Roses That Grow Under the Shade of a Tree

Climbers

• New Dawn produces classically formed, pale pink blooms in seasonal flushes on canes up to 20 feet long. Zepherine Drouhin, with raspberry-scented, hot-pink ruffled blooms, grows trained as a climber or naturally forms a large, arching shrub. Its first flush of the season is spectacular; scattered blossoms follow throughout the season. Lavender Lassie is a hybrid musk rose reaching up to 12 feet tall. Strongly scented lilac-pink roses appear in flushes. Aloha, introduced in 1949, climbs to 12 feet with fragrant pink blooms throughout the season.

Shrubs and Polyanthas

• Canary Bird blooms once with large single, butter-yellow flowers. Arching stems up to 12 feet long and fine, glossy foliage attractively foil the fragrant blooms. Constance Spry is an early David Austin creation, blooming once with rose-pink blooms on a large shrub. The fragrant white-flowered shrub Pearl Drift produces large, semi-double roses from pink buds throughout the season. The polyantha Cecile Brunner is the vigorous, nearly thornless sweetheart rose producing small, fully double pink roses in abundance. The Fairy is a thorny polyantha with profuse clusters of small pink roses all season.

Alba and Species Roses

• Great Maiden's Blush, or simply Maiden's Blush, is among the best known of the shade-tolerant, disease-resistant Alba roses. The rose reaches 5 feet tall, its long-lasting, single seasonal flush producing an abundance of fluffy pink blooms in heavily scented clusters. Crimson Blush and the peach-colored Royal Blush are Albas. The white or yellow species Lady Banks roses are for warmer regions. Magnificent displays of tiny roses nearly obscure the foliage during the single spring flush.

Floribundas and Hybrid Teas

• Floribundas are a cross of polyantha and hybrid tea roses. Golden Showers is a floribunda climber producing bright yellow, licorice-scented roses through the season on canes up to 14 feet long. The fragrant white floribunda Iceberg blooms continually. The hybrid tea Mr. Lincoln displays richly fragrant, deep-crimson roses on a bush reaching 6 feet tall. Large, single pink flowers in small clusters decorate the hybrid tea Dainty Bess in seasonal flushes on a bush up to 5 feet tall. Few hybrid teas or floribundas tolerate shade.