Roses Tasmania
Varieties & Caring for your roses
Varieties of Roses in Tasmania
- Hybrid Tea Roses - the height is usually 1.5m to 2.0m and up to 1.5m width. Hybrid Tea Roses are one of the most popular in bush and stardard form.
- Florinbunda Roses - this rose usually bears its flowers in clusters or trusses. They provide a colourful, reliable and long-lasting display of small to medium sized blooms. Their height is usually 1m to 2m and up to 1m wide.
- Shrub Roses are popular large bushes that are often tall and spread with many branching canes. This shrub of roses are ideal to fill garden areas with lots of colour.
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Climbing, rambling and pillar roses - they provide great colours and stunning displays when supported on a frame, growing on a single post or over an arch. There are various sizes available for many uses in a garden.
Climbers have repeat flowers through spring to late autumn. - Wild Roses similar to the photo at the top of the page. This wild rose was growing on some farmland in North Eastern Tasmania
- Bush roses - they are single or cluster flowers borne repeatedly on a dense bush.
The Tasmanian climate is suited to many of the modern English roses such as the many David Austin rose varieties, heritage and old fashioned types grow very well in Tasmania.
Modern hybrids are very popular in Tasmanian gardens.
The best time to plant roses in Tasmania is during the winter months.
But to prune your roses it is best to wait till until early August so that the frosts don’t knock the them around when you prune them.
Hybrid Tea Rose
Some roses that grow in Tasmania include: Wollerton Old Hall – an English shrub rose, Coconut ice which is a Floribunda rose and Fearless, a hybrid tea rose that can grow to 1.5m high x 2m wide.
To find a rose that grows in your local area in the North or South of the State, contact a nursery close to you and they will be able to give you some advice on what to grow.
