As presented in the last article, single petalled roses are among the most beautiful of all roses mostly due to their simplicity.  The last article covered the once bloomers and now we will cover the repeat bloomers. 

Although not as widely popular as they should be, single petalled roses are the reason we have roses today, for all the original roses (species) were single petalled.  By single petalled we mean they have a single row of petals, often 4-8.  Rosa sericea pteracantha is one of the few roses with 4 petals.  Others such as Oriental Charm have up to 8 petals, mostly in a somewhat single row.  When the rose has a second set of petals off and on, it becomes semi-double (8-20).  Double petalled are 20 on up.  [Single Petalled Roses - Once Bloomers]

Some of the best climbing single petalled roses:

Mermaid – this rose will cover a house, fence, or the neighborhood if left unchecked.  The large yellowish blooms come throughout the year.  Not a flush bloomer as many other roses.  This plant has large hooked thorns and makes an awesome rose barricade.  What goes in may never come out.  You can tell a rosarian who tried to prune a Mermaid, it look like they were in a fight with a lion.  Its white parent, Rosa bracteata is also a great barrier plant.  It will also have recurrent blooms, but never in profusion.

Dortmund – this rose can make an awesome pillar rose or one on a pergola.  Bright red blooms in medium sized clusters, on a super clean plant.  Grows to 8 feet.  One of the highest ARS rated roses.

Altissimo – the top exhibition climber.  The huge bright red blooms with bright yellow stamens are welcome in any garden.  Smaller climber to 8 feet.

Cl. Captain Thomas – this is a beautiful pale yellow hybrid tea climber.  It has few thorns, and can win in the single petalled rose class. 

Cl. Playgirl – the climbing sport of the awesome floribunda, and this rose is every bit as good as the bush.  Deep pink blooms with yellow stamens.

Sally Holmes – nothing compares to a large head of these fragrant, pure white blooms.  This rose can be grown as a climber or large shrub.  Top winner of modern shrub certificate.

Vanity – one of my favorite hybrid musks, this rose with deep pink blooms never seems to be out of bloom.  Vigorous grower to 8 feet.

Dorothy Rose – I was pleased to name this rose after my mom.  It is a climbing mini with single petalled orange to orange red and white stripes, no two the same, on a vigorous plant to 6 feet.  Awesome cut flower and it is rarely out of bloom. 

Candy Cane – one of the oldest climbing miniatures from Ralph Moore, this beauty is still available.  Striped pink and white blooms like a candy cane.

Secret Garden – this hybrid musk has intense fragrance that attracts bees and humans alike.  Excellent bloomer with white blooms.

New Face – one of the newer hybrid musks, these salmon-pink blooms with a white eye are very appealing.  Strong grower. 

These single petalled roses make good landscape roses as they tend to grow in large masses or mounds:

Dapple Dawn – one of my favorite Austin roses, this candy apple pink blooms come on a large vigorous plant to 7 feet. 

Sparrieshoop – one of the most popular of the single petalled roses from Kordes.  This is a large upright plant to around 7 feet, with pink blooms.  There is also a white form Weisse aus Sparrieshoop. 

Mutabilis – one of the best landscape roses, this multicolored bloomed plant is rarely out of bloom.  The plant will cover a 7-foot area with a beautiful plant.  The blooms start off yellow, turn pink then red before dropping.  This gives the appearance of a lot of butterflies on the plant, hence its nickname, the Butterfly Rose.  There is a pink sport called Mateo’s Pink Butterflies.

Rosa rugosa alba and rubra – these two species produces very fragrant white and reddish purple blooms throughout the year.  They also form rose hips and put on an awesome display in the fall with changing leaf colors and the bright red hips.  A top show winner, especially of the Genesis Award.

Flutterbye – another good, clean landscape type rose.  The blooms are yellow turning to orange.  Starting to see this rose winning the best shrub class. 

Cocktail – a tall shrub with red blooms and yellow eyes.  Can be grown as a small climber.

Lyda Rose – this small landscape type rose produces large heads of creamy white blooms, almost dogwood like in appearance. 

Betty Prior – this is one of the oldest floribundas.  The medium pink blooms are produced year long on a large, vigorous plant.  Mine is over 8 feet tall. 

Pink Meidiland – my favorite of the Meidiland series of ground cover/landscape type roses.  Rose pink blooms on clean spreading plant. 

Nearly Wild – this is a small pink landscape rose that should be grown more.  Could be classed as a floribunda, it is better suited as a small shrub.  Very winter hardy. 

The Alexandra Rose – a new Austin that makes a small landscape rose with yellowish-gold blooms.  A prostrate grower.

First Light – one of the few single petalled AARS winners.  Makes a great small landscape shrub to about 2 feet.  The plant produces medium pink blooms throughout the year.

The following single petalled roses are small in stature or hybrid tea like in growth.

Miss Lowe – this is a lovely pink bloomed china rose.  Blooms continuously on a controllable plant.

Papa Hemeray – another single petalled china.  Its pink blooms have a small white eye.  A good rose that can be grown in a pot.

Playgirl – as mentioned above for the climbing form, this rose is a very clean plant, with fragrant blooms.  It is also a top show winner.  All gardens should have a Playgirl in it.

Playfair – similar to its parent, Playgirl, this is a light pink, almost white rose.  Does very well at rose shows.

Playboy – a yellow, sometimes with red edges, rose that grows very tall.  Also a frequent show winner.

Dainty Bess – one of the oldest single petalled hybrid teas (1925), this rose is still grown today.  Coral pink blooms with maroon stamens.  Good bloomer also.  There is a white seedling called White Wings with chocolate colored stamens.

Dainty Maid – a silver pink floribunda with a dark reverse, this rose is hard to find, but worth it.

Mrs. Oakley Fisher – another of the older hybrid tea singles (1921), this is one of the best.  The blooms are almost apricot on a tall growing plant.

Britannia – this rose is often called a polyantha or a floribunda.  Many believe it is the first floribunda (1929).  Small plant with red blooms and white centers. 

Irish Singles – around the 1910s, several excellent single petalled hybrid teas came out of the Emerald Isle including the reds Vesuvius (1923) and Kitchener of Khartoum (1917), the pinks Irish Elegance (1905) and Irish Fireflame (1914), and the white Isobel (1916). 

The best low growing, miniature single petalled roses:

My Sunshine – a bright yellow, very fragrant miniature single petalled roses.  This is a top show winner and tolerates shade well.

Peggy T – one of the handpainted singles.  A tall grower, continuous show winner.

Little Artist – Another hand painted single, more confined in growth compared to Peggy T.

Crazy Dottie – a lovely orange-red single with a coppery eye that isn’t grown as much as it should be. 

Grace Seward – a white single petalled miniature, but the plant is hardly miniature.  Mine grows to 4 feet tall.

Scarlet Moss – a bright red miniature rose with heavy mossing.  A unique rose.  There is a near single petalled yellow mossed rose called Lemon Delight.

Whynot – this pretty little red single petalled rose has yellow centers.

Simplex – this name says it all, simple, pure white blooms.

Hanini – a red/deep pink hand painted single from Mike Dykstra.  Good bloomer.

Little Artist – a popular red hand painted mini from McGredy.  Top show winner

With so many single petalled roses around, you can fill a yard full of these beauties.