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unusual facts about hybrid tea


Rosa 'Spice Twice'

Rosa 'Spice Twice' is an orange Hybrid tea rose.


Harkness Roses

In the 1950s, Harkness popularized 'Frensham' and 'Ena Harkness', both developed by amateur Albert Norman, and for a time 'Ena Harkness' was the most popular red Hybrid Tea in the world.

Joseph Pemberton

After his retirement in 1914, Pemberton turned to rose breeding, using the climber 'Trier' (descended from 'Aglaia', an 1896 cross by Peter Lambert using Rosa multiflora), he crossed it with hybrid teas to produce a class of highly scented, generally cluster-flowered roses which remain popular garden material to this day.


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Pedro Dot

They mostly have Pernetiana ancestry – Pernet was the first to breed the intense yellow colour and strong smell of Rosa foetida into hybrid tea roses – and are not frost hardy.