polyantha
noun
poly·an·tha
ˌpä-lē-ˈan(t)-thə 
: any of numerous dwarf hybrid roses characterized by many large clusters of small flowers
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Less hardy roses include hybrid tea, English, polyantha, floribunda, grandiflora, miniature, and some climbing roses.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
The general consensus is that roses that produce a multitude of blooms on short stems, like floribundas, polyanthas and shrub roses, are more attractive as a tree rose than are hybrid teas.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
Compact roses ‘Marie Pavié' (1888) is a fragrant, thornless polyantha with pink buds that open to white flowers.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
This basic information can also be generally applied to all landscape roses, shrub roses, polyantha roses and everblooming old garden roses.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2021
Modern repeat-flowering rose groups like polyantha roses, floribunda roses, landscape roses and miniature roses are also pruned in late summer.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
Other types of repeat-flowering roses, such as China, tea, noisette, Bourbon, polyantha, floribunda, landscape and miniature roses, also should be pruned now.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2018
Other red roses to consider for your garden are the floribundas Lavaglut and Trumpeter; the shrub rose, Home Run; Wing-Ding, an engine-red polyantha, and Cooper, a 2016 medium red miniflora.
—Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
The general consensus is that roses that produce a multitude of blooms on short stems, like floribundas, polyanthas and shrub roses, are more attractive as a tree rose than are hybrid teas.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
Compact roses ‘Marie Pavié' (1888) is a fragrant, thornless polyantha with pink buds that open to white flowers.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
This basic information can also be generally applied to all landscape roses, shrub roses, polyantha roses and everblooming old garden roses.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2021
Modern repeat-flowering rose groups like polyantha roses, floribunda roses, landscape roses and miniature roses are also pruned in late summer.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2020
Other types of repeat-flowering roses, such as China, tea, noisette, Bourbon, polyantha, floribunda, landscape and miniature roses, also should be pruned now.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 27 Jan. 2018
Other red roses to consider for your garden are the floribundas Lavaglut and Trumpeter; the shrub rose, Home Run; Wing-Ding, an engine-red polyantha, and Cooper, a 2016 medium red miniflora.
—Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
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“Polyantha.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polyantha. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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