Types Of Roses - Your Online Source for Information on Roses
There are over 150 Different Types of Roses
Roses are one of the most popular flowers so there are a great many types of roses in existence. While there are more than 150 different species or types of roses, all of these fall into three large general categories. These are Species Roses, Old Garden Roses, and Modern Roses.
Species Roses are wild roses. They have been around practically since the beginning of the planet and still grow abundantly in rural areas. Wild roses all have a single blossom with five petals. The vast majority are pink with only a very few being white or yellow. Most of the roses you see growing around abandoned buildings are not really wild but just very hearty domesticated roses that can live on and on. A wild rose plant blooms once a year, usually in the first couple weeks of June.
The second category of roses is known as Old Garden Roses. These types of roses include any rose that was cultivated before 1867, which was when the first hybrid tea rose appeared. All Old Garden Roses can be traced back to either Chinese roses or European roses. Chinese types of roses include Chinas, Perpetuals, Bourbons, teas, and noisettes. They tend to bloom several times during each season and come in colors such as scarlet or yellow. European roses bloom only once in the spring and are known for being very hearty and disease resistant. Types of roses in the European group are moss roses, gallicas, centifolias, albas and damasks.
The third large category of roses is Modern Roses. These are what most people envision when talking about roses and it all started with the Hybrid Tea Rose. The types of roses in this group are usually fragrant, have many colors, and they bloom several times throughout the growing season. Other roses in the Modern Roses classification are grand flora, floribunda, polyanthus, modern climbing roses, hybrid musk roses, miniature roses, and modern shrub roses.
The types of roses in these categories grow in several different ways. For instance, there are ground cover roses that grow and spread themselves along the ground, covering it up. Each cane can have single or multiple flowers that bloom once or throughout the season. The Moss Rose is one that fits in with these. Climbing roses, on the other hand, will need to have a trellis. They can grow up to twelve feet high and spread out. Rambling climbers only bloom once a year, have small canes, and produce clusters of small roses. Large-flowered climbers, as the name indicates, have much larger flowers, grow up to ten feet tall and bloom repeatedly throughout the season.
Shrub roses have large canes and make good hedges because they grow from four to ten feet tall. They are very thick and they flower both from the tip and the side of the cane. Rose trees are usually grown in warm climates, and start with a rose bud that is grafted onto a healthy trunk. The most familiar of all the methods of growing roses is on bushes. The bush rose is the one most often grown as front-yard plants. It can be compact and the roses grow on the outside of the bush, making them readily visible.