Roses that are Classified as Tea Roses
| Name | Color | Cold | Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madame Berard | Apricot | Zone 6 | Levet | |
| Devoniensis, Climbing | Buff | Zone 7 | Foster | 7.9 |
| Dr. Grill | Buff | Zone 7 | Bonnaire | |
| Marie van Houtte | Buff | Zone 7 | Ducher | 7.9 |
| Madame Jules Gravereaux | Buff | Zone 6 | Soupbert & Notting | |
| Madame Wagram, Comtesse de Turenne | Candy Pink | Zone 6 | Bernaix | |
| Triomphe du Luxembourg | Candy Pink | Zone 7 | Hardy | |
| Beauty of Rosemawr | Cerise | Zone 7 | Van Fleet | |
| General Gallieni | Coral | Zone 7 | Nabonnand | |
| General Schnablikine | Coral | Zone 6 | Nabonnand | |
| Mrs B.R. Cant | Coral | Zone 7 | Cant | |
| Rosette Delizy | Coral | Zone 7 | Nabonnand | 8.0 |
| Madame Antoine Mari | Coral/Gold Blend | Zone 6 | Mari | |
| Belle Portugaise | Pale Apricot | Zone 8 | Cayeaux | 8.0 |
| Adam | Pale Apricot | Zone 5 | Adam | |
| Madamoiselle Franziska Kruger | Pale Apricot | Zone 6 | Nabonnand | |
| Gloire de Dijon | Pale Apricot | Zone 6 | Jacotot | 7.5 |
| Lady Hillingdon, Climbing | Pale Apricot | Zone 7 | Hicks | |
| Madame Berkeley | Pink/Yellow Blend | Zone 6 | Bernaix | |
| Madame de Tartas | Pink/Yellow Blend | Zone 6 | Bernede | |
| Maman Cochet | Pink/Yellow Blend | Zone 6 | Cochet | 7.8 |
| Blumenschmidt | Primrose | Zone 7 | Schmidt | |
| Perle des Jardins | Primrose | Zone 7 | Levet | 7.4 |
| Safrano | Primrose | Zone 7 | Beauregard | |
| Francis Dubreuil | Red | Zone 7 | Dubreuil | |
| Monsieur Tillier | Rose | Zone 7 | Bernaix | 8.1 |
| Madame Lombard | Salmon | Zone 6 | LaCharme | 7.8 |
| Souvenir d’un Ami | Salmon | Zone 7 | Belot Defougere | |
| Baronne Henriette de Snoy | Shell Pink | Zone 7 | Bernaix | |
| Catherine Mermet | Shell Pink | Zone 7 | Guillot | 7.8 |
| Duchesse de Brabant | Shell Pink | Zone 6 | Bernede | 8.6 |
| White Maman Cochet | White | Zone 7 | Cook | |
| Sombreuil | White | Zone 7 | Robert | 8.8 |
| Etoile de Lyon | Yellow | Zone 7 | Guillot | |
| Lady Hillingdon | Yellow | Zone 6 | Lowe & Shawyer | 8.3 |
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.