The Easiest Roses You Can Grow
We've pulled together a gallery of some of the best-performing, disease-resistant roses you can plant and practically forget.
- view all thumbnails
A flamboyantly colored groundcover rose, 'Flower Carpet Scarlet' will fill your landscape with color all summer and autumn thanks to its clusters of bright scarlet-red blooms.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 5-11
An easy-to-grow rose perfect for any sunny landscape spot, 'Rainbow Knock Out' produces cute, coral-pink blooms all season long.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
Incredibly disease-resistant and easy to grow, this great rose produces tons of red flowers all season long. The flowers are perfectly shaped and its mounding habit makes it an ideal ground cover for sunny spots.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
Bred from the 'Knock Out' rose line, 'Home Run' offers single rich-red blooms from late spring to fall. The beautiful blooms also offer a slight fragrance.
Size: To 4 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
This gorgeous rose is all about color. The buds start out a charming shade of coral, then open to apricot-pink flowers with bright yellow centers. As the blooms age, they turn a lovely shade of pink. Even better, though, is the plant's disease-resistant nature, everblooming habit, and glossy green foliage.
Size: To 4 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
This beautiful groundcover rose produces masses of coral-colored blooms all summer and fall. The flowers are both beautiful and long-lasting -- a perfect combination with its easy-growing nature.
Size: To 32 inches tall
Zones: 5-11
'Firecracker' adorns itself with masses of bright cherry-red blooms. Each bloom has a cheery white center. This low-maintenance, disease-resistant plant is in bloom all summer.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
Among the most beautiful of the new breed of low-care roses, 'Grandma's Blessing' offers gorgeous dusty-pink blooms that are packed with a sweet fragrance. And it blooms all summer.
Size: To 3 1/2 feet tall
Zones: 5-9
Grow this one for its incredible fragrance! 'Kiss Me' not only smells sweet, but it looks great, too, with its 4-inch pink flowers. This easy-to-grow rose keeps blooming all summer.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 5-9
This rose performs beautifully in just about every climate. It bears fuchsia-pink flowers that fade to apricot at the center. It blooms nonstop all season long and is a great ground cover.
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
It's hard not to fall for the luscious scent of Sweet Fragrance. This disease-resistant plant bears lots of coral-apricot flowers all season long.
Size: To 5 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
I have 3 Knockouts and they are the headiest roses I've ever grown. I cannot grow tea roses where I live and these have been a beautiful alternative. I plant one new one every year!
10/21/2011 08:56:00 PM Report AbuseI have problems with knockouts one they are hard to keep from getting overbearing. two we cant seem to stop them from getting spots and japanese beetles love them. Is there a fragant rose that is easily maintained.
1/6/2011 10:14:48 AM Report Abusei live in the south and the bugs are terrible we have grass hoppers now and ants help us
7/30/2010 06:30:40 PM Report AbuseWhere might I find this rose
4/13/2010 06:48:53 AM Report Abusewhere can I find kiss me rose, I love it!!!!
4/2/2010 10:22:40 PM Report AbuseWe have had trouble with keeping the tea roses alive in the front of our home. We have a flower bed on the south side of our home with a concrete circuler driveway. We planted several varities of roses in the flower bed...many did not make the cold winters. We were told by the greenhouse to try Knockouts...they are wonderful.
1/21/2010 06:16:32 PM Report AbuseWhere can these be purchased, need botanical name to look up?
1/21/2010 11:29:55 AM Report AbuseThis is a great article...but where can I get either plants, cuttings or seeds of these roses...I live in Trinidad and Tobago West Indies....
10/29/2009 03:55:47 PM Report Abuse