Bush Rose Garden
Bush roses are the most popular of all roses because they are easy to grow in any beds or borders and are bursting with flowers throughout the summer.
Bush roses are grouped into their types by their flowering habits, winter hardiness, size and type of growth.
Hybrid Tea Rose Bushes
Older Hybrid Tea rose bushes are usually 2 to 6 feet in height. The buds are usually very long and pointed with one rose to a stem. Occasionally they surprise you and produce clusters of three to five roses per stem. The lovely Hybrid Tea rose bushes come in a variety of colours including ivory white, various shades of scarlet, yellow, pink as well as orange. The lengths of the stems differ depending on the particular rose.
The majority of Hybrid Tea rose bushes have a lot of fragrance which smells the strongest in the morning before the fragrant oil evaporates from the petals.
Floribunda Rose Bushes
Floribunda rose bushes usually bear a lot of roses per stem and are increasing in popularity for use in bed plantings where a number of blossoms are required.
Grandiflora Rose Bushes
Grandiflora roses are a mixture of hybrid teas and floribundas. They are a lot like Hybrid Teas in their toughness and in their type of bloom. They can have either single flowers on long stems or clusters. The flowers are a lot smaller than those of hybrid teas but are very good for cutting.
Miniature Rose Bushes
The Miniature variety, like their name suggests are very small. Some of the smallest miniature roses only grow up to 6 inches but the largest miniature roses can grow up to 24 inches tall. The cute miniature rose is used for rock gardens, edging beds and borders as well as featured beds in a landscape.
Rose Bush Varieties
Abbeyfield Gold
The Abbeyfield Gold rose bush is surprisingly strong scented with a beautiful mid yellow interesting shaped bloom. It flowers between late spring to early frost and grows between 90 and 120 cm in height.
Alison
If you don’t want an overpowering scent in your garden, the Alison rose is for you. It has a light sweet fragrance and is extremely disease and weather resistant with ongoing blooms to admire again and again. This lovely rose bush is peachy pink and grows up to 90-120cm.
The Birthday Boy
If you love fragrance you will love this beautiful deep magenta rose bush. The Birthday Boy has such a strong smell it will overpower any other flower sharing your garden. Not only is this little gem eye catching it is wonderful to be around. The Birthday Boy can fight off disease but not as much as other rose bushes and would need to be inspected often to check for disease. If it is not as resistant to weather conditions as you would like then it might be a good idea to transplant it to a more protected area of the garden or surround it with mulch to protect it from the elements. The Birthday Boy thrives between late spring and early frost.
Rachel
The Rachel rose was named after Rachel de Thame, a rose lover and is a mixture of cream, pink and peach with a strong and sweet perfume. The Rachel rose is often mistaken for a carnation and grows like most rose bushes between late spring and early frost every year. It reaches heights between 90 and 120 cm and is extremely resistant to disease.
