Roses for Cut Flowers

Best Roses for Cut Flowers

When we buy roses as cut flowers, those perfect blooms are enchanting, but how do we grow great roses for cut flowers in the home garden. You can, its just that they will most likely not be the same varieties that the florists sell you.

Although many roses produce great cut flowers some varieties are especially bred for the purpose. The desirable characteristics for cut rose flowers are long straight stems, good fragrance and importantly long lasting. So florists roses are bred for flowers, and not for hardiness and disease resistance that we need for growing roses in the garden. This does not mean that you cant’t grow great roses, just different ones.

Some of the varieties bred for cut flowers make great garden plants, Mr Lincoln being one. Others really need to be grown in a protected situation, greenhouse or glasshouse and are not really suited to growing in the open garden.

Some of the best roses for cut flowers are listed below