Understanding Rose Classifications

Tea and Grandiflora Rose Classifications

Tea Roses & Grandifloras

This is the rose most people picture when they hear the word "rose" with long stems, one classic bloom per stem, the same shape you'd find in a florist's bouquet.

  • Up to 5' tall
  • One of the most popular rose classes, known for long stems and classically formed blooms. The kind you'd find in a florist's shop
  • Available as Hybrid Tea Roses our most requested rose type
  • Grandifloras offer the same elegant bloom shape on shorter stems, with several blooms per cluster

Floribunda Rose Classification

Floribundas

Floribunda roses are bred to bloom in clusters rather than single stems, giving you continuous color from spring through fall.

  • 2' to 4' tall
  • The Floribunda rose is named for its production of large clusters of blooms on each branch
  • Easy to grow; provides continuous clusters of flowers on short stems
  • Great landscape rose - compact uniform plant habit and lots of floral color ideal for perennial beds and borders

Shrub Rose Classification

Shrub Roses

Shrub roses are bred for toughness first, offering heavy repeat blooms on a plant that shrugs off cold winters and skipped watering.

  • 2' to 5' tall
  • Shrub roses bloom repeatedly and heavily throughout the season
  • Super rugged, they tolerate colder climates well
  • Will produce more hips than other types of roses
  • Ideal for carefree borders and summer-long color

Climbing Rose Classification

Climbing Roses

Climbing roses aren't true vines, but their long, flexible canes can be trained along a wall, trellis, or arbor to bring color vertically instead of out.

  • Height varies, with some reaching 20' tall
  • Climbing roses can be trained to climb along a wall, a trellis, or arbor
  • Bloom very vigorously - some bloom on second year growth so do not prune after the first season
  • Many newer varieties have larger blooms and fragrance

Tree Rose Classification

Tree Roses

Tree roses solve a height problem no bush rose can — any variety grafted onto a tall trunk to bring blooms up to eye level.

  • 24" and 36"
  • The most popular variety of roses
  • Hybrid Tea, Floribunda or groundcover roses grafted onto a tree rose stalk
  • A striking way to add height and structure to a garden, especially where a ground-level bush won't do the job
  • Tree roses are excellent along walkways or entryways; can be planted in containers for patios
  • Ideal for adding height and color to garden borders or beds

Simplicity® Rose Classification

Simplicity® Hedge Roses

Simplicity® roses were bred specifically to solve one problem: a living privacy screen that blooms all summer without constant upkeep.

  • 5' to 6' tall
  • Simplicity® Rose Hedges are used to create borders, garden rooms, privacy screens, or to hide unwanted views
  • Self-cleaning and blooms continuously throughout summer
  • One of the most functional and carefree roses available for planting, ideal for gardeners who want a living hedge without the pruning schedule

Groundcover Rose Classification

Ground Cover Roses

Ground cover roses spread low and wide, making them the answer for slopes, banks, or any bare patch a bush rose can't fill.

  • 1' to 3' tall &l; 3' to 5' wide
  • Petite bloom on quick spreading plant
  • Ideal for hard to cover areas such as slopes and rocky areas
  • Ground cover roses are hardy and low maintenance
  • Great planted in baskets for trailing color on porch or deck

Miniature Rose Classification

Miniature Roses

Miniature roses shrink every part of a full-size rose bush down to container scale, without losing the bloom count.

  • 1' to 3' tall
  • Petite blooms on compact bush with dense foliage
  • Perfect for tucking into rock gardens, edging a path or border, around taller roses or for elegant container gardening
  • Miniature roses are versatile, hardy and prolific
  • Maintenance-free nonstop summer-long color

ROSE FUN FACT: Roses are often more fragrant in a warm, humid atmosphere, and during the brief time before a summer storm. Drought, extreme heat, or very cold days diminish the fragrance of roses.


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