Plant a Rosy Love Garden
For centuries, the rose has stood as a universal emblem of love, beauty, and devotion. Love and roses are forever inseparably entwined in our hearts and imaginations. When we want to express love, we often do it with roses. Each Valentine’s Day, countless red roses are gifted as heartfelt declarations of affection. Gardeners don’t settle for bouquets from the florist. We leave the florist roses for others. Instead, we prefer to grow garden roses — flowers that embody the spirit of love and romance and offer lasting beauty not just during Valentine’s week but throughout the year and for many years to come.
Consider making your garden even more meaningful by growing a ‘Love Garden’ with roses whose names celebrate love. A ‘Love Garden’ can also serve as a remembrance garden, a tribute to the people we have loved. Whether our loved one grew roses or cherished a specific variety, we can honor warm, deep and sometimes bittersweet memories by planting roses. The following ‘Love Garden’ selection highlights a few enchanting varieties of roses to express your romantic sentiments.
A Night of Magic This vigorous, hardy and heat-tolerant, climbing miniflora rose hybridized by David Bang features striking and unusual dark red striped blooms. The flowers, which appear both singly and in clusters, display the classic hybrid tea form. All My Loving A hybrid tea rose bred in the UK, ‘All My Loving’ produces large, high-centered, deep pink, 30- to 40-petal count blooms that have a moderate spice and tea fragrance. The plant reaches 6 to 7 feet in height and is highly rated for its performance.
Crazy Love Part of the Kordes Sunbelt heat-tolerant series, this shrub rose is compact and disease resistant. The full 125- to-135-petal count blooms display yellow-copper tones with pink outer petals and emit a mild fragrance.
Heart Song This medium red hybrid tea rose from Kordes is compact and highly disease resistant. Its blooms have a mild spice fragrance.
Enchanted Evening A compact floribunda rose bred by Keith Zary, ‘Enchanted Evening’ is notable for its disease resistance and unique lavender blooms with a silvery reverse. The blooms exude a strong citrus fragrance.
Falling In Love Hybridized by Tom Carruth, this beautiful hybrid tea rose produces large, fragrant, pink blooms. With ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and ‘Moonstone’ as its parents, the 5-foot-tall bush is very thorny and has very good performance ratings.
Forever Yours From German breeder Tantau, ‘Forever Yours’ is a compact hybrid tea rose with excellent ratings. Its red blooms have a moderate fragrance. Lasting Love Bred in France, this compact, bushy, hybrid tea rose features dark red, 28-petal count blooms with a strong fruity rose fragrance.
Light My Fire A compact floribunda rose hybridized by Keith Zary, ‘Light My Fire’ has orange-red blooms, a bushy growth habit, glossy leaves and strong disease resistance.
Love and Peace This Ping Lim hybrid tea rose has exceptional disease resistance. The large blooms blend yellow with salmon-pink edges and have a moderate myrrh fragrance. The bush grows 4 to 6 feet tall.
Love and Romance A miniflora rose by David Bang, ‘Love and Romance’ is resistant to powdery mildew and shows good resistance to black spot and rust. Its blooms are a red blend with white-scarlet edges.
Love at First Sight Hybridized by Christian Bedard, this hybrid tea rose features medium to 50-petal count red blooms with a lighter reverse and a mild fruity fragrance. The rose is noted for its very good disease resistance.
Love Potion A lavender floribunda bred by Jack Christensen, ‘Love Potion’ offers a strong raspberry fragrance and excellent disease resistance. Love Song This highly rated floribunda hybridized by Tom Carruth grows 4 to 5 feet tall. Its lavender blooms have a very mild citrus fragrance.
Love’s Kiss A compact, 4- to-5-foot-tall hybrid tea rose introduced by Jackson & Perkins, ‘Love’s Kiss’ produces pink blend blooms with a strong damask and pepper fragrance. It is highly rated for its performance.
Love’s Magic A medium-sized, very disease resistant Kordes hybrid tea rose, ‘Love’s Magic’ features dark red, very full blooms with a strong rose fragrance.
Love’s Promise From Meilland, this medium-sized, very disease resistant hybrid tea rose bears large, red blooms with a strong raspberry fragrance
Passionate Kisses A profusely blooming Meilland floribunda, ‘Passionate Kisses’ grows 4 to 5 feet tall and is highly disease resistant. Its medium-large, 26- to 40-petal count, salmon-pink blooms with a pink reverse are held in large clusters.
The Sweetheart Rose (Mlle. Cecile Brunner) Introduced in France in 1880 and often referred to as ‘The Sweetheart Rose’, this polyantha rose can grow15 to 20 feet as a climber or 8 feet as a shrub. Its soft pink, 1.5-inch flowers bloom in clusters and have a medium-to-strong, spice-sweet tea fragrance. With an excellent rating and an Earth-Kind designation, it is also honored in the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Old Rose Hall of Fame.
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