What I don't understand is all the serration on the leaves - neither peaches nor cots have that. I would guess plum cross from those, and the elongated tip has something to do with how the plum genes affect the tip on apricot leaves (they have a little concave tip on them, unlike plum/peach). Scott

Apricot happens to be my favorite of all roses colors and I grow many. Here are some that I would grow anytime. Summers Kiss aka Paul Ricard has been a huge bushy blooming machine for me. The blooms are large, plentiful, long-lasting and gorgeous and the bush is very disease resistant and easy to grow. Mother of Pearl--Varying shades of creamy pinkish apricot that I grow right next to Summers Kiss and sometimes you cannot tell one bloom from the other. Big, bushy, healthy, heavy blooming and easy to grow. Another real winner. Either of these two or a combination of both would make a wonderful mass planting or hedge. These two bushes together use up about 9' long and 4'-5' wide in my garden bed. Neither of these are heavily scented but are lightly fragrant. Both are very winter hardy with no protection from me at all. Personally for a mass planting I would use the both of them together. Marilyn Monroe--a very beautiful exhibition flower of medium apricot that are large and luscious but scentless. Blooms are plentiful and repeat quickly for me. The bush is 5 1/2' tall and 3 1/2' wide on both of my MM bushes. The foliage is thick, dense, healthy and dark green. The one drawback is that the bushes are extremely thorny, but if you are looking for a people/animal stopper, these little daggers will certainly do the deed. For a smaller but still dense bush I would suggest the mini (though really mini-flora sized) Nancy Jean mini bred by Vernon Rickard. My Nancy Jean blooms are large minmi-flora sized and have an intense apricot color. It blooms plentifully and the flowers have wonderful form and last a very long time with cast iron substance to the petals. The color of the blooms doesn't fade much if any throughout the life of the blooms. There isn't much fragrance at all, but they are still beautiful and repeat quickly for me. The bush is very dense with dark green foliage that too has heavy leaf substance and would make a good hedge or mass planting. Mine grows large quickly every Spring to about 3 1/2' tall and 3' wide soon after breaking dormancy every year. This is a good apricot rose. A new apricot HT for me this year that has really gotten my attention already is Over The Moon. It was a bareroot plant this past Spring and it broke dormancy very quickly and vigorously and started producing beautiful large deep apricot blooms right away. The blooms are plentiful already with a light scent and I think will get even better as it establishes the next couple of years. The blooms are of exhibition quality and I would expect to see them on the head tables soon. Stems are long and straight and the blooms I cut for vases this year lasted 10-12 days without faiding noticeably. I think this is going to be an incredibly popular rose as it gets more widely distributed. I can easily see this one becoming a favorite of mine very easily and quickly. Apricot Nectar is already mentioned above and is a very good apricot floribunda. I would recommend it as well. My favorite rose of all is the apricot blend Day Breaker floribunda. I have a mass planting of five of them in my front bed and it is an immediate attention getter and has probably drawn more people to my driveway to look at the roses than any others I have. The flowers are a beautiful melange of dawn colors in pink, cream, orange, apricot, and yellow that are constanly changing as the temps of the year change throughout the growing season. My bushes bloom continuously and heavy with nice large floribunda blooms that have good form, heavy substance, and a delightful light scent that I really enjoy. It blooms on both singles and sprays and they make great cut flowers for me. The bush and foliage of DB are it's greatest asset I believe. The bush grows to about 4 1/2' to 5' tall very vigorously and quickly every Spring and begin blooming right away. They are very winter hardy and fly through winter with no added protection from me at all. It is very easy to grow. The leaves are a very thick and shiny green that sparkle in the sun and are a terrific backdrop for the beautiful blooms. I have seen a very small amount of blackspot when the disease pressure is very high, but nominal spraying keeps my six bushes mostly very healthy. The bush maintains a very good rounded shape without having to prune it excessively to get it that way. I think that is why the mass planting is so attractive. This is the only rose that I have more than two of and I would have even more of them had I the right place for them. This is a great rose and the very favorite of the 300+ I currently grow. For cream colored roses I would definitely recommend Elina as it is creamy enough very light yellow that most times my blooms look more cream than yellow. It is a great rose as mentioned above. Tahitian Sunset is beautiful and ultra healthy growing and heavy blooming and during the majority of the year is a very light creamy yellow apricot color with super fragrance. European Touch is a wonderful creamy light apricot descendant of Folklore that grows like a weed. My bushes are very tall at 7' and 4' wide and very winter hardy. Not much scent, but the blooms are very large and plentiful and the foliage is gorgeous. Will BS just a tiny bit but a very light and occasional spray keeps them clean for me. I only grow one of them, but I think it would make a successful multi planting rose as well. Roses that are great but may be too white for you are Pope John Paul II,and Moonstone HT's. Both are great roses. You know I just thought of the J&P creamy white floribunda Moondance. I have grown it two years and it has proven to be a very vigorous, healthy, and very heavy blooming rose. It has very dense foliage with thick healthy leaves and is in constant bloom. It is NEVER without flower in my garden and I think it could make a very nice mass planting and a particularly good hedge. It is not very thorny and the canes and stems are very sturdy and straight and the flowers make a good cut rose. They last a long time on the bush or even when cut for the vase. you should really take a look at this one I think. So here are my ideas. In all, if I were going to narrow this down, I would REALLY consider the Summer's Kiss/Mother of Pearl combo as they are so easy care, healthy/hardy, large, colorful, and interesting to look at. Just different enough yet the same type of rose that they would be a standout anywhere. Anyway, I think any of the roses I have mentioned here would make a good mass planting. I am in your general area so our growing experiences should be similar. Good luck to you and let us know what you decide to do! Good luck and good rosing... John

I'm a newbie and don't have any to suggest, but am enamored with Polka, Autumn Sunset, Above All, Colette and Lady Ashe (Dixieland Linda) for climbers. Perle d'Or is also sweet looking as well as Margot Koster which tends towards coral. Barbara, that is how I'm choosing mine! I went to the Columbus Park of Roses on a 95+deg day and noted what looked healthyl with plenty of blooms (this was past peak bloom time) and had good fragrance. Had I not, I never would have known how beautiful Sugar Moon was nor how fragrant. Many supposedly scented ones lost it completely in the heat. I also learned what it meant that some red roses "blue" and burn in the heat....not attractive! Lastly, I understood that "needs dead-heading" means the spent blooms will look like so much wet toilet paper strewm on the bush and now look for climbers that drop their petals cleanly. Ky Rose, I'd love to know what gardens are near you. I'm in Cincinnati, but will travel for roses!

Thank you. Sorry I did not properly separate my thoughts about patents vs trademarks. I mentioned "Askot" because in Help Me Find it's listed with a copyright symbol. On Palatine's website Ascot has a TM symbol. I am trying to find out why Long Ago Roses, Angel Gardens, Freedom Gardens, or Palatine in Canada have to pay royalties (other than it's the right thing to do). Thus why I specified I have not yet researched Ascot/Askot/TAN01757 in Canada, yet. US Patents are only good in the USA: https://www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/ipr-toolkits European Patents are only good in the "Contracting States": https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/pursuing-international-ip-protection/european-patent-office "The United States has copyright relations with most countries throughout the world, and as a result of these agreements, we honor each other's citizens' copyrights. However, the United States does not have such copyright relationships with every country. A listing of countries and the nature of their copyright relations with the United States is available from the U.S. Copyright Office." European Union Unitary Patents is only in 17 countries currently: https://www.ptslaw.com/patent-news/how-will-eus-unitary-patents-affect-u-s-ip-law/ There is some USA legal discussion here: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6383512/is-fragrant-masterpiece-patented I have not yet found any patent, copyright, or trademark for Ascot/Askot/TAN01757 in the USA. "...we honor each other's citizens' copyrights" is lovely legally vague wording that means nothing.