Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm well i can hear the birds singing things are
coming into life in the garden soon i will have real live roses to show you in the meantime i want
to tick off one of those topics that i've been asked a fair bit which is the difference between
a floribunda rose and a hybrid tea rose if you're just getting into roses you're going to hear these
terms: floribunda is a cluster flowering rose i'm going to put the qualities of a floribunda
up on my right as i talk about this cluster flowering and a bit of a wider open bloom as
compared to what you might be more familiar with as the hybrid tea or florists bloom which is
solitary and has that high centered form to it so that's the primary distinction between these two
but there are other distinctions that just come along with their genetic differences
so one of those will be the size of the flower the floribundas average in general below three
and a half inches and they could be smaller down to two inches but average up to about
three and a half inches the hybrid teas can average three and a half all the way
up to about six inches so that three and a half inches is about the break point between the two
sizes of roses like i say the flora bundas are cluster and the hybrid t's tend to be solitary
there can be some overlap here as well i'll discuss that towards the end of the video
because there's been some mixing between these two general classes of roses next thing i'll talk
about is the height and habit of the shrub floribundas average up to about three feet in height
there can be higher and lower but that's about the average and hybrid teas are usually more in
the four foot range and in terms of their overall habit the floribundas are lower and bushier have
thinner stems and makes for more rounded shape or a more landscape shape in the in in the garden the
hybrid teas tend to have a little bit more of that stiff upright with larger stems so between the two
of them you can kind of spot the differences at least in their typical habits fairly easily
one other major difference is in the hardiness of the roses and the break point on this one
is around zone five floribundas average around zone five hardiness but can go a little bit lower
on some varieties hybrid tees are usually zone five is about the very lowest they will go and
typically it's upwards from there there are some hybrid t's that are zone sixes and zone sevens
and so on so that's about the break point is that the flora bundas tend to be a little bit hardier
other characteristics are pretty similar between them they tend to both have the full
range of colors they can each be fragrant or not although typically i would give the hybrid teas
the advantage on fragrance in terms of disease resistance i would give that advantage over
towards the floribundas they tend to be a little more trouble free to grow so i've put those up
on the screen so you can see them but now i want to show you some typical varieties of
floribundas and hybrid teas and as i do this i want to say these aren't necessarily the newest
or i'm even saying the best varieties of floribundas and hybrid teas they're just examples
of some well-known ones for the floribundas i can really think of nothing better to start
with than 'Julia Child' which really typifies the cluster flowering characteristics of a floribunda
has a mid yellow sort of butter yellow color and the fragrance of licorice so
a fantastic rose i'm going to call that one in the mid-size for floribundas up to about three
feet a little bit taller in my garden and repeats all season long just a beautiful performing rose
next up i want to talk about 'Iceberg' iceberg has a special place in floribundas it's just so well
known being grown over the years i think it was bred in the 50s and one thing cool about Iceberg
is that even though the typical variety of iceberg is white it sports regularly it has a lot of
genetic variability within the plant and so it's sported out to things like 'Brilliant Pink Iceberg'
'Burgundy Iceberg', 'Climbing Iceberg' so there's lots and lots of variability in that plant
nothing to get bored of in the iceberg series next up i wanted to talk about a rose called 'Angel
Face' i explore into that sort of move area there and i i think you'll see from the picture here
just how wide open those blooms are with the ruffled edges just fantastic color moving right
along in the floribundas let's look at 'Nicole' which i think is a good example of a bi-color it
has a white bloom but with a strong pink edge for a really striking garden look next up i'll talk
about 'Bonica' now Bonica may in my area be the most widely planted floribunda of all it's the kind of
thing that you would use in roadside plantings by cities and landscapers or in malls or gas
stations has these clusters of strong pink flowers they fade a little bit through their bloom period
but extremely good performer and finally i'll talk about south africa and this is kind of a riff
on Julia Child i mean you know how i like that rose but South Africa has the darker orange tones
in the flower so as far as garden performance goes they're just about equal but for a color
twist on it into the warmer range South Africa is a fantastic floribunda moving on to the hybrid
teas now let's look first at 'Chicago Peace' i could have chosen just regular old 'Peace' with
its muted colors of pink and yellow which is a lovely blend but Chicago Peace has those stronger
tones of orange and darker pink that i really like in a very large bloom second up i'm going to talk
about is 'Double Delight' and people love this rose i haven't grown it particularly well myself in my
climate but i hear that it's a good grower in warmer climates and it has that bi-color look
to it but with an excellent fragrance just gorgeous so people love that rose third one i'm going to
talk about is 'Stephens' Big Purple' which is an unusual color it's sort of a beetroot purple
deep color wonderful knockout scent to it and it was bred by an amateur which gives it a special
spot in my heart as it wasn't bred by one of the big breeding houses but it was just an amateur
breeder that brought that one forward next up i'm going to talk about 'Pope John Paul II' if you're
looking for just a pure white hybrid tea rose that's great for cut flowers and performs well in
the garden that might be the one my final example from amongst the hybrid teas is one to show you
the range of colors this is 'Fragrant Cloud' which is not only extremely fragrant but it has that
cool color somewhere between salmon and coral i love it a lot in the garden so getting to the end
of the hybrid teas and floribunda examples i just want to get quickly into the genetics here because
the difference between the hybrid teas and the flora bundas is the inclusion of the polyanthas
i did a family tree of roses a while back and I'll put up portion of that up on the screen and show you
that the floribundas generally include a parent from the polyantha class of roses making them the
cluster flowering the problem with all of these classifications is that the interbreeding between
hybrid teas polyanthas floribundas and back and forth didn't stop at the time that they made the
classifications so there are indeed later hybrids between the hybrid teas and the flora bundas
and when they maintained both of the qualities the higher and larger growing qualities of the hybrid
tea and the cluster flowering qualities of the floribunda they made a whole new class of those
called grandiflora which are somewhere in between and confuse the lines quite a lot i would even say
even within the standard classifications of hybrid tea and florabunda there's a great deal
of mix here so when i give you these typical qualities that's going to confuse things quite
a lot for you and finally i just want to mention that even though these are the two
dominant classes of roses in modern roses for the past 100 years or so that there are also a whole
bunch of roses that got cast out because they didn't fit those qualities exactly right and they
got put into the category of shrub rose including pretty much all of David Austin's roses got shoved
over into the category of shrub roses so i'll do a video on the shrubs sometime soon all right thanks
for watching today if you have any questions about the classifications of roses or anything
else to do with roses please drop those down into the comments and i'll see what i can do to help