Category Roses

Your Guide to Growing Roses

Roses are popular in every state and to help you grow roses we have articles on how to prune roses as well as rose varieties.
Articles on miniature roses, weeping roses, climbing roses, Floribunda, Hybrid Tea Roses Knockout roses as well as different rose varieties including classic a heirloom roses.

You can browse below or JUMP TO ROSE VARIETIES AND HELP  to find different varieties, growing conditions and How To Grow Roses Notes

Rosa sweginzowii

Rosa sweginzowii

One of the great roses for rose hips is Rosa sweginzowii Macrocarpa, this is a species rose that also happens to have very attractive flowers and great deep green foliage. Rosa sweginzowii is native to Northwest China it grows well…

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White Roses

White Tineke Rose

Heidessommer Heidessommer is a Kordes Rose, creamy white and free flowering. A floribunda type, easy care and easy to prune. Rambling Rector A David Austin Rose with semi double creamy white flowers. Vigorous grower and needs space. If you wanted…

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Knockout Roses

Care for Knockout Roses is fairly simple and with these disease resistant roses coming in a range of colors as well as double flowering forms, with a little attention to basic rose care and pruning you can have some of…

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Rugosa Roses

Rugosa roses are a group of old fashioned hardy roses that make a great hedge and also produce colourful rose hips. Also known as the Beach Rose and Sea Spray Rose, these common names give us an idea of its…

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Rose Varieties

Rose Plants or Bushes, Standard Roses and Climbing roses are readily available for sale and can be purchased online by mail order in all states. When to buy The best time to buy mail order roses is during the winter…

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Remember Me Rose

Remember Me (Cocdestin) is a classic hybrid tea rose, very hardy, and with nice foliage as well its classic copper/orange double flower. Its disease resistant and has a soft fragrance. A great rose for cut flowers and a good choice…

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Rosa sericea pteracantha

A fascinating rose with some interesting characteristics, Rosa sericea pteracantha is grown for both the thorns and the flowers. Also known as the ‘Winged Thorn Rose’ and ‘Red Winged Rose’, the full name is Rosa sericea subsp. omeiensis f. pteracantha.…

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David Austin Roses

Perhaps the best known of all roses, David Austin roses have a part of the landscape since the 1960s. If you are thinking you might like grow them all, then you will need a larger garden than ours, with over…

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Weeping Roses

weeping rose

Although a weeping rose is similar to a tree or ‘standard’ rose, the best examples are those that have the distinct habit of a weeper. The part that makes a great weeping rose is the top, and this the variety…

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