Tea Roses

They really do smell like green tea. It was a very pleasant day early in June when I wandered into my back yard. I smelled a delicious tea like scent which I had never detected before. I tracked it down to a rose some thirty feet away that I had planted eight weeks earlier that spring. It was the climbing tea rose, Sombreuil, pictured to the right. Never since has the rose produced such a pungent scent, but I am much enamored of it anyway.

Tea roses descend from Rosa gigantea, Park's Tea Scented China, and old European roses. They tend to be quite sensitive to cold, needing bright sun and warmth in both summer and winter to thrive. Austin complains that their bright colors are garish. And if one is creating a kind of ideal British style cottage garden it might be hard to work with them. But there are a lot of places in the US where the sky is bluer, and the sun hotter and brighter where brightly colored roses look more naturally at home.

Connected to database: rosefile_roses

RoseFile Database.

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Cultivar	Class	Color	Fragrance	Breeder	Hardiness
Adam	Tea	Pale Apricot	Moderate	Adam	Zone 5
Archduc Joseph	Tea	Rose	Moderate	Nabonand	Zone 7
Baronne Henriette de Snoy	Tea	Shell Pink	Strong	Bernaix	Zone 8
Beauty of Rosemawr	Tea	Cerise	Moderate	Van Fleet	Zone 7
Blumenschmidt	Tea	Primrose	Moderate	Schmidt	Zone 7
Catherine Mermet	Tea	White	Moderate	Guillot	Zone 7
Devoniensis	Tea	Buff	Strong	Foster	Zone 7
Dr. Grill	Tea	Candy	Strong	Bonnaire	Zone 7
Duchesse de Brabant	Tea	Shell Pink	Strong	Bernede	Zone 6
Etoile de Lyon	Tea	Buff	Strong	Guillot	Zone 6
General Gallieni	Tea	Coral	Strong	Nabonnand	Zone 7
General Schablikine	Tea	Coral	Strong	Nabonnand	Zone 7
Homere	Tea	Pale Pink	Strong	Robert et Moreau	Zone 8
Isabella Sprunt	Tea	Primrose	Strong	Sprunt	Zone 7
Lady Hillingdon	Tea	Gold	Strong	Lowe & Shawyer	Zone 6
Madame Antoine Mari	Tea	Shell Pink	Moderate	Mari	Zone 6
Madame Berkeley	Tea	Pink/Yellow Blend	Strong	Bernaix	Zone 7
Madame de Tartas	Tea	Pink/Yellow Blend	Strong	Bernede	Zone 6
Madame Lombard	Tea	Rose	Strong	LaCharme	Zone 6
Madame Wagram	Tea	Candy Pink	Strong	Bernaix	Zone 7
Madamoiselle Franziska Kruger	Tea	Pale Apricot	Moderate	Nabonnand	Zone 6
Maman Cochet	Tea	Pink/Yellow Blend	Strong	Cochet	Zone 6
Marie van Houtte	Tea	Pink/White	Strong	Ducher	Zone 7
Monsieur Tillier	Tea	Coral	Strong	Bernaix	Zone 7
Mrs B.R. Cant	Tea	Candy Pink	Moderate	Cant	Zone 7
Mrs Dudley Cross	Tea	Pink/Yellow	Slight	Paul	Zone 7
Niphetos	Tea	White	Strong	Bougere	Zone 7
Papa Gontier	Tea	Rose		Nabonand
Perle des Jardins	Tea	Primrose	Moderate	Levet	Zone 7
Rosette Delizy	Tea	Pink/Yellow	Strong	Nabonnand	Zone 7

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