Rene Goscinny (Bush)
Rene Goscinny (Bush)
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Rene Goscinny – Cottage Garden Rose
Rene Goscinny is a cottage garden rose of quite spectacular flower quality – producing extremely large, fully double blooms in a vivid, warm blend of orange and yellow that creates an immediately striking and energetic display. The colour is strong and vivid, the flowers are enormous, and the fragrance is exceptional – a powerful, warm scent of real quality that carries freely in the garden. Excellent disease resistance and compact, manageable growth make Rene Goscinny one of the most rewarding orange-yellow cottage roses available.
🌸 Plant Specifications
| Colour | Vivid orange and yellow blend – warm and energetic |
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| Fragrance | Exceptional fragrance – powerful and warm |
| Flower size | 14 cm+ (5.5"+) – extremely large, fully double |
| Petal count / form | Fully double, Hybrid Tea form, single flowers per stem |
| Height × Spread | 80 cm × 60 cm (2.75 ft × 2 ft) |
| Flowering season | Repeat flowering – June through autumn |
| Sunlight | Full sun; at least 4 hours daily |
| Disease resistance | Excellent disease resistance |
| Thorns | Thorns present on growth |
| Bee friendly | Not primarily bee-friendly |
| Pot size (potted) | 5.5 litre |
🏡 Ideal For
- Warm colour schemes with oranges, yellows, and copper tones
- Cutting – the enormous, vivid blooms are spectacular in arrangements
- Anyone seeking exceptional fragrance in an orange-yellow cottage rose
- Creating immediate energy and warmth in the garden
- A bold and memorable gift
✂️ 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. We recommend adding Empathy Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi at planting to establish a strong root system quickly. Water regularly during the first growing season. Feed with a specialist rose fertiliser in spring and again after the first flush of flowers.
📦 Buying Options
- Potted (5.5 ltr) – £23.49: Ready to plant any time of year. Plants arrive established and ready to grow away quickly.
- Bare Root – £19.99: Available November to March. Excellent value; bare root roses establish just as well as potted when planted at the right time.
🏆 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
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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.
Very pleased with my latest rose purchase,healthy plant fast delivery. Look forward to buying more soon.
I have had quite a few roses from Henry St now and have been delighted with all of them. They have been delivered quickly and in first class condition.
Excellent customer service. Thank you 😊
so far very pleased the rose arrived in bud and is still in bud so awaiting flowering. Leaves look healthy and it arrived in good condition.
I ordered two roses. They arrived promptly so well packaged with labels and instructions. Roses looked very healthy. I was so happy. Also best price including delivery than any other online rose purchase I've made before. I would highly recommend and will be ordering from them in the future. Also huge selection and online website so well presented with clear easy category of rose types. Five stars from me
I realise now that my first review might not have been very encouraging so here are my latest impressions: Despite me mixing my brother's fishing ground bait into the compost instead of the 'Fish, Blood & Bone' that I should have (they looked identical), the 'Rene Goscinnys' grew quite well and reached about 45cm high whilst in pots. I'm hoping they'll make 60-80cm next year (2025) when in the flower bed. 'Henri Delbard' might be a good alternative if you want a taller plant and 'Stephane Bern' (which isn't available in the UK yet) is also taller with darker flowers and possibly the bonus of very similar fragrance components to RG.
RG's flowers turned out to be striking - large filled saucers of cheerful bright orange and long-lasting on the bushes which gave me about 10 buds. - pretty good since they were off to a bad start.
The scent of just 2 open blooms (in ideal weather) was like an intense sugary peach/mango candy not typical rose at all and was detected in the air about 2 metres from the plants though a bit more faintly right inside the petals. Now that sounds illogical doesn't it? However, if you know a bit about roses you'll know that some of them don't smell so strong when you put your nostrils to the petals but even so they can spread their aroma some distance from the plant and it becomes more noticeable when mixed in the circulating air like those fireworks that 'pop!' and travel invisibly away from the original explosion and then blast out in all directions some distance away. I liked the smell more than my 'Lady Emma Hamilton' rose for example. Now I can't wait for next year's performance - with many more flowers hopefully!