Easy To Love | Easy To Grow |Roses

March 7, 2016April 26, 2019 Gaga

An Easy To Love |  Easy To Grow | Rose Garden

“Roses Are For Every Garden” at  The Chicago Flower & Garden Show, interview with

What Jodie Henke of Living the Country Life radio (a Meredith, Better Homes & Garden property) will air across the U.S., on

• Where: 300 stations in 39 states,
• When: Tuesday, March 8, and will be on their Web site as of March 7. This is the companion article to the interview and my presentation next Saturday, March 12, at 11:00 AM. Roses Are For Every Garden.

85% of folks say roses are their favorite flower. They want easy-to-grow roses. Rose breeders are listening to YOU! Each year there are better minimal care roses available that you can have great success with. Here are some of the  Conard Pyle Star Roses and Weeks Roses, that I researched and have personally grown. I included them because of their beauty and ease of care. Star Roses and Weeks Roses supplied the roses for the Chicago Flower & Garden rose garden his year and last year  had been planned to be at the show. They are minimal care roses bred for their easy to grow qualities. I can vouch for their high degree of success in the garden. Christian Bédard told us ‘Pretty Lady Rose’ may be the best rose he’s ever bred and I can tell you its at the top of my list for perfection.

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Hybrid Teas Roses | Americas Favorite Flower

Hybrid tea roses are perfect for any rose garden. They are perfect for cut flowers and creating our own bouquets. A hybrid tea is easily identifiable by their large shapely single flower blooms on long stems. Here are a few of the very best hybrid teas that are true winners.

‘Pretty Lady Rose’ New 2016 | Weeks Roses 2nd in their The Downton Abbey Series

• Dark even rose pink almost fuchsia
• 4-5 “ Large old fashioned ruffled petals
• The smell of peonies with a hint of spices

‘Francis Meilland’ 1996

• Color: Very large shell pink flowers
• Winter hardy disease resistant
• Winner of Biltmore International Rose Trials Best Hybrid Tea
• Strong fruity and citrusy fragrance

‘Queen Elizabeth’ 1954

• Pink 4” with large petals, and pointed buds
• Moderate rose fragrance
• Won ‘Best Established’ Rose at The Biltmore International Rose Trials when I was a judge in 2015

For Hedge and Borders I love Shrub roses because they grow from 5 to 15 feet in every direction based on your climate and growing conditions.

‘Water Colors Home Run’ by Weeks Roses

• 3 colors showy flame red | yellow gold pink blush | Hot Pink
• Medium height and bloom size
• Winter hardy and disease resistant

‘Drift®’ Groundcover Roses by Star Roses and Plants

• 8 colors from White Drift Rose to Red Drift Rose
• Blooms 1 ½” -3” bushes about 2 feet tall spreading
• Winter hardy, disease resistant, and easy to grow.

Bonica® – Shrub

• The Bonica rose has been voted the World’s Favorite Rose in by the World Federation of Rose Societies and an All-America Winner
• Pastel pink, 3” blossoms, about 5’ tall spreading
• Slight fragrance

For containers you can plant Miniature or miniflora roses known for novelty and versatility.

Some of the most beautiful and hardy are:

‘All a’ Twitter’

• Twinkling brilliant orange
• Tall, medium size blooms
• Winter hardy

‘Be My Baby’

• Incandescent pink
• Large round blooms, medium tall
• Fragrance mild tea 

‘Sunblaze®’ Miniatures by Star Roses and Plants

• All colors from amber-to yellow, vigorous, disease resistant, winter hardy.
• 12-18 inches compact
• Slight fragrance

For walls, fences, and pergolas we want climbing or rambling type roses for their unique long arching canes, and their ability to climb fences, over walls, through trellises, arbors, trellises.

‘Above All’

• The old classic ‘Westerland’ raised modernized with 21^st century ‘best-off-best’ qualities!
• Salmon-orange blend, repeat blooming, 10-14 feet
• Old fashioned, 3 ½”-4” blooms, fruity fragrance

‘4^th of July’

• Gorgeous Red striped and bright white
• 10-14 feet canes
• Fresh cut apple and & sweet rose fragrance

‘Pretty in Pink Eden’ or ‘New Dawn’ (Light pink)

• All qualities of highest rated, award winning rose ‘Eden Climber’ also known as ‘Pierre de Ronsand’ only deep pink
• 10-12’ with gorgeous very double blooms 70-80 petals
• Vintage rose fragrance, vigorous and disease resistant 

Floribundas

Beautiful Roses for the garden known for their profusion of bloom are floribundas. They bear flowers in large clusters and trusses with large clusters of and trusses. This class is unrivaled for providing massive colorful lasting garden displays that are hardier, easy care and more reliable in wet weather than their hybrid tea counterpart.

‘Bolero’

• White, large blooms with 100 petals
• Old rose and spicy fragrance
• Bushy and about 3 feet tall

‘Julia Child’

• One of the top selling roses in the world
• Butter/gold color, medium very full 3-4” blooms
• Strong licorice fragrance

‘Easy Does It’

• Gorgeous Mango Peach
• Ever blooming with a moderate fragrance
• Disease resistant, one of my all time favorites!  

Be sure and join us at The Chicago Flower and Garden Show. This is only the 2nd year we will have roses blooming in March in a rose garden setting in Chicago at Navy Pier. We’ll have American Rose Society Consulting Rosarians there to answer your rose growing questions.