These tall stately cultivar shrubs have upright stems that form a bushy habit. They have dark green divided leaves and produce small saucer-shaped flowers in a wide range of colours and appear solitary or in a small cluster from spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 6 to 10

Rosa species 'Grandiflora' Plants in this class originate from the cultivar 'Queen Elizabeth' which was bred by Dr Walter Lammerts during the 1950s. 

They are distinguish from hybrid Tea's and Floribunda cultivars by producing larger flowers and growing taller with several individual main stems. 

These cultivars prefer an open sunny, wind protected position and grow in fertile moist well-drained soil that is tending acidic and are frost tolerant but drought tender. 

Grandiflora Rose’s are grown for their bright stately habit and large flowers. They have a variety of uses including; cut flowers, tubs specimen, edging plants, climber-ramblers that cover pergolas and grow against hot walls. There are also weeping standards for formal gardens and are suitable for coast to inland regions and perform well in raised garden beds. ID 449

Rosa (RO-sa) species Grandiflora

Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee)
Rose Family