Hybrid Tea Roses
A page of stock pictures of Hybrid Tea or Large-flowered roses. Hybrid Perpetual roses were strong, healthy plants, but lacked the beautifully shaped buds and soft yellow flower shades found in the weak-growing Tea Roses. It was an obvious move to cross the two and in 1867 the first Hybrid Tea, ‘La France’, a soft pink double, appeared. It wasn’t until the bright yellow, double-flowered Rosa foetida var. persiana was added by the French breeder Pernet-Ducher to produce the bright yellow ‘Soleil d’Or’ in 1898 that Hybrid Teas became the dominant roses. Early Hybrid Teas were rather tender for European gardens but this was remedied by introducing Rosa wichuraiana into the recipe in the mid 1940s and most of our modern hardy Hybrid Teas or Large-flowered Roses date from after this period.
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