The 12 Best Roses for Your Yard, According to a Pro Landscaper
You may have heard it said a rose is a rose is a rose, but we beg to differ. Did you know there are approximately 300 species and upwards of 30,000 cultivated varieties of roses? That’s a lot of fabulously fragrant flowers to choose from. But don’t let the numbers overwhelm you. The experts at Big Rock Landscaping shared the most radiant (and fragrant) roses they could round up.
1. Hybrid Tea Roses – Miss Congeniality
These are the quintessential cut rose varieties that you know and love because of their long, elegant stems and perfect bloom, color range, and fragrance. Despite their popularity, they are a little more high-maintenance and can be harder to tend to. But you can’t beat them for cutting and enjoying a vase indoors.
Miss Congeniality is a show-stopping Hybrid Tea Rose that has an ombre petal that goes from its white center to its pink tips and has a lovely spiced sweet pea fragrance.
2. Top Cream Rose
The Top Cream is Hybrid Tea Rose known for its large, old-fashioned blooms. Smelling like a sweet earthy pear with anise notes, it’s a perfect addition to your garden and pairs beautifully with other blooms in a cut arrangement with its soothing and versatile neutral creamy color.
3. Climbing Roses- Pearly Gate
Climbing Roses can be the floral icing on the cake of your home because they can be trained to grow around arches, arbors, and fences. They’re vigorous and hearty and produce an abundance of fragrant flowers, blooming two or more times per season.
The Pearly Gate Rose blooms in great abundance and brings major curb appeal to your front porch, gate, or pergola. Create your secret garden moment with the soft-colored and full-bloomed climbing rose.
4. Teasing Georgia Rose
The breathtaking, two-tone yellow color of the Teasing Georgia is one of the many things that make this Climbing Rose variety so special. Showcasing this blooming beauty in your yard will turn heads, as its rosette blooms are captivating and its Tea Rose fragrance intoxicating.
5. Shrub Roses- Knockout
Hearty, easy to care for, and repetitive bloomers, the variety of shapes, sizes, and colors of the Shrub Roses make them a perfect rose for several landscaping purposes, from hedges, borders, and screens.
Knockout Roses are perfect for landscaping because of their small blooms and shrub-style growth. They are a lovely addition to any landscape garden where you can spend time outside enjoying their beauty and smell.
6. Carefree Wonder Rose
This easy-to-grow Shrub Rose will transport you to a cozy English garden, where you will want to sit down for afternoon tea. What makes the Carefree Wonder Rose irresistible is its irregular growth pattern and scrumptious pink and white blooms.
7. Groundcover Roses- Rose Coral Drift
With a growth pattern of a trailing shrub, the almost always blooming Groundcover Rose is perfect for places in your yard that would benefit from a blanket of blooms. They require little attention and thrive while spreading across banks, slopes, or rocky areas of your yard.
Rose Coral Drift, Groundcover Rose boasts a unique coral bloom and is perfect for smaller spaces and even container gardens.
8. Little Mischief Rose
The only mischief this cold-hardy option of Groundcover Roses will get into is looking amazing in your yard! It tops out at 3 feet and works well as a hedge or can add carefree beauty to your garden bed.
9. Floribunda Roses – Iceberg
The award-winning, free-flowering Iceberg Floribunda Rose is popular amongst landscapers and homeowners alike for its abundant, continually blooming clusters of white (or sometimes pale pink) rounded flower shape and wild beauty.
10. Celestial Night
Relatively new on the scene, Celestial Night Floribunda Rose is a rare beauty because of its unique deep-purple petals. Its double-ruffled bloom makes a big impact both in your yard and in a cut-flower arrangement.
11. Grandiflora Roses- State of Grace
A lovely crossover between the beautiful blooms of Hybrid Tea Roses and the clustering trait of the Floribunda. This variety isn’t as popular as its predecessors, but the blooms are larger, and the varieties are just as lovely!
The State of Grace multi-colored, English-style Grandiflora Rose is not only beautiful but also known for its fruity fragrance. This is probably why butterflies and other pollinators are drawn to it, yet another perk of planting the stunning State of Grace Rose.
12. Apricot Candy
Apricot Candy is a perfect description for this Grandiflora sweetheart. Its ruffled edge pattern gives it extra charm set against the green foliage of the rest of your garden.
Now that you’re familiar with the basics of the most ravishing, radiant roses for your yard, you can work with your landscapers or your local garden store to plant your dream roses and create a beautiful and bountiful rose display of your very own to enjoy throughout the seasons. Are there any varieties that you’d like to see blooming in your yard?
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