That is beautiful. I had a Halloween the last two years I lived in CA and I was rather disappointed in it, but mine did not look anything like yours. What I got was large, faded bloom on a wimpy stick. Maybe this cultivar is one which takes a few years to grow into itself.

Very nice bloom Zack sorry about the Midge...

Nice. Go blue cups! I think that was FragranceNutter that intro-ed that. I used it this year too, for thrips.

Baldo just confirmed that blue cups work on midge by looking at some photos sent to him from Connecticut.

He gave one of the classes I had to attend to get my ARS Consulting Rosarian certification.

He has a web page on bugs
http://buggyrose.tripod.com/

I planted an own root Halloween this year & it is doing well. I allowed one bud to open bcs I can't resist seeing the promise of things to come! My bloom was quite yellow with a few red/pink/orange streaks. I wonder if here in the South it will remain more yellow. Impossible to tell with the immature plant, I am sure. Mine gets morning sun and is shaded in afternoon by a dwarf magnolia.

That's a beautiful rose you are growing!!! I love the color and the shape!! Wow!

Carol

Here is what it looks like after a day in the sun--got up to 83 today. This bloom is in full all day sun--all day sun is sometimes needed to get the expected colors of some roses. I saw a bloom of Rose de Rescht that was growing in the shade--it was red!

Thank you Zack for posting your Halloween. Very pretty. The rose I'm trying to identify looks nothing like your rose. Mine is a yellow, pink blend with such variability between blossoms you would never know it's the same rose. Right now it is blooming a oranger color. Each flush has the same look, but it is different than every other flush I'm trying to say. I need to have it's photos in a separate file if I want to recognize it as the same rose.

The most common rose that fits your description in my garden is Jackson Perkin's Rio Samba. Bred by Warriner in 1993, now out of patent.

http://www.weeksroses.com/_Roses/RioSamba.html

Here's my baby Halloween. The Japanese Beetles chewed off the tips of the center petals, but you can still see the color.

This little bloom had a light, fresh scent. I cut it for the house & color remained deeper yellow in center even as bloom faded. Mine is from RU; dk if any other nursery propagates Halloween.

Zack, My unknown is below. Got it from RVR. Would like to know what it is. BS prone.

More. Same rose.

My own root Halloween came from Roses Unlimited.

Yeah, that's lovely!!! Sheesh!!! :)

Carol

Thank you for encouragement and info Zack, Holly, Carol. I am hoping I figure it out eventually. I could ask RVR eventually. It is so interesting that every bloom flush is so different.