My garden is mix with all colors
But I love the reds, pinks and peaches/apricots
Nancy I can't stand dullness so my garden has to be full of excitement.
That is one of those roses I truly love, Raspberry Ripple
The color is really loud..can't miss it.
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Niecey

I aim at 'cool' in this hot climate but it is not easy to find many blue plants that like it hot. In roses I avoid very bright yellows and oranges. I still do not believe that I managed to make a 'cool garden'. I wish I could.

Nancy, love the question! For me it would be mostly cool.
I love blues and lavenders and cool pinks with some warm
touches like apricot and soft yellow thrown in.

I have mostly cool colors in the garden, love the clear pinks, purples, blue shades. However I like the occasional apricot/ cream shade for an accent.

I wear cool colors in clothing as well.

I tried really hard to make mine flow cool to warm and back in swirls. I was creating one garden while I was disbanding another. I think I mostly succeeded and when they've all matured I'd like to go up on my roof to see the visual effect:)

I've tried multiple times to describe it, I can't do it. I have roses in colors from orange, orange yellow blends, orange pink blends, apricot, lavenders, plum, purple, orchids, dark mauve, dark pink, to beautiful white blends with yellows and pinks in them and white.

The front flower beds are warm I believe, one bed is lavender and white and the other one is dark mauve, plum, dark pinks, white pink blend and two soft yellows on opposite ends of front and back.

Great question, sorry I don't know how to do short answers, LOL*
Leslie

I love this question too! I'm with Devon: I am always attracted to purples, blues, greens, pinks. But I like a bit of variety too. So a few reds, oranges and yellows mixed in. I like cool beds and warm beds, but in perennials, I mix.

I also favor the cools for clothing. I am one of the few people I know who like to decorate with cools. If you watch HGTV, almost everyone decorates with beige, taupes, with an occasional brick red throw in. I think everyone's houses must look the same.

I have a mixture of everything, but I have mostly the cooler toned pinks (light to dark), with some reds and whites. However, I do like some of the apricots and yellows, and I especially like roses that have many tones within them, such as Madame Lombard or Tiffany. Blue and purple flowers are also pretty with roses, and I still need to add some.

The only color roses I've never liked have been the orange ones, or the ones with brown tones to them.

Sandy

Definitely cool. I designed my garden around Austin roses and OGRs, which are overwhelmingly in the cool family. Before everything bloomed last year, I had moved a daylily in that was fire-engine red. It clashed terribly with everything, stuck out like a sore thumb, and I couldn't wait to move it.

So I stick to pinks, lavenders, purples, blues, whites, mauve, apricot, a little pale yellow with Moonbeam coreopsis for the complimentary perennials. Any red has to be on the cool (purplish) side, not the orangey red.

Not that I don't like hot colors in the right situation. And I do have them in some of my other gardens. Just not the rose garden.

I inherited the rose garden so it is a crazy mix of colors and it seems to work. There are three things I like about gardening; color, color and color. I used to not like yellow and orange in the garden but they have really have started to capture my heart.

Niecey, That is gorgeous. I've never heard of Raspberry Ripple, got to check that one out. Great pic. too.
Nancy

I looked up Raspberry Ripple and it said it is a
Hybrid Setigera. I'm not familiar with that. Is that an old rose variety? Does it get big, is it healthy? OK, so it wasn't just one question, ha ha.
Nancy

Great question....

I am a cool who married a warm...yikes! I have always done the beds in cool colours, pink purple blue white and maybe a bit of pale yellow.
When we moved to our new house and started from scratch I discovered hubby's preference for the warm colours in roses. Geez at that point I didn't have any red roses. I also realized that the warm colours would compliment the brick colour of the house better than the cool shades.

What we did was warm colours in the front yard and cool shades in the back. They are also kind of split between hardy in the front and tender in the back. That way the neighbours don't have to look at my protection materials all winter.

Raspberry Ripple looks yummy.....will have to check it out.

cathy

Guess I have a split personality. My lively bed features lots of red mixed with whites (plus an occasional bright yellow or subdued pink--for variety), while my more peaceful bed sports mostly mellow yellows mixed liberally with white and with blue/purple perennials. I guess all the whites (mostly perennials) tie the two parts together or give some consistency to the entire back yard.

So whatever my mood, at least part of my garden expresses me.

Kate

I do not think that red is 'warm' by definition. Reds with blue or black tone aren't 'hot' colors while orangey reds are. I do not even like orangey reds, so I do not have them.

I should modify a bit what I said above. In late winter I do not mind yellows like Forsythia or daffodils they are the promise of spring and in cool weather they are very welcome. Later on, however I prefer cooler colors and strong yellows are not welcome.

I started of with strictly cool colours had them for years, could not look at a peach rose, or anything with orange tones. Todate I have never purchased Fragrant Clout for this reason as too much orange. The first yellow I introduced to my collection was Amber Queen, and for some reason it worked well with my colours of blues and pinks. Just the past few years, I added some soft Apricots. One turned out to be Good Life. More Orange than I would like, but Oh it is a beautiful rose. With the addition of some must have reds, it has become a brighter garden, not how it started off. But heh! What can you do. A Kalaidescope has evolved - Ah well!!!!
Pauline - Vancouver Island