Rose Types

There are so many different rose types, each with its own charms and wiles. There are those that are prodigious, and will fill your garden with color. There are those that are so fragrant, that a bouquet of them will fill your house with aromatic scent. And there are those special roses that fill your heart and soul with peace and and just pure joy at the creations of nature.

The types of roses that the list below cannot be, and is not, exhaustive. Yet, it does cover many of the different rose types. See the various kinds of roses, and then dig deeper, to find the special roses that speak to you.

Carpet Roses:

Carpet roses are the easy-keepers we can all use, especially when we need to cover a garden gap quickly and with fast growing flowering ground cover.

Climbing Roses:

Romantically draped climbing roses jazz-up a garden. Combine them with the right arbor or trellis and you can make them truly eye-catching.

English Roses:

David Austin roses, or English roses, bring beauty and perfume to the garden. If you adore bouquets that fill the room with a romantic aroma, you will want to go for some of the more fragrant English roses.

Floribunda:

Floribunda roses are part bouquet blooming hybrid tea roses and part just hearty flowers. These make wonderful cut flower garden roses, and thrive in the yard and landscape.

Grandiflora:

Grandiflora roses are wonderful landscape roses and bouquet workhorses dressed in ruffles of numerous petals. Their sculpted buds and constant blooming clusters of full flowers provide evidence of their relationship to their hybrid tea cousins. Queen Elizabeth is one of the most popular grandiflora roses.

Heirloom Roses:

Heirloom roses. also called Old Garden Roses, bring enduring romance back to the garden.

Hybrid Tea Roses:

Hybrid tea roses are some of the most popular rose types, feature sculpted buds and flowers, and come as large as seven inches across. Peace, Bewitched, and Secret are some well-known hybrid tea roses.