Both of these are pretty darn bright. I’m loving this thread! Thank you all for sharing your bright beauties🤩.

Brindabella Purple Prince

Rose de Rescht

Oh I forgot about Purple Prince one of my favorites and very bright

Carla, your Rainbow Sorbet is so beautiful !

Thanks Kristine!
2 other reasons I love Rainbow Sorbet are it is a heat star at 100 degrees and above, and the hips are the sweetest of all my 70+(??) varieties of roses.

Straw - beautiful!!! My favorite is your stunner of a rose, Paul Neyron!!!

Carla - Your Scentimental bloom is sooo pretty!

Sunny - oh my! Your RdRescht ... wow!!!

Julie Andrews’ bright pink and yellow combo is my most gaudy in your face rose. I’m still on the fence about her though, this spring flush is more than she gave me over the entire first season last year. Disease resistance is good, but fragrance is less than I expected.

Nick, even with less fragrance than hoped for ( and that could still come ) she is a very pretty girl

Nick - what a vibrant rose!!! I really love it!!! Too bad about the fragrance. I've been holding off buying it for that reason.

oooh, what a fun thread!

My climbing America is really vibrant in real life. A bright coral pink.

Amazing fragrance.

20+ yrs old and super hardy here in my Canadian garden.

Rosa Mundi is so bright and fun too. Love her and her history.

Tammy - man, I love your Rosa Mundi!!! How big do the blooms get? They look like they're about 5" across. Is that normal? Amazing!!

Rosecanadian....here's another shot, in relation to my hand. LOL

Oohhh! Love your Rosa Mundi !

Oh, it's so beautiful...like it's been washed with a pink dye everywhere...WOW!!

So many of these are all so gorgeous! I dont think they are gaudy at all.

Own-root Solitude grandiflora (hardy to zone 5) is gaudy with a harsh scent (like bugs' spray). It's the big orange below. Peter Mayle is the dark pink on top, and About Face is left yellow.

Solitude is a constant bloomer as 1st year own-root:

Below Sweet Mademoiselle is gaudy with chicken manure (high in phosphorus) so I no longer use chicken manure for it.

Hum , I kind of like the color that Sweet Mademoiselle took on with the chicken manure .

I cant wait for my first bloom, yours is a stunner

@ Kristine..me too!👍

In my garden that would be Westerland. It's kind of the only gaudy rose I grow. My husband says it looks different from all my other roses, and it does, but I do still like it.

I agree with Kristine - I love your (Straw) Sweet Mademoiselle!! Beautiful!!! I love the other 2 pictures too! Mmmmm :)

I’m late to the party, but my blooms are just starting up! So here is my unknown grocery mini from Rocket farms. It’s 3 years old and has been both in the ground and potted and does well in either

another

can’t complain about an old bloom that looks like this :)

That is gaudy High Desert! Oh, but I love it! The second one is outstanding. I wish we knew its name.:-( here is my entry oh, I know I D Rose from Menards.

Westerland

erasmus_gw, your Westerlands are so clear and beautiful which gives me hope, because I don't like my Westerland and was contemplating digging it up. It has blooms, but when they open, they open overly wide and appear "raggedy." Maybe I'll give it time since it's only 2, and different soil. I'll check the acidity.

But my current most flamboyant rose is "Surreal" which I currently use as my profile pic. It's just opening in this photo, but at the end of its life, it expands into a large 4.25" tiedye beachball.

Roses in Clay - Surreal's name suits it to a tee!! That's my kind of rose!!! :) :)

Erasmus - I love the soft-gaudy look of your Westerland!! Soothingly beautiful!!

Vaporvac - lovely...I especially love that bud!!

High Desert - I love that first picture! :) :)

My rose above may be fragrant cloud or Tropicana

There is not a one of these vibrant roses that I would turn my nose up at . I think that they are all just so bright and beautiful.

I love gaudy & deep colors, I'm tired of fading Austins.

Me too, because when I look out my window those are the ones that I see

I *love* sweet mademoiselle. I would never plant it with my current color scheme, but it's always beautiful from afar!

Ive planted a band of SM near Lady of Shalott at the back of my bright border. I think they'll compliment eachother nicely. We'll see next year if I'm right!

Here are some gaudy Sweet M. in my heavy clay. The Dark Lady is a gaudy red, but I love it.

Most of the roses posted above, especially anything orange sunset, would NEVER qualify as gaudy for me. :)

Then again, my weakness is strong color. I need it to be seen in the landscape from far, far away! :)

What I call gaudy is not so much the intensity of the color but the hue.

Dick Clark has an impossibly gaudy red to it, something primitive and "urghh!"

So why did I get it again?. I remember it had a lot more yellow in it at the store and a different shade of red. It was more pink than what it does in my yard.

It was so healty and sturdy with so many blooms, I fell for it.

I tried really hard to love it because it performs pretty well, but...no way. That red, oh that red. A bit like the Knock-Out but much worse. Only the yellow at the base saves it but in my yard, it hardly ever comes out. It's mostly red, with a bit of faded white below.

By contrast, no orange rose could ever be gaudy for me, no matter how strong the color.

I love, love, love, orange-sunset roses, in fact, anything orange in the landscape! :)

It evokes the sunset, sunrise and so much warmth. It catches the eye beautifully.

In roses, I get my orange kick from Easy Does It and Rosie the Riveter...even a bit from Good as Gold which is a lot more towards yellow.

I just fell in love with a ridiculous coneflower that is so sunsetty, I am about to go to the store and grab two more.

Even orange marigolds I find amazing.

For me, landscapes would not be landscapes without orange sunset in them. :)

Severe, I agree about orange in the landscape. Amything from Sherbert orange to Hot Cocoa. All beautiful to my eye

And Dick Clark ? Yuk!

I love Double Easy Orange, though I don't grow it. That rose is my kind of orange. Severe, is that photo Double Easy in your post? Kristine, I agree. Did you order Double Easy Orange yet? I love Abbaye de Cluny, which I have grown for many years. It's not overpowering at all, and grows in an area that really needs color. In my hot, sunny climate (in summers), my garden really needs the yellows and purples, too. I love pink, but most pinks, unless they're like Boscobel, just fade out from a distant. I love all the many shades of Augusta Luise, even angry Augusta. Diane

Sorry for so many photos. I thought the first four didn't post. Houzzzzzz. Diane

@Diane Brakefield,

That's Easy Does it. My other orange is Rosie the Riveter.

My total collection both in ground and in pots amounts to 10 roses, the 5 coral drifts not included. :)

I KNOW this rose you posted, I kept coveting it for a while but then it turned out there were some cons for my area, I don't remember!

That is one spectacular rose, nothing gaudy about it. Only Godly.

Will you remind me the name?

Sever, it's gorgeous whatever it is. My Easy Does It never looked like that, though it was very pretty. The rose I posted photos of above is my very favorite rose, Augusta Luise. And thank you for you nice comment. Here she is being Godly, not angry. Diane

You'll notice she even has angel wings in the second photo. Diane

Diane,

Now I am trying to figure out what was it about Augusta that I decided not to get it, after all.

Maybe it was not available? :)

I still have Dee-lish in the small pot it came with from Wallmart. I tortured it like this the entire summer; it survived, but obviously couldn't do much in those crammed conditions.

I was thinking to dig up Dick Clark and place Dee-lish in its place, to let it show what it can do.

But what if I were to do this with Augusta Luise instead?

Or maybe put Augusta in a container? The picture here makes it sound like it would do well in a container too:

https://www.rosen-stange.de/images/product_images/original_images/augusta-luise-k-bel.jpg

Then again, we all know what pictures on the Internet say it's possible and what actually IS possible. How some people get so much bloom from one plant is still beyond me!

I really need to get rid of one to get in another one, I can't keep adding.

Yet I somehow can't make myself get rid of Dick Clark, as much as I hate the color.

It seems like a lot of trouble to dig it up, plus it grows large and sturdy, blooms pretty well, and blooms have a relatively long vase life.

But IT IS my one garish rose.

Severe, I don't know what to tell you. I have a terrible time digging up roses. I think the last one was 2017, and I'm still traumatized. I love Dee-Lish, so it's easy for me to say, "put Dee-Lish in Dick Clark's spot", but actually doing it is something else. Lots of guilt is involved, I think. I can't think of any reason you couldn't grow Augusta Luise. She is big and vigorous, though, and I can't imagine her in a pot, but Lisa grows hers in a pot, I believe. And that's in Southern California. I don't know about any black spot issues with AL because we don't get that scourge here. She may be easier to buy next year, since so many already have her, though a lot of people are getting their AL this coming year, too. Good luck. I'd like to remove a few roses, but not because they are garish. Diane

Ooh, I just checked out your link. That is beautiful with AL in a pot, but I still think she would have a hard time staying small enough. Diane

For a line I wrote above and which U deleted - my apologies to Carla in Sac!

For a moment, I thought this name referred to one of the roses shown. My bad!

I don't see that rose in the thread anymore, so it's all good.

So sorry, Carla!

Severe Novice
What did I miss? I don't know what you're apologizing for but it's fine! LOL
Carla in Sac

@sautesmom Sacramento,

I said that Carla in Sac is the gaudiest! LOL

You had signed your name right next to a rose that I thought was the only gaudy one and I thought this was its name. Now I don't see it anymore, maybe the poster removed it?.

Either way, I thought your name was the name of the rose.

So I said Carla in sac is gaudy! LOL

So sorry!

LOL
Now I need to make a great seedling and name it Carla in Sac!
Carla

Carla,

Absolutely! Can you try for this color? Never seen something so yelly. :)

@Artist-FKA-Novice Zone 7B GA Life is too short to keep a plant that you hate. I bet once you actually remove it, the guilt/obligation will go away and you'll move on to enjoy something else much more instead, like Dee-lish or Augusta. There are many, many situations in which humans find themselves stuck enduring due to guilt and obligation, and they take a toll. A rose is not worth taking up one of those slots. Seriously.

Straw - oh my!!!! I am in love with your The Dark Lady with every post you show her in!!!! Such lovely bouquets!!!

Severe - you would probably love the orange of Jalbert's Diane Loomer. Now that I see the picture...this isn't the most orange...it can be more orange. I love the blooms. :)

Diane - oh my word!!!!! Your AL blooms are the most glorious of blooms in all of rosedom!!! It's because of you that I'm trying another AL (if I can get one) from Palatine. I'm going to do what Straw said to do...give it more drainage...lots of perlite, lots of holes in the pot!! Thank you, Straw. :) Diane, the angel wings are sweet...but the pictures above and below that picture are DIVINE!!!!!

Severe - funny about the Gaudy Carla in Sac. :) :) :)

I agree with Magpie - a rose is not worth the guilt. If you can get rid of it, I think it would be a good idea. :)