Roses: the bad, the good and your favorite colors & scents?
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what are your favorite white or light scented flowers?
Comments (5)I like a valerian called Sweet Kathi which is available from Flower Scent Gardens. (The customer comment they include is mine.) This is a perennial. It has pinkish-white flowers with a lovely sweet scent that wafts a very long way, especially when there's a breeze. Jennifer Here is a link that might be useful: Flower Scent Gardens...See MoreWhat is your favorite color rose? Do you grow only fragrant ones?
Comments (18)I'm with Seil and Ben - nothing makes my heart go pitter patter or my wallet go "poof" faster than a picotee, mutable or striped rose, the more high contrast the better. After that I'm drawn to the "oddball" colors of russet, parchment or lavender (or best all three together, like Distant Drums or Koko Loko). Dark dark burgundy flowers also zing something in my soul. As for wafting, even without my poor nose nothing really wafts very far in my dry climate. We don't get wafting of hyacinths and lilacs in the spring even though I have 100's of the former and 3 well established bushes of the latter. Peonies you have to get up close to smell, and the same for lilies. I'll get a vague "pleasant smell" from an area with over 10 Stargazer lilies blooming, but even my son with the hypersensitive nose doesn't gag at the smell. It just dissipates too fast. I never knew Darlow's Enigma or Marie Pavie were supposed to have any scent at all, and even my daughter with a good nose shrugs when presented with a bouquet of those. I like fragrance when I can get it, but I look far more often than I smell, as far as roses go. Cynthia...See MoreYour Favorite Rose Color
Comments (26)There are very few rose colors I don't like, but as much as I like lavender roses, I must admit that when my eye catches sight of a yellow rose, my heart lifts up in joy! In my garden-- Berolina See how cheerful Berolina is in a garden full of color! She is right in my line of vision when I look out my kitchen window. Molineux--I enjoy some apricot hues in yellow roses also, but sometimes Molineux gives pure yellow blooms. Well-Being--often has a thin outline of red around edge of newly opened blooms--quite charming. Jeri Jennings--a pale yellow The Pilgrim climber is a most delicate pale yellow/white. Easter Basket usually opens with a blend of pale yellow/white, but takes on lots of pink hues as the blooms mature. I'm stretching it a bit with Lady of Shalott, but sometimes--as in this pic--she shows a lot of yellows mixed in with her more usual apricots. But I do like lavenders also--and reds--and light pinks, medium pinks, hot pinks, etc. And bi-colors and blends. . . . Kate...See MoreWhat's your least favorite rose color?
Comments (34)Bright A$$ orange! Also don't like the orange reds either. Also yellow. Now don't get me wrong. Yellow is my favorite color, however, on roses in my garden, it fades to white in two seconds with the heat I get. Then it blends into the white fencing I have and you can't see the flowers. That being said, I see some awfully pretty yellow roses here on this site. I almost got rid of my Lady of Shalott because she produced exactly two blooms her first year and they were both bright A$$ orange! Moved her into a pot and more in the shade and she was much prettier her second year. Placed her in the ground where she is again pretty much shaded and I love the color that she is. Lots and lots of blooms on her. All beautiful. With Austins you have to give them at least three to five years to come into their own. She is also own root so it takes a bit longer for her....See Morestrawchicago z5
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