I know I'm in the minority on this but anything lavender or muddy colored. I love those rich saturated colors the hot colors the striped and variegated colors but lavender just done do it for me

i dont like the faded yellow colors...or white ,the faded ones or dr huey repells me...

white

Yellow.

Orange.

My distaste in a rose color is directed toward a very pale, dull cream that looks like dirty (soiled), white in the garden, but is otherwise a very attractive colored rose when cut for the vase.

The color of the Kordes rose, Lion's Fairy Tale, is what I am talking about. In my garden it looked so dirty, I had to shovel prune it. I also did not like LFT's discus fish flat form when the bloom was fully opened. Looking at this rose's profile view, it appeared to be a side view of an undercooked pancake!

I am very careful now in selecting a rose that is close to white (I like white roses a lot), because such roses can come across as looking like a white rose that is dirty (soiled).

Moses

Really bright orangy red is not my favorite! I like soft oranges, true reds, blue reds but hate the solid orange reds. Theres probably a few exceptions out there as I havent seen them all lol...just in general I dont seem to like them.

Hmmmm... it's a toss-up between white and red. Don't get me wrong... I have plenty of both colors. I used to always say red was my least favorite, but sometimes white can be rather boring! I actually love 'em all tho!

Brown. But since those are pretty rare, I'll go with orange.

I love looking at lavender roses on the forum...but in my yard, I just can't love it. I've given away every lavender I've ever bought.

Carol

That murky magenta blue old red roses get...Chrysler Imperial, Munstead Wood, Mirandy

I also don't like that weird brownish cast some new-fangled roses get...Cinco de Mayo comes to mind. Who cares if it's a blooming fool if all the blooms are undesirable! (I do like the lively tan of Distant Drums).

My apologies to these roses' admirers!

Red, any.

Red for sure . Most oranges .bold yellows .. More than color I hate the shape of hybrid teas .

I find it interesting that red roses are gifted and sold at florists so much . I wonder how many recipients don't really love the red !

The obnoxious coral-pink color that occurs when otherwise gorgeous orange roses fade in the heat. Yuck.

Lol, blank_generation, your post makes me think of Touch of Class...starts out bright coral, fades to a color I call 'overcooked salmon fish'.

I also dislike Paradise...red and lavender fade to two shades of different but equally dull pink!

Orangey reds, mainly because they clash with everything I have or want and seem so strident, but I'm sure they could look "right" in the proper setting. Ketchup and Mustard come to mind as least favourite, also; I just can't get over the name which somehow reminds me of a burger ad or fast food trash thrown on the street. I have seen a couple of pics on GW that were striking, so it could just be name association.

Until last year I had VERY deep opinions about gauche colours, but I've relaxed about it since seeing so many beauties on this forum. It never occurred to me that so many hate red roses.

Ugghh, I agree on on the Ketchup and Mustard. I bought some Double Delights to sample the fragrance and they had been a tolerable pink and cream. But this morning, red and yellow, so they are off to be gifts now!

Apologies to all of the red/yellow combo lovers out there!

I agree on the Ketchup and Mustard, also a color combo like Abracadabra is not pleasing at all!

Blotchy.

Garish neon colors (Trumpeter) esp. bicolors like Ketchup and Mustard. Pale lavenders and silvers are blah and so hard to place in the garden.

I love really saturated colors; always loved Sunsprite and now I have the nifty Kordes shrub Lemon Fizz. It's a winner! Also a sucker for blackish reds like Oklahoma and Lavaglut. I think Dark Desire will make my faves list too.

Barbara, if you like Lavaglut, look into Navy Lady. It's dreamy! Much nicer in person that any pic I've seen and super healthy. It gets taller in the Ohio area than stated on HMF with a great bushy shape. They have a hedge of it at the Columbus Park of Roses that's outstanding. Its light fragrant doesn't stand up to high heat, though. Usually weak fragrance would be a deal breaker for me, but someday I'm getting a couple. I may even move my DDs to the lower level to accommodate their nice shape.

The red and pink Knock-Out shades

I love almost any rose for its color, bloom form, scent, etc or for just being a rose EXCEPT IF IT IS HOT PINK

Blank_generation - that is so true for me too!!!! I absolutely hate that!! This is what you wrote:

The obnoxious coral-pink color that occurs when otherwise gorgeous orange roses fade in the heat. Yuck.

Gone in a heartbeat in my yard. Blech!

Carol

I absolutely dislike brownish and tan hues. Hot Chocolate looks like raw liver to me. I don't care at all for Cinco de Mayo or Coco Loco either. Honey Dijon looks like something that's already dead.

@HalloBlondie: I had to look up Pepto Bismol. Gosh, I LOVE that shade of pink - GORGEOUS!

Thank god we don't all share the same taste in roses - how boring if our gardens were all the same!

Oranges: bright orange and worst of all,orange- red. Also fire-engine red,stuff in that range.

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.

Now we know why there are so many rose colors because certainly nobody could agree on what is the best or worst of all the colors.

to me it's not so much the color, although there are ones I really don't care for , like lavender , but it's more how long does it hold its petals . If it starts out really a pretty vibrant color and then in mid-day it's already lost half of its petals, then don't care how pretty the color is, that is a rose that I will shovel prune

I'm with Rabains, Moses and Halloblondie. The rose colors I dislike the most are the nondescript creams that a lot of roses fade in the sun. This happens almost routinely for peach, yellow, coral and many pink roses. For instance, when the mini Apricot Twist first bloomed it was indeed a lovely soft apricot color. Now in the heat (most of our summers) it has turned the off-white that every institutional office used to be painted. Bleah. Not offensive, just boring and annoying.

Cynthia

I dislike the pure reds. I find something like Munstead Wood much more interesting than a pure red. I also don't like the tan/grey ones - they look so ugly to me. But I love apricot / orange - they're turning into some of my favorites but I can't fall in love with the pure orange ones like Summer Song.

I love yellows, all shades of pink to a deep cerise (like Princess Alexandra of Kent), even some of the magenta ones. But red ones just look dated to me.

Reds easily. Every time I try with a red again I remember why I detest it so much. If I could only get my BF to understand how much I hate red roses and stop getting me that color for special occassions.

Red/orange yuk! I think red is so popular at the florists is because many men love red. They buy the roses. I'm glad we all have different taste and I always enjoy looking at pictures of roses I wouldn't grow in my own garden. Lisa

I'm far less likely to buy white or yellow roses because most of the volunteer flowers in my garden are one of those colors. With feverfew and poppies springing up in every flower bed, I rarely feel the need to add more white or yellow to the mix.

I don't really dislike any rose color, but after the first couple of decades of collecting roses, I was jaded enough to avoid buying roses with solid-colored blooms. I now tend to buy roses with bi-colored blooms, and tri-colored blooms are even better. My favorites these days are roses like Rainbow Sorbet, which can have four or five colors (orange, pink, yellow, white, etc.) in a single bloom. They're so much more entertaining than blooms of solid colors.