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HYBRID TEA ROSES
When we look at a rose we envision the kinds of uses to which it can be put in a landscape. The roses we are most familiar with, the Hybrid Teas which are
formally known as Large Flowered Roses, tend to grow upright with thick, strong canes. At the end of each cane grows a perfect blossom. When the full purpose of growing roses is reduced to the production
of one single, perfect blossom, Hybrid Teas have no equal. But when it comes time to place them in a landscape setting, one has to deal with the fact that as landscape plants standing on their own
most are, quite simply, ugly. Thus the idea of the rose garden. If enough ugly plants with flowers at their tops are lined up close together and kept trimmed to two feet below eye level, the fact that
the rose bush itself is ugly goes unnoticed; all we see is a bunch of blossoms.
Fortunately not all hybrid teas are stiffly upright. Some of them branch out a bit and form more of a
vase-shaped plant. And some of them have a reasonably good leaf-coverage. Even when they don't, Hybrid Teas can be incorporated into a perennial border. Here, foliage of other plants can
cover the rose's bare feet.
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(Dicjana) (formerly known as Peaudouce)
Korpriwa
