I think that little girls would love the name....Tinkerbelle/Pinkerbelle. I'm pretty easy going...I don't mind the name. :)

Twros - That's hysterical!!!!!!!

I dunno - I still think "Smell Me" sounds like the worst side of potty humor. Pinkerbelle at least has the cute factor going for it.

Twros, yes - many rose names are dangerous when you say them out loud. "Help, I just killed Cary Grant". "Oh no, no more Hope for Humanity". I hope Grandma's Blouse isn't a drop dead gorgeous rose since I'd be unable to read the tag without remembering your comment!

Cynthia

A fun thread. I don’t like the childish names like Dee-lish, Ch-Ching...who do they think is buying their new Hybrid Teas, I wonder?

In general I don’t like roses named after specific people, either. When I make the name tag, I’ll chose some other country’s name for the rose, for example, Chris Evert is ‘Souvenire’, Francis Meilland is ‘Prince Jardinier’. Alas, two of my very favorite roses, PJPII and Neil Diamond, have no alternate name .

The worst name for me is Ketchup and Mustard! It almost makes me sick. I don't mind names of people depending. I like to see how well I think a rose suits the celebrity name. However, I dislike that so many names are changed from a beautiful original one to that of a current in the news person who'll soon be forgotten. At least FM is associated with roses.

Cynthia and tworos, you're both hilarious! : )

I think it's cute.

Amen vapor !! I dislike the rose as it is and then that awful name? Ickkkkl

i don't mind named roses for people but if I wasn't a fan of the person I probably wouldn't be able to buy the rose .

Lilyfinch, for years, I could not bring myself to purchase clematis 'Prince Charles', I just kept envisioning the man's big ears !

As for 'K & M' there are three rather venerable daffodils named 'Eggs and Bacon', 'Butter and Eggs' and 'Codlins and Cream'. 'K & M' may someday have a similar colloquial charm. So far, I think the worst ever name is 'Crush on You'.

I had the impression that when 'Smell Me' was introduced, Ludwig's was also going to release its sibling the following year, with the name 'Pull My Finger'.

Another 'Non' fan of the name Ketchup & Mustard, or the rose.

Paul, it is rare that a post on Gardenweb makes me laugh out loud but yours is priceless and I am chuckling uncontrollably even now. Since Ludwigs has somehow neglected to release that rose, we rely on you to breed an appropriate rose with that name. Bonus points if you can make it a smoky brown...

Cynthia

It doesn't bother me too much. I still think that the climbing yellow one called "Golden Shower" will forever hold the trophy of worst name..

Sometimes it's good to speak a very small language and not get any bad associations to a rose name because of ignorance. Golden Shower used to remind me only of the myth of Danaë and the golden rain. I'm sorry I've found out more because of comments here.

Yeah, I had no idea either. :)

Carol

I think Golden Showers the rose preceded the slang usage, a similar situation to those girls that are unfortunately named Isis. Poor rose, lol.

I have 'Butter and Eggs' daffies that mcnastarana mentions and we actually thought to have some fun and plant 'Honey Dijon' rose next to them but it's not hardy here.

It's a bit of a mystery to me why someone would name the rose 'Aspirin'.

BE is a common name for a couple of plants. I guess it doesn't bother me like K&M due to the clashing colours of the latter. I believe the "Aspirin" rose was in honor of the 100th anniversary of Bayer's miracle drug.

Thanks for explaining the name, vaporvac. Perhaps the inventor's name, Felix Hoffmann (just googled it), might have worked better... I just can't help but giggle at the thought of someone showing a 'lovely Aspirin' in the rose garden :-)

Not about the worst names, but more on the lighthearted side - earlier this month when we saw 'La Biche' (pronounced with 'sh' in French), a beautiful rose BTW, we were entertaining the idea of Freudian slip-ish rose names :-)

If you think it's bad among rose names, daylilies have us beat.

"Buddy's Booger," a spider flowered daylily, whose name fits what it looks like to me, and "Little Stinker," are just a few of the, "Of what were you thinking?", daylily names of distinction.

Moses

Isn’t Plum Perfect known in Australia as ‘Transplant Australia’s Thank You Rose’. I understand it’s a good cause, but the name is still an awkward mouthful.

Technically the name of this one is actually 'MElvanoe', with Pinkerbelle being a marketing device - in the manner of Jello or Kleenex.

I know a few roses that could easily bear the name 'Kleenex'......

Remember way back when Honey Dijon hadn't been released and Jim Sproul and Tom Carruth referred to it on the forums as "Baby Poop"? Tom even commented at a rose meeting they were considering naming it "Pamper Me". Talk about "crappy" names!

roseseek - ewwwww!!! :) LOL

Moses - another ewwwwww!!!!

Carol

"Golden Showers" makes me giggle. I had that rose in NC. Loved the rose though.

vesfl, Aspirin-Rose was named by Bayer because of the 100th anniversary of their painkiller. A very good rose, too.

Thank you, mariannese. Vap also mentioned it. It's an important invention to honor, but I wonder if the inventor's name might have worked better... I've seen a few photos, it's a gorgeous rose, indeed.

I thought it would be fun to plant 'Honey Dijon' with some other foodstuff-named plants, but it turns out to be a much more distinguished name than the original 'Baby Poop'. Oh, boy! Thank you for sharing that story, roseseek.

Sorry vesfl. I was scrolling too fast.