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Roses come in a variety of colors, types and sizes. Use your imagination — there is almost no limit to the number of ways you can use roses to beautify your landscape.

Ground Covers
These hardy, spreading roses quickly cover large expanses, creating a colorful easy maintenance carpet. Ideal for slopes and rocky areas, and anywhere you want low-growing color that's attractive and practically carefree!

Patio Shrubs
These hardy and hard-working shrubs are between floribundas and miniature roses in size. They have dense growth and bloom freely all season. Perfect for low borders and hedges, foundation plantings and filling large beds with color. Ideal for planting in pots on the deck for portable color!

Floribundas
The floribunda is now the second largest serifcopy of roses. They are lower-growing than hybrid teas, and bloom heavily, producing clusters of flowers from June till frost. Use floribundas in a massed bed of color and border plantings. The plentiful blooms make great bouquets!

Hedge Roses
Hedge roses are popular for their colorful beauty, their versatility and low maintenance. Simplicity® Hedge Roses are the most well-known - millions have been planted, more than any other variety. Use hedges for privacy screens, along property boundaries, to brighten views and conceal foundations. Let them grow tall, or trim with hedge shears to keep them low and tidy.

Rugosas - Hardy Shrub Roses
These are the roses that have charmed generations. Hardy and vigorous, they lend lots of color and a country charm to any garden. Ideal for cottage gardens, to anchor a perennial border, or for a mass of color on the side or back of the house, along the foundation.

Antique Roses
These roses have been cherished by generations for the casual form, delightful fragrance and old-fashioned charm. They add interest and a historical feel to any landscape. Use them anywhere you want masses of carefree color, as the basis for a perennial garden, or for a delightful specimen planting near the house.

English Roses
These are crosses between old and modern roses popularized by David Austin. They have a charming, old-fashioned form and rich fragrance, yet they have the vigor and continuous bloom of contemporary roses. Designed to be massed together - in a cottage garden, or near living areas where their fragrance can truly be appreciated.

Hybrid Teas
Hybrid teas are the most popular type of rose. They are generally tall and stately, with large, well-formed blooms and long stems suitable for cutting. They can be used as single specimen plantings, or as the featured plants in a mixed bed of roses.

Grandifloras
Grandifloras grow as tall as hybrid teas, with the same form, but with clusters of blooms on shorter stems. They create a mass of color in the landscape, and are also great for cutting. Use them to create eye-catching color in a bed or border, or as stars in your perennial garden.

Tree Roses
Tree roses are created when a rose is budded onto a sturdy, straight cane. The result is an elegant rose which can be the focus of interest in any setting.

Standard tree roses (36") are gorgeous flanking an entry or lining a walk; Patios (24") and Miniatures (18") are delightful on porches and patios, or in the front of a mixed bed.

Climbers
Climbers are vigorous and easy to grow; adding drama and interest to your landscape. They will bloom heavily for years, climbing a trellis, trailing along a fence, or accenting a wall with a splash of color. Give them plenty of room and fertilizer.

Miniature Roses
These bushes grow only 2' to 3' tall, literally covered with perfectly formed, miniature blooms. They are ideal for containers or rock gardens, at the base of larger plants, and for narrow borders and other limited spaces.


Designing Your Garden
One of the truly unique characteristics of roses is that they are amazingly versatile. They have beautiful form, color and fragrance, and they thrive in a wide range of growing conditions.

There are roses for almost any landscape application: ground covers for a carpet of color, distinctively elegant tree roses, striking hybrid teas and climbers for architectural interest. They will adapt to your personal style, whether it be a formal setting or a casual cottage garden.

Formal Gardens
Formal rose gardens are still very popular. They can be many shapes, but always include hybrid teas, usually combined with other rose types. Often the hybrid tea is the focal point, surrounded by floribundas and miniatures. Sometimes a tree rose is used as the centerpiece, or a group of tree roses for a backdrop. It really depends on your personal preference.

Informal Gardens
Roses are delightful in an informal garden, especially mixed with other shrubs and perennials. You can create a casual, colorful outdoor living area by planting roses here and there, without a formal plan. Choose other plants in the colors you like, with the fragrance and form that appeals to you most.