Roses that are Classified as Modern Shrubs
| Name | Color | Cold | Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alchymist | Apricot | Zone 4 | Kordes | 8.0 |
| Morgengruss | Apricot | Zone 4 | Kordes | |
| Prairie Sunrise | Apricot | Zone 4 | Buck | 8.2 |
| Fruhlingsgold | Buff | Zone 5 | W. Kordes | 8.1 |
| Amiga Mia | Candy Pink | Zone 4 | Buck | 7.5 |
| Armada | Candy Pink | Zone 5 | Harkness | |
| Fritz Nobis | Candy Pink | Zone 4 | W. Kordes | |
| Fuchsia Meidiland | Candy Pink | Zone 4 | Meilland | |
| Captain Samuel Holland | Cerise | Zone 3 | Ogilvie | |
| Cardinal Hume | Cerise | Zone 4 | Harkness | 7.7 |
| Cerise Bouquet | Cerise | Zone 5 | Tantau | |
| Country Dancer | Cerise | Zone 4 | Buck | 8.5 |
| Elmshorn | Cerise | Zone 5 | W. Kordes | 8.2 |
| Eva | Cerise | Zone 4 | W. Kordes | |
| Ramona | Cerise | Zone 6 | Turner | |
| Harison’s Yellow | Chrome Yellow | Zone 6 | Harrison | |
| Goldbusch | Copper | Zone 4 | Kordes | 7.5 |
| All that Jazz | Coral | Zone 5 | Twomey | 7.8 |
| Aloha | Coral | Zone 4 | Boerner | 7.8 |
| Coral Meidiland | Coral | Zone 4 | Meilland | |
| Gwen Swane | Coral | Zone 5 | McGredy | |
| Morden Ruby | Coral | Zone 3 | Marshall | |
| Rosenresli | Coral & Candy Pink | Zone 5 | R. Kordes | |
| Lafter | Coral/Gold Blend | Zone 5 | Brownell | |
| Alexander McKenzie | Crimson | Zone 3 | Svejda | |
| Champlain | Crimson | Zone 3 | Svejda | 8.4 |
| Cuthbert Grant | Crimson | Zone 4 | Marshall | |
| Eddie’s Crimson | Crimson | Zone 4 | Eddie | |
| John Franklin | Crimson | Zone 4 | Svejda | |
| R. moyesii Highdownensis | Crimson | Zone 5 | Stern | |
| Robin Hood | Crimson | Zone 5 | Pemberton | 8.6 |
| Declic | Lilac | Zone 4 | Croix | |
| Lavender Dream | Lilac | Zone 4 | Ilsink | 8.4 |
| Blueberry Hill | Mauve | Zone 4 | Weeks | |
| Fred Loads | Orange | Zone 5 | Loads | 8.5 |
| Prairie Sunset | Orange | Zone 4 | Buck | |
| Folksinger | Pale Apricot | Zone 3 | Buck | |
| Bonica | Pale Pink | Zone 4 | Meilland | 8.5 |
| Hawkeye Belle | Pale Pink | Zone 4 | Buck | 8.1 |
| Morden Blush | Pale Pink | Zone 3 | Colicutt & Marshall | |
| Queen Margrethe | Pale Pink | Zone 5 | Poulsen | 7.8 |
| Rosendorf Sparrieshoop | Pale Pink | Zone 5 | Kordes | |
| Rosy Cushion | Pale Pink | Zone 4 | Ilsink | |
| Applejack | Pink | Zone 3 | Buck | 8.3 |
| Belinda’s Dream | Pink | Zone 5 | Bayse | 8.4 |
| Marguerite Hilling | Pink | Zone 4 | Dot | 7.5 |
| Martha’s Vineyard | Pink | Zone 4 | Oleson | 8.3 |
| Morden Centennial | Pink | Zone 3 | Marshall | 8.4 |
| Pink Bassino | Pink | Zone 4 | Kordes | |
| Pink Meidiland | Pink | Zone 4 | Meilland | 8.6 |
| Royal Bonica | Pink | Zone 4 | Meilland | |
| Smarty | Pink | Zone 5 | Ilsink | |
| Sparrieshoop | Pink | Zone 4 | Kordes | 8.0 |
| Mrs. Mary Thompson | Pink/Orange Blend | Zone 5 | Thompson | |
| Fruhlingsmorgen | Pink/Yellow Blend | Zone 5 | W. Kordes | 8.5 |
| Anna Zinkeisen | Primrose | Zone 5 | Harkness | |
| Captain Thomas | Primrose | Zone 4 | Thomas | 8.4 |
| Fruhlingsanfang | Primrose | Zone 5 | W. Kordes | |
| Golden Wings | Primrose | Zone 4 | Shepherd | 8.9 |
| J.P. Connell | Primrose | Zone 3 | Svejda | |
| Prairie Harvest | Primrose | Zone 4 | Buck | |
| Sonnenschirn | Primrose | Zone 5 | Tantau | |
| Thisbe | Primrose | Zone 4 | Pemberton | |
| Blue Moon | Purple | Zone 5 | Tantau | |
| Berlin | Red | Zone 5 | Kordes | |
| Dame de Couer | Red | Zone 5 | Lens | |
| Red Meidiland | Red | Zone 3 | Meilland | 7.2 |
| Prairie Fire | Red/White Blend | Zone 3 | Philips | 8.3 |
| Carefree Wonder | Rose | Zone 4 | Meilland | 8.1 |
| Dentelle de Bruxelles | Rose | Zone 4 | Lens | |
| Gartendirektor Otto Linne | Rose | Zone 4 | Lambert | 8.9 |
| John Cabot | Rose | Zone 3 | Svejda | 8.9 |
| John Davis | Rose | Zone 3 | Svejda | 8.6 |
| Rosy Carpet | Rose | Zone 4 | Interplant | |
| William Baffin | Rose | Zone 3 | Svejda | 8.9 |
| William & Mary | Rose | Zone 5 | Beales | |
| Dornroschen | Salmon | Zone 4 | Kordes | 8.4 |
| Ferdy | Salmon | Zone 4 | Suzuki | 7.5 |
| Lutin | Salmon | Zone 4 | Meilland | |
| Cocktail | Scarlet | Zone 4 | Meilland | 8.4 |
| Eyeopener | Scarlet | Zone 4 | Ilsink | |
| Morden Fireglow | Scarlet | Zone 3 | Colcut & Marshall | |
| Our Molly | Scarlet | Zone 4 | Dickson | |
| Scarlet Meidiland | Scarlet | Zone 4 | Meidiland | |
| Admired Miranda | Shell Pink | Zone 5 | Austin | 7.5 |
| Cymbaline | Shell Pink | Zone 5 | Austin | 8.3 |
| Nymphenburg | Shell Pink | Zone 5 | Kordes | 8.5 |
| Octavia Hill | Shell Pink | Zone 5 | Harkness | |
| Karl Forster | White | Zone 5 | Kordes | |
| Nevada | White | Zone 5 | Dot | 8.8 |
| Pearl Drift | White | Zone 5 | Le Grice | |
| Sally Holmes | White | Zone 5 | Holmes | 8.9 |
| Sweet Afton | White | Zone 5 | Armstrong | 7.0 |
| Weisse aus Sparrieshoop | White | Zone 5 | Kordes | 8.5 |
| Dapple Dawn | White/Pink Blend | Zone 5 | Austin | 8.5 |
| Marjorie Fair | White/Pink Blend | Zone 5 | Harkness | 6.4 |
| Mozart | White/Pink Blend | Zone 4 | Lambert | |
| Sadlers Wells | White/Pink Blend | Zone 4 | Beales | |
| Autumn Sunset | Yellow | Zone 4 | Lowe | 7.7 |
| Helen Knight | Yellow | Zone 6 | Knight | |
| Lichtkonigin Lucia | Yellow | Zone 4 | Kordes | 7.5 |
| Maigold | Yellow | Zone 4 | Kordes | |
| Sunny June | Yellow | Zone 5 | Lammerts | 7.7 |
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.