Name |
Class |
Cold |
Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baby Katie | Miniature | Zone 4 | Saville | 7.9 |
Name |
Class |
Cold |
Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Fashion | Cluster Flowered | Zone 5 | Boerner | 8.3 |
| Pretty Lady | Cluster Flowered | Zone 5 | Scrivens | |
| Comtes de Champagne | English Rose | Zone 5 | Austin | |
| Gruss an Aachen | English Rose | Zone 4 | Geduldig | 8.3 |
| Sebastian Kneipp | Large Flowered | Zone 5 | Kordes | |
| Perle d’Or | Polyantha | Zone 6 | Rambaux | 8.4 |
| Dr. Grill | Tea | Zone 7 | Bonnaire | |
| Marie van Houtte | Tea | Zone 7 | Ducher | 7.9 |
Name |
Class |
Cold |
Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maiden’s Blush | Alba | Zone 4 | 8.0 | |
| Feu Pernet Ducher | English Rose | Zone 5 | Mallerin | |
| Champagne | Large Flowered | Zone 4 | Lindquist | 7.0 |
| Diamond Jubilee | Large Flowered | Zone 6 | Boerner | 6.5 |
| Elizabeth Harkness | Large Flowered | Zone 5 | Harkness | 7.6 |
| Flamingo | Large Flowered | Zone 4 | Kordes | 7.9 |
| Marilyn Monroe | Large Flowered | Zone 5 | Weeks | |
| Souvenir de Madame Boullet | Large Flowered | Zone 7 | Pernet-Ducher | 7.5 |
| Fruhlingsgold | Modern Shrub | Zone 5 | W. Kordes | 8.1 |
Name |
Class |
Cold |
Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park’s Yellow Tea Scented China | China | Zone 7 | ||
| Claire Jacquier | Noisette | Zone 7 | Bernaix | |
| Jaune Desprez | Noisette | Zone 6 | Desprez | |
| Reve d’Or | Noisette | Zone 7 | Ducher | 9.4 |
| Devoniensis, Climbing | Tea | Zone 7 | Foster | 7.9 |
| Madame Jules Gravereaux | Tea Climber | Zone 6 | Soupbert & Notting |
Name |
Class |
Cold |
Breeder | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marie Leonida | Large Flower Climber | Zone 6 | ||
| Jersey Beauty | Rambler | Zone 4 | Manda | |
| Lykkefund | Rambler | Zone 5 | Olesen | |
| R. banksia lutescens | Species Climber | Zone 8 |
For Bishop Pemberton to name his rose 'Buff Beauty' (pictured) seems like an almost preposterous thing to do; the English not too many decades before had rejected 'Cuisse de Nymph' as being simply too risque in its suggestion of bare skin. 'Maiden's Blush was the preferred name. Buff occupies perhaps the smallest area on the rose color wheel. The reason we include it as a special color is that this color is that our color perceptions are most finely honed in this area. Because the named colorspace is so crowded and yellow pigments can be unstable, a lot of roses that are classified as related colors may sometimes appear buff, and vice versa.
It is easy, when one is looking at this list, to be amazed at how many truly extraordinary roses are included: Reve d'Or, Marie Leonida, Perle d'Or, and Gruss an Aachen. R. banksia lutescens will, during its single period of bloom cover everything with small blossom - an effect quite glorious. Even the modestly rated Diamond Jubilee will wow one when it is grown under Mediterranean conditions.
Buff is not always the easiest color to use in the garden. In its palest forms it goes with a lot of other colors - most except for the palest lilacs. In its darker forms it looks best with red, or scarlet, or coral or any apricot. Curiously, it really does not 'play well' with a lot of other colors. Where one can find a space for it among whites, and reds or among oranges, apricots, salmons, corals it can really shine.
