THE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROSES...

Miniature Roses - These bushes grow only 2' to 3' tall and are covered with perfectly formed, miniature blooms. They're ideal for containers or rock gardens, at the base of larger plants, and for narrow borders and other limited spaces.The miniature shown here is Incognito. To learn more about miniature roses click here.

Hybrid Teas - Hybrid teas are tall and stately, with large, well-formed blooms and long stems suitable for cutting. They can be used in single plantings, or as the featured plants in a mixed bed of roses. The rose pictured is called Lily The Pink Plant this one in the back row as it gets tall!! Lovely light pink color similar to Brides Dream. Great foliage and good disease resistance. Available in fall of 97'. From Wisconsin Roses. To learn more about hybrid tea roses click here.

Climbers - Climbers are vigorous and easy to grow, adding drama and interest to your landscape. They will bloom heavily for years, climbing a trellis or trailing along a fence or wall with a splash of color. Give them plenty of room and fertilizer. The climbers pictured here are located at Cenntenial Rose Garden, Coquitlam.

Floribundas - Floribundas are lower-growing hybrid teas, and bloom heavily, producing clusters of flowers from June till frost. Well-suited to a massed bed of color and in border plantings. A number are available. The rose pictured is called Sunsprite. To learn more about floribundas click here.

Antique Roses - These roses have been cherished by generations for their casual form, delightful fragrance, and old-fashioned charm. Use them anywhere you want masses of carefree color. To learn more about antique roses click here.

English Roses - These are crosses between old and modern roses. They have a charming, old-fashioned form and rich fragrance, yet they have the vigor and continuous bloom of today's roses. Designed to be massed together - in a cottage garden, or planted where their fragrance can be appreciated.

Grandiflora Roses - In the pursuit of elegant flowers, it was almost inevitable that rose breeders would combine the hardy, free-flowering floribundas with the magnificently large-flowered, long-stemmed hybrid teas. In so doing, they created the Queen Elizabeth rose, which was introduced commercially in the United States in 1954 and became the basis for the newest type of rose, the grandiflora. (In Great Britain, grandifloras are considered a subclass of the floribunda and are called floribundas, hybrid-tea type.) The rose pictured here is Aquarius. To learn more about grandifloras, click here.

Cabbage Roses - The cabbage roses are slender bushes with arching branches and drooping flowers and grow from 3 to 6 feet tall. Their red, pink or white flowers are 1 to 4 inches in diameter and have open centers. The flower petals often number up to 100, giving several varieties their name of Centifolia; their petals overlap in the manner of the leaves on a head of cabbage hence the flower's more common species name. Cabbage roses are also sometimes called Provence roses, after the area in southeastern France where they were once widely grown. With few exceptions, cabbage roses have an exceedingly sweet fragrance. Their thorns are large and sometimes hooked, and their coarse foliage is wrinkled and serrated. Most varieties blossom only once a year, in late spring or early summer. Cabbage roses are extremely hardy and can be grown in Zones 4 to 10 without winter protection. The rose pictured here is Fantin-Latour. To learn more about cabbage roses click here.

Shrub Roses - Toughness characterizes the group known as shrub roses, which are able to survive winters without protection even in Zone 4. Many are so-called species roses--their genetic characteristics are so firmly established that their seeds produce nearly uniform progeny, and they can be considered distinct botanical species. A number are so tough they will grow in the wild and in poor soil. Large and luxuriant plants, they can be grown singly, but are often planted in groups to provide a bold effect of massed color in hedges and screen plantings. Shrub roses vary considerably in height, growing from 2 to 10 feet tall; the average is between 6 and 8 feet. Their blossoms come in white and shades of pink, red, yellow, orange and purple. Most of the older varieties bloom only once, during the spring, but the newer types bloom almost continuously from spring until frost. Many varieties also produce colorful red hips that are decorative in autumn gardens. Some bear the wild roses' five-petaled single blossoms but others have many-petaled flowers; their fragrance also varies, from none to strong. The roses pictured here is Carefree Delight.

Hybrid Musk Roses - Hybrid musk roses are vigorous plants that provide almost continuous blooms, hybrid musks fall between bush roses and climbers in structure and habit of growth. The sturdy canes of these semiclimbers qualify them as good pillar roses--some types will grow to a height of 10 feet. Their glossy foliage is disease and pest resistant. Blooming in clusters of blossoms that range from simple five-petaled flowers to ones of 40 petals, most hybrid musks have a distinctive fruity fragrance. Most come in soft pastel colors, with reddish foliage and pink-to-orange-to-red hips that persist into very cold weather. Hybrid musks are generally less hardy than other old roses; they can be grown as far north as Zone 5 with winter protection. The rose pictured here is Prosperity

French roses - The oldest of this class are the French, or gallica, roses, which grow in bushes 2 to 6 feet high. The flowers come in all shades of red, from pale pink to purplish maroon, and even in red-and-white stripes. The blossoms may be five-petaled singles, or doubles with as many as 60 petals. Fragrance also varies, from strong and rich in some to none at all in others. The stems are almost thornless; the leaves are rough in texture and dark green; the buds are round and blunt; the hips, or seed pods, are large, red and round. Most French roses bloom only once, in spring or early summer. They are very hardy and will do well as far north as Zone 4 without winter protection. The rose pictured here is Duc de Guiche.

Polyantha Roses - Polyantha roses are low, very hardy plants that continuously produce large clusters of small blooms and survive winters unprotected as far north as Zone 5. Indeed, "many blooms" is what the Greek word polyantha means. The blossoms are small, rarely exceeding 2 inches in diameter, and the plants are generally 2 feet or less in height, which makes them ideal for massing in beds and for use as low hedges. To learn more about polyantha roses click here.

Tree Roses - These roses, which look like small trees, are man-made plants that may be of almost any rose variety. They usually consist of three plants: a sturdy rootstock onto which is budded another rose variety that produces a sturdy trunk, or standard, which in turn supports a budded-on plant that forms the flower-bearing crown. Nurseries sometimes combine the first two steps by growing a strong rootstock that also produces a tall standard, but in either case the process is slow and takes skill; for this reason a rose variety costs several times more in tree form than it does as a bush. The rose pictured here is Cupcake. To learn more about tree roses click here.

Formal Roses - Bred to have perfect, exquisitely-formed buds and long cuttable stems, the base of the plants tend to be bare and have somewhat angular top growth. Because of their pruning and maintenance requirements, and for easy viewing, many gardeners grow them in formal "rose beds." They're also grown in natural- or casual-style gardens. While leaving them accessible for pruning and care, mix them with other shrubs and perennials to hide their awkward shapes. Easy to find, nurseries, hardware stores and some grocery stores sell them in spring.