the hole by removing rubbish, large stones, weeds and roots, then mixing in about 25% by volume of well rotted compost or manure and dusting it with bone meal. It is usually more convenient to do the mixing on a ground sheet or in a wheelbarrow. 

If your rose is bareroot, wet the roots before planting. It often helps to make a small mound at the base of the hole to set the base of the rose onto and spread the roots over.
If pot grown, soak the pot and then gently loosen some of the roots. Sprinkle some Rootgrow onto the soil, put the rose on top of it, and sprinkle the rest over the roots. 

When the roots are spread out and the graft union is level with the soil, backfill the hole with the improved soil, firming it down as you go. Water in thoroughly, water again two days later, and then keep watering in dry spells during the first and second growing seasons. 

Ornamental roses are hungry feeders and flower best when they are mulched every year and given rose food during the growing season.