The easiest roses to grow are disease resistant and produce abundant flowers throughout the summer and into fall. The following selections meet these easy-to-grow criteria as long as you plant them in full sun and water them during dry spells. Plus, most of these top-performing roses don't need to be deadheaded like other varieties do to keep blooming.
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All the Rage
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A gorgeous rose, 'All the Rage' is all about color. The buds start a charming shade of coral, then open to apricot-pink flowers with bright yellow centers. As the blooms age, they turn a lovely shade of pink and are one of the prettiest cut flowers you can grow. Even better, though, is the plant's disease-resistant nature, everblooming habit, and glossy green foliage.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Cinco de Mayo
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The fragrant, double flowers of 'Cinco de Mayo' have a unique rusty red color with hints of smoky lavender. This award-winning, disease-resistant variety is one of the easiest roses to grow. It's a floribunda type of rose that blooms all summer.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: 3-4 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 5-10
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Flower Carpet Coral
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Ideal for mass planting, 'Flower Carpet Coral' is a beautiful, tough groundcover plant that produces masses of coral-colored blooms all summer and fall. Use these roses to line paths and driveways with ribbons of color and to stabilize slopes and banks.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
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Flower Carpet Scarlet
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A flamboyantly colored groundcover rose, 'Flower Carpet Scarlet' will fill your landscape with color all summer and autumn thanks to its clusters of bright scarlet-red blooms. This shrub rose with creeping, trailing habits is an ideal filler plant for lining the edge of a sidewalk, border, or driveway.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
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Grandma's Blessing
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One of the most beautiful and easiest roses to grow, 'Grandma's Blessing' offers gorgeous dusty-pink blooms that are packed with a sweet fragrance. Boost your curb appeal with this shrub rose that blooms all summer with double flowers.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Home Run
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Bred from the 'Knock Out' rose line, 'Home Run' offers single rich-red blooms from late spring to fall. Its exceptional bloom performance and disease resistance make this easy-to-grow shrub rose an ideal addition to the landscape. The beautiful blooms also offer a slight fragrance.
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall
Zones: 4-10
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Kiss Me
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One of the most fragrant flowers for your garden, 'Kiss Me' not only smells sweet, but it looks great, too, with its 4-inch pink flowers. Kiss me is one of the easiest roses to grow and makes stunning flower bouquets. It has highly disease-resistant foliage, and it keeps blooming all summer.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
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Knock Out
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Perhaps the best-known rose, 'Knock Out' rose bears long-lasting masses of cherry-red blooms that have a very light fragrance. Its foliage is dark purplish-green in summer and turns purple to burgundy in fall. This high-performing shrub rose is disease-resistant, blooms all season long, and can grow large with minimal pruning.
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
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Little Mischief
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Don't let its name deceive you; 'Little Mischief' rose is one of the easiest roses to grow and a perfect resident for any sunny garden. It produces masses of magenta-pink flowers (that fade to lighter pink as they age) all season long. And this variety resists disease well.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 3 feet tall
Zones: 4-9
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Mystic Fairy
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An everblooming shrub rose, 'Mystic Fairy' produces loads of red flowers over shiny, disease-resistant foliage that emerges a glossy red and then turns dark green. Include it in your front-yard rose garden plan. Its tidy habit makes it great for a low hedge, even in tough spots.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Paint the Town
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Incredibly disease-resistant and one of the easiest roses to grow, 'Paint the Town' produces red hybrid tea-shaped blooms all season long. The flowers' spreading-to-mounding habit makes it ideal for container gardening, border plantings, and groundcover for sunny spots.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Peach Lemonade Rose
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Aptly named 'Peach Lemonade' is a shrub rose with stunning, color-changing blooms. At first, its flowers are a vibrant yellow; then they shift to a gorgeous blush pink. This color change is gradual, so you'll likely see some yellow, some pink, and a few multicolored flowers all at the same time as the plant continues blooming from early summer through late fall. This self-cleaning variety doesn't need deadheading.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Rainbow Knock Out
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An easy-to-grow rose perfect for any sunny landscape spot, 'Rainbow Knock Out' rose produces cute, coral-pink blooms all season long. Known for its ability to bloom with as little as three hours per day of direct sun, it has excellent disease resistance. And since it's a self-cleaning plant, 'Rainbow Knock Out' does not require deadheading for extended bloom.
Growing Conditions: Full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
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Snowdrift
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It's tough to beat 'Snowdrift' if you're looking for an easy-growing, white-flowering rose that produces a crisp, classic garden look. This hardy, disease-resistant, hybrid rose selection produces double white blooms all season. Its gorgeous flowers are great for cutting and are often used in mixed borders and large containers.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Sunrise Sunset
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Performing beautifully in just about every climate, 'Sunrise Sunset' rose bears fuchsia-pink flowers that fade to apricot at the center. It blooms nonstop all season long and makes an excellent groundcover for a sunny garden bed. You'll want to add this selection to your rose garden plans since it is also well suited to mass plantings.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide
Zones: 3-9
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Super Hero
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With a name like this, you'd expect it to be great. This ever-blooming 'Super Hero' rose has large, beautifully formed flowers. One of the easiest roses to grow, it's a disease-resistant shrub. Grow it in your cutting garden or add it to your foundation garden plan.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 6 feet tall and 6 feet wide
Zones: 4-9
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Sweet Fragrance
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It's hard not to fall for the luscious scent of 'Sweet Fragrance'. This disease-resistant grandiflora rose bears 4-inch double blossoms in tones of apricot, orange, and yellow all season long. You'll want to make this flower last as long as possible in your bouquets.
Growing Conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide
Zones: 5-9
