17 Different Types of Roses | Best Rose Varieties
13.06.2023 - 13:11
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/ Amy Grant
There are majorly two classes of Roses-Modern roses, which are hybridized varieties of old roses, being bred since 1867 and old roses, in existence even before the modern roses. Both types differ in terms of fragrance and size. You can grow these Different Types of Roses in garden beds, pots, patios, or pergolas.
Popular Varieties: Fourth of July, Alchymist, May Queen, Eden, Dublin Bay, Rosa ‘Peace’
Height: 8-16 feet
Climbing roses produce large flowers, multiple times, during their growing seasons. They have upright canes that can be trained on supports like pergolas, trellises, or arches. Also, climbers produce more flowers when they grow vertically.
Popular Varieties: English, Beach, Iceberg
Height: 4-6 feet
Shrub roses are the crossbreed of modern and old roses, hence, combine features of both. These roses are cold-hardy and tend to spread vastly. Also, they do not need much care and are disease-resistant to some extent as well.
Popular Varieties: Amy Grant, Baby Boomer, Baby Love
Height: 1–3 feet
These small-sized roses are a perfect addition to pots, hanging baskets, and hedges. Miniature roses are a hybrid of tea roses. Most of them are cold-hardy and flower continually for 2-3 weeks.
Popular Varieties: Madame Caroline Testout, Elina, Double Delight
Height: 3-8 feet
A crossbreed of perpetual and tea rose, hybrid tea roses’ stem consists of only one flower with 30-50 petals, making them excellent cut flowers. They are easy to care and come in pink, yellow, white, orange, red, green, purple colors, making them one of the best types of roses.
Popular Varieties: Maria Shriver, Earth Song
Height: 3-5 feet
Grandiflora stands out from the different types of roses, with its showy flowers on tall stems, in clusters of 3-5, coming in