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Clean, strong-growing, modern Hybrid Tea with healthy foliage and a remarkable changing flower colour. The buds develop from red, opening to brilliant golden, tipped in carmine red. Then, as the flower ages, the red develops deeper into the petals. Grows to about 3.5 feet with perfect roses on long cutting stems. Beautifully formed with a striking colour blend. Moderate rose-lemony scent.

Lovely warm blend of peach and gold tipped in pink, on large blooms with a wonderful glow about them. A modern, dense growing hybrid tea that has proven to be free of mildew and black spot under adverse long term trials. The colours will vary with temperature and time of year and even as the bloom ages. She has a lovely fresh lemon anise fragrance that’s a joy to sniff! Compact in nature with low thorn count yet high bloom production. 3 ft

Named for long-time family friend—the first family to hire me into the plant business. The rose is a stunning light peach with a touch of pink to the petal tips and warmer inner glow. It has proven itself in our seven-year, no spray, test and has never shown disease. She grows upright and strong to about five feet. This long stem beauty blooms from early spring until frost. Its fragrance is a wonderful strong citrus blend. A very tough, easy-care, cutting rose.

Your Named for the 125th Anniversary of the City of Coquitlam. Rich shades of salmon apricot, frilly English rose form on a dense growing healthy floribunda style bush. We love this rose for its incredible health, robust hardy plant and masses of roses. The foliage is highly polished and covers the bush from top to bottom showing excellent resistance to mildew and black spot. A crowd favorite. Never without bloom. Light open fresh aroma. Wonderful for a small, informal bouquet rose. 2.5-3 ft.

Named for the famed Canadian and founder of Chor Leoni Men’s’ Choir, whose life was of music and love. Heavenly fragrance, glowing colour. Magnificent blend of golden peach tipped in pink, changing colours with the weather. Large double, cupped and ruffled roses. Healthy glossy foliage. A favourite of ours and highly praised by field growers: Vancouver’s Stanley Park lauded its performance under no spray conditions. Arizona and Texas field growers commented on its fragrance sweeping across his fields. 3-4 ft.

Easily one of the most raved about floribundas we have ever introduced. This rose has beautiful warm baby pink blooms covering the robust yet tidy bush from spring until frost. The foliage is highly resistant to mildew and black spot, making it a superb variety for any garden, from containers to mass plantings. The blooms are midsize, long lasting and work well as a cutting bouquet rose. There is a lovely old fashion ruffle to the blossoms. Everyone adores this rose! 2.5-3 ft.

This beauty underwent long term testing to be proven free of black spot and mildew under extreme conditions in many climates. Floribunda in habit with some single stem blooms, each starting in perfect rose formation and opening to a slightly ruffled double. Deep shades of gold tinged with apricot depending on weather. Blooms start in spring and keep coming until hard frost. Upright, tidy, and drought tolerant once established. Fragrance is mild and pleasing! An magnificent garden rose.

Honouring those who serve. Outstanding disease-free landscape rose with brilliant single poppy-red blooms. Rounded, dense shrub with lush glossy leaves, proving roses can look good in leaf or flower. Early and fast to rebloom, setting hips for the fall encore. Brilliant for full beds, hedges, containers and masses. Clip to shape; requires no special care. When people see this plant in bloom they comment on the spectacular show and ask that type of shrub it is. That is the mark of a truly superior landscape rose. 3 ft.

‘As good as it gets’ in the UK, EU, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Considered by top field growers worldwide to be one of the best rose introductions in the past 20 years. Velvety plum-red roses vary in shades with the deepest tones showing when evenings are cooler. Its thick foliage is brilliant glossy green, unrivalled in the modern rose world. A low tidy habit combined with amazing flowers and foliage make it ideal for any garden. Light to moderate lemony sweet scent. Makes a fantastic low hedge or grouping. 2.5 ft.

Named for the 150th Anniversary of New Westminster and one of our most requested roses. Flawlessly formed in shades of peachy pink. Gardeners enjoy long stem style roses produced as rapidly as floribundas. A tough plant, with thick leathery foliage and a durability that has made this rose a best seller for years. Roses are known to like full sun but we have seen this rose growing well in half shaded areas on Columbia street. Light tea rose fragrance. Hard to find another rose of its type that will out-perform this beauty. 3 ft.

‘Bolero’ is a gorgeous, compact, ivory white rose with English-style flowers bred in France. If you love David Austin roses, you’ll love ‘Bolero’. It has a fantastic, strong fragrance of old rose mixed with spice and tropical fruit. The centres of young flowers can be subtly blushed with peachy pink. Great disease resistance and gorgeous foliage. Amazing for containers and small gardens. 3-4 feet high by 2-3 feet wide.

An exquisite old-fashioned, English style, peony-type rose with white cups holding a multitude of delicate pink petals. Incredible fragrance of sweet rose, citrus, and raspberry. Very healthy with outstanding, clean, disease resistant foliage. Train as a short climber to 6 feet or prune to maintain as a bush. Very few thorns. Bred by Kordes.

Brad says this is the best red climber on the market. ‘Florentina’ is a very robust climber with old-fashioned, cupped, bright-red flowers in clusters with a moderate scent bred by Kordes. If you love the classic shape of David Austin roses but want a true red, this is the rose for you. This climber blooms over a long season with disease resistant, dark green, glossy foliage. Compact in size, but a terrific impact on any fence or wall. 7 ft.

This rose is just as remarkable as the woman it was named for! Julia Child is hands-down the best in her colour class, and she has won awards worldwide for reliable performance. Beautiful golden yellow anise-licorice scented blooms are produced in massive waves all summer long. Everyone who has grown Julia comments on her constant flowering and incredible health. She is also much more winter hardy than most modern roses. Cut, she makes a wonderful bouquet! Simply an outstanding rose that should be in everyone’s collection. Excellent for mass bedding or hedges. Also great in large containers. 3 ft. x 3 ft.

A gorgeous lavender climbing rose, the petals with lighter reverses, blooming early on young plants and growing to 6-8 feet tall. The flowers have a strong, lemony fragrance and the attractive bluish foliage is very clean and disease resistant. Flowers can be lavender-pink in hot summer climates but bloom lavender like the photo in our cool West Coast summers. Lucky us!

Finally, a truly healthy, easy to grow and highly disease resistant rose in that beautiful lavender blue colour that gardeners love. It took the master rose breeders, Kordes of Germany, to bring us this new wonder rose. Another step forward in the quest for easy care yet beautiful roses. Test plants at Select Roses were disease free with no spraying and produced the most beautiful bouquets of roses! This is a must have rose. Strong and upright growing to around 3 feet.

Use the Select Roses Starter Food when planting new roses to give them the best start possible and quickly establish them for a successful first season in the garden. You can also use this great organic fertilizer on new plantings of all other garden plants.