What is the easiest variety of rose to grow?

[Elliot]

I am a beginner

[matereater]

I like carpet roses, flower all summer long, very little disease, but they grow somewhat flat. If you want taller you'll have to wait for someone else to chime in.

[matereater]

Oh, btw, I started with 3 plants and am now up to 14. You can take the larger branches and bury them underground, when they root you have a new plant !!

[remy]

Hi Elliot,
That is such a difficult question to answer. There are a lot of roses out there! What are you looking for in a rose? A big(or small) shrubby type, for cut flowers, to climb up something, or something else?
Locally, go to a good nursery that is know to have a large selection. Hopefully there is such a place near you. Hybrid Teas are often very temperamental and not the best choice for a beginner. Unfortunately, they are often the majority of roses people see for sale, but try to avoid them.
For a good sized shrub 'Carefree Beauty', a Buck rose, or the bred from a Buck 'Carefree Wonder' is often available. If you can find any other Buck roses, they are good to buy. Some of then even look like the hard to grow Hybrid Teas.(Please check out my rose picture posts from last year on this forum.)
Rugosa type roses also make nice shrubs and don't get black spot.
English roses are nice shrubs and often a few varieties can be found at good nurseries.
Sometimes you can get lucky and find antique roses.
I hope this helps a bit. It probably confused you more!
I'm happy to answer any questions though,
Remy

[carolyn137]

Agree with remy that your question is very hard to answer unless you indicate which kind of roses you're interested in.

For sheer leave them alone and they perform well I think any of the Rugosa varieties are just fine. Those are shrub roses and fragrance is there if you chose the right ones.

However, over the years I've gone to mainly climbers and Austin shrub roses and mini-roses b'c they bloom all summer. I used to have many of the old fashioned roses but most of them bloom just once a year, in the Spring, maybe a few blossom here and there thru the summer, and I want something with more blooms than that throughout the whole growing season.

I thought the hybrid teas were not worth the care effort and the Grandiflora types are too darn tall but some of the Floribunda's, short and fragrant work well.

So for no care get blooms I still say the Rugosa ones and if you want more varieties/sq area, then consider the mini's which I love. Height is about a foot to three feet for different varieties, some have perfect tea rose shaped blossoms and if you choose the right ones the fragrance is wonderful.

[Elliot]

thanks everyone. I will visit the nursery carrying your advice with me

Elliot