Plant These 15 Rose Varieties Once And Enjoy Beautiful Flowers EVERY Year

You're out there, year after year, dropping $35, $45, even $55 for a hybrid tea rose at the nurse, bringing it home, spraying it every week, worrying every time it rains, wrapping it in burlap in November, then heading out in March the next year. The plant is dead. Or it's alive, but with not a single flower. Ugh, sound familiar? What if I told you there are 15 rose varieties you only plant once, and they come back every year more beautiful than the last, with no spraying, no burlap, no begging for your attention? That's not a dream. That's exactly what these rose varieties do. And today we're counting down the 15 best ones you need in your garden right now. And hey, if you don't want to miss videos like this that can save you hundreds of dollars every year, hit subscribe right now, because we post rose content that most other channels are too lazy to research. And if you leave without subscribing, you'll be back looking for us. Don't say I didn't warn you. Alright, let's get into it. We're counting down from 15 to 1, and trust me, number 1 is going to blow you away, number 15. Knock out rose, Rosa Radras. And if you're someone who has given up on roses, who swore you'd never bring that stuff into your garden again, then I need you to hear this. This is the rose variety that has saved millions of Americans from that decision. Bright cherry red flowers bloom in dense clusters that cover the entire bush. Not just one or two scattered blooms, but hundreds at a time, from spring all the way until the first frost hits your garden. Here's what most new growers don't know. Knock out blooms on a precise five to six week cycle, and when the flowers fade, the petals drop cleanly to the ground without you having to lift a finger. 90% of new growers don't know this and waste hours every week deadheading while the plant handles it completely on its own. You don't need to do that. You never needed to do that. Knock out is hardy from zone grows about 90 to 120 centimetres tall and wide, has black spots and powdery mildew resistance that most traditional roses can't touch and need six to eight hours of sun per day. Prune once in early spring down to 30 centimetres with hedge shears and you're done. In zone six and warmer, plant the bud union level with the ground. In zone five or colder, bury it five centimetres deep. Don't fertilize until after the first bloom cycle. Fertilizing too early makes it grow lots of leaves and fewer flowers. Water at the base in the morning, never on the leaves. Bees and butterflies will find it on their own, and one properly planted knockout will live and bloom beautifully for 20 to 30 years without replacement. Knock out red is the foundation, but number 14 is a member of the same family and it brings a colour that most buyers glance at and pass by only to spend the whole next summer looking at the neighbour's garden with regret. Number 14, coral knockout rose. Fiery coral colour, not orange, not pink. A shade that sits right in the middle of all of them in a way that no name really describes until you're standing in front of it in the garden and can only say, yeah, that's the colour. The colour that makes the whole neighbourhood turn their heads. And here's what most buyers don't know until they plant it and can't stop staring. The new foliage on coral knockout emerges a brilliant copper red before gradually turning deep green as it matures, meaning throughout the entire growing season you get two layers of colour happening at once. Vibrant coral flowers on top, glowing copper red leaves underneath. No other variety in the knockout family does that. Coral knockout is hardy from zone 5 to 11, completely self-cleaning with the same five to six week bloom cycle as red knockout, same pruning and bud union rules. But the biggest difference is it handles heat and humidity one clear step better than original red knockout, especially suited for the Gulf Coast, Texas, Florida, Carolinas, area where hot, humid summers can kill most traditional roses with black spot in a month, while coral knockout just stands there blooming like nothing's happening, without a single drop of fungicide. If you want to make the most of that coral colour, plant it next to purple salvia or catmint. The complementary colours make the coral pop in a way you can't achieve if you plant it alone and stay away from deep red or deep pink right next to it. They cancel each other out and both lose. The knockout series gives you upright colourful roses that are almost completely self-sufficient. But number 13 is completely different. It stays low, spreads wide and covers the garden spots you stopped looking at long ago. Number 13, Drift Rose, Red Drift and Peach Drift. There are garden spots you've stopped looking at, slopes no one wants to deal with, the embankment along the driveway, the empty patch under the fence where weeds keep growing no matter what you do. And Drift Roses were created exactly for those spots. Small flowers bloom in dense profusion, covering the plant like a carpet. Red Drift is bright vivid red. Peach Drift is a softer pale peach and has something you don't expect from a ground cover. A light honey fragrance that wafts up every time you walk by. Here's what most buyers don't know. Drift Roses are the result of crossing large-scale ground cover roses with miniature roses, which is why they have unusually deep roots compared to the modest looking small plant above ground. That's exactly why many US cities and transportation departments use them on highway medians without irrigation systems once established. The deep roots find water on their own, stand strong on their own, take care of themselves. Drift Roses are hardy from zone 4 to 11, only 45 centimetres tall but spread up to 90 centimetres, blooming from mid-spring all the way until the spring. That's it for the year, nothing else to do. Mulch 5 to 7 centimetres around the base, but remember to pull the mulch back 5 centimetres from the stem to avoid crown rot. This is the most common mistake new growers make and it quietly kills the plant over many, months before you notice. If you have a retaining wall, plant Drift Roses on top and let the branches cascade down to create a waterfall of flowers. That effect looks way more expensive than the effort it takes. Plant Peach Drift near the front entrance so you can enjoy the fragrance every morning. Space them 60 centimetres apart. After two seasons they'll completely cover the area and naturally suppress weeds underneath. A three square metre patch of Drift Roses will live 15 to 20 years without replacement. Something no grass lawn or mulch layer can compete with. Drift Roses are low and spreading. Number 12 does the complete opposite. It climbs up, climbs high and it carries a historic title that no other flower in America has earned. Number 12, New Dawn, Climbing Rose. There are beautiful roses. Then there's New Dawn, the one that climbs up and turns an arbour, a brick wall, an old wooden fence into a site that makes neighbours stop their cars in front of your house and ask about it every summer. Soft pinkish cream flowers bloom in large clusters all along the length of the canes with a light apple fragrance that drifts through the air every morning when you walk by. Not overpowering, not sharp, just enough to make you pause for a second and breathe it in. And here's what most growers don't know about the plant they have in their garden. New Dawn was the very first plant in the world to receive a plant patent. Plant patent number one under the US. Plant Patent Act of 1930. No other flower on the planet has that legal historic title. None. And 95 years later it's still climbing fences and house walls all across America. The clearest proof that some things stand the test of time. New Dawn is hardy from Zone 5 to 9, climbs six to nine metres, so you need a sturdy trellis or wall and it must be installed before you plant. Don't plan to do it later because the plant grows faster than you think. Disease resistance is better than most traditional climbing roses. In Zones 5 to 6, plant the bud union five centimetres below ground level for winter protection. Now here's the secret catalogues never print. Train the main canes horizontal instead of letting them climb straight up. Horizontal. Canes to stimulate many more flowering points according to the basic biology of climbing plants. And that's exactly how professional rose growers create those thick walls of flowers you see in photos and wonder how they did it. In the first year, don't prune the main canes. Let the plant attach to the structure first, build its foundation first, then shape it the following year. Bees and birds will come to nest in its thick branches. And one properly planted New Dawn will live for decades in the same spot without replacement. One-time investment. Lifetime enjoyment. That's not just a nice saying. That's reality with this plant. New Dawn conquers with heightened history. Number 11 conquers with the complete opposite. It's mysterious. No one knows where it came from and it does something no other rose in this list can do. Number 11. Darlow's Enigma. Its name is Enigma, not because someone gave it a fancy name, but because literally no one knows what it is. Small white flowers bloom in large clusters with bright yellow centers standing out against the pure white petals. And the fragrance. Its fragrance isn't something you have to bend down close to the flower to smell. It fills the whole garden. You can smell it from the front of the yard before you even see the plant. Here's what even the world's top rose experts haven't been able to do after decades of study. Determine the origin of Darlow's Enigma. No one knows what it was crossed from. No one knows where it came from. No one knows why it has characteristics no other variety has. And the biggest of those is this. It tolerates complete shade. North-facing walls. Under large trees that block all sunlight. Garden corners people gave up on long ago because nothing would grow there. Darlow's Enigma grows there. No other rose in today's list of 15 can do that. None. Darlow's Enigma is hardy from zone 5 to 9. Grows as a bush up to 2.7 meters tall and 2 meters wide. With a trellis it can climb to 4.5 meters. Blooming from late spring and continuing through summer with almost nothing required from you once established. If you have a dark garden corner where everything you've tried has failed, this is the answer. Plant it under large trees and let it naturally climb the trunks. Creating a wild woodland scene so beautiful it's hard to believe with zero hours of maintenance. Mulch seven centimeter thick around the base because soil in shaded areas is often much drier than people think. That's the common mistake when planting in those locations. Bees will find it from far away because of that fragrance and you will never need to spray a single chemical on this plant in its entire life. Darlow's Enigma blooms in the shade. Number 10 blooms in even more extreme conditions and it comes from a national scientific research program designed with one single goal. To conquer the coldest regions on this continent. Number 10 William Baffin Canadian Explorer Series. If you live in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan or anywhere where winter can drop below 30 Fahrenheit then this is the rose you've been looking for your whole life without knowing it existed. Semi-double strawberry pink flowers bloom in large dense clusters on the canes. A deep vibrant pink that doesn't fade even in the July heat or September chill. Climbing up to three meters tall and three meters wide when mature. Enough to cover an arbor, a long fence section, a shed wall you've wanted to hide for years. And here's what makes William Baffin different from every other climbing rose on the American market. It is part of the Explorer Series, Canada's national research program that ran from the 1960s to 2005. Funded by Agriculture Canada with the single goal of breeding roses that could survive zone 2. Meaning 40 Fahrenheit, 40 degrees Celsius with no winter protection at all. All the varieties in the series are named after great Canadian explorers and like those explorers they reach places others cannot. William Baffin is certified as the hardiest climbing rose in the world and still holds that title today. Truly hardy from zone 2 to 9. Not a catalogue theory number but the result of decades of field testing in the harshest conditions. Outstanding disease resistance. Almost never needs preventive sprays. Bury the bud union 5 to 7 centimeters below ground level in the coldest zones for an extra layer of safety. And here's the most important tip when buying this plant. Choose own If the top growth dies back in an unusually cold winter an own root plant will regrow true to William Baffin from the roots. A grafted plant will regrow as a completely different root stock and you'll be staring at some random rose wondering why. Fertilize with organic matter in the first season to push strong growth and after that the plant takes care of itself. No burlap, no covering, nothing at all in winter. That's something no other climbing rose in America can tell you. William Baffin conquers with cold hardy endurance. Number nine conquers with something completely different. It is the only rose in this list where the fragrance when you stand close can make you stop in your tracks and not want to walk away. Number nine Sir Thomas hybrid. Most roses are fragrant when you bend down close to the flower. Sir Thomas Lipton is fragrant from the end of the driveway. You haven't even seen the plant yet. You don't know which corner of the garden it's in but the fragrance has already reached you first and that's just the first thing about this plant that amazes you. Double white flowers with thick petals layered 17 to 25 per bloom. Blooming in vibrant clusters at the beginning of summer and then re-blooming continuously until frost and when the flowers fade what replaces them is even more beautiful than you think. Bright shiny red hips hanging on the canes all through fall looking like little jeweled ornaments hung on the bush. Here's what most growers don't know. The hips of Rosa rugosa have 20 times more vitamin c than oranges. They're edible, great for hip tea and jam and that's why coastal communities from Maine to Cape Cod have used relatives of Sir Thomas Lipton as natural hedges for hundreds of years because Rosa rugosa is one of the few roses that tolerate salt spray and sandy coastal soil without any special care. Beautiful flowers, beautiful hips, fragrance, three seasons in a row from a single plant something no other variety in this list does in quite the same way. But I need to be straight with you before you order. Rosa rugosa tends to spread aggressively and is listed as invasive in some northeastern states like Maine, New Hampshire and certain coastal areas. Check local regulations before planting or plant in areas with clear borders to control the spread. Sir Thomas Lipton is hardy from zone 3 to 9, grows 1.8 to 2.4 meters tall, tolerates salt spray, sandy soil, clay soil, drought, extremely adaptable to almost any tough condition you can put it in. Its naturally thick thorny stems make it the most effective security hedge in today's entire list. No person or animal wants to push through that. Don't cut the hips at the end of the season. Leave them on the canes through fall and early winter. That bright red will light up the garden when everything else has faded and the birds will thank you. Prune using renewal pruning each spring. Cut about one third of the oldest canes all the way to the ground to constantly encourage stronger new canes to replace them. No chemicals needed, no heavy fertilizing. This plant takes care of most of it itself. Sir Thomas Lipton is fragrant and wild in a way few roses achieve. Number eight is more refined. It's pure white, it tolerates shade and it can climb five meters and turn an entire wall into a masterpiece that neighbors won't stop asking about. Number eight, iceberg rose floribunda. There are white roses, then there's iceberg. Pure white to the point it lights up the whole garden even on the gloomiest days of September when everything else in the garden is starting to look tired and faded. Iceberg still stands there, brilliant white, blooming in large dense clusters on the canes as if summer never intended to end. And here's what most buyers don't know when standing in front of the nursery shelf. Iceberg is one of the very few floribunda roses that performs well in partial shade, something almost every other rose can't do. And that immediately opens up positions in the garden you once thought could never grow roses. But the biggest secret is right here. The same iceberg plant, if you let the canes grow freely on a trellis instead of pruning it into a bush shape, will climb up to five meters turning from a modest 90 centimeter bush into an impressive wall of white flowers covering the whole summer. Two plants in one price and most buyers never know it. Iceberg is hardy from zone four to nine, bush form 90 to 120 centimeters tall, climbing form up to five meters with support. Pale white flowers with light fragrance blooming in large clusters continuously from summer through fall. Its deep glossy green leaves naturally resist black spot better than dull leaves. That's a structural trait not luck. Mulch five to seven centimeters around the base and remember to pull the mulch back five centimeters from the stem to avoid crown rot, especially important with the climbing form because the stems are thicker and more susceptible. Now here's the simplest habit you can adopt to replace your entire fungicide cabinet. Water at the base in the morning, never on the leaves in the evening. Wet leaves overnight are the perfect environment for fungal spores to develop. Dry leaves before dark are a more effective natural barrier than any fungicide you can buy. That habit alone prevents 80 percent of the most common black spot problems. If growing the climbing form, tie the main canes horizontally. Same principle as new dawn, horizontal canes produce many more flowering points. Iceberg flowers make excellent long-lasting cut flowers and its shade tolerance opens up garden corners you previously didn't dare consider. Iceberg is white and pure. Number seven is brilliant in a completely different way. Deep yellow, strongly fragrant and it carries a title that the entire rose world voted for. Number seven, Graham Thomas, David Austin. In 2009, thousands of rose experts from around the world voted on one single question. What is the favorite rose of humanity? The answer was Graham Thomas and when you see it for the first time, deep yellow flowers as brilliant as morning sunlight solidified into petals layered in full classic shaped blooms, rich warm tea fragrance strong enough to make you stop mid-step. You'll understand why immediately, no further explanation needed. Here's what most growers don't know. Graham Thomas is not just beautiful, it is the plant that gave birth to the entire modern English rose movement. When David Austin introduced it in 1983, that brilliant deep yellow had never existed in the fragrant classic rose line. Austin had to make a completely new genetic breakthrough to create it and Graham Thomas's success is the reason we have hundreds of other David Austin varieties on the market today. Without Graham Thomas, there would be no English rose movement as we know it. But I need to be straight with you, David Austin roses are generally more disease sensitive than knockout or drift. That's a fact. Many rose videos don't want to tell you. Graham Thomas has much better disease resistance than many other David Austin varieties but it still needs morning base watering, no water on the leaves and you need to monitor black spot more regularly than the previous varieties in this list. This is not a plant in it and forget it completely but the effort is worth many times over, I promise you that. Graham Thomas is hardy from zone 5 to 9, not suitable for zone 4 and colder, that's the real limit you need to know. Large bush form 1.5 to 1.8 meters tall, climbing form 3 to 4 meters with support, continuous blooming from June to October. In zones 5 to 6, bury the bud union 5 centimeters below ground level. If growing the climbing form, use horizontal training, tie the main canes horizontally instead of vertically. Horizontal canes stimulate twice as many side branches and flowering points, that's unchanging plant biology. Hard prune in early spring down to 45 centimeters to maintain a neat bush shape and encourage stronger new growth. Honeybees will find it from far away because of its rich fragrance. The cut flowers are beautiful and long-lasting in a vase and every season this plant blooms in your garden is a living piece of gardening history happening right before your eyes. Graham Thomas is a legend recognized by the whole world but number six is the David Austin variety that if you could only plant one single rose in your entire gardening life, this is the one many experts would choose first and the reason will surprise you. Number six, Lady of Shallot David Austin, buds of burnt orange red opening into salmon pink bowls with glowing golden undersides. Warm tea fragrance blended with clove and ripe apple drifting through the morning air. This isn't catalog copy, this is the real experience when you stand in front of this plant for the first time and most growers tell me they stand there much longer than they intended. Double flowers with more than 50 layered petals in a classic bowl shape blooming from late spring until frost with no significant breaks in between. Something even Graham Thomas doesn't do to this degree and here's the secret many growers go an entire season without ever noticing. The inner and outer sides of Lady of Shallot's petals are two completely different colors. Salmon pink on the outside, warm glowing gold on the inside when the flower opens and that transition changes hour by hour as the light changes. Its name was given in honor of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. The mysterious female character living in a castle, viewing the world through a mirror without ever directly touching it and like that character its flowers always hold something back inside that you only see when you bend down and truly look. Lady of Shallot is hardy from zone 4 to 11. This is one of the hardiest David Austin roses available. A clear step above Graham Thomas and has excellent disease resistance rarely seen in the David Austin line. That's the biggest reason to choose this variety if you want to start with English roses without worrying too much about disease. Grows 120 to 150 centimeters tall, continuous blooming from late spring to frost, holds the RHS award of garden merit, vase life four to six days as cut flowers. In zone 6 and warmer plant the bud union level with the ground in zones 4 to 5, bury it five centimeters deep. Buy own root from a specialty nursery instead of Own root plants recover from the roots after harsh winters and live significantly longer and with a beautiful variety like this you want to be sure what comes back the next spring is still Lady of Shallot and not some random rootstock. If you want to create a garden corner that looks professionally designed when you actually have zero design knowledge, try this trio. Lady of Catmint purple blue edging in front. The three complementary colors create an effect that passers-by will stop to photograph. Honeybees will visit all season with that complex fragrance. Lady of Shallot is the best possible gateway into the world of English roses. The easiest to grow, hardiest and most disease resistant in the line. But number five is not a David Austin. It has stood strong for nearly 70 years on American soil, planted in every prestigious garden from the east coast to the west coast. And when it was born, it forced the entire world rose industry to create an entirely new category that had never existed before, just to have a place to classify it. Number five Queen Elizabeth grandiflora. In 1955 a rose was born that was so large, so vigorous that the rose experts had to meet and create an entirely new category just to classify it. They called that category grandiflora. And to this day, nearly 70 years later, no variety has surpassed the plant that gave birth to that category. Silvery pink flowers. Not deep pink, not pale pink, but that subtle silvery pink shade that only Queen Elizabeth has. Blooming in clusters of three to five on long elegant upright stems. 38 to 40 petals per flower. Light delicate tea fragrance. And the plant self-cleans faded flowers without you having to do anything. Here's what breeder Walter Lammert spent years achieving and most growers never notice. Queen Elizabeth is almost thornless, nearly thornless. Extremely rare in traditional roses and its leaves are glossy like leather thanks to an unusually thick cutin layer whose structure naturally prevents fungal spores from sticking to the leaf surface. Explaining why it resists black spots so well. It's nearly immune under normal conditions while other varieties around it struggle with disease. This plant won all America rose selections in 1955. The most prestigious award in the American rose industry was inducted into the Rose Hall of Fame in 1979 and is planted in the White House Rose Garden. Those are not three small honors. Queen Elizabeth is hardy from zone 4 to 10. Grows 1.2 to 1.8 meters tall. Upright and elegant with a width of only 60 to 90 centimeters. Meaning it doesn't take much horizontal space but creates impressive height. Plant it at the back of flower beds to show off its straight stems like natural flower columns and fertilize with low nitrogen high phosphorus 5-10-10 ratio in early spring each year to encourage flowers instead of leaves. Too much nitrogen makes it lush green with fewer blooms and here's a tip nurseries often don't volunteer. If you live in the south in zones 7 to 9 look for Queen Elizabeth on Fortuniana rootstock. It grows much more vigorously and tolerates sandy soil far better than standard rootstock and the difference is obvious from the very first season. Queen Elizabeth cut flowers are the best in today's entire list. Long stems, large blooms, lasting many days and its nearly 70-year history on American soil is the clearest proof that some things become classics not by luck but because they truly deserve it. Queen Elizabeth is the queen of elegance. Number four is completely different. It's not elegant in that way. It covers the ground, blooms non-stop and it has just been certified with something no other rose on the American market can claim. Number three blushing knockout. In the entire famous knockout family there is one variety that most buyers stand in front of at the nursery shelf and pass by because it looks too simple, too plain. Just five thin blush pink petals while the double red and vibrant coral ones next to it are calling for attention and that is the biggest mistake they can make at that shelf. Blushing knockout is the only single petal variety in the entire knockout family and precisely because it has only five petals instead of dozens layered like the doubles. Bees can access its stamens and nectar three times more easily than same color double flowers. Pollination research has proven this clearly and consistently. Single flowers attract more bees than double flowers not because of fragrance but because of physical accessibility. Bees don't have to struggle through dozens of petals to reach the nectar. They go straight in and straight out efficiently and quickly and therefore they visit many more times in the same period. If you have a vegetable garden, fruit garden or anything in your garden that needs pollination to produce this is the rose you need to plant closest. Not because it's the most beautiful but because it works most effectively for the entire surrounding ecosystem. Blushing knockout is hardy from zone 5 to 11. Single five petal blush pink flowers with bright yellow centers. The best powdery mildew resistance in the entire knockout family. Completely self-cleaning with a five to six week bloom cycle and especially suited for hot humid southern regions where high humidity causes many other knockout varieties more trouble. Same pruning and bud union rules as original red knockout. Nothing new to learn. Plant it near your vegetable or fruit garden. This is the most effective bee magnet in today's entire list of 15 varieties and that effect spreads throughout the surrounding garden. Pair the blush shade with purple blue catmint or lavender next to it. That duo creates a naturally romantic cottage garden look without needing any design knowledge. No chemicals ever needed. Lives for decades and contributes to the pollination ecosystem in a way the more showy double varieties simply cannot. We're getting close to the top. Number two is the rose variety that most americans have never heard of but when they hear the story behind it they want to buy it immediately. Number two pink double knockout. If the original red knockout was the game changer then pink double knockout is proof that perfection can still be improved in ways you wouldn't expect. Double flowers with about 40 layered petals in a classic victorian rose shape. Soft baby pink color that feels romantic but with all the toughness of the wild knockout line behind it. High black spot and powdery mildew resistance. Completely self-cleaning. Five to six week bloom cycle non-stop from spring until frost. And here's what most growers don't know about the plant blooming in their garden. The pink color of pink double knockout changes with temperature. Deeper and more romantic in the cool weather of early spring and late fall. Lighter and fresher as summer temperatures rise. That means one single plant gives you two different color tones in the same season without you having to do anything to create that change. It happens naturally with the rhythm of the weather. This is not a genetic flaw. Not a sign the plant is having problems. This is a natural physiological trait that few people appreciate and most growers completely overlook. Pink double knockout is hardy from zone 5 to 11. Has a light subtle fragrance. Not overpowering but enough for you to notice when standing close in the morning. Handles high heat and humidity well. Suitable even for the south where summers are long and humid. If you want to create a professionally designed cottage garden effect when you actually have zero design knowledge. Plant pink double next to blue salvia or catmint. The pair of soft pink and purple blue standing side by side creates something passers-by will stop and think you hired a garden designer for. Apply slow release fertilizer once in early spring. Done. Nothing else needed all year. The plant takes care of the rest. The double flowers are still accessible enough to bees and butterflies to create good pollination activity. And its deeper pink color especially attracts hummingbirds in a way few other pinks do. One properly planted pink double knockout will live for decades without replacement. We've made it here. And number one. This is the plant I told you about right from the beginning of this video. The rose that blooms brilliantly after a 40 degree winter without you having to do a single thing to protect it through that entire cold season. And that's just the smallest thing about it. Number one. Canadian Explorer series. John Cabot. Martin Frobisher. John Davis. This is not just one rose. This is the result of decades of scientific research with one single goal. Bringing roses to every corner of the North American continent. Even the places where roses were never allowed to exist. Places where people once thought having a rose bush in front of their house was a luxury not meant for them. The Explorer series is Canada's national research program funded by Agriculture Canada. Running from the 1960s to 2005. Not a few years of lab testing but decades of field work in the harshest winters on this continent. Each variety is named after great Canadian explorers and like those explorers they reach places others cannot. John Cabot. Deep pink red double flowers in large clusters. Climbs to three meters. Outstanding disease resistance. This is the most popular variety in the Midwest and Great Plains where winters are the harshest and rose growers had given up long ago. Martin Frobisher. Ivory white fragrant flowers. Shorter at 1.2 to 1.5 meters. Perfect for small gardens and traditional flower beds. And this is one of the most fragrant varieties in the entire Explorer series. Something you rarely find in a truly hardy line. John Davis. Deep pink flowers. Climbs to 2.5 meters. Continuous rebloom from summer through fall. And according to many independent reviews this is the best disease resistant variety in the whole series. All are truly hardy from zone 2 to 9. Not a catalog theory number but certified results from decades of field testing in conditions where most other roses die on the first night of winter. No winter protection needed in most zones. No burlap. No covering. Nothing at all. This is the absolute point that no other rose variety in today's list can tell you. Outstanding disease resistance. Almost never needs preventive sprays. In zones 2 to 4, bury the bud union 7 to 10 centimeters below ground level for maximum protection. And as I said at number 10, always buy own root. If the top growth dies back in an unusually cold winter, the plant regrows true to type from the roots. Not as something completely different you don't recognize. Fertilize with organic matter in the first season to push strong growth. Cut about one third of the oldest canes each spring using renewal pruning to constantly encourage stronger new canes to replace them. And after that step out of the garden and let them do their job. Bees and butterflies will find them all season without you having to do anything to invite them. And not a single drop of chemicals is ever needed. The day you walk outside in April after a Minnesota winter that dropped to minus 30 and see your explorer rose pushing out new growth and getting ready to bloom again without you doing a single thing to protect it all winter long. That is the moment you understand exactly why this series earns the number one spot. Not just on this list. All right, before you go, there are five things that will determine whether your roses actually thrive or just struggle to survive. And most rose videos never tell you about any of them. So pay attention. First, own root versus grafted. This is the most important decision you make when buying a plant and 95% of new growers don't know the difference. Own root rose means the entire plant from roots to top is one single variety. Grafted rose means the top is the variety you want, the bottom is a completely different rootstock. If the grafted top dies from winter cold, the plant regrows as the rootstock. Not the variety you bought, loved and waited all winter for. Own root is slower in the first year but tougher, safer and recovers better after any disaster. With Explorer Series and David Austin, always choose own root, no exceptions. Second, water at the base in the morning. It sounds so simple you might overlook it, but don't. Watering in the evening so leaves stay wet overnight is the perfect environment for fungal spores to develop. Watering at the base in the morning lets leaves dry before dark and fungi have no chance to settle. No fungicide is as effective and cheap as that habit. Combine it with five to seven centimeters mulch and pulling the mulch back five centimeters from the stem to avoid crown rot. Those two habits together eliminate 80% of the most common disease problems without spending a penny on chemicals. Third, rose rosette disease. This is the most dangerous enemy of American roses right now and most growers don't know it exists until it's too late. Spread by tiny aerophid mites, no cure and spreading rapidly across the US. Early warning signs, new shoots that are unusually red and don't turn green, stems that suddenly grow abnormally thick thorns, distorted twisted leaves called witch's broom. When you see those signs, dig up the entire plant immediately, bag it tightly and do not compost it. Prevent by keeping a minimum 90 centimeters spacing between plants and checking the garden every week during the growing season. Early detection is the only way because there is no other cure. Fourth, companion planting. The biological defense system that commercial rose gardens invest in researching but rarely share publicly. Plant lavender, catmint or allium next to roses. Their scent naturally repels aphids without a single drop of chemicals. Marigolds planted at the edge of beds attract aphids more than roses, sacrificing themselves to protect what stands behind them. Geraniums planted in between create habitat for beneficial insects that eat harmful pests. You can implement the whole system for the cost of a few young plants. No chemical package does this better. And fifth, this is what sums up everything. Every rose failure can be traced back to one of two causes, wrong variety for the wrong location or planting at the wrong bud union depth. In zone six and warmer, bud union level with the ground. In zone five and colder, bud union five to ten centimeters below ground level. Planting too deep in warm zones makes the plant grow slowly and prone to rot. Planting too shallow in cold zones lets the bud union freeze and the plant dies. And beyond technique, remember this. Hybrid teas are beautiful but unsuitable for 80% of real conditions for average gardeners in America. The varieties in today's list were chosen because they fit real conditions, not the ideal conditions in those glossy catalogs you look at and daydream about. Planting the right variety from the start save more than trying to save the wrong variety year after year. While your neighbors are standing at the nursery every spring, hesitating in front of expensive hybrid teas, they know when their hearts will fail again. Your garden is already blooming. The rose bushes you planted last season are bigger, healthier and more beautiful than last year without you having to do anything extra to achieve that. No spraying every week. No worrying every time it rains hard. No wrapping burlap every November and unwrapping every March like you're protecting and uncovering something fragile. They're doing their job and your job is simply to stand there, holding your morning coffee, looking out at the and enjoying what you created with one right decision from the previous season. This is what the traditional rose industry doesn't want you to know. Roses are not hard. The wrong roses are hard. And now you know the 15 right varieties from Knock Out for beginners who have never grown roses before to explore a series for people living in the coldest regions of this continent who once thought roses were a luxury not meant for them. There is no reason not to start this season. If this video gave you even one new variety to try, one fact you didn't know, or one decision that will change how you garden from today onward, hit subscribe right now. Because every week we dive deep into real gardening knowledge that big watered-down channels and books buried in jargon don't give you just the information you actually need to go out to the garden and do it right away without having to be an expert. Hit the bell so you don't miss it and before you go leave a comment and let me know which of today's 15 varieties you will plant first. I read every single comment and I really want to know. The day you walk outside in April after the longest coldest winter you can remember and see your roses pushing out new leaves getting ready to bloom again without you doing a single thing to protect them all winter long. That is the moment you understand you didn't just plant flowers you made a decision that will pay you back in beauty every single year for the rest of your life. That's the rose promise and now you know exactly how to keep it.