The flower remains an immaculate, uniformly white shade throughout its development. - hybrid tea rose - mild, subtle-scented rose - fresh, lively character
– Immaculate, luminous snow‑white blooms
– Elegant, high‑centred flowers for cutting
– Reliable repeat flowering all season
– Proven garden and show award winner
– Excellent winter hardiness to USDA 4b
– Special feature: Subtly fragrant blooms named for the guiding northern star.
Nature-inspired style – Built on experience
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL 2-litre own-root potted rose
21,00 £
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STELLA POLARE – white hybrid tea rose - Tantau
This classic hybrid tea offers reliable snow-white blooms on a compact, bushy plant that suits smaller British gardens and smart front borders. Large, high-centred flowers on strong stems provide excellent cut value for the house, while the remontant habit ensures lasting flowering flushes from early summer onwards. Its own-root form means the shrub matures steadily, building a stable framework that responds well to flexible pruning styles, from neat shaping to lighter cottage-garden treatment. Over time, roots establish first, then top growth strengthens, and by the third year it delivers full ornamental presence with minimal intervention. With moderate disease resistance and hardy performance that copes well with cool, wet spells and coastal winds, it is a confident choice where you want elegant, long-lived, easy-care structure in a family garden.
High-centred, double white blooms with pointed buds.
Freshly opened white bloom of Stella Polare, a hybrid tea rose.
Closed bud of Stella Polare, a white hybrid tea rose.
Usage options
Target area
Reasoning
Small front-garden feature bed
The compact, upright habit keeps its place neatly in modest plots, giving a structured focal point without overpowering paths or driveways, while immaculate white blooms suit classic British frontage schemes; ideal for the style-conscious beginner.
Formal border with repeat colour
Remontant flowering ensures regular flushes of clear white throughout the season, supporting borders where ongoing colour is expected without complicated regimes, provided basic feeding and watering are maintained; a dependable option for the busy homeowner.
Cutting corner in a family garden
Long-stemmed, high-centred flowers are purpose-made for vases and occasional exhibition use, so one or two plants can supply refined blooms indoors while still maintaining garden display; well suited to the aesthetic-focused garden enthusiast.
Mixed cottage-style planting
The snow-white flowers blend easily with perennials such as campanulas, irises and coneflowers, and its balanced bushy outline integrates into informal cottage mixes without demanding intensive shaping; a good choice for relaxed cottage-garden owners.
Containers and large patio planters
In a well-drained container of at least 40–50 litres, its moderate height and bushy framework adapt well, giving a tidy, upright rose for patios or entrances where ground planting is limited; particularly practical for small-plot urban gardeners.
Season-long structural accent
The dark, glossy foliage and even framework create a consistent green backbone even between flushes, helping beds look composed year-round as the own-root plant gradually builds a durable, balanced shrub; reassuring for long-term garden planners.
Low-input family border
Moderate disease resistance, especially good black-spot tolerance, and hardy performance mean it generally needs only straightforward care, though occasional deadheading and protection are advisable in high-pressure seasons; suitable for time-poor garden owners.
Exposed or coastal-edge gardens
The robust hybrid tea build and proven winter hardiness support planting in cooler, windswept sites, provided soil is improved for drainage and regular watering offsets drying winds and heavy weather; helpful for those in breezy, coastal-influenced locations.
Styling ideas
Frontage Elegance – Line a short path or bay-window bed with evenly spaced plants for a crisp white accent against brickwork – ideal for owners of traditional British front gardens.
Cottage Contrast – Combine with peach-leaved bellflower, garden iris and purple coneflower for a soft, layered cottage mix where white blooms calm stronger colours – perfect for relaxed, romantic-planting lovers.
Patio Focus – Grow a single plant in a 50-litre terracotta pot flanked by lavender for fragrance and form, creating a smart yet manageable focal point – suitable for compact patio and balcony gardeners.
Repeat Ribbon – Plant a short row along a lawn edge to form a low, blooming ribbon of white that refreshes the view across summer – appealing to those wanting order without formality.
Mixed White Scheme – Pair with white foxgloves, pale campanulas and silver foliage for a calm, moonlit palette that reads well from dusk onwards – designed for evening-garden appreciators.
Technical cultivar profile
Parameter
Data
Name and registration
Stella Polare hybrid tea rose (registered as TANlarpost), also exhibited as Polarstern; hybrid tea group cultivar supplied here as a verified, premium-quality own-root garden rose.
Origin and breeding
Bred by Mathias Tantau Jr. (Rosen Tantau, Germany), breeding year 1982; introduced to the UK market by Wheatcroft Brothers Ltd. in 1984 and now widely grown in temperate gardens.
Awards and recognition
Rose of the Year, RNRS United Kingdom 1985; RNRS Certificate of Merit 1985; multiple American Rose Society regional awards between 1998 and 2012 for garden and exhibition performance.
Growth and structural characteristics
Bushy, upright shrub reaching around 85–120 cm in height and 70–95 cm spread; moderately thorny stems with moderately dense, dark green, glossy foliage that supports a tidy, structured outline.
Flower morphology
Large, high-centred, pointed-budded blooms with 26–39 double petals, typically borne singly on stems; a remontant hybrid tea that delivers an abundant second flush in suitable conditions.
Colour data and phenology
Flowers remain consistently snow-white from bud to fall, with only a faint creamy tone at the petal base; excellent colour retention with minimal fading, maintaining a luminous, uniform white display.
Fragrance and aroma
Fresh, lively fragrance of mild intensity, giving a subtle, unobtrusive scent around seating areas; double blooms largely enclose stamens, so it functions mainly as an ornamental display rose.
Hip characteristics
Hip set is usually minimal due to the double, exhibition-type flowers; where formed, hips are small, egg-shaped, orange-red and around 10–14 mm in diameter, with little visual impact on the plant.
Resistance and winter hardiness
Hardy to approximately −29 to −32 °C (RHS H7, USDA 4b, Swedish zone 5); disease resistance moderate overall, with strong black-spot tolerance and moderate sensitivity to mildew and rust.
Horticultural recommendations
Prefers full sun with fertile, well-drained soil; maintain regular watering in dry spells and deadhead to tidy. Recommended spacings 50–90 cm, with 3.3–3.8 plants/m² for mass or hedge planting.
STELLA POLARE Hybrid tea rose TANlarpost offers reliable white blooms, sturdy bushy growth and season-long structure on a durable own-root plant, making it a thoughtful choice for long-term, low-fuss garden planting.
Detailed product attributes
Product Identification Data
Product Name:
STELLA POLARE – white hybrid tea rose - Tantau
Product Type:
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL - 2-litre own-root potted rose
Meaning of Cultivar Name:
The word "Sarkcsillag" refers to the star that indicates the northern direction in the sky, in Italian Stella Polare, in German Polarstern.
Competition and Show Awards:
Rose of the Year – RNRS, United Kingdom (1985); RNRS Certificate of Merit (1985); Several regional ARS awards – North America (1998–2012)
Our product is a rose grown with pharmaROSA®’s unique cultivation technology!
2-litre, own-root, potted rose.
With a shoot system appropriate to the season.
With a root system that thoroughly permeates the growing medium.
Quality compliant with the requirements of the E.N.A. (European Nurserystock Association).
Supplied in unique packaging that prevents damage.
Can be planted during frost-free periods.
True-to-variety rose bush with a unique identifier.
The pharmaROSA® own-root potted rose is a well-rooted plant that supports reliable establishment when planted and cared for properly, so it can be planted whenever the soil is not frozen.
Crop overview: several varieties and growth stages in a short crop section.Shoot system: intensive growth of fresh basal shoots on a young plant.Root system: demonstration of a vigorous root system permeating the growing medium, by removing the pot.Balance: mature plant with root system and shoots in harmony with each other.
Information about the videos
The video series is not a “seasonal showcase”; it illustrates the essence of pharmaROSA® own-root cultivation in a tangible way: how the plant is built up, what the root system is like and how the shoot system regenerates. The recordings were therefore made at different times and with plants at various stages of development, so mixed foliage levels and differing stages of growth may appear in the videos. They are not a ‘sample’ of the batch dispatched, but a visual explanation of how the technology works. The current condition of the rose available to order — typical for the given period and similar to what you can expect to receive in the parcel — is shown in the upper part of the product page.
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Company details
PharmaRosa Ltd. Company registration number: 01-09-717479 VAT number: 13075314-2-43 Plant health registration no.: HU130721 Bank account (IBAN): HU85117631891388688400000000 BIC (SWIFT): OTPVHUHB Bank name: OTP Bank Nyrt.
