Their slower growth makes them better suited for use in a small garden. The usually flower heavily in spring, and if conditions are favorable, may flower again in the fall. A few cultivars bloom as often as hybrid teas. Blaze Improved blooms both spring and fall. Father Hugo rose freely produces single yellow spring flowers followed by red pods in the fall.
Some cultivars bloom more freely if the branches are trained horizontally rather than vertically.
This group is quite winter hardy and more disease resistant. Climbing Hybrid Tea roses are in most cases identical to their bush parent plants. In general, climbing hybrid teas do not bloom as continuously as their bush parents. Climbing hybrid teas are just as subject to disease and winter damage as the bush forms. Climbing Floribunda and Polyantha roses are climbing cultivars of bush-type plants.