Shrub Roses are free flowering, vigorous, disease resistant, and hardy, making them easy to grow in a variety of sizes and forms.
The easiest and longest-blooming rose bushes you will ever grow, shrub varieties are more beautiful and garden-tough than ever before! Dense, bushy and quite pest and disease-resistant, shrub roses are tough plants and are usually quite heavy-blooming, with smaller flowers in greater numbers than their hybrid tea and floribunda rose cousins. At Jackson & Perkins, we have the best classic and modern rose shrub varieties ready to set right into your crowded sun border, the baking-hot foundation planting, the strip along the driveway and even the sidewalk island!
Rugosa Roses are a subdivision of shrubs native to Asia and southeastern Siberia. These are tough, trouble-free, and disease resistant roses that require very little maintenance, so little in fact, they are often used in mass highway plantings. Thriving in cold climates, these cold hardy roses also embrace the salty sea air found in coastal climates. And as a bonus, rugosa roses produce colorful hips in fall that stick around to brighten the winter garden.
Shrub roses are usually cold hardy, and some are safe to plant as low as growing Zone 2! At the end of the season, allow some blooms to remain on the rose bushes to form colorful rose hips to give interest to the winter landscape. Every garden (and every gardener!) deserves these low-maintenance, high-value shrubs!