10 beautiful roses to grow
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
Published: Thursday, 7 November 2019 at 4:47 pm
Discover 10 of our favourite roses to grow, in a wide range of colours.
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There's a rose to suit every garden, from shrub and species roses to ramblers, climbers and compact patio roses.
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Roses are easy to grow and tolerant of various soil types and aspects. Discover roses for all soil types.
A good rose is not only beautiful – it should also be resistant to pests and diseases such as black spot and rust, and repeat-flower throughout the summer.
Here are 10 beautiful roses to grow.
A good rose is not only beautiful – it should be resistant to pests and diseases such as black spot and rust, and will repeat-flower throughout the summer.
Rosa 'Absolutely Fabulous'
Named Rose of the Year 2010, Rosa 'Absolutely Fabulous' is a compact floribunda rose with good disease resistance and a distinctive liquorice fragrance. It bears primrose-yellow flowers from summer until autumn.
Dusky-yellow blooms of rose 'Absolutely Fabulous'
Rosa 'Beatrix Potter'
Rosa 'Beatrix Potter' is an upright, bushy, deciduous shrub rose with thorny stems and glossy, toothed, dark green foliage. From late spring to autumn, it bears beautiful double soft-pink flowers with lots of petals and a good perfume.
Palest-pink blooms of rose 'Beatrix Potter'
Rosa 'Abbie's Rose'
Rosa 'Abbie's Rose' is an upright but low-growing, bushy floribunda shrub rose with thorny stems and ovate, glossy, dark green leaves. From late spring through to autumn, it bears an abundance of lightly fragrant, double, cerise-pink flowers.
Cerise-pink flowers and buds of 'Abbie's Rose'
Rosa 'All My Loving'
Rosa 'All My Loving' is a hybrid tea rose bearing large, double and lightly scented flowers that are a bright cerise pink on strong stems. The plants are dense, bushy and resistant to diseases. It flowers early and keeps going until the first frosts.
A vivid pink bloom of rose 'All My Loving'
Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad'
Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' is a versatile rose that may be grown as a large shrub or as a short climbing rose if given support. It bears large rosettes of many-petalled flowers in soft, peach-pink with a gentle, fruity fragrance.
Large, peachy-pink blooms of rose 'A Shropshire Lad'
Rosa 'Constance Spry'
Rosa 'Constance Spry' is a vigorous shrub rose that bears fully double, rose-pink, myrrh-scented blooms. It has an arching habit, making it ideal for growing at the back of a border against a wall, and it can also be trained as a climber.
Large, pink double blooms of rose 'Constance Spry'
Rosa 'Isn't She Lovely'
Rosa 'Isn't She Lovely' is a hybrid tea rose with creamy gold buds opening to double creamy white flowers with gold and pink tones towards the centre, and a good fragrance. The blooms contrast perfectly with the glossy, dark-green foliage.
Creamy-gold bloom of rose 'Isn't She Lovely'
Rosa 'Cariad'
Rosa 'Cariad' is a large shrub rose with grey-green foliage and excellent resistance to rose diseases. Semi-double pink flowers are borne on thin stems. The flowers have a good fragrance – the classic tea rose scent initially, maturing to a spicy musk.
Bright-pink, semi-double rose 'Cariad' flowers
Rosa 'Sir John Betjeman'
Rosa 'Sir John Betjeman' is a repeat-flowering classic English shrub rose with a gentle arching habit. The small buds open to large double rosettes, which become a deeper pink as they mature.
Deep dusky pink rosettes of rose 'Sir John Betjeman'
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Rosa 'Diamond Days'
Rosa 'Diamond Days' is a wonderful hybrid tea rose, bearing yellow-white flowers with a strong citrus perfume. It's a good all-round rose for the herbaceous border.
White bloom of rose 'Diamond Days'
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