Salmon Colored Roses

Very Short Salmon Roses

Name	Class	Cold	Breeder
Alouette	Polyantha	Zone 4	Delforge
Spice Drop	Miniature	Zone 6
Soroptomist International	Miniature	Zone 6	Bernardella

Moderately Short Salmon Roses

Name	Class	Cold	Breeder	Rating
Dearest	Cluster Flowered	Zone 5	Dickson	7.2
Elizabeth of Glamis	Cluster Flowered	Zone 5	McGredy	7.4
Kiss	Cluster Flowered	Zone 6	Kordes
Artistry	Large Flowered	Zone 4	Zary	7.9
Cherish	Large Flowered	Zone 5	Warriner	7.6
Madame Edouard Herriot	Large Flowered	Zone 6	Pernet-Ducher
Roma	Large Flowered	Zone 5	Spronk
Tournament of Roses	Large Flowered	Zone 4	Warriner	8.3
Little Darling	Miniature	Zone 5	Duhersen	8.3
Pride ‘n’ Joy	Miniature	Zone 5	Warriner	7.7
Ferdy	Modern Shrub	Zone 4	Suzuki	7.5
Orange Morsdag	Polyantha	Zone 5	Kordes	9.1

Moderately Tall Salmon Roses

Name	Class	Cold	Breeder	Rating
Susan Jellicoe	Cluster Flowered	Zone 5	Horner
Cornelia	Hybrid Musk	Zone 6	Pemberton	8.8
Blessings	Large Flowered	Zone 4	Gregory	7.1
Catherine Deneuve	Large Flowered	Zone 5	Meilland
Folklore	Large Flowered	Zone 6	Kordes	8.2
Ginger Rogers	Large Flowered	Zone 5	McGredy
Portadown Fragrance	Large Flowered	Zone 5	McGredy
Sonia	Large Flowered	Zone 5	Meilland	7.8
Worthwhile	Large Flowered	Zone 5	Le Grice
Dornroschen	Modern Shrub	Zone 4	Kordes	8.4
Lutin	Modern Shrub	Zone 4	Meilland
Souvenir d’un Ami	Tea	Zone 7	Belot Defougere

Climbing Salmon Roses

Name	Class	Cold	Breeder	Rating
America	Large Flower Climber	Zone 5	Warriner	8.3
Madame Lombard	Tea	Zone 6	LaCharme	7.8

Rambling Salmon Roses

Name	Class	Cold	Breeder	Rating
Cherub	Rambler	Zone 6	Clark

Comments

Salmon is among the more elusive of rose colors, along with copper: they are both almost impossible to describe because they float somewhere in between a host of secondary colors. The roses on this list might alternatively be called 'pale orange' or 'pink' or 'coral' or 'buff' or something else. And in most cases there simply would be no way to argue otherwise. Still, it is useful to conceive of this color as being distinctive, for several popular roses - Tournament of Roses and America to name two - are best described as being tints of this color.

Roses in this color can be as difficult to use as they are to describe. Salmon does not go especially well with yellows or with cool pinks and roses. The color can go well enough in a pastel collection of pinks and buffs. It can go well also in one that includes buff, copper, and possibly orange or vermilion or scarlet.

The roses themselves are not the best rosedom has to offer. A number of these may be seen as being solidly good. Only Orange Morsdag (mother'sday) and Cornelia are likely to make many Top Ten lists. And these lie at the outer edges of the color space.