I had a nice shrubby Allister S G plant but it came down with RRD. It was about 5x5'. I planted a new one in my front yard and it is about 6.5' tall now and is just getting started. Don't want it to get too wide. I saw a picture of a huge one grown in England against a house. So it can get huge. Sure could be a climber.

I like SdVH but have not treated it as well as I should. It lives in a pot. Might be rooted through the hole by now. It looks like it gets some cold damage here but in FL should be ok. It reblooms well and is really pretty.

Here's a link to David Austin's pic of ASG . He describes it as a climber.

https://www.google.com/search?q=alister+stella+gray+rose&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE3tDbhIzgAhUMZN8KHaqYCYIQ_AUIDygC&biw=1152&bih=606#imgrc=bJHD-RDezKRyEM:

Kristine that SDVH is gorgeous! Please tell me it doesn’t have fragrance so I don’t have to add it to the list!

I keep on flip flopping on choice between Golden Celebration or Vanessa Bell. Case in point , I've never been a fan of daffidols, cause when I picture them, all I think of is the atypical schoolbus yellow. I do plan to have Julia Child rose. I like the tones of the Golden Celebration but I also like the subtle *white-very light* yellow of the Vanessa Bell.

Ha, the easy answer is to make a larger rose bed so I can get both, but that's not happening.

I don’t have either so I can’t help but I really like the look of VanessaBell.

Final yellow survey. How does JC vs. Molineux fare in ur garden. Reblooming, stingy/not so stingy, holds it's petals to the elements.

I sorta decided on the JC treeform vs. Molineux. I then saw the recent WEEKS threads re. RRD so I went 180 degrees and came back to Molineux.

Charles Darwin from this summer. It's my only yellow and it's a new plant just planted last summer. I'm so excited for spring!!!

I like JC because it fends off fungal diseases a lot better than Molineux did. By mid July in my area, most of the leaves were off of Molineux & were fine on JC. I took out Molineux & put in its place a Kordes grandiflora called Madame Anisette. That is fragrant & highly disease resistant.

Ohhh ASG is a noisette! I guess I had forgotten that lol. Noisettes do really well here with very little care. I'm definitely getting it!

Everybody has such beautiful yellow cheery roses, the best thing for this polar vortex evening. I can add one picture of a rose I have not yet seen in this thread, White Licorice. It's a quiet rose, but beautifully shaped and nice fresh fragrance. Not 100% BS resistant, but also not terrible. I hide that little flaw by planting rambunctious lilies around it.

Oh how could I forget Harrison's Yellow? It's a wild thing, big, thorny, but it thrives with little care needed and its blooms appears early and with such abundance, you can't help but smile. I give you Harrison's Yellow:

Hi! Good to see you on this thread. I will answer you in a bit when I have a moment by the way. Yes, white licorice! One of my very favorite roses that I don't grow. The scent is amazing, just amazing. I'm glad you showed it. :-)

I went with Vanessa Bell. Hopefully I made the right call. On the online pics, it was the right yellow for me (white yellow). In the front row of the rose bed, Vanessa will in the middle, flanked by Bosbocel on the right and Mumstead on the left

That sounds very pretty

Sooo many gorgeous yellow roses—thank you for all these beautiful photos! There’s something about yellow roses that just radiates pure joy. They’re sweet sunshine that you can hold in your hands. :-)

Here are 2 photos of the blooms taken in June of last year of 'Julia Child' & 'Easter Basket'.

Julia Child

The 2 photos are of Easter Basket. Notice the pink to yellow shading colors.

Here's a few of my yellows to add - Molineaux, Charles Darwin, Teasing Georgia & Crown Princess looking more yellow in a heat wave. She tends to be peachier when it's cooler.

A few more - Graham Thomas, Julia Child, Bill Reid & St. Patrick

And a few more - popcorn drift, topaz jewel, crocus rose & strike it rich (which is almost in the orange/apricot category).

Only have one. Sequoia Gold. Great rose. Under sung hero of my garden. Constantly in bloom even when it is 115 degrees outside and with restricted watering. No disease. No fungal issues in my organic garden.

I’m gonna have to find a home for Crocus Rose. These threads are KILLING me...

Everyone is posting such beautiful roses! Yellow/yellow blend is probably my favorite rose color. I still have a lot of them even after having to remove so many when I went no spray. I’ll try to narrow down to just my very favorites of the lot.

Of my current yellows, Golden Fairy Tale and Karl Ploberger tie for my favorite…beautiful, fragrant, prolific and oh so bs resistant :D

GFT

KP

Delightful Phyllis was new in 2017. Still young, but a delight so far:

Mitsouko handles the heat of growing in a large pot by our pool. Blackspots some, but not too bad:

South Africa isn’t as fragrant as I would like, but such a bright, cheery and healthy rose:

Tchaikovsky is still young, but I have high hopes for this one:

Well Being blackspots some, but I forgive it…love the fragrance and the red buds that open to such unique form:

Marechal Niel’s blooms often get eaten by bugs or ruined by rain, but when they don’t, they take my breath away:

Perle des Jardins can get ruined by rain, too, but another that’s worth waiting for conditions to her liking:

Etoile de Lyon…short for a tea and a bloom machine:

Etoile de Mai is such a carefree and prolific bloomer, but does fade to white quickly:

Mrs Dudley Cross…is she yellow or is she pink :D

Pat, I'm noticing the leaf cutter bees handiwork on your Marchael Niel :) MN is the favorite of the leaf cutter bees here. Its the first rose they go for. MN must have especially delicious leaves.

I put up a bee house last year I will have to check and see if they are using it yet.

SJN, I’ve never paid attention to which roses the leaf cutters start with…will have to watch more closely this year. I really can’t tell them apart from the honeybees except for the “I wuz here” circle notes they leave for me :D

Just an fyi, the leaf cutter bees use the leaf bits to build their nests to lay their eggs. They don't eat them, they stuff them in nest tubes. They are excellent pollinators and I'm so jealous of those of you who have them. They adore rose and llilac leaves. They are of the few bees that can successfully live in greenhouses too.

I just love this thread it's really reminding me just how lovely yellow roses can be.

Is there a reason you dont have the bees? Is it too cold where you are?

No I just never see them in my yard although we tons of other bees.

Just picked up this mini at food4less for $3.99. I divided up the cuttings and spread them around the yard, we’ll see if it wants to live :) I just love the fat quartered blooms

Amanda, you might have better luck than I did. Your hardiness zone is higher. I had the red striped one & the coral one & it didn’t survive our winter a few years ago.

yeah I saw people on here posting about growing them and it had never really occurred to me to try. If they start getting huge I’ll have to pull them out, but it would be really fun if they stay low and bloom like that, I would like to have them for arrangements too. My main weather hazard is sunburn, we’ll see how they do with that.

THREAD BRUMP. Can anyone shed some insight on bloom profile of JC vs. Molienux. Color, reblooming, bloom shape, etc - even though to my eyes they are both = .....we'll at least the google images

OT to the thread bump, but I now am seeing Popcorn Drift growing at the feet of Phyllis Bide. Thoughts anyone? a1an, Molineux starts out with a pure yellow bud and opens lighter exhibiting and almost orange coloring at times. I'll post pics.

Thx. I get why many of ya'll plant so many variaties. It's those subtle differences as they blossom

For me, at least for now, they are all *pretty blossoms* I depict online.

Until I grow some to get some under -my belt-, just trying to make some educated decisions I suppose

i know enviroment, soil, siting, temps ,etc play roles in how each of these things behave

In this thread, I would choose JC just due to color consistency (or the goal of in which I am looking for a singular color behind a row of green)

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In my garden, JC starts as a bright, golden yellow, but quickly fades to cream/white. A prolific, almost constant bloomer with a strong anise scent that will waft when my two bushes are blooming heavily. I cut mine down to about one to two feet each spring and she gets to around 5 ft tall by end of season. My Molineux has apricot shading in the centers during cool weather, but a clearer, lighter yellow in the heat. Its blooms fade to cream quickly in heat, but not as quickly as JC when temps are cooler. It blooms heavily, but more in flushes than continuously. Only a light scent to my nose and not sure how to describe it, but definitely not anise or a scent that wafts. Molineux stays smaller here, too. With minimum pruning, its about 3 to 4 feet tall at the most. I'm in hot and humid, zone 7b Alabama. Our winters are usually fairly mild...we do get nighttime temps in the teens and 20s sometimes, but rarely stay under freezing during the day.

Julia Child:

Molineux in cool weather:

Molineux in the heat:

Graham Thomas

noob here. Is the petal drop between the 2 different @ the peak of summer. The siting has ZERO shade in the summer. Sun starts around 5:30-6 AM AND starts shading off around the same time if not later in the PM

My JCs and molineux are in all day full sun. I don't rememher either having blooms that shatter quickly, but both will fade to cream quickly after opening when it's hot and sunny

Should I SKIP looking at JC/Molineux. Based on the recent responses, looks like it will be dappled in yellow to white/cream blooms ?

I went with a Vanessa Bell as it was the perfect yellow for me for the arrangement in the bed. It was borderline hint of yellow white, aka, subtle yellow.

I like the yellows I see in JC or Mulineux, but in my mind, it should be a constant consistent color....yeah, I know, roses don't do that, based in all my recent image searches

Why don't you take a look at Karl . Plow Burger

I'm sorry I can't type in my phone it can only talk and it's not recognizing what I say if someone's out there please type the correct name for Karl.

All good VV. It's a Kordes right ?

Proved my point about searching for images. Cause the blossom pic on Palantine is not flattering at all, but when looking at other blossom pics from other sources, it's nic.

Heh, I'm still a noob. I don't know much about the difference between HT, FB, GF, etc. All I'm doing sofar is looking at blossoms and making judgement calls bases on color and blossom pics ! Well, I at least google the beejezus out of each blossom of each breed to find/determine what the average of said blossom would look like and not just the picture perfect marketing blossom pic

pat_bamaz7 Thank you for your fantastic pics, and I appreciate the info. you gave on the height and scent. I'm making a buy-list for VIGOROUS yellow roses from Roses Unlimited, mainly to cut for the vase.

Quetion for anyone: Which of these take partial shade and last long the vase: Roald Dahl, Moonlight Romantica, Lemon Spice, Port Sunlight, Bella di Todi, Golden Zest, Michelangelo, Sunny Sky (Kordes yellow hybrid tea), Golden Fairy tale, Molineux, Karl Ploberger. Thank you !!

I only have Lemon Spice from your list and it lasts almost a week in a vase. Fabulous fragrance that I can smell several feet from the vase. Also mine is a baby that’s still in its 1 gallon pot from Heirloom in part shade. I have had it since first week of August so only 2.5 months and it’s already leafed out into a nice little bush and is ending its first flush of 6-7 roses. All this with about 3 hours morning sun and 2 hours afternoon sun. Almost completely thornless.

Lemon Spice

Thank you, Stephanie for above info & perfect pics. of Lemon Spice. It's on my buy-list from Roses Unlimited along with Moonlight Romantica, Port Sunlight, and I can't decide between Golden Zest, Roald Dahl, or Kordes Sunny Sky for my partial shade garden. I'm still looking for info. regarding their height. Anything shorter than 2 feet in my zone 5 gets eaten by bunnies, so I aim for the TALLEST ROSES possible.

Berolina is my tallest rose. It never stops blooming, but doesn't have a ton of blooms. But it is TALL! I know it's not on your list...but...I thought I'd throw it into the mix anyway. :)

Thanks for bringing back this thread with all of these gorgeous yellow roses!!

Stephanie - I really love your Lemon Spice!!