Looking for a hardy shrub for your landscape that needs little to no maintenance? Our beautiful shrub roses make great additions to your garden. Shrub roses take the best traits from the hardiest rose species and combine them with modern repeat blooming and diverse flower forms, colors, and fragrances. There are many varieties, varying in height and spread. Shrub roses bloom all season and can be planted all season long. Unlike hybrid tea, grandiflora, or floribunda roses, shrub roses are not grafted, making them particularly hardy. Here are some great varieties to check out next time you visit us.
Knock Out
Rosa x ‘Radrazz’
Knock Out is a maintenance free rose that continually produces candy apple red flowers. It has green foliage with blue and maroon highlights that turn deep purple in fall. It features unsurpassed resistance to black spot leaf disease. Knock Out can be used in the garden as an excellent low hedge or accent. Knock Out has won multiple awards including the 2000 All American Rose Selection and the Euroflora Rose Award!
- Height: 2’-3’
- Width: 2’-3’
- Water: Moderate
- Bloom: Bright Red/ Pink
- Zones: 4-9
Campfire
Rosa ‘CA 29’
Campfire is an exceptionally hardy rose with eye-catching blooms and bright, glossy foliage. Shapely buds in shades of yellow and red open to semi-double yellow flowers edged in deep rosy pink. As the season progresses, the pink edging becomes more pronounced, creating a striking blend of yellow and deep pink blooms that continue until frost. The dark green, glossy foliage offers excellent disease resistance, while the smooth stems bear only an occasional short thorn.
- Height: 3’
- Width: 3’
- Water: Moderate
- Bloom: Yellow and Pink
- Zones: 3-7
Morden Sunrise
Rosa x ‘Morden Sunrise’
Morden Sunrise is a Parkland series rose with creamy orange-yellow buds that open to slightly wavy petals accented by orange stamens. The color matures from dark orange over a yellow base to light orange, then finishes creamy white-yellow. These compact shrubs are very hardy with good disease resistance.
- Height: 2-3 ft.
- Width: 2-3 ft.
- Water: Moderate
- Bloom: Apricot
- Zones: 3
Champagne Wishes
Rosa ‘BAIcham’
Champagne Wishes features clusters of soft apricot-colored buds that open fully to blooms of antique white with just a hint of apricot before fading to a clear white. This shrub rose combines beautifully with perennials in a mixed border or planted as a refined low hedge. It has disease-resistant, medium green foliage.
- Height: 3’-4’
- Width: 3’-4’
- Water: Moderate
- Bloom: White/ Summer
- Zones: 4-7
Hope for Humanity
Rosa x ‘Hope for Humanity’
Hope for Humanity produces deep wine-red buds in clusters of four to five that open into fragrant, cupped, blood-red flowers. Blooming continuously from June through September, the lustrous green foliage provides a striking backdrop to the vibrant blooms. This splendid Parkland Series rose is very hardy and has good resistance to black spot and powdery mildew.
- Height: 3’-4’
- Width: 3’-4’
- Water: Moderate
- Bloom: Red/ Summer
- Zones: 3
Originally published on May 3rd, 2018. Updated on July 1st, 2026.