To be frank, none.

Roses are basically sun-loving plants.
You can keep them alive in such conditions, but their ability to bloom will be impaired in proportion to the lack of sun.

That sounds like a good location for an azalea, a camellia, or perhaps a fuchsia.

Jeri

Are we talking shade at midsummer or could the area be in sun in March and April? Or could it get early morning and late evening sun in mid summer.
Does grass grow there?
Sunlight varies seasonally.
If it faces south, but is under trees, a once blooming OGR can be magnificent. It will get the sun it needs before the heat of summer (when it becomes shaded.)

Buff Beauty?

Sorry, I meant to write more above. Oops.

The once-blooming idea is a good one, they can bloom before everything else fills in and provides more shade. Problem is the colour. Albas are once blooming and can take some shade, but I don't know if there are any apricot ones. Same for once-blooming gallicas, as far as colour limitations go.

Buff Beauty (hybrid musk) is a rose that I haven't personally grown, but sounds like it can do well with more shade than most roses, and seems to fit your colour ideas as well. Can be trained to climb vertically or somewhat horizontally.

Gallica Marianne is pale apricot and is very healthy and vigorous.
Olga

Madame Alfred Carriere may do well enough. But all roses
do need at least a few hours of sun. And you may need to
spray for mildew. But if it gets enough dappled sun, it
may bloom on the O.K. side.

I'm with Jeri, it's very frustrating when a rose does not grow & bloom well. Even ones that are said to do OK in shade will do much, much better with a minimum of 6 hours of full sun. Why not select a rose that will do well in a pot? Then it can "follow the sun" perhaps. Perle d'Or & Prairie Sunrise both do well in containers.

It's not an OGR, but Cardinal Hume was clean as a whistle and bloomed very well in dappled shade in my garden. As a matter of fact, I had to move it because it was so big and bushy that it outgrew it's spot.

Carol

Here is a link that might be useful: Cardinal Hume

Ronda, don't mean to hijack your thread, but, Carol, I have 2 Cardinal Humes still in pots. Was planning to put them on the west side of my house. Strong sun from noonish until at least 7:30 in the summer. Is that too much hot sun for these dark red flowers?
Thanks.
Sherry

Perle d'Or or Areustha? Maybe thin out some branches? The musks take less sun than others, I am going to try out that theory this spring with some new plantings.
Judith

Rose de Rescht

Rhonda - Although you didn't say that the area doesn't get any direct sun, that can make a difference. One of my gardens doesn't get more than 4 hours of direct sun in May and June, and yet several classes of rose grow there. Granted, they may not get quite as large as growing in full sun, but they still thrive and do quite well on 3 to 4 hours of direct sun and high shade after that. Two exceptions have been the hybrid musks, Buff Beauty and Pax, the other hybrid musks including Cornelia which has some apricot coloration do quite well. The damasks, Celsiana and Ispahan also do quite well. Best, Nick

I'm with Jeri - roses may tolerate shade but all thrive better with sun. Buff Beauty in the Sacramento cemetery did ok for years with quite a bit of shade from an elm tree - several hours of sun a day, dappled the rest of the day. We lost the tree and the rose is doing tremendously better, twice the size and three times the bloom.
Anita

Tender Blush and Royal Blush are two modern albas by the German hybridizer Rolf Sievers, available from Heirloom Old Garden Roses in the US. They are not quite apricot but nearly so and if they behave as true albas they should be shade tolerant. I have seen both here in Sweden and they are very beautiful.

The potential problem with Tender Blush and Royal Blush in SC is that they are not so BS resistant on the east coast in contrast to the original Albas.
Olga

I have a Gruss an Aachen in my atrium. The only openning is to the West. It gets about 4 hours of direct sun, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the time of year. It gets no dappled sun; it is in complete shade after the direct sun has passed. I also have a 20% shade cloth covering the whole area, so even that direct sun is depleted. This rose blooms fairly continuously. Even now in the dead of winter it has blooms on it AND this time of year it gets very little sun. I think this rose is the best I have seen for a shady place. My Buff Beauty gets more sun and does not bloom so often. Anyway, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

I can also recommend Marie Pavie. She is under the eaves of the house facing West. She gets some direct sun earlier in the day at certain times of the year, but most of the sun she receives is from 2:00PM or so on. By 5:00PM or 6:00PM the sun has dropped too low to hit her. She blooms fairly continuously.

I do think there will be some direct sun but I would doubt getting near 6 hours. I should have said that earlier.

Carol---the Cardinal Hume is nice!!! How tall did yours get???

Gruss is a favorite of mine and yet I had no idea she would take so much shade--interesting~ !!

Olga-Gallica Marianne is very tempting but I am not sure if a once bloomer would be as appreciated...Ill have to drop a few questions to see if a once bloomer might be ok.

Nick--Cornelia is VERY nice!!! Does anyone grow this on the east coast? Please tell me about disease resistance!

Thanks
Ronda

Rhonda, Cardinal Hume is kept to a 6 ft x 6 ft bush. The blooms are an unusual color that is very pretty against the green foliage.

Sherry, honestly, I don't know. I've never grown it in that much sun. :-). Could you place them there in their pots and see if the blooms fry before you plant them?

Carol

I don't feel any rose is going to do well with those conditions. They need sun, and the more the better. I've tried the shade thing, (with over 40 different roses) and it will turn roses that are almost totally disease free in full sun, into pathetic, diseased, poorly foliated specimans, even the so-called "shade tolerant" roses. Plant something in that spot that will like those conditions, and you'll be much more satisfied, and save yourself much money and frustration.

If you don't have a suitable growing area for a rose that's in full sun, I think planting one in a pot so you can follow the sun around is an excellent suggestion.

Sandy

Madame Alfred Carriere is a monster in our garden. This one gets about 4-6 hours of morning sun. But in the last 2 years, it has grown tall enough to enjoy the upper reaches of the house, and gets more sun that way. Nevertheless, it's the best performing rose in the shadiest part of our garden.

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Rhonda - I am located in Maryland just outside DC. Cornelia grows and blooms well for me here with little sun (maybe 3 hours), but only to 6 '. I don't always spray that part of the garden, but do occassionally. My sense is that under my conditions (warm, humid, less sun) it performs well, and this with me includes an occassional fungicide spray of BM and Manzate. Marie Pavie also performs well under similar conditions as does Old Blush and a few other chinas and some teas like Mrs. BR Cant, Mrs. Dudley Cross, and Marie van Houtte. (The teas don't appear to need the infrequent spray) Best, Nick

If white might work, one of Olga's favorites that I'll be trying (can't believe she hadn't mentioned it; probably due to her searching for an appropriate apricot shade) would be "Darlow's Enigma". Bulletproof disease resistance, remontant, does well in shade, very fragrant.

I've grown over a dozen rose cultivars in shade and reccomend evaluating exactly how many hours of sun that is available before choosing a rose cultivar.
I only count the hours of dappled sun that are strong enough to cast a shadow from my hand,( a suggestion I got from a rose book, and would accredit it if I could remember its' name) and add to that the hours of full sun that the intended planting spot receives. This effort saves time, and money and prevents dissapointment.
In my own shady backyard, I've planted Albas, Noisettes, and Hybrid Musks and from my successes and failures, suggest these:
- In 4 hours full sun and 4 hours rose quality dappled shade (where my hand casts a shadow) these roses have thrived,
Alba Semi-Plena, and "Bubble Bath" bloom well.

In 6 hours full sun and 2 hours rose quality dappled shade these Noisettes and H.M.s bloom well:
"Catos' Cluster" and "La Nymph"
Hybrid Musks "Cornelia" and the beautiful yellow H.Musk "Callisto".

in 6.5 hours to 7 hours full sun and 1-to 1.5 hours rose quality dappled shade: "Buff Beauty", "Prosperity" and the Tea- Noisette "Crepescule" bloom well.

I hope this information is of help,
Luxrosa

P.S.
-If the plant you purchase, is less than 4 ft. tall and it is intended for an area with dappled shade, I suggest planting the rose in a pot, and keep it potted until it reaches 4 ft tall on its own. The height of the pot will elevate the rosebush so it will get more sunlight in dappled shade.

Hope this is of help
Luxrosa

I have Ballerina and Zepherine Drouhin directly under a pretty big crabapple tree. They get some direct sun in late morning, but mostly shade. Both bloom fairly well and look pretty vigorous and well foliated. Zepherine is starting to cascade down from the top of the tree so gets plenty of light up there. Can a climber be used which would reach up to the sun?

Also, I have a Cardinal de Richelieu which gets some shade but blooms very well and stays healthy.

Those are very pretty pics, Ceterum.
Linda