Shrub Roses

Modern shrub roses are, by some measure, a collection of roses that do not fit in other classes. If we were talking about dogs, these might be the mongrels. And just as it is true in canines that relentless inbreeding inevitably reveals ever newer and more troublesome weaknesses peculiar to any breed and that a breed can only be assured of continued good health when new blood enters the line; so it is with roses. In this sense then, modern roses manage to be among the most vigorous and disease resistant roses recently bred. The analogy goes further, for the same mixed bag of genetic information that makes them robust gives them widely varied physical characteristics. So modern shrub roses are more varied than any other group of roses.

Pictured is Westerland growing in a garden it Berkeley California. The glowing orange blossoms are quite unlike those of any other rose. This rose grows to eight feet in every direction as a shrub and may reach twelve feet treated as a climber. Other roses on this list are smaller. Some produce flowers like those of hybrid tea roses: Amiga Mia, Hawkey Belle, Morden Blush. Many produce single flowers with five or so petals. A few such as Alchymist and Rosarium Utersen produce flat, rosette flowers. Others yet produce flowers that are double, loose, and floppy like those of Westerland. Sorting through the list can be slow gowing, but there's a lot of good material here for a lot of different kinds of gardens.

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Cultivar	Class	Color	Fragrance	Breeder	Hardiness
Alchymist	Modern Shrub	Apricot	Powerful	R. Kordes	Zone 4
Alexander McKenzie	Modern Shrub	Mauve	Slight	Svejda	Zone 3
All that Jazz	Modern Shrub	Coral	Moderate	Twomey	Zone 5
Aloha	Modern Shrub	Coral	Moderate	Boerner	Zone 5
Amiga Mia	Modern Shrub	Candy Pink	Strong	Buck	Zone 4
Anna Zinkeisen	Modern Shrub	Primrose	Moderate	Harkness	Zone 5
Applejack	Modern Shrub	Pink	Moderate	Buck	Zone 3
April Moon	Modern Shrub	Primrose	Moderate	Buck	Zone 4
Armada	Modern Shrub	Pink	Moderate	Harkness	Zone 5
Aunt Honey	Modern Shrub	Candy Pink	Strong	Buck	Zone 4
Autumn Sunset	Modern Shrub	Yellow	Moderate	Lowe	Zone 4
Belinda's Dream	Modern Shrub	Pink	Powerful	Bayse	Zone 6
Blue Boy	Modern Shrub	Purple	Strong	W. Kordes	Zone 4
Bonanza	Modern Shrub	Red/Yellow	None	Kordes	Zone 5
Bonica	Modern Shrub	Pale Pink	None	Meilland	Zone 4
Captain Samuel Holland	Modern Shrub	Rose	Slight	Ogilvie	Zone 3
Captain Thomas	Modern Shrub	Primrose	Slight	Thomas	Zone 4
Cardinal Hume	Modern Shrub	Purple	Strong	Harkness	Zone 4
Carefree Beauty	Modern Shrub	Pink	Moderate	Buck	Zone 4
Carefree Wonder	Modern Shrub	Rose	None	Meilland	Zone 4
Cerise Bouquet	Modern Shrub	Cerise	Moderate	Kordes/Tantau	Zone 5
Champlain	Modern Shrub	Crimson	Slight	Svejda	Zone 3
Cocktail	Modern Shrub	Red	Moderate	Meilland	Zone 6
Coral Meidiland	Modern Shrub	Coral	None	Meilland	Zone 4
Country Dancer	Modern Shrub	Rose	Moderate	Buck	Zone 4
Cuthbert Grant	Modern Shrub	Crimson	Slight	Marshall	Zone 3
Dapple Dawn	Modern Shrub	White/Pink Blend	None	Austin	Zone 5
Declic	Modern Shrub	Lilac	Strong	Croix	Zone 4
Dentelle de Bruxelles	Modern Shrub	Rose	None	Lens	Zone 4
Distant Drums	Modern Shrub	Tawny Blend	Strong	Buck	Zone 4

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