Happy Retirement (Bush)
Happy Retirement (Bush)
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Happy Retirement – Retirement Gift Rose
Warm, welcoming, and beautifully coloured – Happy Retirement is the perfect rose to mark the beginning of a wonderful new chapter. Its large salmon-pink clusters flower throughout summer with an attractive light fragrance, a rose they'll have all the time in the world to enjoy now they've retired.
Happy Retirement produces large, generous clusters of salmon-pink blooms with a light fragrance repeatedly throughout summer on healthy, attractive growth. A retirement gift that will flower every summer as a joyful reminder of the good wishes of colleagues, friends, and family.
🌸 Plant Specifications
| Colour | Warm salmon-pink – generous, cheerful clusters |
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| Fragrance | Light fragrance – attractive and pleasant |
| Flower size | 12 cm+ (4.75"+) – large, double, cluster flowers |
| Petal count / form | Double, cluster flowers |
| Height × Spread | 90 cm × 60 cm (3 ft × 2 ft) |
| Flowering season | Repeat flowering – June through autumn |
| Sunlight | Full sun; at least 4 hours daily |
| Disease resistance | Good disease resistance |
| Thorns | Thorns present on growth |
| Bee friendly | Not primarily bee-friendly |
🎁 Perfect As A Gift For
- A retirement gift for a colleague, boss, or friend
- A meaningful gift for someone who now has time to enjoy their garden
- A cheerful, warm rose for a happy new chapter
- A lasting gift that will flower every summer of their retirement
- A beautiful present for someone who has worked hard and deserves it
✂️ Pruning Guide
Prune in late February. For a compact, bushy plant, hard prune all main stems back to around 15 cm (6 inches) above the bud union – this produces strong new growth and the best flower size. For a larger, more established plant with greater spread, prune back by approximately half instead, removing any dead, diseased, or crossing stems. Either way, always cut to an outward-facing bud to maintain an open shape. Deadhead spent flowers through summer to encourage continuous repeat-flowering into autumn.
🌱 Planting & Care
Plant in well-prepared soil enriched with organic matter, or in a quality compost-filled container (minimum 25 litres for patio varieties). We recommend adding Empathy Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi at planting. Water regularly during the first growing season and feed with a specialist rose fertiliser in spring and after the first flush.
📦 Buying Options
- Potted (5.5 ltr) – £23.49: Ready to plant and present as a gift immediately – arrives established and growing.
- Bare Root – £19.99: Available November to March. Excellent value; establishes just as well as potted.
🏆 Why Buy From Henry Street Nursery?
- Family-run rose growers established in 1890 – over 130 years of expertise
- 5× Hampton Court Gold Medal winners
- Rated 4.8 / 5 from over 2,600 verified reviews on Judge.me
- 2-year growing guarantee on all our roses
- Fast UK delivery – dispatched in 2–3 working days
- Flat-rate delivery just £3.49 per order
Grown with care by Henry Street Nursery, family rose growers since 1890.
FAQ
Free Gift Message
If your rose is for a gift, please write your message on the "Cart" page and we'll hand write it to send with each rose. If you can't find where to enter the message, don't worry just email us at roses@henrystreet.co.uk and we'll include it with your order.
Henry Street 2 year Guarantee
Having grown roses as a family for over 100 years, we are confident that any rose you buy from us will thrive in your garden.
Henry Street Nursery offer a 2 year guarantee with any roses bought from this website or through our garden centre. If you experience any issues with the establishment of roses purchased from us within the first 2 years of planting please send pictures to roses@henrystreet.co.uk or call our team on 0118 9761223 to speak to a member of our team.
Henry street reserve the right to offer a direct replacement, alternative rose, additional care advice to give the existing plant more time to grow or a full refund for any roses covered by the rose guarantee. A picture of the rose will be required for any guarantee requests alongside a picture of the colour plant label supplied with each rose.
Shipping & Returns
Delivery cost £3.49 per order. Delivery 2-3 working days.
We use DPD for all our Bush rose deliveries & DX Freight for all standard roses, upon dispatch you will receive an email confirming your rose has been shipped and providing you updates through delivery confirming estimated time of arrival.
Unfortunately due to updated plant health requirements following Brexit we are only able to ship to Mainland (including Isle of White) UK excluding Northern Ireland.
Our standard delivery is 1 - 3 days from point of order although may be extended in busy periods. We do not post roses on Fridays. As our roses are live plants we sometimes delay sending in extreme cold or heat to avoid them perishing due to extended delivery times.
Bare root roses on pre-order will be dispatched in the Autumn / Winter, any orders placed not on pre-order will be dispatched on a Tuesday.
How will my rose arrive
We have specially designed boxes to ensure any roses bought from us will travel safely to your home.
Bare root roses are dispatched between October and February each year. We do allow pre-orders of bare root roses and will send them out once the stock is ready. It may be the case that some orders are fulfilled earlier than others depending on which varieties were on order.
Our new crop of potted roses are dispatched from October and will arrive as newly potted bare root plants. These are ok to be planted out straight away or you can wait till the rose has started rooting in and plant in the spring. Sending out these potted roses ensures you receive the best product as the rose remains well in moist compost through the journey and when planting you have a pot of our special blend of compost to get your rose off to the best of start.
In spring our roses will still be very small to look at but will have rooted into the pot and will be showing strong young growth.
May - September we will do our best to send out roses in flower or in bud but this will depend on the growing season as we may have to cut back the plant to keep them healthy with fresh growth.
How to care for Roses
All our roses arrive with our helpful rose care leaflet.
Our Rose Care pages are also a great place to look for advice on planting, pruning, feeding and caring for your roses.
Can I buy your roses in Store
Our Garden Centre in Reading, Berkshire has our full selection of roses in store for you to choose from. Our expert team are always on hand to advise on choosing the perfect rose for your garden. Coming in store is also the best way to guarantee getting the best price.
We also supply roses to a large number of independent Nurseries and Garden Centres across the south of England. Give us a call today on 0118 9761223 to see where you can see our roses in person.
Thank you so much for your help, when ordering the retirement gift fir a colleague ~ it made my life so much easier.
I gave the 'Happy Retirement' that I bought to my friend at her retirement party yesterday. It looks beautiful already with leaf buds forming. I can't wait to hear from how it grows and flowers from my friend.
Was a gift for my husband it’s beautiful healthy plant lots of buds on it so happy with it thank you
Very happy with the rose bush lots of buds.
A really healthy and strong rose with plenty of buds, with lovely shiny rich leaves. The recipient was thrilled with it.