Indian Summer

Hybrid tea rose

PEAperfume – Colin A. Pearce

Warm peach-orange base tone with a creamy tint. - hybrid tea rose - strong, long-lasting fragrant rose - sweet, fruity scented

– Warm orange‑peach blooms with creamy tones
– Elegant, high‑centred cut‑rose form
– Strong, long‑lasting sweet fruity fragrance
– Compact, bushy habit for beds and containers
– Proven garden value: RHS AGM award
– Special feature: Multiple international show medals underline its exhibition‑quality blooms and fragrance.

Exclusive finished product

pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted rose cutting

30,87 £

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INDIAN SUMMER – orange-peach hybrid tea rose – Pearce

Premium own-root pharmaROSA NEONATAL material of INDIAN SUMMER (PEAperfume) offers a compact, bushy habit, strong flower quality and reliable remontancy for nursery propagation beds and premium-container production targeting exclusive retail ranges. Large, high-centred, show-bench style blooms with strong, long-lasting fragrance support cut-stem and exhibition-focused assortments, while dense dark-green foliage and verified cultivar authenticity help maintain homogeneous, low-replacement stands and protect brand credibility in integrated nursery networks. On own roots the variety builds a durable framework with a natural Year 1 roots, Year 2 shoots, Year 3 full ornamental value development arc, supporting predictable scheduling and premium 5–7 L release. Its moderate disease resistance and winter tolerance suit UK nursery and public-realm supply chains that must perform reliably across regions, including sites with pronounced winter and wind exposure in more challenging locations.

Usage options

Target area	Reasoning
Premium 5–7 L container rose for exclusive retail programmes	Large, high-centred, double blooms in a warm orange-peach palette give a clearly premium visual for 5–7 L container lines, matching the recommended premium container product path and exclusive finished product positioning. Own-root NEONATAL material allows you to build a compact, bush-trained 3–5 cane framework that finishes evenly across batches and supports repeat flowering for extended bench impact, aligning with retail and reseller channels seeking reliable, high-spec presentation for discerning customers in curated assortments for the retail/reseller segment.
Cut-flower and exhibition hybrid tea production blocks	The solitary, pointed-budded, high-centred flower form suits exhibition hybrid tea and cut-flower use, delivering consistent stem quality from uniform, bushy plants. Using pharmaROSA NEONATAL as the own-root base simplifies renewal of cut-rose blocks, supports remontant flushes and reduces variability versus grafted stock, important when building show-quality stems. Aligning this with the recommended premium container and exclusive positioning strengthens your ability to supply exhibition-standard material to partners focused on cut-flower and show circuits for specialist exhibitors.
Thematic and collection beds in dedicated rose gardens	RHS Award of Garden Merit recognition, strong fragrance, and distinctive colour shift from peach-orange to cream make INDIAN SUMMER a logical choice for thematic and collection plantings. Own-root propagation supports long-term collection stability and easier rejuvenation pruning without graft concerns, while the bushy, compact habit fits curated beds or collection borders. Following the premium container route, you can supply 5–7 L units as a finished, exclusive-labelled product suitable for thematic rose gardens and show collections for public-realm suppliers.
Urban green space and municipal planting schemes	Moderate disease resistance, including resistance to powdery mildew and black spot, together with H7 hardiness, allows reliable performance in public plantings where only occasional pest and disease control is feasible. Own-root plants provide regeneration and reduced replacement in higher-pressure urban sites, helping maintain stable stands over time. Aligning propagation with the premium container route enables municipalities to plant robust, 5–7 L bushes with immediate impact, supporting long-term schemes in sites exposed to harsher winter and wind conditions for municipal buyers.
Fragrance-led signature plantings for retail and show gardens	Strong, long-lasting sweet, fruity fragrance, combined with exhibition-quality blooms, makes this cultivar ideal for fragrance walks, feature beds near visitor routes, or showcase areas in garden centres. Own-root NEONATAL stock helps maintain consistent scent performance across seasons, as plants age without the decline sometimes seen on grafted material. Producing it as a premium 5–7 L container aligns with an exclusive finished product promise and supports retailers developing signature scented ranges for garden-centre partners.
Premium colour-focus ranges and seasonal promotions	The warm peach-orange to cream colour transition provides a recognisable colour story for seasonal promotions, while large L-sized flowers ensure visibility in benches and displays. From a production perspective, the compact, bushy habit in 5–7 L pots gives a stable, transportable unit that fits standard trolley logistics and reduces damage risk. As an exclusive finished product with strong flower form, it can anchor colour-themed campaigns, supported by predictable own-root performance for marketing-led retailers.
Own-root mother blocks and cultivar maintenance stands	Verified cultivar authenticity and premium gold quality rating make INDIAN SUMMER a strong candidate for establishing own-root mother blocks to support future in-house propagation. The bushy, compact habit with dense foliage delivers clearly structured bushes that are easy to manage for cutting harvest. Using pharmaROSA NEONATAL as the foundation ensures consistent identity and long-term sustainability, aligned with premium-container oriented finished goods and high-credibility wholesale offerings for nursery propagators.
High-credibility retail assortments with award-backed cultivars	The combination of Glasgow and Gifu trial recognition and the RHS Award of Garden Merit provides transparent quality signals that retail and reseller partners can use in communication and labelling. Building these award-backed lines from own-root NEONATAL material provides predictable crop performance and simpler long-term stock maintenance, supporting homogeneous benches at each delivery. Positioned as an exclusive finished product in 5–7 L premium containers, it underpins credible, story-rich assortments for brand-focused wholesalers.

Finished-product ideas

Premium 5–7 L exhibition hybrid tea – Own-root, bush-trained INDIAN SUMMER finished in 5–7 L pots, highlighting award-backed flower quality and high-centred form for exclusive retail benches – target audience/channel: specialist garden centres and premium resellers.
Fragrance-collection feature line – Strong, long-lasting sweet fruity fragrance packaged as a named scented hero in premium containers, leveraging compact habit and remontancy for repeat-scent displays – target audience/channel: fragrance-led retail programmes and show gardens.
Urban showcase bed stock – Own-root plants with moderate disease resistance and compact, dense foliage supplied in 5–7 L pots for immediate impact in urban beds and public-realm schemes – target audience/channel: municipal buyers and landscape contractors.
Award-highlighted collector’s edition – Labelled with RHS AGM and trial honours, offered as a limited collector SKU built from verified-authentic NEONATAL propagation lots – target audience/channel: rose specialists and mail-order resellers.
Cut-stem support planting – High-centred, solitary blooms in warm orange-peach tones used to underpin local cut-stem production adjoining nurseries, starting from uniform own-root plants – target audience/channel: nurseries supplying local florists and exhibitors.

Technical cultivar profile

Parameter	Data
Name and registration	Hybrid tea rose, registered as PEAperfume and marketed as INDIAN SUMMER, an orange-peach hybrid tea for beds, containers and cut use, with ARS-approved exhibition name matching the trade designation.
Origin and breeding	Bred by Colin A. Pearce in the United Kingdom in 1986, from unknown parentage, introduced later than 1993 via The Limes New Roses, with initial distribution by Wagner’s Rose Nursery in Australia.
Awards and recognition	Holds multiple trial distinctions including Gifu Rose Trials Bronze Medal and Glasgow awards for merit and fragrance, as well as the Royal Horticultural Society RNRS Award of Garden Merit granted in 1994.
Growth and structural characteristics	Forms a compact, bushy shrub 65–90 cm high and 50–70 cm wide, moderately thorny, with dense, slightly glossy dark green foliage; no specific self-cleaning data are available for this cultivar at present.
Flower morphology	Produces large, double, high-centred, pointed-budded blooms with 26–39 petals, typically solitary on stems, and remontant flowering where the second flush is also abundant under suitable cultural conditions.
Colour data and phenology	Displays warm peach-orange tones (ARS OB; RHS 24A outer, 12C inner), opening deep and bright then fading through peach-cream to cream with a delicate peach-pink tint as the blooms mature on the plant.
Fragrance and aroma	Characterised by a strong, long-lasting sweet, fruity scent, primarily ornamental rather than pollinator-orientated due to the double flower form, with stamens partly concealed and therefore limited pollinator attraction.
Hip characteristics	Sets hips only occasionally because of double flowers; where present, they are low in number, ovoid, 10–14 mm in diameter, and orange, offering limited ornamental impact in comparison to the showy blooms.
Resistance and winter hardiness	Hardy to approximately –21 to –18 °C (RHS H7, Swedish zone 3, USDA 6b), with moderate overall disease resistance, notably resistant to powdery mildew and black spot, and showing moderate susceptibility to rust.
Horticultural recommendations	Suitable for beds, containers, cut and urban plantings, with medium maintenance and occasional pest and disease control; recommended as bush-trained 3–5 cane plants, best routed into premium 5–7 L container production.

INDIAN SUMMER Hybrid tea rose PEAperfume offers award-backed flower quality, strong fragrance and compact habit on predictable, regenerative own-root stock; please contact us to align on capacity, timing and integration into your premium programmes.

Detailed product attributes

Product Identification Data

Product Name: INDIAN SUMMER – orange-peach hybrid tea rose - Pearce

Product Type: pharmaROSA® NEONATAL - rooted rose cutting

Product Quality: -

Cultivar Authenticity: Verified:19.10.2025

Cultivar Quality Rating: premium gold

Item Number: [1048] 20-737 (14.02.2026) pharmarosaneonatal.co.uk

Name and Registration

Meaning of Cultivar Name: The term "Indian Summer" refers to the unusually warm, sunny spell that occurs in late autumn, i.e. the phenomenon known as "vénasszonyok nyara".

Cultivar Synonym: Sweet Senses; Sweet Perfume

Registered Cultivar Name: PEAperfume

Original Trade Name: Indian Summer

Former Name: -

Current Trade Name: Indian Summer Hybrid tea rose PEAperfume

American Rose Society Approved Exhibition Name: Indian Summer

Rose Group: Hybrid Tea

Commercial Type: hybrid tea rose

Commercial Group: Hybrid tea rose

Exhibition Category: cut flower; exhibition hybrid tea

Collection: Hybrid tea rose

Origin and Breeding

Initial Distributor: Wagner’s Rose Nursery (Australia)

Introduction Year: after 1993

Registration Year: 1993 (PVR application 1994)

Breeder: Colin A. Pearce

Breeding Company / Institution: The Limes New Roses (United Kingdom)

Breeding Year: United Kingdom, 1986

Parentage: unknown

Awards and Honours

Global and Lifetime Awards: -

Horticultural Ratings and Recommendations: Royal Horticultural Society; RNRS Award of Garden Merit (1994)

Competition and Show Awards: Gifu Rose Trials Bronze Medal (2002); Glasgow Certificate of Merit (1993); Glasgow Tollcross Fragrance Award (1993); Royal Horticultural Society – RNRS Award of Garden Merit (1994)

Collectors' Recommendations: -

Growth and Structural Characteristics

Height: 2.1-3ft (65-90 cm)

Spread: 1.6-2.3ft (50-70 cm)

Growth Habit: bushy, compact

Foliage: This variety has dense foliage. The leaves are slightly glossy and dark green.

Prickliness: moderately thorny

Self-Cleaning Description: No information available on self-cleaning.

Self-Cleaning Intensity: No data available on self-cleaning strength.

Flower Morphology

Petal Count: 26-39

Flower Fullness: double-flowered

Flower Shape: high-centred, pointed-budded (cut rose type)

Flower Size: L (2,75-3,95 in)

Inflorescence Type: solitary

Colour Code: ARS code: OB RHS code: 24A (outer), 12C (inner)

Repeat Flowering: Remontant; the second flowering is also abundant.

Colour Data and Phenology

Colour: orange-peach

Flower Colour Description: Warm peach-orange base tone with a creamy tint.

Closed Bud: Deep peach-orange on the outside with a soft cream-coloured overlay.

Newly Opened Flower: Bright peachy orange, showing a pale cream shade at the petal base.

Full Bloom: Saturated peach‑orange on the outer petals, fading to a creamy shade inside.

Before Fading: The petals fade to a creamy colour with a delicate peach‑pink tint.

Colour Fading Description: During opening the vivid peach‑orange fades to a creamy shade, and before fading it is cream‑coloured with a delicate peach‑pink.

Colour Retention Level: poor

Fragrance and Aroma

Fragrance Strength: strong, long-lasting fragrant rose

Fragrance Character: sweet, fruity scented

Pollinator Attraction: Double flowers with 26–39 petals are poorly attractive to pollinators; flower form (simple/semi‑double/double) and the accessibility of the stamens affect attraction.

Pollinator-Friendly Rating: Double (26–39 petalled) flowers partially conceal the stamens, so it is less attractive to pollinators and is chiefly an ornamental variety.

Soap and Cosmetic Use: -

Hip Characteristics

Maximum Hip Diameter: 10-14 mm

Hip Shape: egg-shaped

Hip Colour: orange

Hip Comment: Rose hip production is expected to be low due to the double flowers; when present, hips are occasionally 10–14 mm in diameter, ovoid and orange.

Resistance and Hardiness

Hardiness (°C): -21–-18 °C

RHS Hardiness Rating: H7

Swedish Hardiness Zone: Zon 3

USDA Hardiness Zone: 6b

Heat and Drought Tolerance Description: No data are available on heat–drought tolerance.

Heat and Drought Tolerance Level: -

Disease Resistance: moderate

powdery mildew – resistant
black spot – resistant
rust – moderate

Horticultural Recommendations

Recommended product path: Premium container

Recommended target pot: 5–7 L

Release form: Bush-trained, with 3–5 strong framework canes

Recommended use: Maintenance requirement medium; requires occasional pest and disease control.

Primary Uses: flower bed, container, cut flower, urban green space

Comments

Positioning: Exclusive finished product

Target customer/channel: Retail / reseller

Main value proposition: Flower quality, form

INDIAN SUMMER – orange-peach hybrid tea rose - Pearce

Warm peach-orange base tone with a creamy tint. - hybrid tea rose - strong, long-lasting fragrant rose - sweet, fruity scented

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PharmaRosa® NEONATAL is the cost‑effective starting point for rose product production.

As a uniform, own‑rooted propagation material, it provides a stable basis for further growing-on and can be integrated flexibly into different finished product production technologies.
Rooted in trays (rooted), 3–6‑month‑old, own‑rooted rose cutting.
Uniform developmental stage, with a root system that has thoroughly penetrated the plug.
For professional growing‑on.
Tray packaging: 10 pcs/tray.
Quality and varietal identity: production supported by a dedicated identification and traceability logic.
Can be transplanted during frost‑free periods, designed for finished product production.

PharmaRosa® NEONATAL provides a controlled, uniform starting stock for planned growing‑on that can be integrated into your own technology – especially where scheduling and varietal identity are paramount.

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