REBELINA – cream park rose – Dickson
Rebelina offers professional growers a compact, bush-trained structure well suited to standard-container programmes and 2–3 L own-root production, giving a predictable, upright habit for nursery benches and retail presentation. Its remontant flowering delivers a reliable second flush, supporting extended sales windows and strong garden performance for retail and reseller partners focused on reliable park and flower-bed use. The delicate warm cream colour with buttery to pastel transitions keeps the plant visually interesting from bud to fade, while the medium-strength, softly sweet fragrance adds tangible added value in thematic gardens and collection plantings. Moderate maintenance needs and disease resistance help maintain homogeneous stands and predictable capacity in nursery networks, with own-root material supporting stable long-term regeneration across multiple production cycles. Its hardiness rating allows dependable use in cooler UK regions, offering reassuring winter and wind tolerance for exposed nursery and project sites, and the year-on-year development from root establishment, to structured shoots, to full ornamental display fits UK scheduling cycles for public-realm and collection projects requiring planned, high-volume supply.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- REBELINA 2–3 L park shrub – own-root, bush-trained plants in standard containers highlighting reliable cream flowering and upright habit for easy bench presentation – retail / reseller
- Cream Edge Border Mix – 2–3 L shrub line combining this compact, remontant cultivar with other edging types to deliver season-long cream tones for flower beds and slopes – garden-centre chains
- Fragrant Cream Feature Pot – selected, well-branched specimens shifted into 40–50 L containers to showcase medium fragrance and repeated flowering as a ready-to-place landscape unit – landscape wholesalers
- Pollinator-Friendly Cream Collection – semi-double, nectar-accessible shrubs in 2–3 L pots, grouped as a small thematic range for projects seeking both aesthetics and bee interest – public-realm suppliers
- UK Heritage Park Rose Line – own-root stock of this UK-bred, AGM-holding park rose offered as a named cultivar within a shrub assortment aimed at curated collections and reliable public plantings – specialist collections
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Registered as DICkooky, traded as Rebelina (park shrub rose, DICkooky); ARS exhibition name Tall Story; shrub group, commercial type park rose in the Park - shrub rose collection. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred in the United Kingdom by Alexander Patrick Dickson, Dickson Nurseries Ltd, from cross ‘Sunsprite’ × ‘Yesterday’; introduced and registered in 1984, initially distributed by Dickson Nurseries Ltd (Northern Ireland). |
| Awards and recognition |
Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit (1993), confirming stable ornamental value and dependable garden performance in UK conditions when appropriately sited and maintained in typical garden situations. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Bushy, upright shrub with moderately dense, mid-green, slightly glossy foliage (RHS 137A); height around 110–160 cm and spread 80–130 cm; moderately thorny shoots; no documented data on self-cleaning behaviour. |
| Flower morphology |
Semi-double, cup-shaped blooms with approximately 13–25 petals, medium-sized (about 1.5–2.75 in), borne mainly in clusters; remontant habit with a notably prolific second flowering phase under suitable cultivation. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Delicate warm cream blooms with pale yellow undertone; buttery, lemon-tinted buds open cream-white with light butter-yellow dusting, then uniform pastel cream with subtle vanilla base before fading towards pale white under strong light. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Medium-strength, softly sweet aroma clearly perceptible around the plant; semi-double, open flowers provide accessible stamens that can attract bees, offering partial pollinator-friendly value alongside ornamental flowering performance. |
| Hip characteristics |
Forms spherical, orange-red hips (RHS N25A) in moderate quantities; fruit diameter generally 5–10 mm, contributing modest seasonal interest where spent flowers are not routinely removed in landscape or collection settings. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Moderate tolerance to powdery mildew, black spot, and rust; prefers typical garden conditions with irrigation during prolonged drought; hardy to around -21 to -18 °C, RHS H7, equivalent to Swedish Zone 3 and USDA Zone 6b. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Recommended as a park shrub for flower beds, edging, slopes, and solitary planting; maintenance requirement moderate with occasional pest and disease control; best grown as bush-trained compact plants in standard containers of 2–3 litres. |
Rebelina offers compact, upright structure, remontant cream flowering, and medium fragrance on predictable own-root stock that supports long-lived, stable stands, making it a practical choice for coordinated capacity planning and scheduling discussions.
