Graham Thomas is my favourite yellow DA - very robust and disease free - not sure about it being a good picking rose though. I also love Sutters Gold - a lovely yellow-orange blend with an excellent fragrance - I have the climbing version, it is in it's 3rd year now and is really something. Lovely long stems for picking too. Gold medal is pretty good too.
Rach

The yellow Austins tend to shatter quickly in the vase - Golden Celebration may be an exception to that rule.

There are too few good yellow HTs, but Gold Medal is still up there with the best.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, if picked in the bud, will open pure yellow but will get watermelon-coloured outer petals if left to age on the bush. That may rule it out for you, but I mention it because it is one of the best performing, most floriferous picking roses I've ever grown.

What about Freesia? Mine is blooming it's A%^& off at the moment.

It's a great rose, but not for picking surely? The original poster wanted roses to cut, and Friesia doesn't have long stems or single headed blooms.

Check out St Patrick great form for cutting- but sadly no scent or little. Also Limona would be my top choice has fragrance, Treloars has it. Good Luck!

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the original post. I pick my freesia, along with most of my David Austins, droopy heads and all. I even pick mini roses that only have 4cm of stem. They look so cute in a tiny vase. I didn't realise there was a restriction on picking roses with stems short of a certain length. Should I be throwing them back? :-)

Floribunda's look fantastic in a vase. One stem of Europiana can fill a whole vase. Of course it is best if you pick off the first (central) bud, then you get a dozen or more blooms on the one stem.

Sparaxis, I was probably guilty of generalisation. Any rose can be picked, but those considered ideal by most people have single buds on long, stout stems. In general (but not always) these attributes lead to long vase life. At least that's how the florists would see it.

There are multi-headed roses that have quite good vase performance too. Abraham Darby for example. In general, though, the blooms are not all at the same stage of development and that tends to lead to compromise.

Maybe I'm going blind, and it's listed above already, but why has no one mentioned Valencia? On this forum, this superb, ultra-robust and fragrant cutting yellow has achieved sainthood by acclamation (I've been watching too much CNN, maybe)

How about Sunsprite? But I have St. Patrick and really like it - tons of blooms, last forever. Really solid form.

Canadian Carol

I missed out a couple of the yellows I already have.(I have 170 bushes planted in my garden)large block of land.
Which is Gold Medal, Dame Elizabeth murdoch, freisa(not growing) and Valencia.
I love the Valencia and will be buying another one. My St.patrick hasn't grown but will move it this season.
There has been mention of some charles austin roses. I also wanted to plant a rose near a 2m wall(not for picking)and couldn't deceide which one in yellows would flower the most. See there is a new DA Charles darwin?

Golden Celebration is a lovely picked flower - doesn't last as long as I'd like but as the shrub has gotten older, the stems and heads have drooped less and a mass of them in a vase is really quite lovely.

My grandfather's favourite yellow and favourite rose for that matter was Speck's Yellow. And that picked very well.

The other three that spring to mind are Michaelangelo (a paler yellow and as tough as) and Crocus Rose; the latter bears prolifically here and Happy Child which I don't grow but I believe is a good cutting rose with attractive foliage and has the bonus of a wonderful scent.

Barb

Betsy, you're quite right. I grow Valencia too. It's more parchment than yellow for me but I love the shade.

Carol, the rose you call Sunsprite is in fact Friesia - it is only you north Americans who give it that name! The Germans call it Korresia.

I'll take you all back a few years to a rose called Royal Gold. This rose won Best Rose time and time again at Melbourne Town Hall in the hands of Clive Boote. You can also consider Ron Bell's Marjorie Atherton as a worthy yellow. Recently we have the Grandiflora Catherine McAuley as also perhaps worthy of consideration. A Friesia baby.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:2113107}}

Nice rose Lozza! How does it smell?

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