No matter how large or small your garden is, there’s always room for roses. Climbing roses add a vertical element to your garden. Accent sunny corners and borders with miniature roses. Potted roses make a great addition to patios and apartment balconies and even tabletops. A rose collection not only adds fragrance to your garden, but also an abundance of blooms for bouquets. Follow our guide below to help you decide what type of rose will be the best fit for your landscape.
Hybrid Tea ‘Midas Touch’
Hybrid teas
By far the most popular, these roses have large, fragrant flowers on long stems ideal for cutting. Tall, upright bush forms qualify them as ideal specimens or accents. They also work well in group plantings. Protect them where winters are severe. Read more on various ways to protect your rose in winter here.
Grandiflora rose ‘Parade Day’
Grandifloras
A hardy cross between Hybrid Teas and Floribundas, these plants make excellent tall screens and provide an abundance of cut flowers. Some types bear one bloom per stem, others produce clusters.
Floribunda rose ‘Ketchup and Mustard’
Floribundas
Carefree, colorful plants bloom spring through fall. Low and bushy, they're naturally disease resistant and are considered the mainstays of the landscape. Use them in shrub borders, mixed perennial beds or in containers. Check their zone hardiness in our plant information. Learn about winter protection methods here.
Climbing Rose
Climbing roses
Cover a fence, trellis or arbor by anchoring the graceful, long canes of these hardy selections. They'll grow to 20 feet and longer, perfect for framing an entry, accenting a pillar or wall, or even rambling down a slope.
Oso Easy ‘Urban Legend’ - a type of shrub rose
Shrub roses
From low-growing groundcovers to hedge-type shrubs, these hardy roses offer low-maintenance, long-lasting beauty in a variety of landscape settings.
Patio tree roses
Perfect accents for small spaces, these roses provide extravagant color in an almost endless variety of uses. Try one as an accent for an entry, patio or landscape. Use several to line a walkway, drive or bed. A tree rose is created by grafting a long stem onto hardy rootstock and then grafting a rose bush on top of the stem. Grafting is used to join parts from two or more plants so that they appear to grow as a single plant. Most types of roses can be used for this procedure.
Miniatures
Upright, climbing and trailing forms mimic their bigger cousins. Miniatures are fun and easy to grow - you can even use them indoors in a bright window. Outdoors, plant them in containers or in groups in the garden. Stagger them in rows for a soft, rounded effect.
Type height spacing form
Hybrid Tea 2’ to 6’ tall x 3’ to 5’ spread
Grandiflora 3’ to 6’ tall x 2’ to 4’ spread
Floribunda 2’ to 3' tall x 2’ to 3' spread
Shrub 2’ to 8' tall x 4’ to 8' spread
Patio 24” to 50” tall x 2’ to 3' spread - tree form
Miniature 4” to 20" tall x 6” to 12" spread
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