Roses by Class > Hybrid Tea Roses
Hybrid teas make you think of blood red roses, love, heart beats... Hybrid teas are precious, they are pure emotions. They show a similar shape, but are nevertheless different. Their expressiveness varies from the childlike day-dreamer to passionate laughter, from the secret charmer to tempting seducer..."
In the landscape they have the best effect when planted in small groups.
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Elina
Hybrid Tea • Mild fragrance • 3' wide x 4' tall • Created by P. Dickson
One of the most beautiful roses we grow. The color is a soft, pleasing cream-yellow and changes slightly with the weather. Elina is a proven garden rose that often stands out as the strongest hybrid tea in "no spray" gardens. She is elegant and flawless at all stages. Very strong growing and well branched. The flowers are large and elegant in all stages. Very fast repeat bloom cycle, and easy to grow as well! A true star in the garden.
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Lasting Love
Hybrid Tea • Strong, fruity rose perfume • 2' wide x 3' tall • Created by M. Adam
An incredible introduction from France that is pleases the most discerning noses! I love the fragrance, but the foliage is what really makes me tingle. Lasting Love's new growth has the deepest maghony colour that I have ever seen. The foliage is thick and so highly polished, you just have to touch it. As the leaves age they turn deep green. Her plant habit is bushy, robust, free blooming, with superb branching. Shall I go on? An amazing new rose introduction. The only thing I can't describe to a tee is the colour! It's sometimes dark velvety red, and other times has a pinkish-carmine glow to it. Excellent rain tolerance as well.
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Rosemary Harkness
Hybrid Tea • Sweet, strong citrus fragrance • 3' wide x 3' tall • Created by Harkness
Yet another modern rose with a wonderful perfume! I love her ever-changing blends of orange, apricot and yellow. The fragrance reminds me of citrus and is strongly pronounced in wet weather (a good thing in our climate!). The plants are vigorous and very free blooming. Easily the best selling hybrid tea rose we have. One of my favorite roses of all time and a firm garden favorite here on the West Coast. Rosemary Harkness seems to hold a favorite spot in every gardener's heart. A truly classic rose. One is not enough!
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Frederic Mistral
Hybrid Tea • Strong damask fragrance • 3' wide x 4-5' tall • Created by A. Meilland
Robust, upright growing bush that produces large dusty-rose pink flowers packed full of damask rose perfume! Frederic Mistral is delicate only in colour. The plant is more shrub-like, growing to about four or five feet in most gardens. Foliage is lush and with above-average disease resistance for its style of rose. Frederic is bred in France and belongs to a wonderful group of "Romantica" roses. People who grow Fred always comment on its rich perfume and strong plant nature. Give this one extra room as it can get big in rich soils. A very stately looking bush.
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Warm Wishes
Hybrid Tea • Strong fruity fragrance • 3' wide x 4' tall • Created by G. Fryer
This is an outstanding hybrid tea rose, hybridized by Gareth Fryer of England. It has won more international rose awards than we could list here and has proven to be an excellent garden rose here in coastal British Columbia. The color is gorgeous: peachy-coral, and slightly different from one flush of bloom to the next. This bush is extremely vigorous and easy to grow. Grows upright and produces masses of flowers. Highly recommended. Pleasant fruity rose fragrance.
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Sweetness
Grandiflora • Strong, citrus fragrance • 3-4' wide x 5' tall • Created by K.W. Zary
Classed as a Grandiflora but most people will find it fits well here. The most beautiful sweet rose fragrance you could ever ask for. Mauve roses have come along way in plant quality and health with Sweetness being another step forward. The head rose gardener at Stanley Park in Vancouver told me that even though her health is not flawless, the mesmerizing flowers have won him over and she is his favourite. There is something to be said for perfection in flower, colour and fragrance. We tend to forgive its faults and work a bit harder to maintain such beauty. Much more winter hardy that other mauves. While not at all hard to grow, Sweetness should be planted in open full sun to reduce issues of black spot.
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Rotary Sunrise
Hybrid Tea • Moderate tea rose perfume • 3-4' wide x 5' tall • Created by G. Fryer
Luscious and bountiful is the best way to describe this rosy-golden blend! The flowers are born in masses, giving it an almost floribunda-like plant. She loves cooler temperatures as it brings out that salmon edging to her petals. The foliage shows wonderful resistance to common rose diseases as well. I've seen nice mass planted beds of this in a few public no-spray gardens. Growth is upright and vigorous but I have noted that cold winter winds are not appreciated by this rose. Gardeners in heavy frost pockets or windswept areas should plant it deeper. The flower itself shows very good substance and rain tolerance.
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Caroline Victoria Rose
Hybrid Tea • Citrus and raspberry with mint tones • 3' tall x 2' wide • Created by Harkness
An impeccable genealogical background, combining the stately grace of the Audrey Hepburn rose with the fragrant, award-winning New Zealand rose. Classic and elegant, she is an exceptional hybrid tea rose with blooms of pure ivory shading to amber-blush in a spiral bud formation, and a lingering perfume evocative of citrus and raspberry with subtle overtones of mint. Created in 2006 by world-renowned rose breeder Robert Harkness of Hertfordshire, England, the Caroline Victoria offers season-long repeat flowering and holds highest ratings for hardiness, disease resistance, and fragrance. Commissioned as a perpetual commemoration of the life of artist Caroline Victoria Coldicutt, and the Caroline Victoria Coldicutt Arts Foundation (CVCAF), which supports student artists in need.
