Top 10 Rose Varieties in India: Beautify Your Garden with Stunning Blooms

Updated On 19 May 2025

Popular for their long, graceful and pointed buds, Hybrid tea rose is the best variety of roses in India. They are formed by crossbreeding hybrid perpetual and tea roses.

Polyantha rose variety is originated from the crossbreeding between Rosa chinensis and Rosa multifloral. These are available in the shades of pink, red, and white.

Floribunda rose is the crossbreed of Hybrid tea and polyantha rose. These are best for hedges due to their low-growing shrub.

The cross breed of HT and Floribunda roses, Grandiflora rose is bigger in size and come with a bundle of flowers on a single stem. Pink Parfait and Earth Song are some examples of this variety.

Kashmiri roses are known for their light scent and bright red colour. It is considered as the best choice for cut flowers. These flowers have soft petals which make them suitable for gifting options.

Climber rose variety blooms on a larger scale and repeat flowering unlike the ramble roses. It has long and robust canes. While, ramble roses blooms once a year.

Also known as ground cover roses, Landscape roses bloom all over the year. They are great space fillers in a garden because of their spreading habit. Minimal pruning is required for this rose variety.

Shrub roses have both old single and repeat flowering cultivars and modern roses that don’t fit into other varieties. Due to their informal habitat, they are used as hedging or as mixed shrub border.

Damask rose is a cross variety between Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. Summer damasks and autumn damasks are the two varieties. It is used to make ‘attar’, a kind of rose oil and in herbal teas.

Due to its pleasant aroma, Bourbon rose is used to produce rose oil and gulkand. This is a cross variety of Autumn Damask and Old Blush China rose. These are snow white and dark pink flowers. More Details