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Roses shown are mostly antique and old garden roses that have stood the test of time. This list does not include all roses available for Texas. The list is a selection that will not disappoint the grower.

Listed first in descriptions are the plant type, height x width, color, classification and year introduced or found and ARS rating.

Move the mouse over the red ball at the left of each column to see the rose image. There are over 60 roses listed.
  Types of Roses Why Old Roses? Rose Classes Glossary of Terms

Archduke Charles Climbing 10ht Crimson OGR (1837) 8.3

Ballerina Small Shrub 4x4 Pink Hybrid Musk (1937) 8.8

Baronne Prevost Hybrid Perpet 4x4 Rose Pink OGR (1842) 8.7

Belinda's Dream ** Medium Shrub 5x5 Pink Shrub (1967) 8.4

Betty Prior Small Shrub 3x3 Red/Yellow Found (1935) 8.4

Caldwell Pink * Small Shrub 4x4 Lilac Pink Found

Cecile Brunner Small Shrub 3x4 Pink Polyantha (1881) 8.2

Celine Forestier Noisette 8x6 Pale Yellow OGR (1858) 8.9

Christian Dior Small Shrub 3x4 Cherry Red Hybrid Tea

Chrysler Imperial Medium Shrub 4x4 Red Hybrid tea (1952) 7.0

Cornelia Med Shrub 4x5 Coral/Yellow Hybrid Musk(1829) 8.9

Cramoisi Superieur Climber 5x5 Crimson (1832) 8.6

Dainty Bess Small Shrub 3x3 Light Pink Hybrid Tea(1925) 8.6

Danae Large Shrub 8x5 Yellow/White Hybrid Musk(1913) 7.5

Duchesse de Brabant Small Shrub 4x4 Pink OGR Tea (1857) 8.6

Easy Going Med Shrub 6x6 Peachy Yellow Floribunda (1996)

Else Poulsen Large Shrub 5x5 Pink Floribunda (1924) 8.0

Escapade Small Shrub 3x3 Magenta Rose Floribunda (1967) 8.7

Felicia Med Shrub 4x4 Pink blend Hybrid Musk (1928) 8.3

Ice Berg Large shrub 5x5 White Floribunda (1958) 8.9

Jefferson Rose Med Shrub 4x4 Creamy Yellow (found)

Kathleen Large Shrub 8x5 Light Pink (1922) 8.8

Katy Road Pink Climbing 10ht Crimson OGR (Found)

Kirsten Poulsen Small Shrub 4x4 Pink Hybrid Musk (1924) 7.6

Knock Out ** Small Shrub 4x4 Cherry Red Shrub (2000)

Lady Banks Climbing 20ht White/Yellow OGR (1824) 9.1

Lamarque Climber 15,5 White Noisette OGR (1830) 8.9

Lavender Lassie Lg Shrub 6x6 Lilac Pink Hybrid Musk(1960)8.0

Livin' Easy Medium shrub 5x5 Orange Floribunda (1992) 8.1

Louis Philippe Climber 5x3 Crimson OGR (1834) 8.6

Louise Odier Med Shrub 4x4 Deep Pink OGR (1851) 8.5

Maggie Med Shrub 6x6 Violet (Found)

Mme. Alfred Carriere Climber 20x5 White Noisette (1879) 9.0

Mme. Isaac Pereire Med Shrub Deep Violet Bourbon (1881) 8.4

Marchessa Bocella Small Shrub 3x3 Light Pink Hybrid (1842) 8.9

Marie Daly ** Dwarf Shrub 3x3 Pink Polyantha (?)

Marie Pavia Small Shrub 3x3 White Polyantha (1888) 8.8

Martha Gonzales Climbing 10x4 Bright red China (Found)

Martha Gonzales Small Shrub 3x3 Bright red China (Found)

Mr. Lincoln Medium Shrub 4x4 Red Hybrid tea (?)

Mrs B.R. Cant Large Shrub 7x7 Pink Tea (1901) 8.7

Mrs Dudley R. CrossMedium Shrub 4x4 Pink/yellow Tea (1907) 8.3

Mrs. Oakley Fisher Small Shrub 3x3 Apricot Hybrid Tea (1921) 8.3

Mutabilis Large Shrub 5x5 Bi-color China (-1894) 8.7

Nearly Wild Medium shrub 4x4 Pink Floribunda (1941) 7.5

New Dawn Climber 10ht Light Pink Floribunda (1930) 8.5

Old Blush Climbing 20x5 Pink bi-color China (1752) 8.7

Peace Medium Shrub 4x4 Bi-color Hybrid tea (1950)

Penelope Large Shrub 5x5 Pale Pink Hybrid Musk (1924) 8.8

Perle d'Or Small Shrub 4x4 Peach Polyantha (1884) 8.3

Pinkie-climbing Climbing 12ht Pink Polyantha (1952) 7.6

Prosperity Med Shrub Ivory White Hybrid Musk (1919) 8.5

Queen Elizabeth Large Shrub 5x5 Pink Grandaflora (1954) 7.5

Reve d Or Climber 15x5 Buff Yellow Noisette (1869) 9.4

Sea Foam Ground Cover 2x6 Creamy White Shrub (1964) 7.8

Sombreuil Large Shrub Creamy White Climbing Tea (1850) 8.8

Souvenir de la Malmaison Sm Shrub 3x3 Pink Bourb(1843)8.7

The Fairy Dwarf Shrub 3x3 Lt Pink Polyantha (?) 8.7


Types of Roses

Bush Roses

Upright-growing from 6 inches to 6 feet tall, depending on the type and climate. The types of bush roses include hybrid teas, polyanthus, floribundas, grandifloras, miniatures, and heritage, or old roses. Link

  • Hybrid teas are the most widely grown. The long, narrow buds open into large, many-petaled blooms, one each to a long stem. Blooming throughout the growing season from a wide range of colors and fragrances. The upright, branching plants grow 3 feet or more tall.
  • Floribundas, recognized as a group since the mid-1940's, are derived and refined from the hybrid teas. The hardy, compact, 2- to 3-foot bushes bear great quantities of flower clusters on medium-length stems all summer long. The foliage, flower form, and color range is similar to hybrid teas, with many varieties being fragrant. They among the easiest roses to grow and are excellent for landscaping.
  • Grandifloras exhibit the best attributes of hybrid teas and floribundas, although the upright bushes usually grow much larger than either, sometimes reaching 5 or 6 feet tall. This makes them striking accent plants for the back of the flower border, for example. Beautifully formed flowers are borne in clusters on long stems. They are hardy and continually in bloom.
  • Miniatures are a tiny version of any of the other types, usually growing less than 2 feet tall. Blooms and foliage are proportionately smaller, too, but still quite perfect in form. They are hardy and excellent for edgings and mass plantings, among herbs, and in raised beds and container plants.
  • Heritage, or old, roses are those that were developed by plant breeders prior to 1867. There are many different plant and flower forms among the heritage roses. Some of these antique types include the Albas, Bourbons, Centifolias, Damasks, Gallicas, Mosses, Noisettes, and Rugosas.

Climbing Roses

Climbers have long, arching canes that don't actually climb but must be attached to supports such as trellises, arbors, posts, or fences. There are many different colors and types of blooms available. The large-flowered climbers have stiff, thick canes 10 feet or so long and bloom either continuously or at least several times during summer and fall. Ramblers have longer, thinner canes with clusters of small flowers borne once in late spring or early summer.

Shrub and Ground Cover Roses

Shrub roses grow broadly upright with gracefully arching canes. Most are very hardy and require little maintenance. Depending on the variety, they may be 4 to 12 feet tall with many canes and thick foliage, making them ideal for hedges as well as background and mass plantings. The flowers may be single (five petals), semi-double, or double and are borne at the ends of canes and on branches along the canes. Some types bloom just once in the spring while others flower continuously during the growing season. Shrub roses frequently produce red, orange, or yellow hips (seed pods) after flowering. These are high in Vitamin C and can be used in cooking; plus, the birds like them for winter food, and they can be used in flower arrangements

Ground cover roses are prostrate or slightly mounding plants with canes trailing along the ground. Flowers may be produced just in the spring or repeatedly throughout the summer at the ends of canes as well as on branches along the canes.

Tree Roses

A tree rose is any one that has been bud-grafted on a straight, sturdy trunk. These trunks may be 1 to 2 feet tall for types like miniatures and floribundas or 3 to 4 feet tall for hybrid teas. Climbers budded on 6-foot trunks create a weeping effect. Any of these require careful pruning and special winter protection in all but the mildest areas.


Why Old Roses?

Old Roses

There is a new effort to restore the older varieties to their rightful place in the garden. Their historic interest, color, fragrance, and form make old roses desirable in today's gardens as in previous centuries. The best thing about old roses is that they provide all these landscape values without becoming a maintenance burden.

The rose had survived cheerfully in the gardens for centuries before hybrids. Many of these qualities have been neglected in modern hybrids which are developed primarily for showy blooms. Most old roses require a minimum of pruning and are really better left to nature. As specimens found in old cemeteries and abandoned home sites attest, many have survived without care from human hands.

The shape of the plant is more appealing. Left to mature and develop it's stature it will continue to produce beautiful blooms year after year.

Old roses have an inherent beauty of form, a quality which does not diminish over the years. Many old rose varieties display desirable foliage, and others have attractive hips in the fall. This makes old roses especially useful as landscape plants. The unforgettable "true rose" fragrances live in their undiluted form in old roses. Such richness and diversity of fragrance is not often found in modern hybrids. The beauty of old garden rose often lies in the heavy fragrance they can impart to the garden. Link

Why Hybrid Roses?

Modern roses are hybridized primarily for their striking colors and long bud forms. The shape of the plant itself is not always appealing, especially if judicious pruning is not practiced.

The blooms are cultivated to be strikingly appealing and are often more disease resistant. Some are cultivated with special colors, petals, and even absent of thorns.

The old rose colors tend to be more muted and pastel than modern hybrids, but many collectors develop a preference for the softer hues.

History of Roses

The rose has been the queen of flowers through the ages. Some roses are native to the United States, but the majority came from Europe and the Orient. Link

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, European botanists explored the world in search of new plants of garden value and discovered roses in China and the Far East which bloomed year round, the Chinas and Teas.

From crosses between the Oriental and European classes like the Gallicas, Musks, Centifolias and Damasks, come the Noisettes, Bourbons, Portlands, Hybrid Perpetuals, Polyanthas and Hybrid Musks. Modern crosses have created the Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and Grandifloras.

Hybrid Teas replaced nearly every other class because of their beautiful bud form and unusual colors.



Rose Classifications

The American Rose Society classifies roses into three main groups:
Species Roses (wild roses);
Old Garden Roses (those that existed before 1867);
and Modern Roses (those developed after 1867).

SPECIES ROSES

Often referred to as "wild roses," species roses are usually single-petaled (5-12 petals), once-blooming and have a bush size ranging from 2 to 20 feet. Link

OLD GARDEN ROSES Link

The most popular classes are:

Alba

Known as "white roses," these plants are upright often climbing.

Bourbon

They derive their name from the locations of the first members of the class, the Ile de Bourbon in the Indian Ocean. Plant size can range from 2 to 15 feet tall. Repeat blooming.

Centifolia

These Dutch hybridized roses derive their class name from the flowers often containing more than 100 petals. Plants are 4 to 8 feet tall and winter hardy. Once blooming.

Damask

Intense heavy fragrance. Plants generally range in size from 3 to 6 feet. Some are repeat blooming.

Hybrid China (Chinensis)

Generally small ranging from 2 to 3 feet tall. Stems are often too weak to support the clusters of blooms, which have a spicy fragrance. Plants are not hardy. Repeat blooming.

Hybrid Gallica

Plants are small (3-4 feet tall) and are winter hardy. Blooms are fragrant and come in brilliant colors. Once blooming.

Hybrid Perpetual

Popular during the 19th century. Repeat blooming, about 6 feet tall, upright, fragrance and color range (mostly pinks and reds).

Moss

Mossy thorn growth on the peduncle just below the bloom and sepals, releases a pine-scented oleoresin when the moss is rubbed, winter hardy and 3 to 6 feet tall. Some varieties are repeat blooming.

Noisette

This classification originated in the United States by Philippe Noisette of Charleston, SC, who later introduced them in France when he moved there in 1817. Plants are large and sprawling often reaching up to 20 feet tall. Blooms are produced in fragrant clusters.

Portland

Crosses from hybrid gallica, damask, centifolia and hybrid china. Small in stature (two feet tall), repeat bloomingClass.

MODERN ROSES

The era of modern roses was established in 1867 with the introduction of the first hybrid tea, ‘La France’, by the French breeder, Guillot. By the late 20th century, more than 10,000 hybrid teas had been bred with great success. The new classifications followed based on growth habit evolved.

Hybrid Tea & Grandiflora

The hybrid teas are the most popular class, easily recognized by the large shapely blooms containing 30 to 50 petals. The hybrid tea exhibits a bloom cycle every six to seven weeks.

Floribunda & Polyantha

Second in popularity, the floribunda is characterized by its profuse ability to bear flowers in large clusters or trusses with more than one bloom in flower at any one time. The distinct advantage of the floribunda is its ability to bloom continually.

Polyanthas are generally smaller, but sturdy, plants with large clusters of small 1-inch diameter blooms often used for massing, edging and hedges.

Miniature & Mini-Flora

These classes have increased in popularity due to their novelty and versatility. The height of the average plant is about 15 to 30 inches, and flower form and foliage are indeed miniature versions of both hybrid teas and floribundas.

Shrub (Classic & Modern)

Shrubs are easily characterized by their sprawling habit. There are five popular subdivisions within the class: hybrid kordesii, hybrid moyesii, hybrid musk, hybrid rugosa and shrub. They can grow 5 to 15 feet or more in every direction

Large Flowered Climbers

These are noted by their growing habit with the ability to climb up fences, over walls, through trellises, arbors and pergolas. These varieties offer a wide range of flower forms, shapes and colors.


Glossary of Terms
5-Leaf let Set Looking down the stem from the bud, a cut just above the first 5-leaflet set is the point at which a spent bloom should be removed — as in deadheading.
ARS American Rose Society.
ANTIQUE ROSE A casual term used to describe old roses.
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION Reproduction by cloning
BAREROOT Any plant presented in a dormant state without soil on its roots
BUD EYE The swollen area found near the union of the leaf with the stem that will grow into a new stem.
CANES The supportive branches of the rose bush, like a tree trunk.
COTTAGE GARDEN ROSES A shorter roses that will compliment and not overpower perennials grown with them.
CUPPED Petals on blooms that form a rounded open cup
CULTIVAR(aka: variety) A cultivated variety selected for propagation based on specific characteristics, such as form, fragrance, color, disease resistance.
DEADHEADING Deadheading is cutting off flowers as they wither to encourage new blossums.
DOUBLE When blooms have twenty-four to fifty petals. Very double blooms are those with more than fifty petals.
EYE OR PIP The buttonlike round center in a very double rose.
FOUND ROSES Roses that have been found in old gardens or graveyards.
FRAGRANCE A rose may be fragrant to everyone. Rose scents are usually categorized with such descriptions as "spicey", "tea", "old rose", or "fruity".
GLOBULAR When the flower petals curve toward the center creating a round shape.
GRADING NUMBERS Grade 1, Grade 1 1/2, Grade 2: A grading system for field-grown, budded roses promulgated by the American Association of Nurserymen.
GRAFTED ROSE Commonly referred to as budded plants, are plants where the desired rose is grafted or budded onto a rootstock of a different type.
HIP These are the rose seed pods that form after a flower's petals fall if the bloom was pollinated. Hips are the fruit produced by rose plants.
MODERN ROSES Roses created after 1867. Not only hybrid teas, but ramblers, climbers, miniatures, and shrubs.
MOSS Glanular growth on buds and stems. Has pine or resin scent.
OLD GARDEN ROSES (OGR) Those roses in existence before 1867 -- antique roses and species (wild) roses. Also referred to as Heritage Roses.
ONCE-BLOOMING Rose blooms only once each year, generally in late spring or early summer.
OWN-ROOT ROSE An own-root rose is a plant whose rootstock (the roots) is the same variety as the top of the plant.
PEGGING The act of pinning long, flexible canes to the soil or close to the ground with wire to stimulate flower production on all areas of the stems.
PISTIL The female organ of a flower, comprised of the stigma, style and ovary.
PRICKLES Rose thorns.
QUARTERED Old European flower shape in which a double bloom's petals are folded or arranged into distinct sections, or quarters.
REFLEXED Bloom shape where petals are curved back and downward as the bloom opens.
REPEAT BLOOMING Rose blooms repeatedly during the year. Blooming starts in early spring and continues into the fall. Periods between blooming depends on the cultivar.
RUGOSE Foliage with deeply cut leaf veins - wrinkled.
SEMI-DOUBLE Twelve to twenty-four petal blooms, arranged in two or three rows.
SINGLE The simplest blooms, with only five to twelve petals.
STAMENS The filaments and anthers that constitute the male pollen-bearing reproductive organs.
STIGMA The female portion of the flower that receives pollen grains for fertilization.
TWO-DOLLAR HOLE A poorly prepared hole for the planting of a new rose.