Hybrid tea roses are the most popular type of garden rose. They are known for their bright colors and elegance. Around the middle of the 1800s, the large Hybrid Perpetuals rose was crossed with the tall, elegant Tea Rose rose in France. This made the first hybrid tea roses. This made the roses stronger and able to bloom more than once. Many new hybrid tea rose varieties are being made to meet the needs of growers.
Features of Hybrid Tea Roses
The hybrid tea rose has big flowers with 30 to 50 petals, usually 4 to 5 inches across. They bloom a lot in the spring and continue until the fall when they bloom again, but not as much as in the spring.
The most popular cut flowers are hybrid tea roses, which look beautiful because they have long stems, bright colors, and many petals. Roses look nice, smell great, and come in many different colors. Here are some popular hybrid tea roses that growers and showpeople like.
Mr. Lincoln Hybrid Tea Rose
Mr. Lincoln’s hybrid tea rose is a traditional red tea rose. The petals of these double roses are soft and wine-red. This plant is easy to propagate in all climates and is one of the hybrid tea roses with the strongest scent. Swim & Weeks raised it. This rose grows between 30 and 60 inches tall and 24 to 36 inches wide. It is a perennial.
This plant blooms from late spring to fall with long, pointy buds. The roses have long stems and smell strongly of damask. Mr. Lincoln does the finest in soil with much organic matter and good drainage. It grows well in full sun, where summers are cool, but it needs shade in the afternoon once summers are hot and dry. They bloom at the start of summer and continue to do so all summer.
Veterans’ Honor Hybrid Tea Rose
The “Veterans’ Honor” hybrid tea rose has big, dark red flowers that smell like berries. It was decided in 1999 to honor the men and women who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. The stems of the red roses on this plant are extra long and strong, which makes them a good choice for cut flowers.
They are 5 inches wide, have two layers, and have 25 to 30 deep red petals that smell like raspberries. In 1997, Dr. Keith Zary raised the Veterans’ Honor in the USA. It was made by crossing Showstopper roses with the pollen plant of a Royalty hybrid tea rose, a child of a Royalty rose.
The Veteran’s Honor tea can reach a height of 4 to 5 feet. For these plants to have a lot of blooms, they need a lot of suns. During the growing season, they bloom in several waves. They do best when the soil doesn’t stay wet for long periods and drains well.
Peace Hybrid Tea Rose
It has big, double flowers that are slightly ruffled around the edges. The edges of the bright yellow roses are soft pink. They are about 6 inches wide and smell a little bit like fruit. Francis Meilland, a French plant breeder from Lyon, created the Peace hybrid tea rose.
These plants do best in places with cool summers. From spring to fall, they bloom in waves. They have a lot of hair and stand up straight. They can develop between 4 and 7 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide, and their dark green leaves are big and shiny. The sun is best for them. The soil is rich and fertile, with sufficient water if it drains well.
Garden Party Hybrid Tea Rose
This hybrid tea rose is a bush that can get as tall as 7 feet. Most of the roses are white, but a few are pale yellow and pink. They keep blooming in pairs with a light scent. The flowers are now about 5 inches across and smell mild. You can cut them and use them to make bouquets.
This plant does its finest in moist soil that drains well. Feed the plant in the early spring after it blooms with a granular fertilizer that can be used for many things. This rose was produced in the USA in 1959 by Herbert Swim, a well-known rose breeder.
Queen of the Lakes Hybrid Tea Rose
This hybrid tea rose is a shrub that can grow as tall as 3–4 feet and as wide as 2–3 feet. This plant has double roses that are 5 inches wide and has 26 to 40 dark red velvety petals close to the center. This tea rose was made by the Brownell Family. The flowers are borne on long stems, which is ideal for use as cut flowers.
The leaves are dark green and shiny. This rose blooms in waves from spring to fall. The Rosa Queen of the Lake seems to do best in full sun, rich, fertile soil that drains well, and with the right amount of water. In the spring, cut off old canes and any dead or sick parts of this plant.
Curly Pink Hybrid Tea Rose
It is a strong hybrid tea rose with lovely pink flowers which have 50 curled petals and bloom freely. In 1948, the Brownell family in the U.S. made something like this. It is a bushy, erect shrub that can grow 3–4 feet tall and 2–3 feet wide. It has dark green leaves that are smooth and shiny.
It is known for being strong and not getting sick. Because the flowers develop on long stems, they are easy to cut. From spring to fall, they bloom. The Curly Pink does best in full sunlight and rich and fertile soil and drains well and with enough water. In the spring, you should cut this plant back.
