The best ADR rose bushes, compared.
Top pick: Golden Wedding (Willows, gift wrap) Best value: Golden Wedding (Carbeth, 3 L) – Lowest shelf price in the set at about £22.99 for a 3 litre pot, with a title and item-type clash to read before you treat it as a golden anniversary rose. Updated October 2026.
An ADR rose is a garden rose that still holds the ADR mark. That is a German three-year trial, grown without fungicides, with leaf health weighed above flower shape. The mark lasts 15 years, then it lapses unless the breeder passes a repeat trial. You meet the idea when you want a bush that keeps its leaves through a wet British summer. The Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit is a separate UK award, and it is not the same test. The difference is set out in [ADR and the RHS ](/hub/ornamental-plants/adr-rose-bush/sub/adr-rose-bush-vs-rhs-agm). Eleven are in 3 litre pots, and one is, which does not state a pot volume. None of the stored titles or bullets say ADR. The trial runs for three years, at up to twelve sites, without fungicides. The 2024 ADR guide awards the mark for 15 years. Award winning or disease resistant in a seller bullet is not that list. Open the current ADR list before you treat any name as certified.
An ADR rose is a garden rose that still holds the ADR mark. That is a German three-year trial, grown without fungicides, with leaf health weighed above flower shape.
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What are you buying it for?
Willows Living Gifts sells Golden Wedding as a gift-wrapped golden-yellow floribunda at £29.99, with a height field of 1.5 m and no pot volume stated in the file. The 4.4 from 1,191 reviews is this ASIN’s own pool, not the Carbeth anniversary block. Praise covers intact anniversary gifts and damp moss in the packing. Complaints include twigs, a plant too small to judge, and soft mouldy stems. That 1.5 m figure is a border size, not a promise that the parcel will fill a patio tub without repotting. Pick it when presentation matters more than the lowest price, and read a winter-pruned stick against the seller’s seasonal dispatch note before you call the plant dead.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a gift-wrapped Golden Wedding with its own review file and you can plant a 1.5 m bush.
Less suitable: You need the lowest price, a stated pot volume, or an ADR line on the listing.
Specifications
Common questions
Is this the same listing as the Carbeth Golden Wedding?
No. This is Willows Living Gifts at £29.99, gift wrapped, with a floribunda bullet and a 1.5 m height field. Carbeth is a separate ASIN at £22.99, and the two files do not share the same review paragraphs.
Does the file state a pot size?
No pot volume is printed. One review mentions damp moss in the packing. The 1.5 m height field is a border size, not a finished patio-pot measurement.
What do buyers say about the plant on arrival?
The line is 4.4 from 1,191 reviews in this ASIN’s own file. Some anniversary gifts arrived intact. Others describe twigs, a plant too small to judge, or soft mouldy stems.
This Silver Wedding listing is Carbeth’s hessian-wrapped floribunda at £30.99 in a 3 litre pot, with a bullet that allows up to 1.5 m by 0.8 m spread. The stored attribute line says Indoor while the bullets describe a hardy garden floribunda for full sun, so treat the outdoor bullet as the growing job unless the seller confirms otherwise. The rating is 4.4 from 335 reviews in its own file. Praise mentions packing and buds. Others say the bush was smaller than expected, the hessian hid a hard prune, or the price sat high next to a market garden. No ADR claim is printed. It is a presentation floribunda for a tall border or a very large container, not a patio pot left at 3 litres.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want hessian presentation and a floribunda bullet that quotes about 1.5 m by 0.8 m.
Less suitable: You want the plain white hybrid tea at £24.99, or a listing whose indoor attribute matches the garden bullets.
Specifications
Common questions
Is the indoor attribute the growing advice?
The attribute line says Indoor. The bullets call it a hardy garden floribunda for full sun, up to 1.5 m tall and 0.8 m across, in a 3 litre pot. Use the outdoor bullet unless the seller confirms otherwise.
Does the file say ADR?
No. Hessian, the silver anniversary name and the 4.4 from 335 reviews are not an ADR sentence. The mark is not printed in the stored title or bullets.
What do the 335 reviews argue about?
The line is 4.4 from 335 in this ASIN’s own file. Some praise packing and buds. Others say the bush was smaller than expected, the hessian hid a hard prune, or the price was high beside a market garden.
Orange Sensation is a floribunda in a 3 litre pot at £24.99, with full sun on the listing and a note not to plant where roses grew before. The file shows 4.4 from 54 reviews, mostly healthy arrivals, but separate buyers say flowers were white, red, or pinky-peach rather than orange. One review mentions disease resistance in the garden, which is not an ADR claim in the seller text. The small review count makes the star line easier to move than the 1,032-review shared pools elsewhere in the set. Choose it when you want a compact floribunda file with its own reviews, and treat colour as something to check in the first flush, not something the title alone proves.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a floribunda with its own short review file and you will check the first flush for colour.
Less suitable: You need the title colour to be guaranteed, or you are reading one disease comment as ADR.
Specifications
Common questions
Does disease resistant in a review mean ADR?
No. One buyer wrote that this plant resisted diseases they usually see. The listing itself does not say ADR. That comment is why the published score adds 4 points, and it is not a three-year trial result.
Where does the seller say to plant it?
Full sun, other aspects tolerated, and not where roses grew before. The sales pot is 3 litres. A finished container depth is not given.
Do the flowers match the orange name?
The line is 4.4 from 54, mostly healthy arrivals. Separate reviews say the flowers were white, red, or pinky-peach rather than orange. Check the first flush rather than the title alone.
Whisky Mac is listed as a hardy orange floribunda in a 3 litre pot at £24.99, with bullets that allow beds, borders, and large patio pots without naming a finished container size. The star line is 4.2 from 1,032 reviews, but the same paragraphs sit on Pride of England and Precious Gold, including a complaint that flowers were not the orange in the picture. That pool is not a separate Whisky Mac trial. No ADR sentence appears in the stored title or bullets. Reviewers who praise the listing describe moist compost and a bush that settled in the garden, while others argue about colour. Choose it when you want a named orange floribunda cluster rose rather than a hybrid tea for cutting, and treat the shared stars as dispatch quality, not cultivar health.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a named orange floribunda for a bed or a large patio pot, not a cutting hybrid tea.
Less suitable: You are comparing it with Pride of England or Precious Gold on the shared 1,032-review line.
Specifications
Common questions
Does the listing claim an ADR award?
No ADR sentence is in the file. The bullets call it a hardy orange floribunda for sun and well-drained soil. Hardy in a bullet is not the ADR list.
Can the seller's text put it in a pot?
Yes. The bullet says beds, borders and large patio pots. The sales pot is 3 litres. A finished container size is not given, and RHS depths for larger roses start around 30–45 cm.
Are the 1,032 reviews only about Whisky Mac?
The same star line, rank and paragraphs are stored for Pride of England and Precious Gold. One shared line says the flowers were not the orange in the picture. The count is not a Whisky Mac-only sample.
Pride of England is a red repeat-flowering bush in a 3 litre pot at £24.99, with a height field of 65 cm and no hybrid tea or floribunda class printed in the bullets. The 4.2 from 1,032 reviews is identical to Whisky Mac and Precious Gold, so you cannot read it as evidence that this red rose outperformed the orange or yellow listings on leaf health. Sun is listed as full sun with partial shade tolerated. The file does not claim ADR or print a gift wrap line. It suits a border where you want a shorter red bush on paper and you can verify the cultivar when it flowers, not a cutting rose chosen from class labels alone.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a shorter red bush on paper, at 65 cm in the height field, and you can check the flower.
Less suitable: You need a printed hybrid tea or floribunda class, or a review file that is only about this red rose.
Specifications
Common questions
Is a rose class printed?
The bullets do not say hybrid tea or floribunda. They say a red repeat-flowering bush in a 3 litre pot at £24.99. Class is not stated in the stored attributes.
What height is on the listing?
The height field says 65 cm. The bullets do not repeat that figure. It is the shortest stated height in this set.
Do the reviews describe this red rose?
The stored texts match Whisky Mac and Precious Gold, including a complaint that flowers were not orange. That pool is not a Pride of England trial, and 4.2 from 1,032 is not a leaf-health score for the red bush.
Precious Gold is a golden-yellow floribunda in a 3 litre pot at £24.99, with fragrance and pollinators named in the bullet and beds plus large patio pots allowed without a finished pot size. The 4.2 from 1,032 reviews matches Whisky Mac and Pride of England word for word, so it is not independent proof that this yellow cultivar stayed cleaner than the others in a wet summer. No ADR sentence is stored. It is the yellow floribunda counterpart in that shared review block. Buy it for the printed cultivar name and cluster habit, not because the star line beats the orange or red ASINs on the same count.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want the yellow floribunda name and cluster habit in that shared review block.
Less suitable: You want a star line that is independent of Whisky Mac and Pride of England.
Specifications
Common questions
What does the bullet claim?
Golden-yellow floribunda clusters, fragrance, pollinators, beds and large patio pots, in a 3 litre pot at £24.99. No ADR sentence is stored.
Is a finished height printed?
No height field. You cannot read a mature size from this file. The sales pot is 3 litres, which is not a finished container for a border floribunda.
Can the star line be compared with Whisky Mac?
Both files print 4.2 from 1,032 and the same paragraphs, and Pride of England is in that pool too. The count is not a separate Precious Gold sample.
Carbeth’s Golden Wedding is the lowest shelf price in this set at £22.99 for a 3 litre hybrid tea with golden-yellow flowers in the bullet. Across the shared 4.2 from 551 reviews on amazon.co.uk, buyers mention healthy arrivals alongside a bashed plant and a yellow bush that did not match the occasion they wanted. The stored file does not say ADR, and the item-type line names Ruby Wedding while the title says Golden Wedding, so you should treat the name on the label as the plant you received, not as a guarantee of which anniversary rose was packed. Height is not stated on the listing. For a golden anniversary gift where you accept that clash and you only need the cheapest posted 3 litre pot in the folder, this row is the best value pick.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want the cheapest 3 litre pot in this set and you will check the label because the title and item type disagree.
Less suitable: You need a listing that says ADR, a stated height, or a review file that is only about Golden Wedding.
Specifications
Common questions
Does this listing say the rose has an ADR award?
No. The stored title, bullets and attributes do not say ADR. The category name on this page is not a certificate, and a golden-yellow hybrid tea in the bullet is not the official ADR list.
What rose name is printed?
The title says Golden Wedding, a golden-yellow hybrid tea in a 3 litre pot at £22.99. The item-type line says Ruby Wedding. Treat the name on the label you receive as the plant that was packed.
What do the stored reviews cover?
The file shows 4.2 from 551 reviews. The same paragraphs sit on the silver and diamond anniversary ASINs, including healthy arrivals and one bashed, yellow plant. That count is not a Golden Wedding-only health score.
Silver Wedding is Carbeth’s plain white hybrid tea at £24.99 in a 3 litre pot, without hessian in the title. The 4.2 from 551 reviews is shared with Carbeth Golden Wedding and Diamond Wedding, including healthy plants and one bashed yellow arrival in the pool. Full sun is on the listing. ADR is not stated. This is the silver anniversary option when you want a white hybrid tea stem rose rather than the hessian floribunda at £30.99. Do not treat the 551 count as a Silver-only health score, and compare the class word on this file with the floribunda Silver Wedding listing before you assume the same flower shape.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a white hybrid tea for a silver anniversary without hessian, at about £24.99.
Less suitable: You want the hessian floribunda at £30.99, or a review count that is only about this white bush.
Specifications
Common questions
How is this different from the hessian Silver Wedding?
This file is a white hybrid tea at £24.99 without hessian in the title. B07PLRJT2G is the £30.99 hessian floribunda, with a bullet up to 1.5 m by 0.8 m. The class words are not the same.
Does the listing say ADR?
No. The stored title and bullets do not say ADR. A white hybrid tea for a silver anniversary is not the official list.
Whose reviews are in the file?
The line is 4.2 from 551, the same texts as the Carbeth Golden Wedding and Diamond Wedding files, including healthy plants and one bashed yellow arrival. It is not a Silver Wedding-only sample.
Diamond Wedding is a gift-wrapped white hybrid tea for a 60th anniversary in a 3 litre pot at £24.99. It shares the 4.2 from 551 review block with Carbeth Golden Wedding and plain Silver Wedding, with complaints in that pool about a bashed plant and a battered box. Gift wrap is yes on the comparison row, but a gift message depends on what you request at checkout. No ADR line appears. It suits a diamond anniversary present where you want white hybrid tea flowers and wrapping without paying for hessian, provided you accept the shared review line and read a winter stick against the September-to-April prune note.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a wrapped white hybrid tea for a diamond anniversary without the hessian price.
Less suitable: You need a review file that is only about this plant, or an ADR line.
Specifications
Common questions
What anniversary is named?
The title says a diamond wedding, a 60th, with white hybrid tea flowers in a 3 litre pot at £24.99. Gift wrap is stated. A gift message is only if you ask.
Is ADR printed?
No. The stored title, bullets and attributes do not say ADR. Wrapping and the anniversary name are not the trial mark.
Are the 551 reviews specific to this plant?
They match the other two ASINs on that star line, Carbeth Golden Wedding and plain Silver Wedding. Complaints in the pool include a bashed plant and a battered box.
Fantastic at 80 is Carbeth’s pink 80th-birthday rose, gift wrapped in a 3 litre pot at £30.99, with class and sun fields blank in the stored attributes. The line is 4.2 from 189 reviews in its own file. Buyers praise hessian-style packing and a presentable box. Others report a tiny shoot, a half-empty pot, exposed roots, dried foliage, a missing gift message, and one plant that died. None of the stored text says ADR. It is a presentation listing inside a narrow price band, not a documented disease-trial winner. It fits when the occasion name on the title is the point and you can inspect the root ball on arrival, not when you need a stated hybrid tea or floribunda class before you order.
Pros
Cons
Best for: The 80th-birthday name and gift wrap are the point, and you will inspect the root ball on arrival.
Less suitable: You need a stated class, a sun field, or a lower price than £30.99.
Specifications
Common questions
What occasion is this plant named for?
The title and bullets present it as an 80th birthday rose, gift wrapped, pink, in a 3 litre pot at £30.99. A presentable box is what buyers praise. The occasion name is not an ADR award.
Is a flower class or a sun field printed?
Class and sun are not stated in the stored attributes. Colour is pink. You cannot tell hybrid tea from floribunda from this file alone.
What goes wrong in the stored reviews?
The line is 4.2 from 189. Praise is for packing and hessian. Complaints include a tiny shoot, a half-empty pot, exposed roots, dried foliage, a missing gift message, and one plant that died.
Polar Star is a white hybrid tea in a 3 litre pot at £24.99, with a bullet height of about 90–120 cm and a sentence on very good disease resistance. The amazon.co.uk title still uses award winning, but the stored file does not identify that phrase as ADR or RHS AGM. The line is 4.2 from 123 reviews. Healthy, moist arrivals are praised, while other buyers say £24 felt high for the size, the root was small, or no flowers came for months. One review describes an arrival about 20 cm tall that later put out shoots, which is a different picture from the 90–120 cm mature note. Pick it when you want a mid-height white hybrid tea with its own review file, and verify leaf health in your garden rather than trusting seller adjectives alone.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a white hybrid tea with its own reviews and a mature height of about 90–120 cm in the bullet.
Less suitable: You are treating award winning or disease resistance on the page as an ADR or RHS AGM mark.
Specifications
Common questions
Is very good disease resistance an ADR award?
No. It is a sentence in the seller bullet. The file does not say ADR, and the award-winning wording on the title is not identified as ADR or as an RHS Award of Garden Merit.
How tall is the plant sold?
The bullet says it grows to about 90–120 cm. A review describes an arrival about 20 cm tall that then put out shoots. The 90–120 cm figure is a mature note, not the height in the parcel.
What else is in the 123 reviews?
The line is 4.2 from 123 in this ASIN’s own file. Healthy, moist plants are praised. Other buyers say £24 was high for the size, the root was small, or no flowers came for months.
Peace is Carbeth’s hybrid tea at £25.99 in a 3 litre pot, with yellow flowers and soft pink edges in the bullet and a height field of 1.5 m. The stored rating is 4.1 from 242 reviews. Reviewers praise fragrance and repeat flowering, and some say the rose still picks up the usual diseases, including black spot already visible on arrival. Other complaints describe a hard-pruned twig, thin bare-root plants repotted into the sales pot, and colours that did not match the pink-red expectation. No ADR line is in the file. Treat it as a classic cutting rose for a sunny border with room for a tall bush, not as a certificate rose, and plan leaf clearance even if the cultivar name is famous.
Pros
Cons
Best for: You want a hybrid tea cutting rose for a sunny border with room for about 1.5 m.
Less suitable: You need an ADR line, or you expect the famous name to mean no black spot.
Specifications
Common questions
What colour does the listing promise?
The bullet says yellow flowers with soft pink edges. Reviews in the file also describe a red bush and a yellow bush received instead of a pink-red one. The colour attribute on the stored row says Peace rather than a colour.
Does the file say ADR or disease-free?
No ADR line. One review praises fragrance and says the rose still gets the usual diseases. Another says black spot was already visible. The cultivar name is not a promise of clean leaves.
What arrival complaints are stored?
The line is 4.1 from 242. Buyers mention a hard-pruned twig, thin bare-root plants repotted, and gift photos that disappointed. A winter stick can still match a September-to-April prune note.
Twelve amazon.co.uk rose listings were scored from the stored files, not from a garden trial and not from an ADR result. The published score takes the star line on a 55-point scale, adds review-file points up to 12, and adds 8 when a 3 litre pot or a gift-wrap title and a rose name are both stated. Shared review text scores 4 review points. A file with its own text scores from 4 to 12 based on the review count. Orange Sensation has 4 extra points because one stored review mentions disease resistance. The weights below scale the three standing parts to 100. No listing is marked as a top pick.
Star line
73%The largest share of the published score is the amazon.co.uk star average, scaled so five stars would be 55 points before the other parts. A 4.4 line scores higher than a 4.1 line. Stars are not a black-spot trial, and a shared pool is not read as one cultivar.
Review file
16%Up to 12 points for the review file. Shared text with other ASINs scores 4. An own file scores at least 4 and at most 12, from the review count divided by 10. Orange Sensation also keeps the published 4-point note for one disease-resistance review.
Listing completeness
11%Eight points when a 3 litre pot or a gift-wrap title is stated together with a rose name. A missing pot volume, a blank class, or a title that disagrees with the item-type line stays visible in the table. That bonus is not an ADR certificate.
Start with whether the listing names a current ADR cultivar, then class, then pot versus final size, then price and stars. None of the twelve files here says ADR. The notes below follow that order.
An ADR rose is a garden rose that still holds the Allgemeine Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung mark. The trial runs for three years, at up to twelve sites, without fungicides. Leaf health is weighed above flower shape. The 2024 ADR guide awards the mark for 15 years. It then lapses unless the breeder passes a repeat trial. Award winning or disease resistant in a seller bullet is not that list. Open the current ADR list before you treat any name as certified.
ADR rose bush is the comparison name. None of the stored titles or bullets say ADR. Award winning on Polar Star is not identified as the trial mark.
Whisky Mac, Pride of England and Precious Gold print the same 4.2 from 1,032 reviews. Carbeth Golden Wedding, plain Silver Wedding and Diamond Wedding share 4.2 from 551. Those pools are not separate leaf-health scores.
Peace, Willows Golden Wedding and the hessian Silver Wedding bullet quote about 1.5 m. RHS container depths for larger roses start around 30–45 cm. A dried pot invites mildew.
A current ADR cultivar is one that still holds the mark after the 15-year term, or has passed a repeat trial. Seller words such as award winning and disease resistant are not that list, and none of these ASINs print ADR. After that, read the class on the listing. Hybrid tea is the cutting shape. Floribunda is the cluster. Carbeth Golden Wedding says hybrid tea while Willows Golden Wedding says floribunda. Pride of England and Fantastic at 80 leave the class blank. This set has no climber.
Carbeth rows are 3 litre sales pots. Willows states no pot volume and a 1.5 m height. Pride of England’s height field is 65 cm. Polar Star’s bullet says about 90–120 cm. The shelf prices run from £22.99 to £30.99, and the £22.99 row is the best value only as a price flag, with a Golden versus Ruby clash. Read stars last, and do not split a shared 1,032-review or 551-review block into three winners. A winter prune from September to April can look like a stick without being a dead plant.
Three typical situations, each with a recommendation from this comparison.
You want a named anniversary bush that looks presentable, and you need the September-to-April prune note more than an ADR lecture. Willows Golden Wedding is gift wrapped at about £29.99, with its own 4.4 from 1,191 reviews and a 1.5 m height field. The file does not state a pot volume or ADR.
You already lose leaves to black spot and you want a current ADR or RHS AGM cultivar from a supplier who states it. This folder does not document either mark. Polar Star’s bullet says very good disease resistance and about 90–120 cm. That sentence is not ADR. Check the official list before you order.
You want clusters and a bullet that allows a large patio pot. Whisky Mac is an orange floribunda at about £24.99 in a 3 litre sales pot. A finished container size is not given. RHS depths for larger roses start around 30–45 cm, and a dried pot invites mildew.
None of these twelve amazon.co.uk listings states ADR, so there is no top pick for leaf health. The scores follow star lines, review files and whether a pot or gift wrap is named. Willows Golden Wedding and the hessian Silver Wedding share the highest score, at 4.4, and that is not a fungicide-free trial. The best value is Carbeth Golden Wedding at about £22.99 for a 3 litre pot. The title says Golden Wedding and the item-type line says Ruby Wedding, so check the label on arrival. Do not rank the three ASINs that share 4.2 from 1,032 reviews as if they were separate cultivar tests.
Golden Wedding (Carbeth, 3 L)
Lowest shelf price in the set at about £22.99 for a 3 litre pot, with a title and item-type clash to read before you treat it as a golden anniversary rose.
Editorial
Peter F. is the editor for DIY & tools at productscompared.co.uk. Comparisons in this category are checked against amazon.co.uk listings, review evidence and public UK sources.
Guides on what to look for, how to use a product, and common mistakes.
Public sources from the research digest, last checked on 21 October 2026. Shelf prices and star lines are the amazon.co.uk figures in the display file. The price band is this set, not a market average. None of these listings is claimed as an ADR rose.
Expert source (DIY & tools): Lee Burkhill (Garden Ninja) (external profile) – public expert commentary used as a research source, not as a contributor to our pages.
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