R2112 3.6 Bush roses

Question 1

What are Floribunda roses?

Answer 1

Have many flowers borne in clusters and bloom throughout the summer. They are not normally as scented as hybrid tea but are usually hardier and more robust with better disease resistance.

Question 2

What are hybrid tea roses?

Answer 2

Hybrid teas produce large, shapely flowers from high-centred buds on long, straight stems.

• They produce one flower per stem, making them great for using as cut flowers.
• Flowers usually appear in three flushes between summer and late autumn.
• They’re sparsely foliaged with average winter hardiness.

Question 3

Rosa ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

Answer 3

Floribunda rose

A bushy shrub rose with light green leaves and very fragrant, cupped, semi-double purplish-blue flowers fading to slate-blue, with a paler reverse, flowering in summer and autumn.

Question 4

Rosa ‘Iceberg’

Answer 4

Floribunda rose

• Justifiably popular, ‘Iceberg’ goes on flowering right through the summer.
• Clusters of pink buds open to double, slightly fragrant white flowers, 7cm across.
• It is disease-resistant and easy to grow.
• There is also a climbing variety.

Question 5

Rosa ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’

Answer 5

Hybrid tea

• Single blooms of rich yellow. May be grown at the front of a border where there is not too much competition. Light fragrance
• Typically 60-100cm tall, with dark, glossy foliage and moderately-spiny stems.

Question 6

Rosa ‘Burgundy Ice’

Answer 6

A floribunda rose, to about 1m in height, with clusters of lightly-scented, rich red-purple, semi-double blooms in summer and autumn.

Question 7

Rosa ‘Mum in a Million’

Answer 7

Hybrid tea

A recent introduction which is very popular - for the profusion of large, well-scented flowers that appear continuously for several months throughout the summer.

It can be planted in the border or potted up and placed on a sunny patio and the flowers will last for ages after being cut and added to a vase.