Rose Bushes for Sale

Growing roses from seed is difficult, time-consuming, and probably not a task the amateur gardener should attempt. If you want to put in a rose garden, beautify your landscape with roses, or add rose cultivation and care to your life, you should start by purchasing rose bushes for sale and learning to take care of rose bushes.

Rose bushes for sale can be found everywhere, from your neighborhood nursery to online stores. The key to buying rose bushes for sale is figuring out which rose bush varieties grow best in your growing zone, which rose bushes match your ability to maintain and care for them, and the color and style of roses you want in your garden or landscaping project.

Easy to Maintain Rose Bushes

If you’re just starting out in your rose bush hobby, you should probably select rose bushes that are easy to care for and maintain. Some rose bushes are finicky, and require a lot of patience and care. Other rose bush varieties are hardy, flourish in almost any growing condition, and are naturally disease-resistant.

Here is a list of the easiest rose bushes to maintain, along with pricing and other information for the new rose hobbyist.

Hope For Humanity–This shrub rose is much easier to care for than a hybrid tea rose bush. Hope for Humanity was developed to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Canadian Red Cross. This shrub rose that produces clusters of five to twelve red blooms on a stem, so each stem is a bouquet. This is the first rose bush to bloom and the last one to quit blooming, with a growing season from Spring to Fall. Retails for around $25.

Carefree Delight–Carefree roses mix well with other shrubs and have blooming periods almost as long as Hope for Humanity. Created in England, Carefree Delight has five pink petals and a beautiful yellow stamen with a white eye. This is a landscape rose, so it flourishes just as well in a pot or in soil. Retails for around $18.

John Davis–This climbing rose, another Canadian variety, can hold up to 1,000 blooms at one time. Climbing roses tend to bloom in June. John Davis features clusters of double blooms in medium pink with yellow stamens. This climber is also thornless and has been known to bloom through mild winters. Retails for around $20.

William Baffin–Another hearty climbing rose, William Baffin climbers will bloom throughout the summer in big clusters of strawberry pink roses. Very little maintenance is needed, though this climber does have thorns, so it may not be the best planter for a yard with kids. Retails for around $18.

Double KnockOut–Developed to be naturally disease-resistant, this hearty little rose bush has shiny bright pink and red blossoms as big as three inches wide. This rose blooms from summer through the first frost, with fully double blossoms and an average petal count of 25. You don’t even have to deadhead or trim this rose to keep the blooms coming. Retails for around $30.

Inexpensive Rose Bushes

If you’re looking for inexpensive roses to start your rose hobby on, you’re in luck. Tons of inexpensive roses exist, in various styles from hybrid tea roses to Grandiflora.

Here are my favorite inexpensive rose bushes along with some details about the bush itself.

Lavender Simplicity–Simplicity roses are easy to grow and care for and are some of the least expensive rose bushes you’ll find. This is a container rose in a beautiful lavender color, a citrusy rose scent, and able to grow in a wide range of zones, from 5-10. My nursery has Simplicity rose bushes selling for as little as $9.95.

Simplicity–Essentially the same rose as the Lavender Simplicity but in a light pink color and a more traditional rose scent. This rose bush grows in zones 5-10, though it has been known to survive warmer weather as well. This is another rose bush that you can often find for under $10.

Beach Blanket–This groundcover rose works well in a container or in a landscape, and has wild tropical colors of pink and yellow-gold with a rich citrusy rose scent. Easy to grow in even the worst soils, Beach Blanket groundcover roses will thrive in Zones 3-10, making it one of the more adaptable inexpensive rose bushes. My nursery is selling Beach Blanket rose bushes in a container for $12.

Bubblicious–Named for the bubble-gum pink color and sweet candy scent, Bubblicious roses are a relatively new addition to the rose market, but since they are best as container roses, they aren’t very pricey. Disease-resistant with dark green foliage, Bubblicious rose bushes are great landscape roses or filler for a deck garden, and they will only set you back about $12 per bush.

Good n’ Plenty–The perfect rose for any American climate, Good n’ Plenty roses have dark pink blossoms and are ideal as a low hedgerow or bottom filler for any garden or landscape. Thriving in zones 3-10 mean you can stick Good n’ Plenty roses in just about any climate and you’ll have no trouble with their cultivation.

Double Delight–This hybrid tea rose isn’t the easiest rose to grow and is pretty fickle about its climate, but if you want to try your hand at more advanced rose bush cultivation and care, the $15 price tag shouldn’t be too much of a risk for you. Pink, yellow, and strawberry red colors make Double Delight the star of any garden, though there’s no disease or pest resistance and you’ll have to do a good deal of pruning and deadheading to maintain the bush.

Growing and caring for roses is a hobby enjoyed by millions of people around the world, but it doesn’t have to mean a huge financial investment or a ton of time spent cultivating, clipping, and perfecting the art of rose growing. Start small, with roses that match your climate, and you’ll eventually get the hang of caring for and maintaining roses.