Hybrid Tea Roses, Floribunda Roses and Shrub Roses.

Hybrid Tea Roses

Hybrid Tea Roses have a long flowering season and freely produce flowers from June to October,and they are excellent as a cut flower.

The flowers are generally double although single forms do exist.A single flower is produced at the end of each stem, when this has died the buds just under the flower head will produce another 3 - 4 usually smaller flowers.

Most varieties with the correct pruning grow to between 0.75 - 1.2m high, but with light pruning some of the more vigorous can reach a hieght of 1.8m.

Most Hybrid Tea Roses have been budded. This means that a single bud from the stem of a rose variety that is to be propagated has been grafted onto the stem of another root stock,i.e. (the dog rose or wild rose, Rosa canina).

Although roses can be successfully grown from cuttings they do not produce a strong enough root stock of their own, so by budding there is created a stronger and more robust plant.
Also more material can be obtained from the parent plant to propagate new stock.

The disadvantage to this method of propagation is that suckers, (shoots from the Rosa canina root stock), do occassionally have to be removed from the base of the plant, where as with cuttings all the shoots are of the variety.

To tell the difference between the shoots of the variety and the wild rose is easy.
The Variety will have seven ovate larger, dark green, glossy leaves on each leaf stem. whilst the leaves on the wild rose will be a dull, lighter green colour, and smaller.

Floribunda Roses

Most of the information supplied for the Hybrid Tea Roses can also be applied to the Floribunda Roses.

Floribunda roses are basically derived from a cross between the early Hybrid tea roses and the dwarf Polyantha roses. The stems are more branched than those of the Hybrid teas, although the foliage is similar.

The flowers may be single, semi-double or fully double and measure 6 - 8cms across when open, and are borne in large terminal clusters in June and July and usually again in September and October.

When the flowers have died the clusters must be removed from the plant.

Some of the more modern roses are crosses between the Hybrid Tea rose and the Floribunda rose, and so the definitions between the two types have become some what blurred.

Shrub Roses

Shrub Rose are of an informal habit and grow to an average hieght of 1.5m, they are ideal for growing as a hedge, or they can be grown as specimen plants or in between other shrubs.

The flowers are 5 - 10cm wide, single or semi-double and open out flat. They are generally repeat flowering and are borne either singly or in small clusters from June to September.

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