Check out Modern Roses for Your Garden from this list for adding color, style, and beauty to your space that suit today’s landscaping trends.
Modern roses are perfect for adding beauty and color to your garden. They bloom longer, come in many colors, and are easier to care for than old-fashioned types. Whether you want bold colors or soft pastels, modern roses bring style, fragrance, and charm to any outdoor space.
Modern Roses for Your Garden
Climbing and pillar rose: America
1. America (Rosa ‘Jacclam’):
2.5 m tall, 1 m wide; double, high-centred bloom, 43 deep coral-pink petals, strong spicy fragrance; medium vigour with good leaf and flower production, repeat bloom, disease resistant; sun, Zone 5 with winter protection
2. ‘Red Fountain’ (Rosa ‘Red Fountain’):
3 m high, 1 m wide; semi-double flowers in clusters, 20 to 25 dark red petals, strong scent; continuous bloom, disease resistant; full sun, Zone 4 with winter protection.
3. ‘Golden Showers’ (Rosa ‘Golden Showers’):
3 m high, 1 m wide; semi-double informal flowers with 25 to 28 petals, golden yellow petals with deep yellow stamens, light tea rose fragrance; continuous bloom, disease resistant; full sun to part shade; Zone 5 with winter protection
Shrub rose
4. ‘Prairie Star’ (Rosa ‘Prairie Star’):
120 cm high, 90 cm wide; double, quartered blooms, shell pink brushed with ivory, slightly frilled 50 to 60 petals, fruity lemon fragrance, upright form with dark green leathery foliage; repeat bloom, disease resistant; full sun, Zone 4 with winter protection
5. ‘Applejack’ (Rosa ‘Applejack’):
1 m high, 1 m wide; large semi-double flowers, deep rose pink, strong fragrance, glossy foliage, upright form; repeat bloom, disease resistant; full sun, Zone 5, no winter protection necessary
6. ‘Aunt Honey’ (Rosa ‘Aunt Honey’):
120 cm high, 90 cm wide; large double flowers in sprays, 40 reflexed, carmine-rose petals, strong Damask scent, bushy form; repeat bloom, disease resistant; full sun, one 3 with winter protection.
Floribunda rose
7. Iceberg (Rosa ‘Korbin’):
1 m high, 1 m wide; mid-size semi-double flowers in clusters, 20 to 25 white petals with central golden stamens, light fragrance, rounded shrub form; continuous bloom, disease resistant; full sun/part shade, Zone 5 with winter protection.
8. Sexy Rexy (Rosa ‘Macrexy’):
1 m high, 60 cm wide; double, 30-petalled, medium-sized flowers in clusters, warm medium pink, upright shrub form; continuous bloom, disease resistant; full sun, Zone 5 with winter protection
9. ‘The Queen Elizabeth’ (Rosa ‘The Queen Elizabeth’ syn. ‘Queen Elizabeth’):
1.3 m high, 60 cm wide; elegant high-centred buds, 38-petalled, tea-rose style blooming in sprays, medium pink, light scent, tall bushy habit; continuous bloom, vigorous growth; full sun, Zone 6 with winter protection
Hybrid Musk shrub rose
10. ‘Penelope’ (Rosa ‘Penelope’):
1 m high, 1 m wide; sprays of large semi-double flowers, frilled pale pink petals with deep golden stamens, strong spicy fragrance, upright vase form; repeat bloom, orange hips, disease resistant; well-drained soil; full sun/part shade, Zone 5 with winter protection
11. Lavender Lassie
Lavender Lassie gives you lovely clusters of soft lavender-pink, semi-double flowers about 3½ inches wide. This rose grows taller and more upright than most Hybrid Musks. It’s highly fragrant and blooms in flushes throughout the season. You can grow it as a tall climber, reaching 5 to 10 feet, or keep it as a shrub if you prefer.
12. Ballerina
Ballerina was introduced in 1937 and is a rose that blooms heavily without growing out of control. You’ll get hundreds of small 2-inch pink flowers with white centers, all in big clusters that cover the plant. Pollinators love it, and it also produces pretty rose hips. You can grow it easily in pots or garden beds. It has a sweet honey scent and makes a lovely cut flower. A real standout in any garden!
