Rose Class
Knock Out Roses
The Knock Out family redefined the landscape rose: disease-resistant, self-cleaning, and in bloo…
The rose taxonomy
Rose Types
Roses are grouped into classes that share how they grow, bloom, and are best cared for. Understanding the classes is the fastest way to choose the right rose — and to grow it well. Explore all 413 profiled varieties through the 11 classes below.
Rose Class
Groundcover & Drift Roses
Groundcover and Drift roses stay low and spread wide, carpeting slopes, borders, and containers …
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Climbing Roses
Climbing roses send up long, flexible canes that can be trained along walls, fences, arbors, and…
Rose Class
David Austin & English Roses
English roses, bred by David Austin, marry the full-petaled form and rich fragrance of old roses…
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Hybrid Tea Roses
Hybrid teas are the classic long-stemmed roses of the florist and the show bench — one large, hi…
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Floribunda Roses
Floribundas carry their flowers in big clusters on compact, free-flowering plants — more color o…
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Grandiflora Roses
Grandifloras combine the elegant, high-centered bloom of a hybrid tea with the clustering and vi…
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Miniature Roses
Miniature roses scale everything down — flowers, leaves, and habit — into perfectly proportioned…
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Species & Wild Roses
Species roses are the wild originals from which all others descend — tough, single-flowered, oft…
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Old Garden & Heirloom Roses
Old garden roses — the gallicas, damasks, albas, bourbons and their kin — are the historic roses…
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Shrub & Landscape Roses
Modern shrub roses are the all-purpose landscape roses: hardy, disease-resistant, repeat-bloomin…