Mail order customers please note:
Our Bare Root season is very short, Jan-Feb only, weather permitting.
We will ship roses in containers for longer (through May).

TEAS RECOMMENDS...

Our choices for the best overall plants in these categories

Most Fragrant Roses

For The Cutting Garden

Red: Mr. Lincoln, Olympiad, Toro
Pink: First Prize, Tiffany, Queen Elizabeth, Touch of Class
Yellow: Gold Medal, Peace, Oregold
White: Garden Party (blend), Honor, Pristine
Orange: Fragrant Cloud, Tropicana
Lavender: Memorial Day, Sterling Silver
Multicolor: Double Delight, Granada, Color Magic, Rio Samba

For the Mass Color Garden - Floribundas and Shrubs

Red: Europeana, Knock Out™
Pink: Belinda's Dream, Nearly Wild, China Doll
Yellow: Sun Flare, Sunsprite
White: Sea Foam
Peach/Orange: Livin' Easy
Lavender: Angel Face, Intrigue
Multicolor: Mutabilis

Best Climbers

Red: Don Juan
Pink: Aloha
Yellow: Golden Showers
Orange: America
White: White Dawn, Iceberg
Multicolor: Joseph's Coat

A few tips on landscaping with roses. . .

Make roses an integral, attractive part of your yard.

1. Cutting vs. color - What do you want from your roses? If it is big, classic shaped blooms on long stems that you can cut, put in arrangements, or give as gifts, then choose hybrid teas or grandifloras. If it is continual mass color that you can look out upon, then choose floribundas, shrubs, climbing, or miniatures.
   Or why not both? Taller growing roses (hybrid teas, grandifloras, climbers), while blooming beautifully at the top, can sometimes be sparse at the bottom. By terracing, mixing in, or bordering them with lower growing roses (floribundas, shrubs, minis), your entire garden will appear far more lush, green, and colorful.
2. Fragrance - Whether it is spicy, fruity, or just plain sweet, don't forget this most enjoyable aspect of roses. You can fill your home with wonderfully scented cuttings while you surround an entry, walkway, porch, patio, or spa with fragrant color.
3. Antiques - The rambling bushiness and hardy disease resistant qualities of older roses have made them increasingly popular.
4. Continuity - Use roses to enhance or attract attention to other garden elements. Climbers can cover an arbor to create a striking entrance. Surround a garden seat or swing or border fountains or birdbaths with bright color, or cover an unsightly building.
5. Color sense - Pastel, white, and particularly yellow roses make great color enhancers. Mix with darker colors to help them stand out.
6. Zigzag planting - Stagger rose bushes to get more plants in less space. This will cover gaps and give a more lush, full appearance.

THE MOST POPULAR TYPES OF ROSES

Hybrid Tea

These descendants of the true Tea roses have long pointed buds and beautifully formed single blossoms on long cutting stems - these are the florist-type roses. Plants reach at least 6'- 8' in height.

Floribunda and Polyantha

Floribundas are small bushy roses growing 2'- 6' in height which have "flowers in abundance." Small blossoms are borne in clusters with many blooms to each stem. Polyanthas have even smaller flowers on shorter plants. Both are excellent for mass color borders.

Shrub

This exciting new class of roses combines the lush green foliage of a hardy landscape shrub with the mass cluster bloom typical of a floribunda. These low to medium growing bushes are ideal for background plantings or for borders around taller roses. They are also excellent in pots, planters, or barrels.

Grandiflora

The cross between a hybrid tea and a floribunda combines the qualities of both, and produces "grand flowers." These varieties have clusters of large flowers on long stems, and generally are tall, slender plants.

Climber

Hybrid tea, floribunda, polyantha, and grandiflora hybrids or sports which produce long 8'- 20' canes. They generally need the support of a trellis, fence, or pillar. Most are profuse flowering and very hardy.

Miniature

Miniature roses are one way to have a great variety of blooms in a small space. Most can be kept under two feet or even lower. They are grown on their own roots, so the suckers that come up are the same named variety. They are useful landscape or container plants and are a charming novelty that everyone can enjoy.

Antique

If you have a spot that demands a low maintenance rose, most of these are perfect. There are a number of types of antique roses including Chinas, Noisettes, Musk, Polyantha, Tea, and species. Most are large growing, fragrant, and have lovely old-fashioned, romantic blooms. See our descriptions of these types in the Antique section.

David Austin English Roses

These English roses are a different kind of rose from the typical hybrid tea. They are like the damask, alba, and Gallica roses of yesteryear but bloom repeatedly and come in a wider color range. They retain the large double blooms, heavy fragrance, and, importantly, disease resistance of the old garden roses. David Austin Section

Earth Kind™ Roses

Easy-care roses selected from rigorous trials in Texas. The super performers have been designated EarthKind™ Landscape Roses. Teas carries the following EarthKind™ roses (listed with Antiques): Belinda’s Dream, Caldwell Pink, Duchesse de Brabant, Katy Road Pink, Knock Out™, Marie Daly, Mutabilis, Perle d’Or, Sea Foam, and Spice. Antique section.

ROSE SOCIETIES

When the rose bug bites, why not join the Houston Rose Society, a local organization dedicated to helping rose lovers grow and show the best roses possible.
Through informative monthly meetings, garden tours, rose shows, and an outstanding newsletter "The Rose-ette," you can learn the secrets of success from a friendly social mix of old pros and novices. Even if you can't attend all functions, you will greatly enjoy receiving "The Rose-ette." While we carry and can recommend many excellent rose books, we can't think of a better source for specific information on growing roses in Houston. Meetings - 2nd Thurs. each month. 8 pm. Hermann Park Garden Center. Dues - $15.00 per year For more information: call (713) 944-3437 or (713) 668-4054. You can write to Houston Rose Society at 2502 Leprechaun Ln, Houston TX, 77017. Contact the Houston Rose Society on the Internet at www.houstonrose.org

Nationally, the American Rose Society features a wide variety of services. Headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, the ARS offers the monthly American Rose Magazine, American Rose Annual, and Handbook for Selecting Roses. Dues- $37.00 per year ($34 if 65 or over) For more information: American Rose Society, P.O. Box 30000, Shreveport, LA 71130 or just call 1-800-637-6534. Contact the American Rose Society on the Internet at www.ars.org

For old rose fans: "The Old Texas Rose" is the newsletter of the Texas Rose Rustlers. Membership includes newsletter, symposium, & rustle, 4 issues yearly. Send your name and mailing address and membership of $10 per year to: Mr. Don Gerard, Treasurer, TRR, 114 Buttercup Lane, Lake Jackson, TX 77566. For more info visit the Texas Rose Rustler's interesting website at: www.texasroserustlers.org

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