Koko Loko: tan with lavender undertones, so unique!
The unique coloring of Koko Loko has made this one of my favorite new rose purchases! My phone cannot seem to pick up the subtle shading and undertones, but it comes close.
There is more of a camel/tan coloring to it instead of the apricot shown. And there is a lavender/lilac undertone to it already! I can't wait to see it when it changes completely to lavender. I am going to have to find the perfect spot for this rose to really bring out the coloring. So unique and beautiful! Very light fragrance, but the coloring makes up for it in my book!
First bud opening...
Couple of days later (it's been in the 70s so blooms aren't opening quickly)...
View from the other side (much more lavender and tan than it's showing, instead of apricot and pink)
View from the top...
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Comments (9)If you're interested in pale colors, look at BM's Off-Whites collection; many of them are not actually off-white, but just very soft, light tones that will usually intensify some on the wall. Terracotta had popped into my head too but going too pale with terracotta can get into some weird peachy-pinky stuff and even end up looking rather like foundation makeup (BTDT). I prefer warmer undertones in west-facing rooms because for western light has that luscious dipped-in-honey feel, especially mid-to-late afternoon, but that's just me, and I'm not really one for the cool colors anyway. In our rental house the double-height living room (which I hated because we always froze in there) with huge windows faced west and was initially painted a pale ice blue. It felt very cold and dreary when the sun wasn't shining directly and strongly into the windows, and when it did the golden-tinged light turned the blue a really strange color that I found quite offputting. The landlord said we could paint IF we used an off-white and used the same color throughout the house; after about a hundred chips and a lot of testing we settled on SW Navajo White, a medium cream color, which worked well in all the rooms. In my previous house the living room faced southwesterly and although it was painted a subdued midtone lavender, we chose a color with a definite tinge of brown/tan to it to keep it warmed up. I think a lot may depend on location, too - in a very warm climate, where a west-facing room would probably be roasting hot the majority of the year, trying to make that seem cooler makes more sense than it does in a cold climate where for much of the year you're trying to take advantage of every scrap of warm feeling you can get. :-) Also, much depends on what colors flatter you and your family. I always laugh when people Lay Down The Law that "thou shalt not paint a bathroom green" when the bathroom color that suits me BEST is green - the dreaded olive green, even! Make sure you choose the paint color based on the light when you're going to see the room most. If you usually see the bathroom under artificial lighting conditions because of a long work schedule, consider colors under that lighting first. Narrow it down to three or four colors you really like and look at those in other lighting conditions (as much as you can, trying to gauge how the winter light is going to be in June doesn't do you any good) - you will probably find one that is OK all the time. Going the other way around can yield some big mistakes, I found. I chose a color for our previous house's library based on how it looked with bright summer sunlight pouring into the room, even though the room was sunny maybe two hours out of the day and we get that kind of summery light maybe 10-12 weeks a year (if it's not raining!)... at night and in winter it looked terrible. :-( I hated it from the day it went up until the day we moved out - DH hates painting and I can't so I didn't have the nerve to make him change it. Lastly, you will of course have to take into account the undertones in the beige floor. Beiges are tricky to work with/around because of those darned undertones, and combining a peach-undertoned beige with a green-undertoned beige (for example) can result in something rather ghastly....See MoreKoko-Loco is a tad disappointing.
Comments (9)Does it get plenty of bright sunshine? After many years I finally realized that there isn't enough sunshine in the back yard to grow a blue ribbon stem of Gemini--I can get long stemmed blooms but because of insufficient light, I don't get enough red for the judges. John Mattia brought a stem like that at last year's show--too much overcast weather for it to make the awards table. I've now moved my Geminis to the front yard....See MoreKoko Loko or Distant Drums?
Comments (27)Just to chime in on the downton abby topic. I'm 39 years old and loved the show! I loved Violet's character, she was very fitting for the era and her age at the time in the show. I'm not into the whole naming roses after celebrities and characters either. But if it's a good rose I will grow it no matter what the name. I'm not keen on Dick Clark, but I have the rose. I'm not a chef but you can't go wrong growing Julia Child. I do not have any of the downton roses, because I have not seen them locally and I'm not sure what hardiness zone they are rated for. But at least it's fitting to name roses after an english show that takes place in a time period of english gentry and gardens. Unlike many of the modern celebrity names on roses. Anyways, back to the topic of colour coordination. I love poseidon in my garden so far. Hoping to not encounter the tp look often. I've read Poseidon is not a lover of heat, zone 5-6 kind of rose. So if it's in all day sun spot in zone 7 and up, it probably will suffer ugly heat fried blooms. If you have afternoon shade, it will do well. Mine has no black spot. I love the look of distant drums and koko loco, but no experience with them. Violet's pride is getting a lot of rave reviews so far, despite the naming confusion! It looks very promising. Good luck with it!...See MoreKoko Loko............
Comments (36)Tina (Oursteelers), Please take my experience with tan roses as just that, one man's POV. We all have different responses to roses. I do not have Distant Drums, but my niece here in town has two young, own root bushes that are doing very well in spite of no winter protection provided. I don't see them getting much over 2' tall, maybe 30" at maturity in 2-3 years. The color of Distant Drums bloom incorporates pink into its scheme, which gives the bloom a warmth that augments the tan color. If you can get It grafted, I bet it will do even better than my niece's own root bushes. My philosophy in our climate is to go grafted, preferably on multiflora root stock (Dr. Huey, second choice), whenever possible, and particularly when a rose is fragrant, and/or a hybrid tea type, because these traits generally make for less vigorous growth and winter hardiness issues here. Distant Drums was bred for winter hardiness by Dr. Buck whose goal in his rose breeding program in Iowa was to introduce healthy, winter hardy roses for Americans. He bred Carefree Beauty, Earth Song (Take a look at Jim's, he's from Central PA, show stopping specimen here on the Roses Forum), and Quietness (my favorite rose), among over 100 other roses he bred. Roses Unlimited has the largest Dr. Buck selection and the best prices. Heirloom Roses comes in second in both categories. Moses...See More
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoSince you seem to enjoy this rose as much as I do... here's some more photos
It's still more of a silvery lavender khaki color than shown in the photos though...
This side gets a little more direct sun and has turned more pinkish lavender. It's more lavender than my phone could pick up...
The buds are a very rich color of a rusty pinkish red at first...
This photo almost gets the color right. It's still more lavender than pink in real life though, and more khaki/camel/tan than apricot. So pretty and unique!!!
Seems to be more fragrant in the afternoon in my yard. In the morning it has almost no fragrance.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI can see how that would happen. I have only become more enamored as more buds open. I can only imagine how I will be once it actually matures! The photos just don't quite capture it, but it comes close. I don't see the same apricot/amber/rust tones with my naked eye that my photos keep picking up. The bud starts off a rich color, so the guard petals seem to retain that. It opens tan/camel/khaki here so far, with silver lilac undertones, then transitions to a silvery lilac with warm beige/tan undertones. It's just so cool!!!
I have to find the right spot for this one. I think I either need another, and will put it between Love Song and Princess Charlene de Monaco. Or I will keep just the one and use it as a centerpiece within a bunch of other lilac/lavender roses. It's just so unique and gorgeous I really want to give it a showcase spot. I also want to take advantage of how it seems to like the heat, but I don't want it to fry or shut down in our hot summers. Decisions decisions. Thank goodness for pulp pots. ;-)
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5 years agoIt's such a unique rose. The blooms are smaller in my heat (90+ to 100+) , but they don't crisp. Stands the heat really well! Both the parchment brown blooms and the lavender blooms in this bouquet are Koko Loco. I love the color changes of this rose.
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5 years agoNice images and good color variation info.!
I like this rose too...the color and variations are not run of the mill!
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5 years agoHere's a photo of my smaller blooms. Today we were back up to 100F. No blown or crisped blooms, just smaller.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago...And after about 3 months of almost consistently above 100F each day....
Koko Loco made my day this morning. Not much else is blooming in his heat and if it is... it crisps by noon. Koko Loco seems to love the heat here!
(Realized I think I misspelled the name in the original title post... it's Koko Loco right? Or is it Koko Loko?)
:-)
Ann9BNCalif
5 years agoI was away from home for about 10 days and when I returned, I found my rose garden in a full flush. I wished that I could have arrived home a couple of days earlier, but I enjoyed seeing my Koko Loco really taking off.
The temperatures have been in the low to mid-80s, it feels like the fall season is coming early this year.
Ann
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoShe did get blackspot early in the season and defoliated but continued to bloom. Those first leaves were probably more susceptible to bs because of the late frost. The new leaves have mostly been clean.
I have her in a really shady spot in the shadow of the house and a fence (like maybe only 2 hours of early afternoon sun). I also think I planted a coral bells way too close to her.
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5 years agoI took these photos this morning of Koko Loco looking unfazed after yesterday's 106 degree temperature.
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