Hybrid Tea or Floribunda - What’s the difference? Not much!
Has anyone found there seems to be little difference between especially in more modern varieties? Is it just my climate? Even with research, it seems hard to tell what you are actually going to get in terms of habit, bloom frequency, clustering etc. To add to the confusion the same rose is classed differently in different countries.
Golden Beauty is classed as a Flori, but has developed the habit of throwing up long canes like an HT. HT Deep Secret previously had a very Flori-style cluster on the end of it’s long cane…
Floribunda Golden Beauty:
HT Deep Secret:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm jealous of the colour on LEH too @Omori, my first flower was apricot with a splattering of pink and shattered quickly. Must be the extraordinary heat we get in Sunderland😉 Well Being looks to be a lovely cheerful plant too.
Lovely colour on Velvet Fragrance too @Tack, I don't think I've heard of that one before.
Lilac Bouquet and Crown Princess Margareta on the fence with a gone-over Leda in the border. I haven't seen much of Summer Wine this year, seen here with a yellow hollyhock, maybe because the blooms shatter quite quickly and I probably need to train it better.
Another bin list reprieve, Fountain. This was so binned I had forgotten about it, it hasn't been fed or watered this year and the other plants have swamped it. This morning it suddenly occured to me where I can move it, with better sun and it doesn't really matter if it only sporadically flowers. Saved✅
Gosh you really did pick a good one in Frilly Cuff @Marlorena , I guess that is an advantage in going in person. When are you going back? I have just spent a futile 10 mins again looking to see if there is AMND for sale potted anywhere. There wasn't last time after you posted its picture either.
I haven't bothered learning the difference between HT and Flori @Nollie, it makes no sense applied to my roses. You must be watering like crazy, the bed looks full and lush. As do yours @Victoria Sponge ,another who can grow hollyhocks, I must try again I really like tall spire-like plants.
@Omori I really hope your WOH does well, mine is going to be huge. These 4 canes are just some of the ones that grow several cms a day I am daily moving their ties along to keep them horizontal ish. You can see that from the wiggle in the stems.And while I was out taking these I noticed my last rose to open, Mainauduft, it had a terrible bare root start in April. I was hoping for a deep pink so am pleased.This is of my rose Royal William! I think if we get a threatened thunderstorm this will be destroyed so I had to take a pic. What I am equally pleased about though is the white clem on the fence behind. All a bit too patriotic but unintentional.
I think it's easier now for a Hybrid Tea to look like a cluster flowered Floribunda, than for a Flori to look like a HT... thank David Austin for that, as he revolutionised what a rose should look like, totally reversing the image.. so now we have all these modern Hybrid Tea and Floribunda roses that look like Austins.. it took him 20 years to break the mould on that..
..but I think it's up to the breeder how they designate their roses.. 'Pink Martini'.. a Tantau HT that looks both like a Floribunda and an Austin..
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Has anyone found there seems to be little difference between especially in more modern varieties? Is it just my climate? Even with research, it seems hard to tell what you are actually going to get in terms of habit, bloom frequency, clustering etc. To add to the confusion the same rose is classed differently in different countries.
Golden Beauty is classed as a Flori, but has developed the habit of throwing up long canes like an HT. HT Deep Secret previously had a very Flori-style cluster on the end of it’s long cane…
Lovely colour on Velvet Fragrance too @Tack, I don't think I've heard of that one before.
Lilac Bouquet and Crown Princess Margareta on the fence with a gone-over Leda in the border.
I haven't seen much of Summer Wine this year, seen here with a yellow hollyhock, maybe because the blooms shatter quite quickly and I probably need to train it better.
Another bin list reprieve, Fountain. This was so binned I had forgotten about it, it hasn't been fed or watered this year and the other plants have swamped it. This morning it suddenly occured to me where I can move it, with better sun and it doesn't really matter if it only sporadically flowers. Saved✅
'Golden Memories'...
'Nathalie Nypels'...
'Golden Beauty'...
'Wild Rover'...
'Frilly Cuff'...
..but I think it's up to the breeder how they designate their roses..
'Pink Martini'.. a Tantau HT that looks both like a Floribunda and an Austin..