The so called "modern" era of rose gardening began in the mid 1800's, with the introduction of what is now designated the first hybrid tea rose and the class that dominates the present-day rose gardens.
Despite their importance today, hybrid tea roses didn't arrive on the scene with a great fanfare. They actually crept in almost unnoticeably. Which makes it hard to figure out which rose was actually the first of the class.
The hybrid tea rose were created by crossing hybrid perpetual and tea roses, and their characteristics fall midway between those of the parent types. Even though they tend to be smaller and bushier than the hybrids, and they continue to flower throughout the growing season in all climates. But the differences between the parent tea are they are stiffer, more sparsely floiaged canes. The hybrid tea roses can handle the colder temperatures better than the parent tea rose.
In the early 1900's the range of colors in the new class was the same that was found among the perpetuals, with yellow tints being added, from the tea roses. Through the years and the onset of the 20th century hybrid tea roses started to see a new onset of colors, along with a more hardy style of hybrid tea roses. With the infusion of 'Sloeil'd'Or', it created a new exciting slew of colors in the hybrid tea rose. Colors such as: bright golden yellow, flame, copper, soft orange and the bicolors of yellow and practically any of the other colors of roses.
For many years after the infusion of 'Soleil'd'Or' created a subclass of hybrid tea roses known as pernetianas, but by the 1930's, because of the extensive crossing with hybrid teas, pernetianas later just absorbed the name of the hybrid tea rose. Which is what we know them as, today. But with the creation over the years of the peretiana heritage, more new colors were being introduced into the hybrid tea shade roses, colors such as: mauve, tan lavender, grey and brown.
The Roses listed on the bottom of this page all belong to the hybrid tea rose familiy. This makes it easier for you to pick and choose which style and color of rose you want to purchase.
