I don't have many for this category--but Lady of Shalott definitely qualifies, doesn't she!

LADY OF SHALOTT (Austin shrub)

That's about it--except that I also have several that pick up strong apricot shades in various temperatures.

ELLE(HT)--normally light pink with a touch of pale yellow at the base, but look at the apricot shades it can pick up sometimes!

MOLINEUX (Austin shrub)--another one that periodically goes quite apricot.

VALENCIA (HT)--usually more of a golden buff shade, but with definite apricot highlights.

BUFF BEAUTY (hybrid musk)--usually more neutral buff-colored, but can pick up some strong apricot tones at times.

QUEEN OF SWEDEN (Austin shrub)--basically pale pink, but does have some apricot highlights.

Kate

Jude the Obscure. My only rose that veers into the yellow/orange side of apricot.

I wasn't sure if salmon goes into the pink category or the apricot category.

Evelyn sometimes is more apricot, sometimes more pink.

Abraham Darby. Also can be more apricot/orange, or more pink depending upon his mood.

Alnwick Castle can be warmer or cooler depending on its mood.

Savannah looks more pink in the garden, more apricot in the photos.

Heaven on earth - fall and summer color

Another Lady of Shalott--although this picture makes her look rather pinkish

Candice--she has many colors. She can be apricot with pink and cream stripes on the outer petals. She can be pink on the inside with striped petals on the outside. A rose of many colors. She is a stunner!

I have a few more orangey/apricot tones than I realized!

Abbaye de Cluny with a darker than typical peach tone.

Easy Does It looking a bit more reddish/pink than typical. One of my few floribundas, EDI lives up to its name in being very floriferous.

Evelyn in her first year has been a surprise. She's already four feet wide and I'm concerned she'll over run her neighbors if I don't trim her back all the time. She's on her own roots too!

Fragrant Cloud, fourth year maybe and very consistently fragrant. Long lasting inside and outside. FC is actually still blooming outside in mid-December.

Jude the Obscure, third year and starting to get BIG.

Lady Emma Hamilton, first year and a very compact grower so far.

Lady Bird Johnson looking like her typical quirky blend of red and orange, with a touch of pink.

Mercury Rising in his first year after being moved to a sunnier spot where he's much happier.

Pat Austin in her first year hasn't grown much but I look forward to seeing great things from her next year.

Tamora, looking very happy after I trimmed back a shrub that was blocking her sun.

That's it for now!

Ann

Clementina Carbonieri

Carding Mill

America

Chippendale

MEILove Orange

Augusta Luise

I don't have many of these.

Charisma.

Louise Clements

I do have Louise Clements. She's quite orange, but I didn't really intend on having her. She's an "accident" order. Lisa

Wonderful photos in this thread. I really have a soft spot for apricot and orange roses. A few of mine...

Alchymist

Etrusca

Notre Dame du Rosaire

The Lady Gardener

Xavier de Fraissinette

Great pics everyone! :)

Carefree Celebration:

Holy Moly... I was waiting for this color! I'm an apricot rose-color lover.

My fav: Sunset Celebration

Jude, the Obscure

The Impressionist

Abe

Lady of the Mist

And, one of my new favs: Polka

My head is exploding with all these beautiful pics in a color I only ever considered this year. Where to begin with these beauties. Well, I can't so just know I'm returning again and again to this post for everyone's posts.

Why do we always want what we can't have? Hans, you roses are gorgeous and so unusual. Everyone's are beautiful, but I've never seen nor heard of quite a few you listed.

towandaaz, why isn't everyone growing Polka? That is amazing.... did you special order yours? I think I need this one for the year after next, unless it can take only Western sun. I'm hoping to have an apricot/yellowy area and this would be the centerpiece. I guess I could also have it along my front wall. Obviously, I'm just looking for space to fit it in. : ) I'll post my Margo Koster pics when I have a sec to find them.

Holy cow there's some real beauties here! Nice to see ETRUSCA , Henrik. I've been wanting to order it from Roses Unlimited. I have a ton of orange ans apricot roses. Had to pare them down...

ABOUT FACE

APRICOT CANDY

BEAUTE

BRASS BAND

BRONZE SUNSET

CARIBBEAN

CHIPPENDALE

COUNTRY LADY

COURTOISE

DRONNING INGRID

some more...

EASY DOES IT

EUROPEAN TOUCH

FAIREST CAPE

FANTASIA MONDIALE

FLORA DANICA

FRANCE LIBRE

FREISINGER MORGENROTE CL

FULTON MACKAY

GINGERSNAP

HALLE

and...

HEAVEN ON EARTH

HOME OF TIME

HOT ROMANCE

IMPATIENT

INDIAN FEMA

IT'S SHOWTIME

JAN'S WEDDING

JESSIKA

JULIE NEWMAR

LAS VEGAS

and...

LAURA BUSH

MAID OF HONOUR

MARILYN MONROE

MILVA

NORWICH CASTLE

OCTOBERFEST

ORANGE JUICE

PRAIRIE SUNRISE

PURE POETRY

RECONCILIATION

more...

REJOICE

REMEMBER ME

ROSEMARY HARKNESS

SAMARITAN

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

SISTERS AT HEART

SOUVENIR DE PIERRE GUILLOT

SPECIAL OCCASION

SULTRY

SUNDOWNER

and finally...

SWEET JULIET

SUMMER SONG

TANGERINE STREAMS

TATTON

THANKSGIVING

THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT

TROIKA

TUSCAN SUN

VALENCIA

WESTERLAND CL

Oh my!!! Oh my!!!!

I love the orange pictures more than any other color of rose showcased in these threads!!! Wow!!

Beth - what do you think of Jessika? I almost bought it - but didn't know enough about it.

Carol

Beth: If you get Etrusca, I think you need to put it in part shade. Being an Italian hybrid tea you would expect it to be heat tolerant but even in my cool climate the flowers fry in mid summer. It is also highly susceptible to powdery mildew...

Henrik, your Geneviève Orsi is so beautiful!!! The color is soft and so appealing! I wish more Generosa roses were available in the US.

I love seeing everyone's apricots! I seem to be drawn more to apricots and yellows more than to other colors of roses. I've shown these elsewhere but here are a few I have:

Abraham Darby

Versigny

Carol, JESSIKA is a wonderful rose. Blooms are very large and repeat really well. They do best in the cooler temps, but are lovely even in my triple digit summers. The plant grows about 3½-4ft tall by around 2-3ft wide. Definitely a keeper as far as I'm concerned!

Thanks Henrik! Good to know about ETRUSCA. Powdery mildew is only a problem for me in early spring and winter, but the frying aspect might deter me. Altho, many of my roses fry in my summers anyway. LOL But with the new RU website up and running, I see a rose I want even more. OSIRIA. I just emailed Pat to see if they really do have it. Crossing my fingers....

Beth - great description!!! Love the repeat very well part - but...sounds too short for here. If it's 3 1/2 feet for you, it will probably only be two feet here. Guess I'll enjoy it vicariously through you! :)

Carol

polka

So many beautiful roses here. Dave, I am seriously considering Versigny. Could you tell me how large it gets for you? I'm in S CA, so my roses tend to get very big. Also, how is the bush habit? I looks like it makes great cut flowers, and that's most important to me. Thanks. Lisa

Pat Austin wth tree frog

Crown Princess Margareta

Crepuscle

Lady of Shalott

Hey these guys are kinda orange :)

I love your tree frog!!! Hard to believe the rose could hold its flower up with a frog in it!! Wow!

Carol

Autumn

Halloween, looking kinda yellow

Veldfire

Golden Buddha. Starts out egg yolk orange, fades to orangey yellow, then pale yellow

Golden Buddha again

Serious gorgeousness going on in this thread. Love love love it!!!!

Agree with Prettypetals! It would be impossible to grow all of these beautiful in one's garden. Thank you for sharing your roses and gardens.

Orange, apricot, and maybe corals, also?

IMPULSE, second season on fort., slow start and hoping it makes it through the winter. Love the color and form.

EUROPEAN TOUCH, beautiful form and such an elegant rose. A definite producer in my garden.

THE LADY GARDENER, wonderful fragrance, second season.

FOLKLORE, thanks to Sara-Ann's posts/pictures that enabled me to get this rose.

PAT'S CHOICE, on fort., second season and it has been slow to start. I am anticipating great things in 2017.

SPELLBOUND, several years old, has done better in previous years. Lovely bloom.

TAHITIAN SUNSET, lots of beautiful long stemmed blooms on a low maintenance bush. Thrips do like it, too.

GIZMO, almost need sunglasses.

SNUFFY, beautiful spring and fall, summer not so great and has BS Iissues, almost sp'd.

FIRST AND FOREMOST, I would like a shade of lipstick this color.

What fun, what wonderful roses.

Fragrant Cloud:

Medallion in autumn:

Perle d'Or:

Lady Emma Hamilton:

Steven

Thanks everyone! Wow, there are some beauties in this color class! I appreciate all your efforts in showing them.

Like Vaporvac, my head is exploding! Haha I’m looking up so
many of these gorgeous roses on HMF.

I agree about Polka. I’m in love with it. Super healthy,
vigorous grower on own-root, big, beautiful perfect blooms. A real winner. I
ordered it last spring from Heirloom Roses. It’s in a pot at the moment and I
plan on leaving it in but putting it up against a “climbing wall” for next
spring. The blooms are giant! I don’t know how the blooms would do with Western
sun exposure. I baby my roses with a shade cover and Polka got late afternoon
shade although I see you’re in Zone 6 and probably not as much under a burning
high desert sun like I am.

Teka, how do you like your Polka?

Henrik, your photos are beautiful. Do you have a favorite
out of your group?

Hans, how do you like Chippendale. I’ve been eyeing this one
for a while. Your Augusta Luise is stunning.

Gosh, they’re all so beautiful everyone… especially the tree
frog. Kate, your Queen of Sweden stopped me in my tracks. Gorgeous.

Thanks Sara-Ann, these rose color threads are getting me
thru the Winter! And hey, it’s December 21st… don’t the days begin
to get longer??

towandaaz: Always hard to pick favourites but if I had to choose just one of those I think it would be Lady Emma Hamilton. She stays very healthy in a pot and is one of my absolute favourites for fragrance...