The Select Roses
Rose Pre-Order
We are very pleased to offer a new rose pre-order highlighting the amazing introductions and breeding work of our friend Brad Jalbert from Select Roses. His roses are bred in Langley, BC but are now grown around the world. It’s time that Brad and his roses became better known at home, especially in BC where his roses are perfectly in tune with our particular climate.
Select Roses introductions have undergone long term no-spray testing in adverse conditions. Their trial beds in Langley have heavy, wet, clay soils and receive limited sunlight with substantial disease pressures from surrounding fields and forest lands. The trial plants are over-wintered with no winter protection. Brad has carefully and ruthlessly selected only the best disease-free performers with the most beautiful flowers to introduce internationally. His roses have also been trialed in other climates around the world, particularly in eastern Canada, Europe, the US, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, where they have received rave reviews for their healthy, thick foliage, beautiful flowers, and ease of care. In recognition, Select Roses is the first Canadian rose grower to have enjoyed multiple international awards for the quality of Brad’s work.
We are very pleased to now bring these roses to you, a mix of hybrid teas, grandifloras, floribundas, shrub, and landscape roses along with a selection of other roses from top international breeders that Brad recommends enthusiastically. All of these roses will be hardy to at least zone 5b. With deeper planting, hilling up of soil in winter, protection from drying winter winds, and good snow cover, they could be hardy into colder zones. They are all #1 grade plants grown on hardy multiflora root stock right here in Canada and potted into a 3 gallon pot for the price of $49.99. They will be ready for pick-up, courier, or shipping from mid March 2021 onwards. Please pre-order in advance. We will contact you with exact dates in the spring.
Roses Bred by Brad Jalbert of Select Roses
These roses represent some of the best of Brad’s creations for unique colours, disease resistance, and garden performance.
A Lady Never Tells - Hybrid Tea
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.
Alaiza - Hybrid Tea
Gorgeous, large double, soft peach bloom with a ruffle to the petals. This is a strong growing rose with healthy foliage and robust plant. The scented blooms are superb from bud to fully open stage, making it an excellent cutting or garden rose. Typical of the modern hybrid tea roses, this beauty provides an abundance of large roses on a dense healthy plant. People who love a classic full ruffled single stem garden rose for bouquets will fall in love with Alaiza. 4 ft.
Anne Marie - Hybrid Tea
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
Beloved Bill - Hybrid Tea
Classic long stem red rose with clean, healthy foliage on a tidy growing plant. The roses are long lasting whether cut or left to bloom out on the plant. The outside petals can be tipped in the blackest red, then open slowly to a deep true red. If you love the classic florist-style red rose, this is one for you. Fragrance is light tea rose. The bush is compact in form for a classic hybrid tea, with abundant rich deep green foliage to about three feet.
Beverly Anne Clay - Grandiflora
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.
Canadian Glory - Landscape Rose
Double, non-fading, long lasting glowing red landscape rose. This is a stunning, easy-care garden shrub with a tidy, bushy habit. It is highly resistant to disease and is fast to rebloom with a brilliant unfading red colour that looks superb in mass plantings. Its growth habit and use would be similar to the famous Knock Out landscape rose. Very hardy, the blooms are also resistant to rain damage. Early to flower and it just keeps on going! 2.5-3 ft.
Coquitlam Rose - Floribunda
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.
Devotion - Floribunda
Sister seedling to Dylan Rose with many of the same attributes: robust; delicate peachy pink bloom with a classic spiral hybrid tea form; ideal for cutting. The plant can be allowed to mature into a larger specimen or pruned down each year. Fragrance is light traditional tea rose. Easy to grow well! Do not spray either of these roses as they are proven and tested no-spray, and they like it that way. Ideal for a hedge that could be power clipped and still produces classic roses for cutting. Fantastic season long production! 3×4 ft.
Diane Loomer - Hybrid Tea
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.
Double Ambre - Floribunda
Glowing shades of amber orange with a stunning double English style flower will make this new introduction popular with gardeners. This floribunda has highly polished healthy foliage that sets the glowing blooms off to perfection. Growth is bushy and dense, and ideal for containers or gardens. We love its bloom style from bud to its long lasting, fully open English bloom. Fragrance is fresh and sweet with a hint of green apple. 2.5-3 ft.
Dylan Rose - Floribunda
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.
Foxy Lady - Floribunda
An amazing one-of-a-kind colour: coppery orange with a smoky finish. This floribunda is a standout in health, plant habit and hue! Blooms are large, rather wavy, and open wide to show their stamens, making it a great pollinator plant. She is extremely healthy with glossy clean foliage, and is ravishing in the garden. We can’t get enough of this Foxy Lady. It’s a must see rose; photos just don’t do her justice. Great for cutting or a rich splash of colour in your garden. Fragrance is tea with spice. 3 ft.
Glowing Inspiration - Floribunda
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.
Gold Flame
A brand new Select Roses introduction for 2021 with a gorgeous blending of golden shades tipped in orange and pink. Full long lasting blooms are beautiful from tight bud to a slightly ruffled fully open rose. Outstanding as a cut flower, very rain resistant and backed with lush, deep green, high gloss foliage. Plants grow upright and robustly to about 4 feet.
Liberty - Landscape 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.
Mary Lou Whitney - Hybrid Tea
Classic flawless light pink hybrid tea, each bloom borne on a single long stem with lush glossy foliage. The perfectly shaped blooms are beautifully scented with a strong old rose perfume. The plant is easy growing to about 4 feet and thrives in full sun with appropriate care for this class of rose. For those who collect fragrant roses, Mary Lou is one to have. One of my early roses and highly sought after by plant collectors. The highly polished deep green foliage looks almost too good to be real. 4 ft.
Our Anniversary - Floribunda
‘As good as it Gets’ in the UK, EU, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Considered by top field growers worldwide to be 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.
Peach Perfection - Floribunda
As tough as it is beautiful! This disease-free peach rose has proven itself in long term testing to be hardy, easy care, perfect garden habit and free of rose black spot or mildew. The lavish blooms are fully double clear peach and produced in masses on a dense growing plant. Perfect for garden, cutting, containers or even a hedge rose. Superb at all stages from bud to fully open. Scent is soft and fruity with a hint of lemon and spice. An excellent rose for filling vases! Early to bloom with quick repeat until frost. 3 ft.
Royal City Rose - Floribunda
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.
Tanglebank Legacy (Peach Glory) - Grandiflora
Named to celebrate the 100th year of Tanglebank Gardens. Robust, hardy, and free of typical rose diseases. Orange to deep apricot blooms are borne on long cutting stems. Fully double with a lovely cottage form making them very popular for today’s gardeners. Dependable, prolific, and beautiful at all stages with a stately habit. Deep bronze autumn foliage is a final bonus to the season. Easy care and a must-have garden rose. Light fruity rose fragrance. Superb specimen plant. 4-5 ft.
Brad Recommends
These roses have been created by top international breeders. Brad recommends them as must-have roses with unique colours and excellent garden performance in coastal BC and beyond.
Distant Drums - Floribunda
Stunning, ruffled, dusty rose-pink flowers have coppery brown centres for a decidedly antique look unique in the garden. Heady, myrrh fragrance. Dark green foliage. Disease resistant. Brad says that ‘Distant Drums’ has fantastic performance in the garden. 3-3.5 ft.
Earth Angel Parfuma - Floribunda/Short Climber
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.
Eden - Climber
One of the world’s most popular roses with an abundance of large, old-fashioned, cupped, white, light pink and carmine pink blooms with a moderate fragrance and excellent repeat bloom. Strong climber. Glossy, dark green foliage. The flower shape resembles the style of David Austin roses. 6-10 ft.
Florentina - Climber
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.
Julia Child - Floribunda
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.
Julie Andrews (Pink Paradise) - Floribunda
Selected as the “Most Beautiful Rose of the Century” at the International New Rose Competition in Lyon, France, Julie Andrews is an incredible performer with glowing pink petals and a bright yellow heart giving an intriguing two-tone colour display on perfectly-formed roses. She has a beautiful and powerful perfume of anise, tarragon, and old rose. Rich, dark green, disease resistant foliage. 2-4 ft.
Lavender Crush - Climber
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!
Living Easy - Floribunda
Large, double flowers in brilliant shades of apricot, peach and salmon with hints of yellow. Free flowering and disease resistant with strong roots and glossy green leaves. 3-5 ft. high and wide.
Poseidon - Floribunda
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.
Westerland - Climber
Grow it as a shrub. Grow it as a climber. Grow it as a large bush–but just grow it! We get more praise and comment on this hardy climber than any other rose in its class. People have often said they gave up growing roses until they planted Westerland. The massive trusses of frilly apricot blooms are filled with a sweet rose perfume that can perfume an entire room. I love its large, highly disease resistant foliage and iron clad constitution. A truly remarkable rose that should be grown in every garden and sold at every nursery. Bred by Kordes. 10 ft. tall.
Don’t Forget Your Fertilizers
Good fertilizing is an integral component of good rose care and will help you achieve beautiful, healthy, floriferous roses. Brad recommends planting your new roses with Starter Food then following up with his Rose & Plant Food a bit later in the season once your new plants have established. For established rose bushes, apply Rose & Plant Food 2-3 times a year from spring to fall. You can also use it throughout the garden on all your garden plants.
Select Roses Starter Food
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.
Select Roses Rose & Plant Food
Brad’s top quality Rose and Plant Food is an organic-based fertilizer specially formulated to Brad’s specifications based on decades of experience growing and breeding roses. This fertilizer will help you achieve everything you ever dreamed of in your rose garden specifically healthy, gorgeous plants covered in colourful, fragrant flowers.
Ordering, Pick-Up, and Shipping Details
Local Pick-Up Customers: Pick-up will begin in early to mid March. Roses will be provided potted in pots. We recommend planting as soon as possible for best establishment.
Courier, Freight, and Mail Order Customers: We are making some changes this year to better serve our shipping customers, especially those in colder zones.
Shipping will take place from March through April as weather conditions are safe for shipping and about to be warm enough to plant. Roses can be planted as soon as the ground is workable in early spring.
For gardeners in zones 7 and 8 in coastal BC, your roses will be sent potted if your order is shipping courier or freight or bareroot if we are shipping via Canada Post.
If you live in a colder region from zones 3-6, it was challenging this past year to ship your roses bareroot before they came into full growth in our mild climate while still sending them to you at a time when you could take care of them during a very cold spring. It was also challenging for some of you to care for them once they arrived. For 2021 we will be potting your roses into the smallest pots we can based on the root volume of the plants. This will allow us to hold them for longer at our nursery until the weather looks good in your area to ship. The smaller pots will help minimize the weight and shipping costs while keeping your rose healthier in transit and once you receive it.
Our pre-orders are administered in a separate system from our mail order site which cannot quote exact shipping rates. We expect a shipment of 1-3 roses would cost about $30-$50 depending on how many roses you choose and how far you are from BC. Quite distant or very rural locations will cost at the upper end of the scale. Orders greater than 3 roses would cost incrementally more as weight and box sizes increase. Please note that we do not make money on shipping and charge only to cover our costs.
In order to streamline the shipping process for the upcoming season, all mail order customers will be asked to provide full address information and a shipping deposit of $50. Once your roses have shipped, we will either refund the remainder of your deposit if the shipping is less or send you a PayPal money request if the shipping is more. You can pay with a credit card or PayPal account. We expect that in most cases we will be refunding a portion of your deposit.
If you would like to place a second order, our system will recognize your email address and block you from doing so. You can use a different email address or use your only email address but change the last letters so that .com or .ca would become .xxx or .xx. Have fun!
Please note your rose selections and then click on the link to go to the ordering page.
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