Breeder synonym Tan 04603

Fryer’s Roses, owned by the Blue Diamond Group of Garden Centres, relaunched the ‘Queen Bee’ rose at RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival on behalf of their charity partner, the Soil Association.  

Rosa Queen Bee, bred by Rosen Tantau, is a delightful floribunda rose which produces eye-catching clusters of amber-yellow, open cupped blooms which are attractive to bees and other pollinators. This rose is aptly named as the Soil Association and Blue Diamond Garden Centres are working together to advise on and raise awareness of nature friendly gardening and how to attract bees and other pollinators to gardens and outdoor spaces.

Soil Association Partnership Manager Kate Collis said: “We are delighted that the ‘Queen Bee’ Rose will support bees and help promote the vital job they do as one of nature’s ‘keyworkers,’ pollinating the flowers, fruit and crops in our gardens, farms and the countryside. We hope that everyone buys a Queen Bee Rose to add to their gardens and we are very grateful for Blue Diamond’s donations which will help us to support and promote nature-friendly gardening.

"Our partnership with Blue Diamond gives us a great opportunity to inform behaviours while inspiring amateur and professional gardeners alike about the benefits of avoiding pesticides and artificial inputs to create beautiful natural environments where nature can flourish.”

Queen Bee roses are grown at Blue Diamond’s own nursery at Bridgemere, Nantwich, Cheshire and are potted in peat free compost and kerbside recyclable pots and are available to buy in all Blue Diamond Garden Centres or order at www.fryersroses.co.uk or telephone 01270 360071 whilst stocks last.

Bare root roses will be available to order online from November 2022.

£1 from each Queen Bee rose sold through Blue Diamond Garden Centres and Fryer’s Roses online will be donated by the Blue Diamond Group to the Soil Association.

The Blue Diamond Group and Fryer’s Roses would like to thank Rosen Tantau for their support in this relaunch.  

For more than 100 years now, the breeding of garden rose varieties has been one of the main activities of Rosen Tantau. During this time, the company specialised in various types of roses. However, 20 years ago, the breeding lines were once again intensified to the most diverse types of roses. They now specialise in large-flowered, fragrant noble roses for the garden or the cutting area. Romantic nostalgia roses, robust small shrub roses, lush climbing roses and richly flowering bed roses.www.rosen-tantau.com/