Maid of Honour is definitely the buff to yellow bloom with some pink tones at times in the center. The orange two-tone bloom looks much more like Folklore, the seed parent of Maid of Honour.

Not to confuse the issue, but there are two other, older roses also named Maid of Honour, a medium pink Tea from 1899 and a salmon pink floribunda from Kordes that is now thought to be extinct.

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I have the climbing bicolor version. It has done fine on a southern exposure. It did well in the heat and humidity we have here, continuing to bloom during hot spells. On the southern side, I have a tendency to water less. In two years, it is proving to be a pretty tough rose. I like the form of the blooms especially.
Linda

Linda, are you saying you bought the bicolor orange and yellow rose as Maid of Honour? If so, where did you buy it?

Linda , will you please post pics of this climber, I was planning on getting it and was told it looks like folklore and probably one in the same,this was discouraging would love to see pics of your rose .
SuzyQ

I have two plants of Maid Of Honor and it is a buff yellow.

There seems to be a discussion about this rose every yr. The "real" MOH is a pale apricot-cream color. The darker orange one shown on HMF as the climbing version, many of us have concluded is in fact it's mother FOLKLORE. I have the so-called climbing orange one, and it only reaches about 6ft. It is virtually identical to FOLKLORE, and that's what I call mine.

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I think the pictures I posted left with the site trouble!
I think this is the pale apricot version - what do you think? It has a yellow reverse. It really glows, and I am getting very fond of it. It is in its second year, bought as a Walmart body bag. Mine is somewhat over six feet now.
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Linda, That really does look like Folklore, especially the close-up of the single bloom.

But if it is a climber, then it probably isn't Folklore. Folklore is a skyscraper of a rose, but I don't think anyone who grows it would consider it a climber--so I'm another one who's confused.

Those pics at HMF aren't all of the same rose, that's for sure. Curious.

I agree - the single picture looks much more like Folklore than Maid of Honour. MoH is a pale buff yellow and is not a two tone rose. Back when I grew Maid of Honour it always got much taller than my head, but it wasn't a climber and neither was Folklore. No climbing form of either has been recorded.

Thanks for your opinions. It is nice to call it by its correct name! The color is truest on the single shot. Some of the blooms in the bush shot are aged. The single rose bloom pictured is partially obscured in the bush shot. I'm really curious to see if it shoots up higher next year. I was going to buy a Folklore, but it looks like I've already done that! :)
Thanks much,
Linda

Thank You! Linda for posting your pics it does look like my folklore, I bet it will be a beautiful climber,I'm wanting a bright orange for where I need it I may just end up going with an orange trumpet vine unless I can fine a good rose prospect.
SuzyQ

Thanks for your input, everyone.

I'll bet sometime, somewhere a 'Maid of Honor' grower unknowingly began propagating from plant material that had reverted to 'Folklore', then flooded the market with lots of MoHs that actually weren't MoHs. Something's clearly amiss (and a mess) here . . .