Beginner Gardening: Rose Trees, 1 by lancer23

lancer23 wrote:
Hi Alex,
If you are trying to grow roses in Singapore, that will be a little different then California or North America where I'm living. I suspect there will be high humidity and you need to select the right variety of roses to begin with. Because most hybrid type will not behave very well when subject to heat and wet feet. The flower will ball up and the leaves with give you disease. Choose "China" class roses which is evergreen in the tropics. Look for rose type that can take the heat and not brown up and fall apart. Like WeeNel said get a book that list extensive variety. I recommend: Rose by roger phillips & Martyn Rix from Random House has best photos!

In Southern part of US has the same problem of humidity, I can recommend "Cherokee" which is a white single rose that can tolerate the heat. "Lady Bank" should be OK too. For white climber in CA, I've propagated "fortuniana" "Alberic Barbier" "Sombriuell" "Lady Bank" all super nice, no fuss no must.