Top 20 of best REBLOOMING heritage roses.
Many rose lovers think that all old Heritage roses are once flowering but that's certainly not true. With the Bourbons, Noisettes, Tea Noisettes, Teas, China's, Hybrid Perpetuals and Portlands we have more than 300 old reblooming varieties. Not every nursery offers a wide range of reblooming heritage roses and I know that Europe and Australia are a bit spoiled in this regard. But also the USA certainly has nurseries that offer a very good old rose catalog. The internet is your best tool here. On my blog you can find the best rose nurseries according to country.
We've only looked at reblooming skills so the roses in this top 20 are reblooming champions
The Top 20 in random order:
Souvenir de la Malmaison (Bush)
Lady Hillingdon (Bush and climber)
Mme Boll / Comte de Chambord / Mme Knorr
Jacques Cartier / Marchesa Boccella
Rose de Rescht
Rose du Roi
Salet
Reine des violettes
Alister Stella Grey
Devoniensis (Bush and climber)
Honorine de Brabant
Crépuscule
Desprez
Mme Alfred Carrière
Zepherine Drouhin
Gloire de Dijon
Mme Bérard
Mme Isaac Pereire/ Mme Ernest Calvat
Louise Odier
La reine Victoria / Mme Pierre Oger
One tip: Portlands, Noisettes, Tea Noisettes are almost Perpetual blooming. Teas and China's too but many people don't have the right zone to grow them and that's why I left them out. If you are in zone 8b and more the Teas and China's are first choice.
