20 Best Hybrid Tea Roses

Hybrid teas are the most popular type of rose, referring to a category of roses that were originally created by cross-breeding Hybrid Perpetual and Tea roses. This means they are both hardy and typically repeat flower, producing large, shapely flowers that open from high-centred buds on long, straight stems. Hybrid tea roses have a stiff, upright growth habit, often sparsely foliaged, and tend to flower in three flushes from summer to late autumn. They usually have one bloom per stem, making them great for using as cut flowers. In this article we've hand picked the best 20 hybrid tea roses for UK gardens.

1. Rose 'Chandos Beauty'

2. Rose 'Double Delight'

 

 

'Double Delight' is an outstanding hybrid tea rose producing masses of eye-catching, bi-colour blooms - rich cherry-red across the outer petals fading to a beautiful creamy white in the centre. The cherry-red edging becomes more prominent as the blooms mature. It is a showstopping variety for the garden border, patio containers or the cutting garden with nectar-rich flowers that are perfect for attracting bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to your garden. Almost fifty years have passed since it was crowned the 'World's Favourite Rose' in 1977 but it's as popular today as it was then. The fragrance is strong, it has a free flowering habit and its eventual height of around a metre tall by 60cm wide is convenient for the patio and cutting. It grows best in full sun but will also tolerate partial shade.

 

 

3. Rose 'Loving Memory'

 

 

'Loving Memory' is a mildly fragrant hybrid tea rose with luscious, velvty red petals in a whirling arrangement, creating distinctive and intricate fully double blooms. There is a glorious brightness to the flowers and their subtly sweet fragrance, set off against a backdrop of slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. Introduced by Reimer Kordes in 1981, it is a robust grower with strong disease resistance and has become the bereavement rose. There is no lovelier tribute than a loving memory rose planted by a gravestone or in the garden. Well suited to a container on the patio, sunny spot at the front of a mixed border, or for the cutting garden.

 

 

4. Rose 'Pure Poetry'

 

 

'Pure Poetry' is a classic, fabulously fragrant, red hybrid tea rose with large ruby blooms with hints of mauve, set off against a foil of lush, glossy deep green leaves. Bred by Rosen Tantau, it is a robust grower with strong disease resistance to keep mildew, rust and black spot at bay. 'Pure Poetry' is a repeat flowering variety, well loved for its vigour, hardiness and classic appearance. It makes a great addition to a container on the patio, the middle of a flower garden or mixed border, or as an essential variety for the cutting garden. The blooms are held on long, straight stems, making them well suited using for a vase indoors. It grows best in a sunny spot in a moist yet free draining soil and will thrive on clay providing the ground does not lie wet.

 

 

5. Rose 'Red Devil'

 

 

'Red Devil' is an excellent, upright hybrid tea rose reaching 1.2 metres tall, producing fabulously fragrant, rich scarlet-red blooms across the entire plant throughout summer and into the autumn. The flowers can measure up to 10cm across and are set off against a foil of slightly toothed, healthy glossy green foliage. Winner of a gold medal in the 1969 Belfast Rose Trials and a Royal National Rose Society Certificate of merit from 1965, it is a long-standing variety whose popularity has endured through the decades. Well suited to a mixed border or flower garden in a sunny spot of the garden, most effective planted 'en masse' in groups of odd numbers, for example in a triangular formation.

 

 

6. Rose 'Remember Me'

 

 

'Remember Me' is an attractive hybrid tea rose with fully double, cup-shaped deep coppery orange blooms produced repeatedly from July to September against a backdrop of lush, glossy deep green leaves. Perhaps the deepest copper coloured of all hybrid tea roses, it has a subtle fragrance with fruity and spicy notes with flowers held singly or in small clusters. It has a spreading growth habit, reaching ~1.2 metres tall by a metre wide and growing best in a sunny spot in a moist yet free draining soil. 'Remember Me' is a great choice for a container on the patio, the front to middle of a mixed border or flower bed, or the cutting garden.

 

 

7. Rose 'Savoy Hotel'

 

 

'Savoy Hotel' is a well-loved hybrid tea rose producing masses of subtly scented, well-shaped, glowing pale pink blooms on long stems, ideal for cutting for flower arrangements. It has a vigorous growth habit and will flower repeatedly from June until the first frost, especially if encouraged by deadheading faded flowers along the way. Introduced in 1989 and reaching over a metre tall if allowed, it is well suited to planting in groups towards the back of the border in a sunny position. 'Savoy Hotel' prefers a moist yet free draining soil and will succeed on clay providing the ground does not lie wet.

 

 

8. Rose 'Sunny Sky'

 

 

'Sunny Sky' is an award-winning hybrid tea rose with sumptuous, semi-double, warm golden-yellow blooms that help bring a richness and warmth to any garden. The full, high centred blooms are produced repeatedly from July to November, emerging high centred from spiral buds across the plant and set off against a backdrop of luxurious, waxy, olive green leaves. 'Sunny Sky' has certainly impressed the rose judging world, including winning the coveted Rose of the Year Award in 2016 at the Hampton Court Flower Show. Reaching 1.2 metres tall, it was bred to overcome the afflictions of older roses (blackspot, rust, etc) so gardeners don't have to reach for the spray gun or spend hours picking unsightly spots off the leaves. It is in our view the best warm yellow rose for a container on the patio or middle of a mixed border or flower bed.

 

 

9. Rose 'Thinking of You'

 

 

'Thinking of You' is a luxurious, rich red hybrid tea rose with velvety petals with a beautiful brightness and stamina. The flowers are produced singly on long stems with a delightful sweet fragrance, well loved by gardeners and florists alike. Introduced by Reimer Kordes in 1981, there is no lovelier tribute planted by a gravestone or in your garden. It has a tall, upright growth habit with strong disease resistance and will thrive on any soil type, including clay, providing it is free draining and does not lie wet. This perfect memorial rose grows best in a sunny position and benefit from lots of well-rotted organic matter and a generous handful of bonemeal being incorporated into the planting hole to encourage strong root development.

 

 

10. Rose 'Twice in a Blue Moon'

 

'Twice in a Blue Moon' is the leading blue rose. No true blue roses exist in nature, like other blue roses, this variety has been hybridized as a result of careful breeding to create the cooling, calming lilac-blue colour gardeners have grown to love. It produces large, richly fragrant, classically shaped, high-centred blooms on long stems, perfect for cutting. The colour is more of a silvery-lilac with a hint of blue with the production of blooms based on size and quality, rather than quantity. It will steadily produce new flowers from the start of June to the end of autumn, set off against a foil of healthy, slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. It prefers a sunny spot in a moist yet free draining soil and benefits from being in a location where you pass by often so its delightful flowers and stunning fragrance can be best appreciated.

 

 

11. Rose 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'

 

'A Whiter Shade of Pale' is a beautiful hybrid tea rose producing an abundance of high centred, fully double white blooms, flushed with a touch of pink. Reaching about 90cm tall, it has a repeat flowering habit, producing flowers continously throughout the summer. The blooms of are very fragrant, which helped 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' to win the RHS Award of Garden Merit. It forms a strong, thorny framework of stems and the flowers are set off against a foil of slightly toothed, glossy dark green leaves with strong disease resistance. It grows best in a sunny spot in a moist yet well drained soil and will thrive on clay providing the ground does not lie wet. Incorporate plenty of well rotted organic matter and a generous handful of bonemeal when planting to encourage strong root development.

 

 

12. Rose 'Black Baccara'

 

 

'Black Baccara' is a beautiful hybid tea rose with luxurious, dark maroon blooms, fading to rich red in the centre. It has a repeat flowering habit with fully double blooms borne continuously from June through September, set off against a backdrop of healthy, slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. It is well-loved be gardeners and florists alike, perfect for a container on the patio, the front of a flower bed or mixed border, or the cutting garden as a source of blooms for a vase indoors. It will add glamour to any planting arrangement and the long, straight stems make it a popular choice for wedding bouquets. The most interesting feature of 'Black Baccara' is the way the blooms change colour as they mature. When in bud, they really deep maroon, almost black, then as the petals unfurl they gradually take on a more blood-red colour.

 

 

13. Rose 'Chicago Peace'

 

 

'Chicago Peace' is a stunning hybrid tea rose producing large, bright blooms with rich golden-yellow centres, transitioning to creamy orange with outer petals prominently flushed purple-pink. It has a classic hybrid tea shape with high-centred blooms held aloft on tall stems, perfect for cut flowers. The beautiful pink tinges on the outside of the blooms can eventually cover the entire flower head, creating a delightful suffusion of colour. The flowers are set off against a healthy mass of slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. As a natural mutation of the popular 'Peace' rose, it reaches up to 1.8 metres tall with thorny stems and is highly credited for its spectacular blooms and repeat flowering nature from May until September. It works well in a patio container, among a perennial bed or mixed border or, of course, in the cutting garden to add to youe vase indoors. It combines particularly well with Berberis Atropurpurea and other purple-leaved shrubs for the pleasing foliage contrast. Incorporate plenty of well rotted organic matter and a generous handful of bonemeal when planting to encourage strong root development.

 

 

14. Rose 'Dawn Chorus'

 

 

Fabulously fragrant, eye-catching, deep orange blooms, flushed with yellow at the base of each petal are produced continuously throughout the summer. This is a charming, upright variety with attractive, finely-toothed, glossy dark green deciduous leaves which display red veining and a strong resistance to diseases such as black spot and mildew. The fully double, high centred blooms are produced in abundant clusters across the whole of the plant, making it a great choice for using as a bright bedding rose. A charming variety which won the Rose of the Year Award in 1993.

 

 

15. Rose 'Freedom'

 

 

'Freedom' is a richly fragrant hybrid tea rose producing impressive, shapely, creamy yellow blooms repeatedly throughout summer and autumn. The flowers retain their colour and tight centres exceptionally well as they mature, set off against a backdrop of slightly toothed, lush, glossy green leaves. Reaching about a metre tall and wide, it has a vigorous yet compact growth habit with thorny stems and a delicate fragrance. 'Freedom' grows best in a sunny, sheltered spot in a moist yet free draining soil and will succeed on clay providing the ground does not lie wet. It is well suited to a container on the patio or the front of a flower bed or mixed border. Avoid planting it in the middle of a mixed planting as its small stature means it can get lost among taller perennials. Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, Freedom Hybrid Tea rose was bred by Dickson's Nurseries, one of Northern Ireland's most famous and long established rose growers.

 

 

16. Rose 'Mum in a Million'

 

 

'Mum in a Million', also known as 'Millie' for short, is a sumptuous mid-pink hybrid tea rose producing large, fully double blooms with a rich fragrance. The flowers are produced repeatedly on long, straight stems all summer long, set off against a foil of healthy, slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. A Danish rose that was bred in the 1990s and brought to Britain in 2005, it has become a popular choice as a mothers day gift the world over. It will thrive on any moist yet free draining soil, including clay providing the ground does not lie wet. The long, straight stems make the flowers perfect for cutting and putting in a vase indoors.

 

 

17. Rose 'Royal William'

 

 

Delightful, beautifully-shaped, fully double deep crimson-red blooms with long stalks and a lovely, spicy fragrance are produced in abundance from July to September. This is a fairly vigorous, upright, free-flowering bush with stout branches and finely-toothed, semi-glossy, ovate dark green deciduous leaves. Widely considered to be one of the best dark red available, the handsome, eye-catching, high-centred blooms are perfect for cutting and exhibiting. It has a strong disease resistance and is well-suited to planting from the middle to the back of a mixed border.

 

 

18. Rose 'Special Anniversary'

 

 

'Special Anniversary' is a delightful hybrid tea rose producing masses of large, shapely, full double blazing fuchsia pink blooms on long, straight stems from June through to October. The richly scented flowers clothe the bush and are set off against a backdrop of healthy, slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. Reaching about 80cm tall by 60cm wide, it is perfect for the front of a flower garden, mixed border or shrubbery. It of course makes the ideal anniversary gift and will succeed in a large container or planter on the patio too where the flowers will be most accessible for cutting and putting in a vase indoors. It has strong disease resistance to help keep rust, mildew and blackspot at bay.

 

 

19. Rose 'Tequila Sunrise'

 

 

'Tequila Sunrise' is certainly a rose to raise a glass to! It is a delightful hybrid tea rose producing an abundance of fully double, high centred vibrant blooms with bright scarlet outer petals that contrasts beautifully with the deep orange-yellow centres. The flowers emerge from attractive, pointed gold and red buds and are set off against a backdrop of slightly toothed, glossy deep green leaves. Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, it is a robust and healthy grower, resistant to common problems with roses such as rust, blackspot and mildew. Reaching around 75cm tall and 50cm wide, it works well grown singly in a container or at the front of a flower bed or mixed border. As the flowers of 'Tequila Sunrise' are themselves two-tone and very vivid, you really don't need too much else going on in the surrounding planting. It combines particularly well with deep and dark coloured foliage plants such as Black Elder and Cotinus plants.

 

 

20. Rose 'Warm Wishes'

 

 

'Warm Wishes' is a beautiful modern hybrid tea rose producing masses of elegant, fully double soft peachy orange blooms that erupt from luscious orange buds repeatedly from the beginning of summer to mid-autumn. Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, it has a very strong, delicious fruity fragrance that fills the air, especially on warm summer days. The flowers are high centred and held both singly on long stems and in clusters. It has a vigorous but compact growth habit, reaching about 80cm tall and the same wide, perfect for a large container on the patio or the front of a flower bed or mixed border. 'Warm Wishes' stands up to rain and blustery weather better than most other roses and is a healthy grower, resistant to black spot, mildew and rust.

 

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(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare

We are here to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:

• Different types of roses and what they each mean
• Guide to climbing roses
• Guide to floribunda roses
• Guide to hybrid tea roses
• How to plant a climbing rose
• How to grow hybrid tea roses