orange in the garden 2023
lets share our garden pix ... we will start with colors ...
someone asked to start over.. rather than bring back old posts .. internet loading issues ...
im sure no one will check.. you can cheat and add old pix, just like i am .. just show us some pix.. and give us some observations ...
with orange.. my mind always goes toward daylily and roses ... so i'll add those peeps.. and the perennial peeps.. and leave out my hosta and tree friends.. hopefully they can find us if they want ...
ken
my favorite orange plant of all time Azalea Exbury 'Gibraltar' .. A's and rhodies are usually so pale or pastel in color.. but crikey on this one.. just right there in your face ...
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Markay MD-Zone7A
last monthI enjoy orange in the garden more and more as I get older. I used to associate it with the basketball orange marigolds my neighbors grew. Orange can be luminous and adds so much energy to the garden!
flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA
last monthDebra. I must be losing it. I enlarged your photo of Tonto and started talking to him. I miss my kitty, gone less than 4 months. I've never had a marmalade cat, but have heard they have fabulous personalities.
I started appreciating orange in the garden about 2 years ago.
Climbing Moonlight, actually a yellow rose, but orangy here.
Crown Princess Margareta
Peach Swirl - maybe I should wait for the peach thread
Crazy Love
Westerland
Thanks, Ken, these are fun. I love these color threads.
titian1 10b Sydney
last monthken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
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sherrygirl zone5 N il
last monthHey Debra, not much orange in my garden either.
Butterfly weed with Free Wheelin daylily.
Primal SCREAM DAYLILY
Sherry
Feiy Lo (PNWZ8b)
last monthReviewing my photos I found I have more oranges than I thought. LOL.
Nasturtium
Kalanchoe
Ranunculus
Poppy
Dahlia
Tulip
Maltese Cross
Sunflower
Chrysanthemum
Blackberry Lily
Marigold
Zinnia
Feiy Lo (PNWZ8b)
last monthHere are roses.
Oshun
South Africa
Lady of Shalott
Garden Delight
Easy Does It
Dominic Sunset
State of Grace
Happy Chappy
Cutie Pie
Hot Cocoa. It may be the best smoky orange.
Sunset Celebration
Tamora
Mutabilis. Really a chameleon, it can show so many colors from open to the end.
Mother of Pearl. Not a real orange, but mine is in part shade(less than 4hr sun) so there is always a orange hue over there.
Unknown Orange. I got a cutting from my neighbor.
rosaprimula
last monthmazerolm_3a
last montherasmus_gw
last monthAlfred Sisley on the right and Orangeaid to the left of it.
Iris Webb
Mini, Carnival Glass
Alchymist
Honeysweet
Orangeaid hips.. like little pumpkins
Playboy
Distant Drums
Mutabilis
erasmus_gw
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last monthken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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strawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthFeiy Lo (PNWZ8b) I love your South Africa and your Hot Cocoa has a better color than nearby rose park.
In my shady zone 5a Chicagoland, orange roses bloom better than other colors. Below 12th-year own-root Pat Austin in less than 4 hours of sun. Scent is delicious mango and nectarine and floral, I'm addicted to its scent.
Below 8th-year-own-root Lady of Shalott doesn't like my rock-hard clay. Scent is orange peel & black tea and camphor, NOT as good as Pat Austin.
Below Summer Sun (Kordes floribunda) has perfect glossy leaves and the bright color brightens up my gloomy & shady garden. Nice fruity with a bit of musk scent (better than Lady of Shalott).
Summer Sun blooms in cluster and is zone 5a hardy:
strawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthMore orange roses in my zone 5a garden, they pair up nicely with purple roses. I miss Summer Samba (floribunda), blooms are large at 4" across with a fruity scent. Roses Unlimited no longer sell this, so I can't replace it.
Below French Romantica Sweet Promise 2007 has a better scent than Sweet Mademoislle. Sweet Promise smells like apple blossoms:
Below is Sweet Promise in spring, it gets my vote as the nicest glossy foliage in my organic & no-spray garden:
Below Crown Princess Magarata gives me the most blooms in only 4 hours of evening sun. Scent is YUMMY, a cross between a nectarine and a passion fruit.
Below Crown Princess Mag. gets orange only in cold fall.
Below is Sweet Mademoiselle (5th year own-root) in 4 hrs. of morning sun. Sweet Mademoiselle can be fruity and myrrh, depending on the pH. I have to raise the pH to make it smell more fruity. It gets more myrrh scent with acidic rain.
Sweet M. below is more orange than yellowish Crown Princess Magareta:
Markay MD-Zone7A
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last monthlast modified: last monthVersigny gets my vote as the most FRAGRANT orange, smells YUM like an apricot pie. It died twice in my zone 5a in the last decade, and Roses Unlimited is always sold out.
Below Versigny's color glows like a sunset. The scent is pure heaven, top 10 among my 150+ fragrant own-root roses:
Below Solitude (grandiflora) is the biggest orange bloom (5" across) but stinky scent, like a bug-spray. It does brighten up my shady garden:
Solitude has bush beauty, much prettier than super-tall About Face:
strawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthBelow About Face is vigorous as 5th-year own-root in my zone 5a. It's over 7 feet tall in late fall, scent is medium fruity:
Below is About Face to compare with other roses (white is Bolero), middle pink is (Parfume de Paris), dark pink is Peter Mayle:
Below Bronze Star is better than About Face in all aspects, except it doesn't survive my zone 5a winter. About Face lives forever, but I need to winterize Bronze Star in my garage if I buy it again. Bronze Star has a wonderful scent (similar to Versigny), and both are water-hogs. Bronze Star smells like a tropical desert.
Below Sutter's Gold has a nice scent (similar to Bronze Star), but Sutter's Gold is very stingy as own root. It didn't survive my zone 5a winter. I like Bronze Star way better than Sutter's Gold.
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
last monthI really love everyone's oranges.
Valencia
Daybreaker
Frida Kahlo
Oranges that I can't find pictures of
At Last
Adobe Sunrise
SoulSoul sister
librarian_gardner_8b_pnw
last monthI love all the oranges, too!
Ken, lovely azalea! I have a fantastically orange native azalea that sweet neighbor planted in my yard decades ago. It's always so cheerful in April.
librarian_gardner_8b_pnw
last monthstrawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthBelow climbing America has huge bloom at 4" across, but not much scent as 1st-year own root.
Below Evelyn is more orange than Abraham Darby. Evelyn has the best scent among my orange roses, besides Versigny. Sweet Mademoiselle is on left, and Evelyn is on right, scent is sweetest peaches and floral.
Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
last monthlast modified: last monthI've just got the one apricot rose, Polka. I like apricot roses a lot too, but it seems to me they tend to be more on the tender side.
strawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthAgree that Polka is NOT hardy, it died after 2 winters in my zone 5a in heavy clay. But Carding Mill lives forever.
Carding Mill is my most favorite orange rose for constant blooming & scent & bush beauty as 11th-year own root in my zone 5a. Below orange is Carding Mill, blooms well in hot & dry. Leftmost is Crown Princess Magareta (more yellow in hot summer).
Carding Mill blooms best in hot & dry. Below pic. was taken June 18 as 11th-year-own-root:
mmmm12COzone5
last monthlast modified: last monthWhat a fun excuse to look at old rose pictures. I love me some orange...
Above All in the sun, Aug. '22.
Above All in the shade, Aug. '22.
Fred Loads June '22.
Blooms are really bright when young.
Still colorful when aged.
Livin Easy June '22.
Denver's Dream June '22.6/9/22
Ages to this on 6/24/22.
Henfield Brilliant Rock Rose - love these! Tons of blooms every day through the spring.
Granita Orange Ice Plant.
Fire Spinner ice plant.
erasmus_gw
last monthLike potato chips you can't just have one! Love those azaleas, hills covered with poppies, closeups of butterflies and whatever bug that is on one of yours, Magpie. At this time of year gardeners' minds seem to turn to flowers like a flower turns to the light. I am spending a lot of time looking at nursery sites, seed catalogs, clematis but am not buying any roses so far. Lots of seeds, some clems, some lilies. Want to order plants from Annie's Annuals but it's too cold still.
More orange
Freisinger Morgenrote
Autumn Sunset
Zach, bred by Vernon Rickard
L Clark (zone 4 WY)
last monthlast modified: last monthMum
Acer grandidentatum and cotoneaster lucidus
Markay MD-Zone7A
last monthSpring time orange from the botanical garden in Washington DC where I like to walk.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida)
last monthlast modified: last monthCrown Princess Margaret on left
Hedychium 'Disney' aka Butterfly Ginger
Crepuscule
Brugmansia
Pat Austin
Lady of Shalott
Tiger Lilies
Weedy rogue late summer morning glory
Medinilla scortechinii
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida)
last monthlast modified: last monthBrugmansia Naughty Nick
Shooting Star Brugmansia in the twilight garden
Epiphyllum..I think this might be, Three Oranges
Marigolds and what I do with those free sample bags from Walmart pickup orders lol
Brugmansia Miss November
sleepy orange baby goat :D
Orange Kitty who just showed up one night and slept under the hay feeder with baby goats and then just kinda stayed and adopted them.
titian1 10b Sydney
last monthIspahan Zone6a Chicago
last monthlast modified: last monthI love orange in the garden and I always think I should have more of it. The rose ’Lady Emma Hamilton’ is right now my favorite Austin creation for beauty of color, scent and foliage:
Below is a young plant of miniature rose ’Electric Lady’ grown indoors in a 5 inch pot under lights last year. It surprised me by being a truly smaller version of ’Fragrant Cloud’ with the same powerful (almost pungent) scent and perhaps better color:
Katie Zone 6b/7a NC Mountains
last monthBeautiful pictures everyone! I don’t really have much orange planted in my garden but I do have these lovely wild flame azaleas growing here on our property in the NC mountains. They are about 8-10 feet tall and scattered throughout our woods.
strawchicago z5
last monthlast modified: last monthMost fav. and disease-resistant rose in my garden is Christopher Marlowe, a 12th-year own root, leaves are always healthy even in a super-humid rooting bin. Scent is wonderfully posh, a combo of rose & musk and lemon. So unique and enchanting:
Below center orange is Christopher Marlowe, right is Evelyn, lowest is Golden Celebration, left blue is Poseidon.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida)
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I finally managed to get a photo inserted into a post! Cross fingers it remains when I click submit.
Martha
lat62
last monthlast modified: last monthPrimorose alpicola (I think?)
Or florindae? I was seed crazy for primulas and didn't keep notes
Kimberly Wendt (Florida Z. 10b)
last monthken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
last monthKen I adore that Azalea so much. Fantastic pics everyone. I am a fan of orange and posted most of mine before but I think I missed some.
NOID that is possibly Sammy Russel. It did not translate well but is burnt orange in person.
That is my adult daughters hand. You do not want to see mine lol!
Monarchs are so beautiful.
Phlox p. Orange Perfection is one of my favorites.
Ground wasp is so colorful and quite docile with humans.
Unknown beauty
Trollius not fully orange but enough to count I think? Now on to the red thread!
Ryan Coastal LA Zone 10b