Rose bushes?

Question

What is the difference between 'boy' and 'girl' bushes? For example, i once planted one called a 'blue girl' and ran across another i bought called a 'blue boy'.

Answer 1

Flowers are a plant's reproductive organs. Not all flowers have both male and female parts. This means that there is a male plant with the male reproductive parts and a female plant with flowers containing female parts. To produce seeds/fruit/etc. you will need both male and female plants.

This is important when you plant hollies. Holly is dioecious, ("two houses") meaning their flowers are inperfect and, therefore, there are male and female plants. We plants hollies because they produce nice red fruit(berries) that contrast with their evergreen foliage. To product these berries we must plant both male and female plants. Because we want berries, we select more female hollies than male. Typically you plant 3 female hollies (i.e China Girl) to every male plant (i.e. China Boy) to insure consistent berry production.

I suspect that this is why you have seen a Blue Boy and Blue Girl rose offering, both male and female plants would be needed to produce rose hips.

Answer 2

hmmm maybe the boy one is blue and the girl one turns pick or is pink hhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm good question!!

Answer 3

I think it was just the name not the gender of the rose.

Answer 4

is there something like that