The ‘Best Ever’ Hybrid Tea Rose Bush Collection
Rejoice! We are getting ever-so close to the delightful longer days and warmer temperatures of the spring season.
What better way is there to get prepared for the gardening fun ahead than to plan out what truly beautiful flowers you could grow and enjoy this year – and for many more to come.
And with a name like the ‘Best Ever’ collection, where better to start than these superb Hybrid Tea roses.
Easy to grow, adored by bees and butterflies, sweetly scented, and more – there is just so much to love about roses, hence why we’ve been growing them for years, and they can be seen scattered across traditional gardens up and down the country.
Five individual plants make up this collection, each bursting with summertime roses of different colours, providing everything a gardener needs for a diverse display of colour, including shades such as vibrant red, pure white, golden yellow, powder pink, and peach melba.
Not just a flash in the pan, these roses will repeatedly flower across summer, coating each winter hardy bush of glossy green foliage with bright colour from May to October.
A sweet fragrance is produced by the blooms, so be sure to plant them where they can really tingle the senses, whether in patio pots, balcony containers, pathway borders, or flowerbeds.
An extra bonus of roses is that the adorable flowerheads sit at the end of long stems, which can easily be snipped and placed in a vase for the mantlepiece or dinner table, bringing the beauty of nature inside to be enjoyed for much longer!
Is your gardening resolution this year to try growing roses, or are you looking for impressive colours to add to your existing collection? Here is how to grow these roses to produce the best show possible.
- Roses can be planted at any time of the year, as long as the soil is not frozen, waterlogged, or drought-dry.
- Plant roses where they can get plenty of sun for at least half of the day, and where they will be sheltered from the wind.
- When planting, soak the root ball overnight. Add plenty of well-rotted manure into the hole and plant so that the graft union, which is the swollen area where the stems meet the roots, is just below soil level.
- Water well every other day, or daily if the weather is hot and dry.
- Established roses can be watered roughly once a week during spring and summer, or more if the weather is hot.
- For best results, feed roses in late March or early April, then again in late July. Mulch with well-rotted manure or composted bark in the first autumn after planting.
- To prune, remove any dead, dying, damaged, or diseased stems.
- For further guidance on growing roses, check out our full guide here, or for specialist bare root rose tips, head here.
