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| I don't know much about roses YET, so please excuse this question if it sounds silly. I've seen rose bushes around town that are very full, and look more like standard, round shrubs (like boxwoods, or evergreen shrubs). These bushes have roses with fewer petals. The roses I am used to seeing have different growth habits, and are unsually not very full; and the flowers have more petals. Can you tell me what these new "bushy" rose bushes are called? |
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- Posted by professorroush 6A (My Page) on Mon, Jun 11, 12 at 13:37
| If they are bright red flowers, chances are they are "Knockout" roses. What you are seeing as bushy is just a healthy, well-branched shrub rose as opposed to many hybrid teas of the last few decades. I would prefer to think of 'Knockout' as a flowering shrub instead of a rose anyway. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Musings Blog on Knockout.
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| "Shrub rose" is a recent classification of roses intended to look good in the landscape. The most successful example of this is the 'Knock Out' rose, but there are others. David Austin, a UK rose hybridizer, is another person who developed roses that are intended to be beautiful plants in the landscape. The common rose of the past half century previous was the "hybrid tea" which focused almost completely on a beautiful flower, instead of a plant that looks good in the garden. Nowadays, with smaller gardens and less gardening time and less general knowledge of gardening, shrub roses have become more popular. |
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| There are about 30 classes roses and almost all of them look like bushes/shrubs. As hoovb states, the Hybrid Tea was bred for the flower and, to some extent, for long stems and life in a vase. But it is really the most atypical rose and also the least hardy of roses. Most disease resistance, critter resistance, cold hardiness and, in many cases, fragrance was lost. Knock-outs, like so much else in our culture, are popular because they have been well-marketed and appeal to instant gratification and low-mainetance. |
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