This is one of my favorite colors! They look warm and radiant. They make me feel happy!

I have almost zero rose blooms right now, there are some of my old favorites. The only rose that has early blooms here are Flamenco rosita and two rugosas. The Austins are very old pictures. The others are from last year. I repurchased Boscobell and will pamper it. I would like more roses in this color range and have several new ones this year.

Crazy love can be peachy pink or bright orange.

Bathsheba

Bliss has a lot of peach here depending on the temp. Hard to belive it is the same rose

Boscobell

Peach melba on center and right. Meteor is the brighter orange on top left. I dont love meteor, but Peach Melva is fantastic.

Queen of Sweden has a soft pink apricot tint here

I recently acquired Sweet Mademoiselle (Mlle Meilland) off a clearance rack, and the first bloom of hers is swoon-worthy! (When a breeder assigns a family name to one of their creations, one can generally assume it is one they *really* like.) I am really looking forward to seeing how she develops.
I generally try not to select too many roses that fall too close to the default pale pink -- as a hobby breeder, I feel compelled to seek out roses with more unusual colors for my stock. (Breeding really healthy reds and yellows with great fragrance, for instance, is really hard to do!)
Of course some (many?) are just too good to pass up...
(What do others think of Sweet Mademoiselle / Mlle Meilland?)

Dianela, beautiful photos. (Not to derail this thread so early, but Ivor's Rose/Flamenco Rosita is truly an under-rated rose, which is unfortunate. She is, imho, a much more interesting plant than her unscented, pink parent, Bonica.)

JJK, thank you being proactive and starting all these great colour-themed threads giving us a chance to wax lyrical about our favourite roses!

Lady Emma Hamilton and Lady of Shalott were early acquisitions in my growing rose obsession. They still have a place here, despite some faults, but it’s only in recent years that I have come to appreciate the warmer tones that subtly blend peach, apricot and pink. Now, that tends to be the colour theme that draws me the most. Recent favourites include..

Versigny from Guillot - a stunning rose that repeats well and whose form and chameleon qualities always fascinate:

Château de Vaumarcus, a Swiss-bred rose that is surprisingly heat resistant:

My new favourite, Tantau’s Chippendale:

Ladurée, another from Guillot that sometimes has peach and coral tones:

My favorite color catagories and most of my roses fit right in there. I particularly love the sunrise colors. I noticed yesterday that my brand new Mother of Pearl snd Soul sister both have blooms.

Brand new Crazy Love

Cream Veranda

Soul Sister

Desiree

Adobe Sunrise

Prairie Sunrise

Easyat Does It

Reminiscent Coral

Kristine: is it the lighting, or does cream veranda need some nitrogen?

Also - some MOP pics please

This is one of my favorite colors ! thank you for taking the time to share !

i am obsessed with moonlight in paris and take pictures everytine i go look

bathsheba is slowly beginning her show

Cream veranda i keep her very short

Nollie , i think i have versigny … but its not labeled and could be paul bocouse which i always mix up ! yours is so beautiful !!

kristine , your cream verands makes me wish i would let mine live life to its fullest ! mine is in front of a fountsin snd doesnt mind being cut hard but clearly could be better !

dianela your roses are so pretty , quesn of sweden makes my heart swoon !!!

My photography skills being nonexistent, I still would like to put in a word for Apricot Candy. The first bush I got ~6 years ago, pleased me so much that I put in three more about 3 yrs. ago. Apricot Candy is truly amazing. The bloom has an inner glow, and projects an air of elegance by my way of thinking. Apricot Candy's bloom holds its beauty for an incredibly long time, and the bloom is very heat tolerant. It repeats quickly and maintains its blooms large size all through the season. My roses get plenty of water.

Only two faults just minimally affect my high praise of Apricot Candy. Its foliage, although lush and of good substance cannot take heat as well as I would like. Oldest leaves are shed all season long. This is not due to disease, especially black spot, which is particularly brutal in my garden. The oldest leaves fall off all summer long, even though black spot free. I spray tebuconazole pretty religiously, so it's not disease damage that causes the leaf drop......I figure it's the intense heat. They don't wilt or turn tan, they just drop off when it gets too hot, and they are only the oldest leaves. Here, I have a micro-climate during the summer of intense heat, more like zone 8, desert, then my zone 6, temperate. The radiated heat from tightly packed old city houses, plus an ever increasing complex of large heat radiating hospital buildings across the street and immediately next door is the reason.

Fault two is a small amount of black spot susceptibility.

In my campaign to remove all black spot prone rose bushes from my garden, and grow only proven black spot resistant roses with excellent/exceptional attributes, I stopped at giving Apricot Candy the boot. She's the only one given a reprieve. Fortunately, she has some black spot resistance, but is not on par with the rest of my rose bushes. I spray my Apricot Candy's, and give the rest of the garden a shot as well, but if I didn't spray, Apricot Candy would show black spot on its foliage, more cosmetic damage than weakening it. Apricot Candy's height only reaching 30-36" here, and she being in the front of my 8' wide bed, her black spotted leaves would constantly annoy the, "lice outta' my head"! So I continue to spray, and Apricot Candy stays.

Moses.

Wowwwww so many beauties I need them!

Phillipatx Sweet Mademoiselle is one of my mew ones this year. I planted 13 of them in a clump at the entrance to my property, looking forward to them blooming.

Flamenco was recommended by Lilyfinch when she lived in TN and it is the best rose i have ever grown.

Kristine, what beautiful photos. I am in awe of your Soul Sister. I love the sunset colours best too. Your Adobe Sunrise is gorgeous. I am hoping the Coral Lion's Rose i ordered will be similar.

Nollie, every time you show Versigny I kick myself for not getting it. I love a changeable rose. My Chippendale hasn't done much (2nd year) till this Autumn, and that may be a result of the recent rainfalls. Here it is with Ashram. Ashram is the 2 orange blooms above. I finally picked the Chippendale blooms as they were out of sight. The two pink ones had been on the bush about a week before I picked them.

lilyfinch, your garden is soooo pretty. I love the piece that looks like blubells?, in front of the fountain. Your roses look wonderful. Colette is stunning, but I think Moonlight in Paris is my very favourite.

dianela, your new garden is looking good already. Queen of Sweden has just become available here and I was very tempted - but no room! I love the way he blooms sit on top of the bush. That's one glorious specimen you have grown.

Some truly impressive roses here, but wow, the massed effect of all those blooms on Kirsten’s Soul Sister is fabulous.

Lilyfinch I don’t know about Paul Bocuse but Versigny can have deeply luminous orange centres and I think can be more peachy generally?

Trish, Chippendale is certainly highly changeable! Like yours, mine is largely a soft pink rose in summer but can be anything from cherry red to deep peach to start with.

Oh and how could I have forgotten Avalanche Abricot, another with a subtle kaleidoscope of colours

What a graceful presentation of a stunning rose, Nollie!

What a feast for the eyes! Riffs, Cream Veranda is now in the ground and looks much better. Lily, do you still have your Desiree? She id a top 5 favorite, all hecause of your recommendation. Soul Sister has given me 3 babies. They were each about a foot ftom the mother plant and have all done great lol Good mommy plant

I feel myself being enabled by this thread, such lovely roses. Here is Calico Gal, which is usually more buff than peach.

It was potted up last year as a band, and was powdery mildew mess. It’s going in the ground this year and hopefully does better.

I must add one of my peachy favorites here; Blessed Child. It can lean more pink, but in the cooler weather, the peach tones come out. It’s one of my favorite roses,. Beautiful shaped bush, fragrant and the bloom form is as good as any Austin rose.

And there’s good old Abe Darby, Madame Jean from Palatine and Outrageous.

Thanks Judi, unfortunately I recently broke off that long draping cane whilst shifting the pot - it sits on top of the septic tank cover as moveable camouflage!

You are certainly blessed with a great variety of peach/apricot-toned roses in the US. Serious fomo going on here!

@dianela7analabama, I couldn’t agree with you more that peach toned roses inspire happy thoughts! Such pretty pics, especially Peach Melba!

@philipatx, a friend of mine has Sweet Mademoiselle and raves about it too!

@NollieSpainZ9, My garden is arranged as color blocks, so these threads are so helpful for me to consider what others enjoy growing by color. I also grow LEH and her buds are always such a striking surprise in the spring! I grow Paul Bocuse which I chose over Versigny because I wanted a solid peach rose as a backdrop to roses in the foreground. Paul’s a tall fella! He can exceed 2 meters in height. I love his full blooms which he produces in profusion. The blooms of Chippendale and Ladurée you shared had a lot of red mixed with peach. Since the discontinued Summer Song, I’ve seen a few recent Asian varieties that have this red-peach color, e.g. the Cinnabar Bowl rose. I think it’s quite beautiful, but can’t quite yet find the right place to put such a color in the garden. Also, love that cascading effect of your potted Avalanche Apricot!

@Kristine LeGault 8a pnw, Your Cream Veranda is super ogle-worthy!

@Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca, it’s helpful to know that Cream Veranda can be kept small. As for the difference between Paul Bocuse and Versigny, I think PB is a more uniform color, the center can be a shade darker but it doesn’t stand out from the rest of the flower. I think Versigny’s hallmark is having that tangerine center. As for the umbrella tuteur, it’s a smaller version of the Bougainvillea umbrella towers at the Getty Center in LA. I’ll wrap Colette around it and hope that the laterals will fill-in and then cascade down from the top, like a fountain.

@Moses, Pitt PA, cold W & warm/humid S z6, I’m sorry to read that so many roses succumb to black spot in your garden. I’m thankful that you are able to enjoy Apricot Candy!

@judijunebugarizonazn8, Blessed Child is very pretty! RVR states that it is ffff. What sort of fragrance does it have? Is it as fragrant as Abe Darby? How do those two compare in your garden?

My garden is roughly colour blocked too, jjk. The West Garden is for warm tones of red, orange and yellow and the peachy tones fit fine there. The East Garden has cool pink, purple, lavender and white with a smattering of reds with blue tones. I use purple perennials to tie them both together. Roses with a mix of both cool and warm colours in the mix can be hard to place and the reason why I avoided them in the past. So what to do with my newfound obsession with the chameleon colour changers that don’t fit in either scheme?

I am trying to get around the problem by using them as isolated features rather than incorporate them into the beds. Ladurée is more cool than warm, so fits OK in the East, next to purples. My Chippendale standard is kind of apart at the edge of a deck, but in summer mode is still breaking my ’no pink in the West’ rule. Emma Bridgewater is currently giving me a placement headache.

I expect most folks reading this would tell me to get a life!!

Moonlight in Paris.

Nollie, you’re among friends here and not one of us is going to diss you for your obsession and quandary with placing certain colors in your beds. :) I can certainly identify. How interesting that your west bed has warm colors and your east bed the cool colors! That’s how my garden is categorized as well and it just seems to make sense, though I didn’t rationalize it out: it just sort of happened that way. Oh, and I wanted to tell you that I finally have my very own Versigny!! After waiting 3 years for it, it feels like a real treasure to me. It’s small, but healthy and well branched, and I am excited to see it bloom.

Jjk, I’m not sure how to rate the fragrance on my Blessed Child… it’s similar in quality to Abe Darby but not quite as sharp perhaps. It’s medium to strong in my garden. The blooms don’t last as long on Blessed Child, but the bush form is much nicer; very full and more compact with no octopus branches, like Abe Darby.

Ha, nice to know I’m amongst the equally obsessed, Judi! I didn’t intentionally plan the The East/West colour split either, so I think there must have been some subconscious instinct going on. The cool, calming colours do suit the softer morning light and brighter, more saturated colours seem a better fit in the hotter afternoon sun. Congratulations on finally getting Versigny - I hope it lives up to expectations!

Jjk, I meant to say about Paul Bocuse that I have only once seen it in reality, in a French garden centre, where it was a very pale pink with not a hint of warmth. So I suspect it wouldn’t be as colourfast as Versigny for me, which does at least hold onto an orange heart most of the Summer. My best solid peach colour is probably Lady of Shallot.

Interesting, all of my cool-toned roses are planted east-facing, mostly because the first bed I ever dug up was on that side and Grandmother’s Hat ended up growing the best there. ;P

@NollieSpainZ9, for me, Paul Bocuse is definitely warm peach not pink. It is a soft color and generally uniform which I like for arrangements. Here is a bloom captured this morning.

And the arrangement below shows the color difference between Paul Bocuse and Belinda’s Dream which is a silvery pink.

Peach and apricot roses are my favorites and you’ve all shared some beautiful pics. One of my favorites is Peach Perfection which was later renamed Catherine Hershey.

Another newe one that I haven’t seen mentioned is Tanglebank Legacy (aka Peach Glory)

Cream veranda is another favorite. This is definitely not my healthiest rose, but it blooms so much abd the roses are so pretty that I overlook a bit of blackspot

Like @Moses, Pitt PA, cold W & warm/humid S z6, I’m also a fan of Apricot Candy.

Hmmm… the cream veranda pic did not post so I will try again.

As much as I love these warmer tones, they do tend to bleach and pink out for me in hear, but your PB is lovely, jjk. Love Catherine Hershey and Tanglebank Legacy Markay.

We really shouldn’t let this thread pass without a few photos of Lady Emma Hamilton..

Even if she can look like this in extreme heat!