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Hybrid tea rose

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Hybrid tea rose

Hybrid teas traditionally produce the showiest blooms. In fact, most roses at florist shops are hybrid tea varieties. Today's rose breeding emphasizes fragrance as well as plant vigor. The form of a hybrid tea rose is tall and upright, with sparse foliage toward the base. The blooms develop singly on long stems, and the buds are often as elegant as the open blooms.

Hybrid teas require careful pruning while still dormant in early spring to ensure good air circulation through the plant and development of vigorous, healthy canes. A sunny location with well-drained, fertile soil and rose food applied at least three times a season will guarantee abundant flowers to enjoy in a vase. Protect roses in climates colder than Zone 6 with heavy mulching around the base of the plant.

Light:
Sun
Zones:
5-9
Plant Type:
Rose
Plant Height:
4-6 feet tall
Plant Width:
2-3 feet wide
Landscape Uses:
Containers,Beds & Borders
Special Features:
Attractive Foliage,Fragrant,Cut Flowers,Easy to Grow
Top Varieties
Rosa 'Black Magic' is a midnight-red rose with a sultry appeal. The petals are thick and velvety for endurance in the garden and in a vase. The plant grows 4-6 feet tall. Zones 5-10
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Rosa 'Chicago Peace' is a variant of 'Peace' rose that displays a permanent deep pink blush on petals reversed in golden yellow. The large, petal-packed blooms open from shell-shape buds. The tall plant stands up to heat and cold extremes, and the glossy, light green foliage stays clean. It grows 5-6 feet tall. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Christian Dior' is a French-bred beauty that displays high-centered blooms in lipstick red. The flowers have a light spice scent and are semidouble, with nearly 50 petals. The upright, bushy plants reach 4 feet tall. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Double Delight' is among the most popular American hybrid tea roses. Its fragrance is unsurpassed, as is the sheer magnitude of its flowers. The huge, warm ivory blooms are edged in a cerise pink that intensifies in strong sunlight. Plants grow 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Forty-Niner' bears full red flowers reversed in yellow and resistant to black spot. Each bloom is packed with 26-40 petals and is slightly fragrant. The foliage is a glossy, dark green. Plants grow 2-1/2 to 4 feet tall. Zones 5-10
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Rosa 'Fragrant Cloud' is an award-winning variety that produces full, coral-red blooms with a strong fragrance. It grows 5 feet tall and wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Fragrant Plum' produces lavender-purple blooms with a strong, plumlike fragrance and perfectly shaped flowers. It grows 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Helmut Schmidt' offers rounded, fully double yellow flowers that open from urn-shape buds poised on an upright, well-branched plant. It grows 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Home and Family' is a long-stemmed white rose that's the epitome of elegance. The large, pointed buds unfurl to double camellia-like blooms that have a light licorice scent. Dark green foliage sets off the snowy flowers to perfection. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Just Joey' is loved for its fragrance. The huge, 7-inch-wide flowers open a deep apricot that lightens as the petals roll back and hold in full bloom for weeks. Bronze foliage covers the short, well-branched plant. It grows 5 feet tall and 28 inches wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Kardinal' was bred as a cut flower but is floriferous and vigorous enough that it's just as great in the garden. The plant grows 5 feet tall. Zones 6-9
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Rosa 'Mister Lincoln' is one of the classics that set the standard for red hybrid tea roses. The buds spiral open to velvety double blooms that are strongly fragrant. They're poised on strong stems. The plant grows 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Peace' is one of the most beloved roses. It's also the most widely planted hybrid tea in the world. The glowing flowers start as golden buds that open to huge yellow blooms edged in pink and set against glossy, dark green foliage. The shrubby, vigorous plants grow 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Perfect Moment' is an award-winning rose that produces glowing emberlike blooms of yellow edged in red. Large buds unfurl to full flowers in which the pink blush deepens and spreads. Blooms are lightly fragrant. The plant stays compact and bushy, growing to 4-1/2 feet tall and 3 feet wide, with disease-resistant foliage. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Pink Promise' is an award-winning variety bearing high-centered buds that swirl open to reveal full blooms of blended pink and cream. The blooms offer a strong fruity fragrance. It grows 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Rosa 'Rio Samba' offers golden buds that unfurl into warm and sunny blooms that deepen to scarlet, like a tropical sunset. The fragrance is very slight, but this rose's color display is so magnificent, you don't miss the perfume. Large flowers are complemented by the glossy green foliage. The tall plants branch well and grow vigorously to 4-6 feet tall. Zones 6-9
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Rosa 'Tiffany' is an award-winning rose that offers fragrant, cerise pink petals suffused with yellow. The long, pointed buds open into fully double flowers on long stems that are excellent for cutting. Plants grow 4 feet tall. Zones 6-9
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