Anyone can grow roses, no special skills are needed and you will acquire the knowledge through this information that will help you in growing roses for beginners.                       
 
The first thing we would ask you to do for growing roses as a beginner is just to take a walk around your outdoor space, note where there are gaps in plants, bushes and use your imagination to picture how you could fill that space, or produce a colourful wall by growing roses.

Growing roses for a beginner, you need to know the main types of roses to help you choose the right ones for your purpose.

Roses are grouped into 7 main categories.

The Hybrid Tea rose is usually a single rose on a stem, the sort that florists are inclined to use. This is an interesting rose, traditional in appearance, with an ‘upright’ as opposed to spreading growth pattern. but not as prolific a flower producer as the floribunda, so if it is colour you are most concerned with then you may look to the floribunda. 

The Floribunda rose is recognised by having a cluster of usually smaller and more floppy roses growing from one stem. Growing roses as a beginner, we tend to recommend them because they do not go brown in wet weather, their clusters are usually continuous through the season and appear more disease resistant than their cousins, the hybrid tea rose.








The Rambling rose and climbing rose, filling wall space, as a growing rose beginner you need to know the difference between a rambling rose and a climbing rose. As its name suggests the rambler is a vigorous grower and flowers on the new season’s growth, it needs to be pruned in autumn/fall to obtain the best display.  As a rose growing beginner, this would be good to practice on, before turning attention to roses with more complex habits. A rambling rose will produce blooms similar to the Floribunda, small, in clusters with one flowering per season.

The Climbing Rose is better behaved than the rambler, is less vigorous and produces larger single roses and lots of them, easier for the growing roses beginner. Climbing roses flower on the old wood, so making pruning a lot easier in the autumn. Climbing and Rambling roses are often grouped together in the buying catalogues and as a growing rose beginner you must take care to ensure that you are choosing the rose with the growing and flowering habit you desire.








The Shrub Rose is neither a hybrid tea or a floribunda although it has the attributes and characteristics of both. For the beginner the shrub rose, is fairly easy to grow and prune, it is usually taller than the tea or floribunda, but disease resistant and can acclimatise to different soil conditions.






Recently new groups of roses have emerged. One of these is the Patio Rose, very easy and versatile with the added advantage that you can place them where you want them, rather than planting them in one spot. As a growing rose beginner the choice is yours.
                                                                                                                                                                        
Ground cover rose is another relatively new group of rose. For a growing rose beginner, growing roses with a spreading habit is more difficult as it is more prone to problems created by pests and diseases.  
                                       
The miniature rose is another variety gaining in popularity. They often die as people do not know how to look after them, either over watering or leaving them in hot places to dry out. For a rose growing beginner, both the miniature rose and the patio rose, would be good varieties to develop.

This is a brief guide to the types of roses that a growing roses for beginners needs to know. You can find out more information by clicking on the links in each section.
Growing roses for beginners is not difficult and you will soon know enough to successfully grow roses. If your questions are not answered on the FAQ page, please email us and we will be happy to correspond with you concerning any query you may have about growing roses for beginners.