About Roses
Floribunda roses produce dense clusters of flowers several times a season.
Hybrid Tea Roses bloom repeatedly through the summer months—most having a wonderful fragrance, mild to powerful. These roses normally produce one bloom per long stem—making them ideal for cutting. The name Hybrid Tea comes from the cross breeding between the hybrid perpetual rose and the tea rose.
Another type of modern rose is the Grandiflora, developed in 1955 as the “Queen Elizabeth” rose. It is thought by many to be the best of both worlds: developing clustered blossoms throughout the season—like floribundas, while still producing elegantly shaped blooms like Hybird Teas. And hardy Grandifloras resist disease while growing up to 7 feet tall.
Miniature roses range from 3-8 inches in height, bloom continuously, but rarely provide fragrance.
Shrub roses provide a hardy easy-care flowering plant, with single or double blooms, that bloom repeatedly in a variety of colors.
Climbing roses, a variation of shrub or hybrid tea varieties with large singe or clustered flowers, produce long canes able to grow around surfaces such as walls and arches.