Odd colored roses
Today is for the outside of the box blooms. Tomorrow will be stripes and then we’ll be done!
Acropolis-sometimes this blooms the most gorgeous antique shades and sometimes it’s very garish and meh
Koko Loko
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oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months ago
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Beth Hana
3 months agoOh you guys are in for trouble now. This is my very favorite color "class." Some of these may not seem to be very oddball in color, but I tend to put them in that class just because they are kind of different.
ACROPOLIS - This one can often turn green, but didn't do it much for me last yr...
ANN HENDERSON - She can get a kind of dusty color that I think makes her belong here....
ASCHERMITTWOCH aka ASH WEDNESDAY
ASTRAL - A florist rose I rooted last yr... Color is usually a mauvey-beige.
BLUE GIRL - The Sauvageot one...
BRUT
CAPPUCCINO
CYMBALINE
DISTANT DRUMS
DISTANT THUNDER
Beth Hana
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoDOUBLE FEATURE - I put this one in this category because of the mauve with yellow reverse. Very unusual coloring...
DUSTY ROSE - A mini rose that can be beige, apricot, mauve, peach, tan...
EVENTAIL D'OR - A Japanese rose that is a really trippy one. Beige, brown, cream and even greenish undertones...
GREEN ROMANTICA
HONEY DIJON
IRISH CREME
JADE - A florist rose that gets greenish tones
KOKO LOCO
MINT JULEP
PAM'S CHOICE
erasmus_gw
3 months agoVery pretty pictures, all! Ash Wednesday, which I refer to as Ashmitterwoch, seems to have decent vigor here ( zone 7a , NC), and is not worse for bs than many. Some blooms are white, some have the beautiful shades .
Sheila McQueen..this one had good health and vigor
See the green on the outer petals
Whole thing faded to green
Edith Schurr some green at the base
Iris Webb..mauve and orange. Mine was a weak plant.
Koko Loco I love it, but it's not a strong grower. Does repeat pretty well.
oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months agoBeth Hana
3 months agoMARION ROSS
MONTY'S JOY - A mini that can be peach, mauve, grey...
QUICKSAND
RAINFOREST
REBACCA SUSAN
SAHARA
SHEILA MACQUEEN
SILVER CLOUD
SILVER LININGS
STEPHEN RULO
oursteelers 8B PNW
3 months agoBeth Hana
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoSUNTAN BEAUTY - One of my favorite minis..
SYMBOL
TEDDY BEAR mini
TERRACOTTA
TROPICAL LIGHTNING
TWILIGHT TRAIL mini
VIOLET - This one is a real oddball. It's a florist rose I rooted 3yrs ago. It's supposed to be chartreuse green with a violet-mauve reverse, but so far it's been mostly different tones of apricot, beige, pink, mauve...
VIRIDIFLORA aka GREEN ROSE - The oddest of the odd!
HOT CHOCOLATE
HOT COCOA
I have more, but some didn't bloom last yr, or I didn't get pics. I have a lot of new oddball colored roses from Etsy that will bloom in the spring. Can't wait!oursteelers 8B PNW
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elenazone6
3 months agoAshley Smith zone 5a
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3 months agoNothing unusual here. I wish I'd taken pics of some of the ones I had over the years that I lost, like Lavender Pinocchio, Blue Bayou, Black Tea, Julia's Rose, Smoky, and Silver Shadows (off the top of my head). I did just re-buy Julia's Rose last year :-D
Stephen Rulo
Koko Loco
Hot Cocoa
Honey Dijon
Distant Drums
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rosecanadian
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoOursteelers - oh wow!!! I'm in awe of your Ash Wednesday!!! I can see why you love it so much!! I also really love your Cymbeline!!
Elena - ooooh!!! I love your pics of DD!! Those colors!!
Beth - I love your Acropolis, Cappuccino and Brut!!!! Oooh...and also your Pam's Choice, Honey Dijon and Irish Cream!!! My goodness...you do have a lot in this category....your Stephen Rulo, Vioet and Suntan Beauty are wonderful!!!
Erasmus - oh my!! I love your Koko Loco and Sheila McQueen (what a range of colors...so unique!!)
Susan - mmmmm...wonderful...my faves are Distant Drums, Koko Loco (I wish that one had fragrance) and Stephen Rulo!!
Paul - oh, he has a way with words. :)
Anne Marie...it has many different looks. Sometimes goes to coral.
oursteelers 8B PNW
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 months agoI dont have many odd colors, they arent my fav but here are 2 that barely fit the catagory
Hot Cocoa
Memphis Music, stripe or odd ?
elenazone6
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoPaul, amazing rose and picture!
I immediately wanted a lip stick of this color...:)
PS. Closest I can get so far!
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3 months agoerasmus_gw
3 months agoHave seen Black Tea at Burling's. Here's my Distant Drums..I like it for the bee.
Champagne Coctail
Mutabilis...odd colored in that it has more than one color at a time
Cl. Butterscotch... unfortunately I haven't captured the parchment tones it can have but this is sorta kinda like it:
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3 months agoHas anybody gotten SPICED COFFEE from Heirloom? I lost my gorgeous plant in the Camp Fire. I've bought it twice from Heirloom, plus a friend sent budwood of hers to Steve Singer a couple seasons ago. They all are the same, but are definitely NOT the same as the SPICED COFFEE I had that I originally got from Hortico way back when. It never ever gets the beigey, greyish, mauve tones that my old one did. This one is always different tones of yellows, apricot, pink and even red.
This is my old one:
Heirloom swears theirs IS indeed SPCED COFFEE, but I just don't see how. I don't understand how they look so different, and why I never get these colors on them.Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17
3 months agoHere are a few moods of Pam's Choice:
Does La Jolla count as oddly colored? I didn't know where to put it.
On a related note, here is Contrast:
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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoWow! Jocelyn & Black Tea are to die for!!
Jackie, I love your mystery rose! I've got to find something like that! So romantic ♡♡ I hope you get an ID
Little Grey Pearl
Distant Drums
DD aged in a vase..literally smelled like coffee!
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3 months agoThis is Brown Sugar. It's a mini that is more often sold as a florist rose. Wonderful garden plant though. Haven't had significant sickness and the rusty colour is surprisingly consistent across wide variations of weather, especially compared to many other russets. No scent. Vigorous, Low in thorns. Reliable, sturdy. 10/10, surprised it's not widely sold as a garden plant.
This is my sad little excuse of a Hot Cocoa, this was a couple months ago, minuscule bloom compared to what it should be and riddled with whitefly and aphids :s
It's down to one cane...
It's been a couple years since I had Estelle. Sometimes I'm tempted to get it again, but it's such a terrible plant. It can make beautiful blooms, when it wants to. Color is inconsistent, more often than not it was actually a neon orange that I found appalling. Healthy, but extremely low in vigor and insanely thorny. if you think Hot Cocoa was thorny you don't know the half of it!
I want to include this unIDed one here, partly because I think a lavender with a creamy lighter reverse is rare-ish, but also because I would like to see if someone could identify it lol! I've tinkered with HMF and just can't seem to find a match. It almost always sends flowers in 3s, opens ruffly as you can see, and is deliciously fragrant, ala Angel Face a bit.
DDinSB (Z10b Coastal CA)
3 months agoDDinSB (Z10b Coastal CA)
3 months agoKoko Loco is gorgeous, but didn’t do much last summer & fall (bouquet from Grace Rose Farms for birthday last year):
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