Rose Selection for Spring 2026
Is there anything more lovely than a blooming fragrant rose? They can’t help but elevate whatever space they occupy with their beauty and their sweet floral smell! Whenever I’m walking to and fro around the garden center, I usually make a point to walk past our rose area so I can catch a whiff of them when possible! Lucky for me (and for you), our rose area is especially fragrant and beautiful right now, as we are currently well stocked with all kinds of unique rose variations that will do well in our area! Here’s a few good vocabulary words to keep in your back pocket as you read through our selection:
Hybrid Tea Roses: If you were to close your eyes and try to picture a rose – you would probably be imagining a hybrid tea rose! They have a classic and elegant shape with a high center and usually grow 4-5 feet tall. These roses grow on a single stem – making them a perfect cut flower for a bouquet. The first hybrid tea plant was developed in 1867 and was created to combine the re-blooming nature of the Chinese tea roses with the hardiness of hybrid perpetuals! Interesting note: Chinese tea roses and hybrid tea roses are named for their flower fragrance, which many thought had a tea-like scent.
Floribunda: Floribunda Roses are known for their abundant blooms, vibrant colors, ease of care, and compact bushy growth habit with sprays of blooms shooting off just one stem! They are a result of the hybridization of the Hybrid Tea and Polyantha Roses!
Self Cleaning: If a rose variety is referred to as self cleaning that means it requires no deadheading or pruning to clean up old blooms or to get roses to bloom again
DR: Disease Resistant
Okay, now let’s dive a little more into some of the details of our spring rose selection for 2026!
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ROSE SHRUBS:
Color: Medium pink
Fragrance: Moderate
Bloom: Very double, 100+ petals, to 4” diameter. Successive flushes of bloom spring, summer, and fall
Size: 5’ h x 5’w
Other info: developed by Dr. Robert Basye, a mathematics professor at Texas A&M University and named after the daughter of one of his friends, shrub rose, DR
Color: White
Fragrance: none noticeable
Bloom: 25 petals and cup like
Size: 3’ h x 3’ w
Other info: Floribunda, excellent repeat bloomers, DR
Color: yellow, red, pink bi-color, and pink
Fragrance: none noticeable
Bloom: abundant medium sized blooms
Size: 5’ h x 4’ w
Other info: Shrub Rose, DR, self cleaning
Color: Blush Rose, Bubbly Rose, Berry Rose
Fragrance: very fragrant
Bloom: abundant medium sized blooms with lush foliage
Size: 4’ h x 4’ w
Other info: Great for cut flowers and bouquets, Hybrid Tea, DR
Color: creamy yellow
Fragrance: very fragrant
Bloom: around 50 large petals per bloom
Size: 5’ h x 6’ w
Other info: Great for cutting/bouquets, Hybrid Tea, DR
Color: deep plum
Fragrance: Moderately fragrant
Bloom: double blooms, 40-75 petals per bloom
Size: 3-4′ h x 2′ w
Other info: Good for cutting/bouquets, Floribunda, very DR
Color: Orange/Yellow
Fragrance: Moderately fragrant
Bloom: Large, Double, 17–25, cup shaped
Size: 4′ h x 2′ w
Other info: Floribunda, very DR
Color: Smokey Red/Orange
Fragrance: Mildly fragrant
Bloom: Medium, 20–25
Size: 3-4′ h x 3′ w
Other info: Re-blooming, Floribunda, DR, all American rose selection
Color: Dark pink
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Bloom: 150-250 petals per bloom (one of the highest petal counts!)
Size: 5’ h x 2-3’ w
Other info: Tall and upright, Hybrid Tea, very DR
Color: Peachy-pink/Apricot
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Bloom: Large bloom with around 35 petals per bloom
Size: 4-6’ h x 2-4’ w
Other info: Great for cutting with a long vase life, Hybrid Tea, very DR
Color: White (sometimes suffused with light pink)
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Bloom: Up to 100 petals, large blooms
Size: 6′ h x 2-3′ w
Other info: Great for cutting with a long vase life, Hybrid Tea, DR
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CLIMBING ROSES:
Heavenly Ascent (Red and Pink)
Color: Red/pink
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Bloom: very full large blooms
Size: Reaches 8 ft. tall with support
Other info: Re-blooming, very DR
Color: Golden yellow/burnt orange
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Bloom: Semi–double, mini and compact blooms
Sizes: 3-5′ tall
Other info: Re-blooming, Self cleaning, DR
Fragrance: Mildly fragrant
Bloom: Large blooms with 40 petals per bloom
Size: 10-12′ h
Other info: Re-blooming, DR, awarded “World’s Best Rose” from the Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS) in 2006
Color: Pure white
Fragrance: Moderately Fragrant
Bloom: Cup like, Large, 50–60 petals per bloom
Size: 7-8′ h
Other info: Heat and humidity tolerant, very DR
Color: White
Fragrance: Mildly fragrant
Blooms: Double bloom, 25-30 petals per bloom
Size: Stems reach 10 to 15 ft. long.
Other info: Re-blooming, fast growing, DR
Color: Pink
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Blooms: Very full medium sized blooms with around 40 petals per bloom
Size: 10′ h x 4′ w
Other info: Re-blooming, good for cutting, very DR
Color: Blush Pink
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Blooms: Large, 35–40 petals per bloom
Size: 18-20′ h
Other info: First plant patent granted, DR
Color: Deep Pink
Fragrance: Very fragrant
Blooms: Semi-double, 16-30 petals per bloom
Size: 10′- 15′ h
Other info: Old variety from the 1860’s, needs good airflow and circulation, nearly thornless
Color: Pink
Fragrance: Mildly fragrance
Blooms: small clusters of multiple blooms
Size: 12-15 h’
Other: Known as the “Katrina Rose,” Peggy Martin was a resident of Plaquemines Parish, just outside New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit and was an active member of New Orleans Old Garden Rose Society. The story of why it’s called the Katrina Rose can be found here on the LSU Ag Center website. It’s a remarkable story of resilience!
Color: White and Yellow
Fragrance: Mild fragrance
Blooms: clusters of small double blooms
Size: reaches 15 to 20 ft. tall, with support.
Other: Fast growing, thornless, great for covering an arbor
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We are also carrying several varieties of Knockout and Drift Roses which you have likely heard us talk about before as we carry them all year long.
There’s so much more I could share about all of these beautiful rose varieties, but the only real way to do them any justice is to simply invite you to come and enjoy them for yourself! If you’re looking for a good excuse to stop by – Mother’s Day is right around the corner and a climbing rose or shrub would make an excellent gift. Come stop by and smell the roses (literally) soon!