Let's warm things up a bit with some sunny yellow roses for our Friday Flowers.
Zeus, a Hybrid Setigera climber from 1959, produces sunny yellow flowers all summer long. It's been a bit slow to start its climb up the East fence in the Rose Field, however. Many climbers, especially those who are growing on their own roots, can take a couple of years to get well-established.
Crepuscule is a beautiful Tea Noisette introduced in 1904. (The name means 'Twilight'.) This rose also grows on the Rose Field's East fence. I love Crepuscule's apricot/gold/yellow color (which doesn't fade as much as I thought it would), and its shiny dark green leaves.
Buff Beauty, a Hybrid Musk from 1939, is fairly well-known. It's recommended by a number of TV garden shows as a low-maintenance, fragrant rose. Mine grows on an arch in the Rose Field ... I can't pass by it without taking a big sniff whenever it's in bloom.
"Lundy's Lane" is a Pernetiana/Hybrid Tea discovered by Gregg Lowery in San Francisco in 1979. It never fails to attract attention from garden visitors.
Old Gold, another Pernetiana/Hybrid Tea, introduced in 1913. Around the turn of the 20th Century, rose breeders were racing to be the first to introduce a healthy, floriforous, true yellow rose.
Happy Child, an English rose bred by David Austin in 1994, is really as yellow as this photo shows it to be. It's a smaller Austin rose, good for the front of a border. I love the name!
Molineux is another yellow Austin rose, introduced in 1995. It's a lovely compact shrub, in a softer shade of yellow than Happy Child.
Limelight, a Hybrid Tea from 1985, is a rose that is difficult to photograph. The flowers have a greenish tint to them (as the name suggests). If I try to photograph Limelight in bright sunlight, I can never capture the subtle shades of yellow of the flowers. It's much better if I wait for a lightly overcast sky.
Yellow Magic is a miniature rose bred by Ralph Moore in 1970. Gold buds open to loose, light yellow flowers, that change to coral pink as they age. I love the way the petals fold back to show those gold stamens.
I'll finish this Friday with Thanks to Sue, a miniflora rose introduced by Ralph Moore in 2004. You know by now how much I love Ralph Moore's roses ... this one is a lovely, sunny addition to my collection.
(written by Hartwood Roses. Hartwood Roses blog)