Growing White Flowering Roses
Below you will find a list of Roses from our plant database that are white flowering or have white as one of the bloom colors. If you click any of the photos, you will see a Virtual Plant Tag that may contain plant descriptions, usage suggestions and a link to where you can buy that plant for your landscaping. These rose plants can be considered shrubs, bushes, groundcovers or flowering broadleaf evergreens.
Don't forget about roses when you are considering white flowered shrubs. A huge movement in rose breeding is bringing pest-free and disease-free landscape roses. To get flowering shrubs that flower spring through frost and are low maintenance is exactly what today's busy homeowners are looking for. New roses can be a great answer. Don't think of roses as just roses; think of them as garden shrubs that also happen to be roses.
This list of roses with white blooms is a mix of tried and true Heirloom or Antique varieties that have stood the test of time, contemporary varieties bred for exceptional bloom power and the promising, new developments of trouble-free landscape roses that range from low-growing types to regular shrubs to climbing and tree-roses. Some of them are grafted and some are now being grown on their own roots with new cloning methods to withstand freeze problems encountered in the past. Combined rose interest is having a major resurgence providing the gardener with easy to care for and rewarding plants that you'll be glad you decided to try.
Favorites include: 'Alba' a white form of the Rugosa or Saltspray Rose, 'Anastasia', 'Blanc Double de Coubert' and 'Boule de Neige' which are old-fashioned roses, 'Cachet', 'City of York', 'Class Act', 'Crystalline', 'Fabulous!', Flower Carpet 'White®', 'Green Ice', 'Honor', Ice White', 'Iceberg', 'Innocence', 'Ivory Tower', 'Jet Trail', 'John F. Kennedy', 'Meidiland White', 'Morden Snowbeauty' for rugged hardiness, 'Newport Fairy', old garden roses (Rosa x alba) 'Maxima' and 'Semi-plena', 'Pascali', 'Saratoga', 'Sea Foam', 'White Simplicity', 'Wild Spice' and 'Winchester Cathedral'.
Roses with white flowers add a brightness and softness to the landscape and work with cool colors of purple, blue and pink but also with warm colors of red, magenta, fuchsia and yellow. Roses with white blooms look great with green and white leaves of variegated plants.
An interesting new combination that adds more flower power in the garden is growing the new, compact Clematis vines among other landscape plants. Having Clematis vine flowers sprinkled among the bright blossoms of rose plants is a lovely, striking blend.