How To Grow... Hybrid Tea Roses

With their exquisite, pointed buds and large, often scented petals, these short upright plants are ideal for rose beds, formal gardens and narrow borders, as Anne explains.

There was a time when every garden boasted a Rosa ‘Peace’ or ‘Alec’s Red’, but in recent decades the good old Hybrid Tea Rose has taken a back seat. Heads have been turned by a renewed interest in romantic, old-fashioned varieties and the many excellent English Shrub roses bred by David Austin. It’s time to take a fresh look at Hybrid Teas, and renew our enjoyment of their generous nature, fabulous colours and long stems of shapely blooms.