ORANGES/APRICOTS: 2021 Color Threads
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Comments (18)Niecey, love your pictures as always!! Wowee!! Where did you get PURE BLISS? I've never seen it available here in the US! Wish I could get my DAYBREAKER to look that good. Maybe next season. And I just discovered your SUMMER SUNSET is the same as FRANCE LIBRE, which I just got from Ashdown's this summer. Can't wait til mine looks like yours! Thanks for showing these. They're all beautiful! Leslie, unfortunately, it takes about 3 yrs to really evaluate roses. It takes some of them that long to show their true nature. Occasionally there will be some that just do their thing right off the bat. But that's actually a rarity. Also, some roses that survuve well in one area's heat, might not do so well somewhere else, even tho the temps might be the same. Soil condition, fertilizers, watering and other things factor in to whether a rose will perform well or not. Unfortunately, it's often a game of hit & miss. You almost have to experiment and see what does best for you....See MoreSweet Mademoiselle & Fruity roses
Comments (7)I like fruity scented roses too. You might want to add Jude the Obscure (guava?) and Sharifa Asma (lychee). Abe Darby smells of citrus to me, and Sonia Rykiel has a bit of a raspberry fragrance. I think Scentuous smells like banana runts candy. Lady Hillingdon has a slight apricot fragrance, and I think that Souvenir de St Anne's has a note of pear (though it isn't dominant). OMG I can't wait for them to bloom again!...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - July 2021
Comments (78)PM2, sorry, it took a few days but I finally got some photos of my agastache! The only thing is you and everyone else must promise to ignore the weedy paths and all the other overgrown stuff (not to mention my pathetic little tomato plants!) If you must look at the veggies, check out the squash plant behind this clump of agastache. This (and I think all of the clumps pictured) are growing in the holes of the cinderblock walls. You can see its all over this garden! I've let it go for one reason because these beds now get a lot more shade than when I built them, especially at the far end. The beds need to be revamped and I need to rethink whether I even need them or not. I could use them to grow some more shade tolerant perennials, but don't think that would work as this is really more about function. So I may just make them smaller. IDK... There is an oak tree that is really starting to shade this garden that the electric company has been saying for fifteen years that they want to take down because it's growing into the wires. I keep telling them PLEASE do, and they haven't. If they do I'll have my veggie garden back! :) Dee...See MoreShow Us Your Landscape and Gardens - A Photo Thread - October 2021
Comments (36)I sneak into the forums and see posts, but I’m not posting much right now. I’ve enjoyed so much seeing everybody’s Sept and Oct activity. Babs, so beautiful around you. I wish I spent more time outside, but everything is so busy now. I know it’s a busy time of life for me, but I’m pretty sure part of it is just cultivating the practice of taking a walk. I live in a beautiful area, and I should be taking advantage of that instead of rushing from one thing to the next. Is that Flax in your last post? He looks smaller than I remember, but so cute! DiggerDee, your daisies look better than mine this year. Not sure why my Montauk’s didn’t have as good a year. They are, for sure, a dependable perennial, though. Even in a bad year they look good. I grew Apricot Lemonade last year. It was beautiful, but I still don’t “design” well with Cosmos and the flowering on them was low. I really need more sun. I know they are supposed to do better in poor soil. Maybe I need to throw them in the trash bed next time! I have one white Rhodie that, for some reason, always puts out a few white blooms. It’s the standard huge large-leafed evergreen kind. I used to wonder why its spring flowering was low, and now I know it’s because the fall flowering uses up the buds. It’s so weird! This fall it had over 20 blooms on it. It’s a big plant, about 5’ tall and 8’ wide. Based on your roses/hydrangea re-blooming, maybe this is the “year of two summers”! My friend’s hydrangeas has new pristine blooms, too, like brdrl and PM. I even had new blooms on a daylily (below). My callicarpa is blooming, too, and I’m with you on those beautiful berries. That has got to be the MOST beautiful Dahlia I have ever seen. What a beauty! Just stunning. You have such beauty in your garden! PM, that dog is THE CUTEST! What a face! She sounds like she loved being with you and had fun. Reading about her antics made me smile! Per the new hydrangeas mentioned above, you have LOTS of new gorgeous blooms. Isn’t is weird?! This has been a year for beautiful mushrooms in the yard. They were there in all shapes and colors. The Indian Pipe/Ghost Plant was happy, too. RTHawk, I had four Japanese Anemone’s (Honorine Jobert and another kind, Swan something, I think) and none survived. One might be trying to survive with a few leaves, but I’m not sure why. For others they are so dependable. Jealous of yours! Aren’t Geraniums wonderful? Yours looks great. What fantastic sunsets! We live in a beautiful world. My Alma Potschke had great color, but floppy. I even pruned in spring. Callicarpa with Amsonia hubrichtii. The hope was for the yellow Amsonia to contrast with the berries, but I have not had a fall where the Amsonia got very yellow. I think we don't get cold enough before the first freeze happens. A new daylily blooms, one of a few! Vision LIght Pink Geranium still blooms. I really like this Geranium! Raydon's Favorite Aster with Sheffield Pink mums. There is a pink phlox, either Glamour Girl or Coral something-or-other. This one particular plants bloomed really late, and it was beside other phlox that bloomed normally. Unusual. Lastly, some sunsets:...See More
RaeAnna
3 years agojoeywyomingzone4
3 years agosara_ann-z6bok
3 years agoSo many gorgeous blooms everyone!
Rosylady, so far I’ve only lightly pruned Zaide. Just like several other newer Kordes roses it has very little or virtually no dieback.
sara_ann-z6bok
3 years agolast modified: 3 years ago
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
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Ken Wilkinson
3 years agoI only have a couple in this color range, but they are some of my favorites
Charisma
Ring of Fire. Fantastic HT.
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seil zone 6b MI
3 years agoSara, LOVE Zaide, WOW!
Rosy, I've had my eye on the Impressionist for a while!
All real beauties here! I'm always drawn to these colors most of the time.
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Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca
3 years agoThese are amazing photos!! I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite.,this is such a beautiful category as the color range goes so far !
Desiree
Cream veranda
Princess charlene de Monaco
Oshun, late fall bloom . Usually it’s much pinker .
Bathsheba , my favorite
Heaven on earth . I moved this out of the shade and I can’t wait to see it shine this year
Oshun , normal colors for me
Bathsheba , glamorous!!
A shropshire lad . Sent by mistake but I really like this rose !
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cyndita (west coast zone 9)
3 years agocyndita (west coast zone 9)
3 years agoEvelyn. I love apricot roses with purple companion plants - a lot of my roses are in containers which makes pairing with companions harder, but this one is in a half wine barrel, which allows for a little extra space. (Purple is nemesia, variety ‘bluebird’.)
cyndita (west coast zone 9)
3 years agoTamora - it fades to a still pretty lighter apricot as it ages, but I love the color when it first opens. (I know, I know, re the gravel mulch - it drives me nuts, but it was here when we bought the house a few years ago, and the coastal winds make it difficult to keep bark mulch in place.)
Rosylady (PNW zone 8)
3 years ago
MiGreenThumb (Z5b S.Michigan/Sunset 41) Elevation: 1091 feet
3 years agoA few of the ones I have pictures of...
Remember Me
Robert Clements
Lady Emma Hamilton
Fragrant Cloud
Lady of ShalottSteven
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librarian_gardner_8b_pnw
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI think this is my favorite color range. So many gorgeous photos here. My garden is new so I only had two apricots last summer, but more to come in future summers!
Wollerton Old Hall when it first opens(I love its faded cream color too)
Crown Princess Margareta at the top here, faded WOH below.
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Ann9BNCalif
3 years agoI love the color orange but don't have many orange roses. Here are a few favorites among what I have.
Crown Princess Margaret in her first 2020 flush created a very fragrant bloom bouquet.
Fragrant Cloud is a classic HT rose that lasts well on the bush in my 9b garden. The reddish orange shade is strong and stunning at times. It makes a great cut flower.
Lady Bird named after the late President Lyndon Johnson's wife Claudia, is an exceptionally strong growing rose in sun, shade, cold, wind, etc. We don't get rain in the summer in Northern California but this rose sustains itself very well in most conditions. The blooms are often at least 5 inches. The only fault is the lack of fragrance. It can grow over 8ft tall.
Hooray for orange!Ann
philipatx
3 years agoflowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA
3 years agojoeywyomingzone4
3 years agosara_ann-z6bok
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Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
3 years agoEvery time someone posts that Moonlight in Paris rose, I fall in love with it even more. I think that's the top of my wish list at the moment.
Here's Port Sunlight
Bliss
Elle.
Augusta Louise
And, although she's more white... I do love all the little peach buds on Sally Holmes.
Magda (Ontario, USDA4/5)
3 years agoTammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
3 years agoMagda (Ontario, USDA4/5)
3 years agoTammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
3 years ago
Dave5bWY
3 years ago
Ashley Smith zone 5a
3 years agojoeywyomingzone4
3 years ago
chris209 (LI, NY Z7a)
3 years agoKristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 years ago
rosecanadian
3 years agorosecanadian
3 years ago
Ann-SoCalZ10b SunStZ22
3 years agoI have a confession… I don’t currently have any orange roses. I’m usually not drawn to orange colored roses... except for one called mademoiselle.
This is the one Orange colored rose I’ve seriously considered planting in my garden... I’m just trying to figure out how to make the tall hybrid tea form and Orange coloring work amongst my whites, pinks and lavender purples. I’d grow her purely for her fragrance. She smells like sweet ripe peaches... it’s one of the loveliest roses I’ve ever smelled.
Ann-SoCalZ10b SunStZ22
3 years agoA couple more pics of her during my walk through Rogers Gardens. Let me know if you have her in your garden. I would love to see how she’s doing and planted amongst other flowers and roses.
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 years agoAnn-SoCalZ10b SunStZ22
3 years agoRaeAnna
3 years agoThe colour of this transitions to such amazing shades! Lasts really long on the plant as well as cut!
flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA