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| Would it look weird to plant a hybrid tea rose next to a floribunda rose. For example: Mr. Lincoln next to Scentimental. Is their a big height difference??? |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam 10 (My Page) on Thu, Feb 14, 13 at 22:39
| No not at all. In some catalogs, Scentimental is sold as a shrub. It's not like an earlier floribunda from the 70s or 80s. Mine sits next to a Pope John Paul II and looks great. Both are full and bushy. Just give it room to spread out wide. My Mr. Lincoln wasn't that wide but maybe other people's were. |
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| Sentimental is quite a tall Florrie -- but remember that there's a wide variation in the size/habit of Florries -- just as there is in HTs. But whichever cultivars you're dealing with, I personally would just not plant them as part of a straight line of roses. Jeri |
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| I agree with Jeri on the straight line bit. I have a very eclectic garden with all sorts of plants thrown in there. In that case, I might put a HT near a florrie and get away with it easily--cuz everything else is mixed together. But it does depend on which HT and which florrie. My neighbor's Mr. Lincoln is very tall (like 6 ft tall) and narrow. My florries are all about 3.5 tall--and when I grew Scentimental some years ago, I seem to remember it was about 3.5 ft tall also and shrublike. Therefore, around here, I would not plant Mr. Lincoln and Scentimental close together. But it might depend on on what growing region you live in (you don't have one listed). Many roses grow taller/shorter depending on where they are being grown. Perhaps the two would work well in your region, so try it if you'd like. The neat thing about gardening is that you can always dig up your mistakes (if it is a mistake) and plant it somewhere else. : ) Kate |
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