The Wych Cross Rose Catalogue

The Catalogue is Divided into Six Sections, click here to go straight to the online version of the catalogue.

Hybrid Tea & Floribunda Roses

These are also classified as Large Flowered and Cluster Flowered roses respectively, or more simply as Bush Roses.

Patio Roses

This section includes short, low-growing Floribunda Roses together with the Miniature Roses

Ground Cover Roses

These roses are mostly procumbent in habit, that is to say they are almost always wider than they are tall, and some of them are genuinely prostrate.

English Roses

This is a comparatively new classification of certain modern shrub roses bred by David Austin of Wolverhampton.

Shrub Roses: Ancient & Modern

This section contains the Species Roses, the old-fashioned garden roses (Gallicas, Damasks, Albas, Centifolias & Moss Roses) together with the Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Portlands, Hybrid Musks and all the Modern Shrub Roses.

Climbing and Rambling Roses

What's the difference? Well, they can all be treated as roses that climb, but climbers tend to be shorter, have stiffer more upright stems, bigger but fewer flowers and tend to be repeat flowering. Ramblers tend to be more vigorous with thinner, more pliable stems, smaller flowers usually in sprays and to have only one main flowering season. (But you'll find plenty of roses in this section that break all those generalisations!)

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