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Special Thanks: Bob Eskew and George Zary. and George Gooseprints: Design. Special Thanks: Bob Eskew ‘Elina’ The Dunn Formal Rose Garden is an official All–America Garden Rose The Dunn Formal are introductions new Garden; Selection Display Rose wins AARS and it perennially year every displayed visit about roses, learn more To maintenance awards. Get Gardens. at Birmingham Botanical The Library with the Birmingham Chapter of the American involved call tend this garden; actively Society whose members Rose Office at 205.414.3962. our Volunteer for once a week visitors is closed to This garden Note: maintenance, usually Tuesday. Fred Spicer: Text. Andrew Krebbs: Photography. Rob Lagerstrom: Photography. Lagerstrom: Rob Photography. Krebbs: Andrew Spicer: Text. Fred Rosa ‘Elle’ Rosa ‘Hot Cocoa’ ‘Hot Rosa Growing Roses Growing average not the easiest plants for are roses are, As popular as they notable So–called shrub and landscape types are grow. to gardeners full demanding, requiring are roses but most hybrid exceptions, pruning timely and proper good drainage, sun, consistent moisture, pests. In our for treatment and regular re–blooming), (encourages fungal infections, to especially prone are moist, humid climate, roses chemical plants, repeat healthy diseases; for and leaf and root almost a certainty. applications are However, shrub and landscape However, than different markedly are roses their kin. These user–friendly roses popularized (and breeding were because concentrated) were efforts gardeners, beginner and average demanded and landscape designers and performance reliable care, easy along with their pest–tolerance grow roses These adaptable flowers. and fashion, in a dense, shrub–like although their individual flowers stunning in most are smaller, are and offer some well, bloom, repeat attractive have a few fragrance; fruit, called hips. Chemical seldom necessary applications are health and vigor. for HY br I D TEAS : POLYANT H AS : FLO R I B UN D AS : GR AN D I F LO R AS : MINIATURES: OL D GA rd EN ROSES : They generally bear one flower Generally low–growing, Floribundas are quite variable in Tall–growing roses, these Since miniature roses are available in so Old Garden Roses per stem and are particularly bushy plants, averaging height, ranging from 18 inches to often reach five feet or more many different forms, defining them is are the predecessors beautiful in bud, with a long 18 to 24 inches in three and a half feet. They generally in height, even in harsh difficult. Even their height is deceptive: of today’s roses. Some pointed form that opens height, they have form more attractive, less rigid plants climates. They are sturdy, while truly tiny miniatures rarely date back to the time delicately into a delightful small leaves and dense than hybrid teas. Floribundas bear upright–growing plants that reach more than six inches, many other of the Roman Empire double flower with a high clusters of small flowers clusters of small to relatively large are generally well–clothed miniatures eventually grow to three when they were revered central cone. The color range is on short stems in flowers (up to two to three inches in large, shiny leaves similar feet. The major characteristic of this for their beauty and the most complete among roses; shades of white, pink, across) on moderately long stems and to the leaves of hybrid group is a combination of small flowers fragrance. Old Garden there are even “blue” (actually, red, and orange. The come in a full range of colors. Some teas. They bear clusters of on thin stems with diminutive foliage. Roses comprise a lilac or lavender) hybrid teas. blooms may be single, are single–flowered or semi–double, large flowers that, in the Generally speaking, they either remain multifaceted group that They are often moderately to semi–double or double. but most modern hybrids are best cultivated varieties, or can easily be maintained at less than in general are easy to strongly perfumed and bloom Among the latest roses fully double. Constant bloom is are as attractive in both 18 inches in height. Their flowers can be grow, disease–resistant, off and on throughout the to bloom in spring, perhaps the main characteristic of bud and bloom as hybrid simple, semi–double, or double; clustered and winter–hardy, season. Plants generally reach they continue to flower this group; they are rarely out of teas, although often not or single; fragrant or odorless. They have with most providing about three feet in height in until frost. flower. Although floribundas are not as perfumed. Grandifloras as wide a color range as any class of rose fragrance for the garden cold climates and up to five generally known for their fragrance, generally bloom continually and more growth forms than any other, and home. feet in warmer ones. this class does contain several highly over the flowering season from shrubby to creeping to climbing. perfumed varieties. rather than in bursts. Most are everblooming..