I miss my Julia Childs. They black spotted too much to be spared eviction. With how many glorious roses I can't grow successfully, you would think that would cause me to throw in the towel with roses. I keep forging ahead, and revel in those who make the grade.

The chosen few are not too shabby with remarkable blooms of that make it all worth it.

Moses.

My best apricot/orange floribundas are:

Fragrant Apricot

Brass Band

Apricot Nectar

Gingersnap

Easy Does It

Burst of Joy

A few more:

Kanegem

Marina

Marmalade Skies

Trumpeter

Susan, thanks so much for sharing those beautiful apricot pics. Now, I can go shopping. Moses, I am in awe of you, and others, who must fight intemperate climates to enjoy roses! And ! Hang my head in shame suspecting I’d not be up to it. 😞

I'm not sure if she's officially classified as a floribunda, but she flowers in clusters of three so I'm thinking she'd fit the bill. Check out Versigny, she was new to me last year from Roses Unlimited and her flowers are to die for. Photos do no justice. My favorite peachy/orange rose

martinca, sorry I posted all of those orange roses! I didn't realize until after posting them that you were asking for apricots or *orange blush* roses. I'm an orange fiend, so I got overly excited. I found a bush shot of my Fragrant Apricot that shows you the whole thing. Also, since you're looking for something taller, Apricot Nectar is one of my taller FLs, so that might fit your bill. It's an exceptionally heavy bloomer too. Maybe it was on another thread, but I could've sworn that Moses mentioned his Apricot Candy on this thread. Since he doesn't have a camera, here's a pic of it from my local nursery. A friend has a mystery rose in her neighborhood, and last year Moses helped us i.d. it as Apricot Candy based on the pics she sent me and I posted here. I went to the local nursery to take pics for her to compare.

Fragrant Apricot bush

Apricot Candy bloom at nursery

Martinca,

Yes, black spot is the #1 disease (fungus), of roses here. Humidity accompanied with heat are the ingredients for its virulence. Powdery mildew, which actually is more difficult to control than black spot, is usually limited to periods of cool, dry weather conditions, which when such conditions occasionally occur, they are usually in spring or fall. It must be very dry, almost drought like for many days for powdery mildew to kick in. Downy mildew is not frequently seen here abouts.

Rust.....I've never seen it here on roses. Hollyhocks, yes, they are rust magnets. Just when hollyhock blooms peak in beauty, rust rears its ugly head on the foliage. It starts from the oldest, bottom leaves first and progresses upward, leaves dropping in succession to by the time the blooms above are concluding, the stalks have just about completely denuded, little foliage left!

Regarding black spot on roses....I've pretty much switched out all my roses to black spot free/resistant varieties. Otherwise, a strict spray routine from just about now, late April, until first killing frosts in late October must be maintained. That involves spraying every 10 days to 2 weeks religiously. I'm certainly limited in what I can grow since I prefer not to spray. I have been making my selections from ADR winners and ARTS trial winners, too.

The last of the black spotters are my 4 Apricot Candy bushes. It's hard to evict them, they are so beautiful and are blooming fools. AC does not get black spot horrendously, but it does spot and consequently defoliate, so they get hit with a regular spray routine. While I'm at it the whole rose bed gets a spray as well. I'm a stickler for as pristine as possible my roses' foliage must be. After all, a beautiful bloom is the product of healthy, lush foliage. Otherwise, it's like a delicious, well prepped meal served on a dirty plate.

Martinica,

May I give a plug for Double Easy Orange, the J&P offering? It's due any day here, as a potted, own root from J&P. It's supposed to be a real workhorse bloomer of lovely, well set blooms on a compact, shortish bush, with supposed excellent black spot resistant foliage. Jim (who hasn't been posting recently), who gardens east of me in Pennsylvania, having almost identical growing conditions as I do, had a stellar first year with his Easy Double Orange. I hope to duplicate his success.

Moses.

Susan,

Apricot Candy is great. I had one for years, and recently got three more. That's 4 Apricot Candys....that's how much I like it. Although it gets black spot, but not excessively, and has to be sprayed here, I make an exception for it. It gives so much that spraying it is worth the effort. Also, it generally maxes out at 30-36" tall by autumn here, so I placed them at the front of my rose bed, just behind the Drift roses. It's easy to access them for spraying, being front and center for all to see!

Now the flip side of Apricot Candy.... which all roses have, faults. The bloom would be perfect with only 10 more petals. When fully open a bloom looks a bit blown about, but the exposed stamens when fully open, stay a pleasing tan color, not turning dirty brown as so many roses do as they age. However, the bloom stays in good form a long time, always lovely, even to petal drop. The foliage is rich and abundant, but here, in my micro climate, which is hot, zone 8 desert in a temperate zone 6, Apricot Candy will drop oldest leaves because of the intense heat, a very untypical micro climate for Pennsylvania. The intense heat is due to reflection/radiation from closely spaced tall buildings around me. I deal with it as best I can, which mostly means lots of watering, lots of it.

You can't grow roses with only natural rainfall here, no way.

Moses.

First, wonderful replies! Thanks so much!

Susan, I loved seeing ALL your orange beauties.

Elestrial, wow, Versigny ! I will most definitely look for her.…ditto Apricot Candy ( Moses & Susan)

I realize that we here in Ca. are very lucky with an easier climate for roses. I bow my head in respect to Moses and all who must put in such effort.

Moses, your insistence on pristine foliage is exactly why I (with great sadness) gave up on HTs. I wouldnt keep up the maitinence…which shames me to confess. Disease was pretty minimal.

I do appreciate all your input!

marti

Marti, here's a pic of part of my sidewalk floribunda line. You can easily see the one rose that's leaning out... that's Apricot Nectar. I just use my metal stakes to pull it back (clearly I hadn't yet in this pic, lol). I mention it only because you said you were looking for a larger FL. It doesn't get really large, but larger than the average FL.

Martinca, have you seen this recent thread?

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6562362/ode-to-peach-colored-roses#n=28

I suspect peach and apricot are pretty interchangeable in most people’s heads!

I am also a huge fan of Versigny and have four of them, Elestrial. Mine started off fairly compact but with upright canes, but in their second and third years are growing taller and arching over, so more true to a shrub rather than a floribunda in habit. I think it would look really good behind a hedge though.

Oh boy, my favorite colors

Soul Sister

Prairie Sunrise

Easy Does It

Cream Veranda the weird leaves are another plant

Also have a new Mother of Pearl

Sorry to be late here to new pics and suggestions. Whoa! So many to love. Thanks so much to you all. Now to go hunting…fingers crossed.