Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm
if you're new to rose gardening you might be struggling with the choice
amongst all the choices of what's the kind of rose that you should put into
your rose garden and to make these matters a little more
difficult rose hobbyists with all the best intentions have
categorized the roses into these hard to understand groups
named grandiflora floribunda hybrid musk and so on so i'm going to try to decode
that for you a little bit today in addition to that there are some
companies that produce roses that have given brand names to all of
the different lines of roses that they use and
i couldn't possibly go through them all in this video here but within the groups
that i discuss i will discuss some of those brands and
some of my recommendations of different roses
i'm going to do this by garden use so first i'll go through the smaller roses
that you might use for containers or the front of the border
then i'll go through medium garden roses large garden roses
and finally climbers and ramblers let's tackle the smaller roses first because
this is quite a hot horticultural area those where you can put them into your
living areas like your deck and your veranda your patio and put them
into a large container and get color all the way through the season and the
technical term for those amongst the hobbyists of roses is that
they are miniatures or smaller floribundas and i'll stick
that name across the bottom as well now this group is filled with
roses that are highly colorful full range of
colors they are usually cluster flowering so
when they flower they don't flower just with one rose they flower with a whole
bunch at the same time and they repeat flowering all the way
through the gardening season the scent on them can be a bit variable
so you may have to stick your nose to one or two before you make your final
choices uh now amongst the brands that produce
these there are a few different names so believe that the house
melon in france produces these under the drift series
and i think that cordas has at least one brand that they call veranda
of course one of the dominant ones around and most common in the garden
centers you'll find is the flower carpet series now one
thing i wanted to say about miniatures is that they come in different sizes and
shapes what they're talking when they say
miniature is they're talking about the size
of the flower small flowers like this is rainbow's end
which i just made from cuttings a few weeks ago and it's already this big
and it stays relatively low and mounded this one here on the other hand
is called warm welcome warm welcome has the small flowers
but will actually grow up to be an eight or ten foot climber
so um also suitable if a large enough container to climb up
say a veranda you know a support in your living area so
still suitable for the purpose we're talking about but
a much larger rose than the other ones next let's talk about the medium roses
and by medium in this case i mean anything
in that range of three to about five feet in the garden these include
some of the most common roses that you would think of when you talk about
landscape roses now going back to that term floribunda i
called the small floribundas appropriate for
containers larger floribundas were definitely
categories in this group things like fellowship which i love a lot julia
child would usually be in the medium group of roses now
it also includes one of the most ubiquitous roses of the 20th century the
hybrid tea roses and when we talk the hybrid
tea roses i'll put some pictures up but these are the ones that would be
characterized by those tight buds kind of the florists rose in character
anyway not quite as cluster flowering as the flora bundas that i talked about
already now there's a hybrid between the
floribundas which are cluster flowering and the hybrid teas which are usually
solitary flowering called the grandifloras that have both
large and florist-looking flowers but they grow
in clusters so there's that too i'm going to throw one more group in here
that the hobbyists classify as the hybrid musks and these ones are a
group that go back almost a century now but
are also exceptional garden roses within that medium-sized group sometimes
ranging into large as well okay let's talk about some of the brands
so cordes has a couple of series in this medium range
a one that i like the sun belt series has an exceptional rose in it
called south africa they also have the eleganza series
which has beverly which is an exceptionally fragrant rose as well
one of the the most popular series comes from weeks roses or is marketed by weeks
as the easy to love series of roses has some wonderful roses in there and
also probably the most widespread grown roses in the world right now are the
knockout roses which are easy growers cluster flowering great
landscape roses and grown everywhere you can find them
in all the garden centers moving now into the larger garden roses
and by this i mean anything that's sort of that five and six feet and
upwards kind of rose you can have hybrid teas that definitely
make this size at least in my climate you also have
some of the grandifloras things like queen elizabeth which is just
a beastly grandiflora i don't mean in a bad way but just very very large
give it lots of room now there's one that i haven't talked about yet
which are the david austin roses you know tm and
and r and cc and everything else you want to throw behind that to say that
that's a brand name um the david austin roses or english
roses as they classify them could be called in the medium category
but more typically in my climate anyway in many
of the southern climates the david austin roses are much larger
and can almost be considered climbers or large shrubs in
the garden some of the hybrid musks that i
mentioned in the last group so hybrid musks can be a bit smaller when
you talk about things like oh say belinda or robin hood
but when you're talking about something like sally holmes it's much more
comfortable as a larger shrub so this is the group here that includes
as i say hybrid teas grandifloras something that is called a shrub rose
most of the david austin roses and some of the
larger hybrid musks and finally let's now talk about the
climbers and ramblers now climbers are a funny group because they
include representatives from all of the other groups i've already talked about
uh things like even the miniatures have climbers in them like the warm welcome i
showed you or laura ford floribundas climbing iceberg
hybrid teas have their own climbers certainly
climbing peace comes to mind if you talk about the grandifloras like i say queen
elizabeth can grow that size many of the austins
hybrid musks i haven't mentioned noisettes yet but that's another one that
i'll put the name of down below and wasets are a great group that are good
for the south they're good for more tropical places
so there are climbers within all of these groups and you just have to look
up the habit now this is the point where i'm going to
have to refer you on to some other reference sites
the best site around for looking at the ultimate size of a rose
is called help me find help me find is not a commercial site i'm not trying to
steer you anywhere where you have to pay a membership fee
although i'm sure they would appreciate your donations
but the place is called help me find is like a wikipedia for roses so if you put
in the name either by the botanical name or the the
the the official name or by the marketing name of rose
it'll come up with all sorts of pictures and
and descriptions and will tell you the final sizes of your roses
now those climbers can range from small climbers that go some
eight feet or so up to medium sized climbers 10 to 12
feet and then there's beastly climbers that grow much much larger than that
i want to clarify now just very quickly what is the difference between a climber
and a rambler and it comes down to the breeding the
climbers are usually climbing sports of some of these other repeat flowering
roses whereas ramblers can include a whole bunch of
the once flowering roses that are more closely related
to some of the wild roses so typically they will be only blooming once in the
spring or summer and then they won't bloom for the rest
of the year and they also have a slightly wilder growth habit
than the climbers so if you have some place on your property
that you just want to let go and go wild with a cool looking rose
that can be quite large and beastly those would be your ramblers
all right thanks so much for watching today i didn't want to make this a long
long video but i hope that gave you some idea and
if you're looking for a more detailed description of some of these
rose classes i'm going to link a video here
talking about how roses became what they are through the breeding of the roses so
i'll put that link both here and in the description of the
video as well again thanks so much for watching if you
have any questions please leave those below the video