Bred by Phillip Robinson when he was one of the owners of Vintage Gardens, a nursery specializing in heritage roses, this hybrid tea resembles one of those heritage roses. Instead of displaying the high-centered blooms typical of so many modern hybrid teas, Taischa produces blooms with many, many scalloped petals, arranged in a precise design. The blooms start out in a cupped form and then spread out flat as they open. Although the registered color is mauve or lavender, the blooms on my two Taischa bushes are more often silver, with just a touch of mauve in the center.

The rose bush also bears little resemblance to most hybrid teas. Instead of growing in an upright shape, it stays quite short and spreads out its branches, behaving more like a ground cover rose.

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