After seeing my friend’s pictures I decided to mix orange with medium pink in my own garden as well!

front: Leonardo Da Vinci

back: The Impressionist

She’s in chicago zone 5. Both are hardy. I recently bought these two roses and can’t wait to receive them!

She also mixed lavender with pink and orange. They seem to go well together.

Yes! As long as you keep it to just orange and pink, and repeat it, it'll be so unexpected and beautiful. The repeat is important. I'm thinking of Crazy Love, Freida Kahlo and Rosie the Riveter, all with orange and pink colorations. If it's more garish than you'd like, I'd add some cream colored annuals or perennials. Or soft blue - not a strong blue. Blue takes the edge off hot colors. I hope Moses sees your question. He's an artist and retired art teacher, so he really knows colors and how to combine them. If he says NO, then, I defer to him. Please post pictures for us to ooh and aah over.

Oh you guys! Thanks for the encouragement. Cuteleier, those roses are stunning! As to keeping to just orange and pink flowersaremusic, that is kind of my point. The flowers change colour. With paprika and Sunorita, yellow creeps in. Fun In The Sun is a soft mixture of all the tones. So things might just be a free-for-all in that bed. The DA and antique Dorthy Perkins are true pink without warm tones. Dorthy Perkins fades to a pale tone as the flowers age.

The pink one is Leonardo Da Vinci.

I've checked out both Leonardo da Vinci and The Impressionist roses Cuteleier, they both sound wonderful!

Cuteleier - Wow!!! I love pink and orange...and those roses are glorious!!!

I think it depends on what you like. :) Some people here do wonderful things with soft pastels of the same color...others with bright colors...I love them all!!

You go for it girl! It has the potential to be so striking. Sometimes my eye really wants to see a Wowza color combination

Yes, it will work! Nothing clashes in nature, and I love it all. We seem to have loosened up and opened our minds to interesting color combinations over the last 15 years or so, and what may have been a clash in the olden days is perfectly wonderful today. Diane

I think those pictures of pink and soft orange are gorgeus! looks like rainbow sherbet! very pleasing to me, and now I am craving ice cream.

I'm very much in the "riot of color" school of gardening. While I always try to put orange, yellow and purple roses next to each other, b/c I love that combo, I fill in the transitions with all of the other colors, trying for the best transitions. I always thought it was kinda weird that people put similar colored roses next to each other... as Diane said, nothing clashes in nature!

I love yellow and purple together. Diane

Oh Diane!!!! No one does purple like you do!!! Those are ALL glorious!!!!

Wow Diane! Those roses are beautiful.

Unless you are colorblind and specifically need help (ask about my stepfather picking out paint for trim and shutters and choosing something that was decidely ”smurf”) please try what pleases your sensibilities! Some want to follow sets of rules and guidelines. Others want to experiment and figure out what works for them. I love my ‘Fun In the Sun’ and its next to yellows,

pinks, reds and oranges!

They all end up in the vase together and just make me happy :) I did several different angles trying to get them all to show, but there is pink Royal Kate, red Olympiad, orange Ring of Fire, apricot Queen Nefertiti and Moonlight in Paris, purple Ebb Tide, white Iceberg and Pascali, and Harison's Yellow, with an orange & yellow heirloom columbine and blue delphinium

What's happening right now is Sunorita is turning soft yellow with the orange edge becoming pinkish. So that totally goes with the pinks beside her.

I think depending on how vibrant your choice of orange and pink is for the roses, it could work or might look a bit clashy. I have one bed where I got DA lady of a shallot (an orangey rose for me that fades to peach in heat), DA ancient mariner (a medium pink), and Larissa (a very light blush pink), with Jasmina arborose and all dressed up climbing in the back. They look nice together.

Hi Minshen. Nice to hear from someone on the island! I'm located in Nanaimo. I grow Lady Of Shalott. A very pretty rose. It is in another bed. Sunorita is very different. So is Paprika, for that matter. Both of those roses start out with much stronger colour in the orange/amber range. But they quickly fade and take on pink tones. Paprika fades to coral and cream, while Sunorita fades to soft yellow with soft coral. So as said before, the roses change their colours. The pink DA does stay cool pink from start to finish. The antique climber noisette rose Dorthoy Perkins starts pink and fades to creamyish. So some moments could look clashy and some, blended.

Hi everyone. This is Sunorita which starts of as strong orange buds, and matures to this colour.

This is old fashioned Dorthy Perkins rose beside it.

This is Paprika, a small flowered landscape rose.

This is a pink hardy geranium growing as groundcover in the area.

This is another pale yellow rose in the background.

Has anyone had experience with both Dorothy Perkins and Super Dorothy?

I love peachy-orange and pink roses together!

Folwersaremusic I grow Dorthy Perkins and 'Red Dorthy Perkins' another old fashioned rambler. They are both local roses. My DP came with the property. The new Super Dorthy I'd never heard of, but googled it. Sounds like a wonderful rose.

Stephanie your roses are divine! Thanks for sharing.