The Damask Rose (Rosa damascena) is an ancient, intensely fragrant hybrid rose, famous for its rich scent used in perfumes, rose water, and culinary products, cultivated globally but especially in Iran and Bulgaria. Known for its full, pink blooms, it's a historic plant brought to Europe from Syria during the Crusades, symbolizing beauty, love, and spirituality, grown for both ornamental and commercial value.
The White Iceberg Rose (Rosa 'Iceberg') is a super popular, easy-care floribunda shrub rose known for its continuous, abundant clusters of pure white, slightly pink-tinged blooms from spring to fall, making it a favorite for hedges, borders, and containers due to its vigor, disease resistance (especially to black spot), and near thornless stems. This adaptable rose thrives in full sun with well-drained soil and offers a light, sweet fragrance, excellent for cutting and attracting pollinators.
A Hybrid Tea rose is a classic, popular rose type known for its elegant, large, high-centered blooms, often with a pointed bud, borne singly on long, straight stems, making them perfect for cutting and formal gardens; they're a cross of Tea roses and Hybrid Perpetuals, repeat blooming with vibrant colors and strong fragrance, representing the "Queen of Roses" in many gardens.
A climbing rose is a type of rose with long, flexible canes that grow vertically, unlike bush roses, needing support like walls, arches, or trellises to display their abundant, often fragrant flowers, providing height, color, and romance to gardens while symbolizing love and beauty, often repeating blooms throughout summer and autumn. They're trained horizontally to encourage more flowers, unlike rambling roses (which bloom once) and are versatile for various garden settings.
Floribunda roses are a popular type of modern rose known for producing abundant, colorful blooms in large clusters on single stems, creating a "spray of flowers" effect for a long season. They result from crossing Hybrid Tea roses (for beauty) and Polyantha roses (for profusion) and are prized for being hardy, disease-resistant, and easier to grow than Hybrid Teas, making them great for beds, borders, and containers.
Miniature roses are small, compact versions of traditional roses, known for their dainty flowers (1-2 inches) and foliage, growing 1-3 feet tall, perfect for pots, patios, or small gardens where they offer continuous blooms in many colors with varying fragrance. They're essentially hardy, scaled-down roses that thrive in full sun, well-drained soil, and are versatile for indoor/outdoor use, providing vibrant color without taking up much space.