Rose BushesA Grower's Guide to Roses
Rose Types

Shrub & Landscape Roses

Modern shrub roses are the all-purpose landscape roses: hardy, disease-resistant, repeat-blooming, and built to look after themselves.

The easy-care workhorses

"Shrub rose" is a broad, modern category for roses that do not fit the older classes — bred above all for garden performance. The best combine strong disease resistance, hardiness, and repeat bloom on rounded, self-supporting plants. Series such as Oso Easy, Flower Carpet, and the Buck and Parfuma roses live here, alongside hybrid musks and other versatile shrubs.

They are the roses to reach for when you want color and reliability without a spray schedule — equally at home in a mixed border, a low hedge, or a mass planting.

Quick tip: Most shrub roses need only light pruning — a shape-and-tidy in late winter and removal of the oldest canes every few years is usually enough.

Growing shrub roses

Give them full sun and well-drained soil, feed once or twice a season, and water during dry spells while they establish. Beyond that, these are among the lowest-maintenance roses you can grow.

Popular shrub & landscape roses

The 36 roses below are among the most widely grown and dependable in this group. Each profile covers color, fragrance, size, hardiness, and how to grow it well.