Rose Types
Types of roses and those that specifically grow well in New South Wales.
Hybrid Tea Roses
The most popular type, available in both bush and standard form. The flower stems are long and the blooms are shapely.
Floribunda Roses
The Floribunda bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, and several blooms open at one time in each truss.
Climbing, Rambling & Pillar Roses
These roses produce long climbing canes which are supported on a frame as a screening plant, on a single post as a pillar, or over an arch.
Shrub Roses
Large bushes, often tall and spreading with many branching canes of a lax arching habit.
Heritage & Old Garden Roses
These roses include a wide collection of historic and very old rose types, usually only spring flowering but very beautiful.
Miniature & Miniflora Roses
Miniature and miniflora roses are the smallest of the roses with flowers that are usually less than 5cm across.
Standard Roses
Hybrid Tea, Floribundas, Shrubs or Miniatures are budded onto a single stem of a standard height.
Weeping Standard Roses
Budded onto 1.5m to 1.8m tall stems, flowering canes are long and pliable, cascading downwards towards the ground. They are best grown as specimen plants.
Ground Cover Roses
Low spreading plants to 50cm in height with small flowers in profusion.
Photos courtesy of: Hayden Foulds (RSNZ), Cheryl Moore, Susan Wade, Janet Wright, Pat Cunningham, Bruce Sanders, Richard Walsh, Brenda Burton, Helen Elphinstone-King, Kristin Dawson, Glynis Hayne, Doug Hayne and Rosalie Vine.