The Question:
Name your favorite variety of orange rose, spray rose, bicolor/specialty rose, garden rose and lavender rose.
****************************************************************************************************
From Sarah Winward (Honey of a Thousand Flowers):
Orange rose – Never used one, but I like lots of peachy oranges like the Campanella
Spray rose – Majolica
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Eden Romantica, not sure if it is technically bicolor?
Garden rose – I use mostly garden roses, a favorite is Romantic Antique
Lavender rose – Amnesia
*****************************************************************************************************
From Elisabeth Zemetis (Blush Floral Design):
Orange rose – Voodoo
Spray rose – Antique Lavender Spray Roses
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Orange Sunset
Garden rose – Juliet
Lavender rose – Amnesia or Faith (pictured below)
**************************************************************************************************
From Kristy Marek (Imbue Weddings):
Orange rose – Cumbia
Spray rose – Jana
Bicolor/Specialty rose – Fiesta
Garden rose – In Australia we either get hot house roses or David Austins and that’s it. And unless you know your roses David Austins are simply categorized by colour and not by variety.
Lavender rose – Memory Lane
**********************************************************************************************
From Alicia Scwede (Bella Fiori and Flirty Fleurs)
Orange rose – Enya
Spray rose – Mambo spray rose
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Hocus Pocus
Garden rose – Yves Piaget
Lavender rose – Sterling Silver
********************************************************************************************
From Nick Priestly (Mood Flowers)
Orange rose – Cherry Brandy
Spray rose – Piano Freidland
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Dolce Vita
Garden rose – David Austin ‘Kate’
Lavender rose – Pacific Blue
***************************************************************************************
From Holly Chapple (Holly Heider Chapple Flowers)
Orange rose –Free Spirit
Spray rose- Porcelena
Bicolor/Specialty rose – Deep Rose
Garden rose – Peach Juliet
Lavender rose – Amnesia
************************************************************************************
From Emelie Ekborg (Svenska Blomsterbloggar)
Orange rose — I hardly use any orange roses, so I change orange to peach – Peach Avalanche (below), Juliet
Spray rose – Bombastic
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Cherry Brandy
Garden rose – all the David Austin, such as Kiera, Juliet, Patience, Darcey (pictured below)
Lavender rose – Ocean Song
************************************************************************************
From Laetitia Mayor (Floresie)
Orange rose – Free Spirit
Spray rose – Mimi Eden
Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Sweetberry
Garden rose – Madame Alfred Carrière
Lavender rose – Silverstone
********************************************************************************************
Thanks so much to our panel…I found some new roses through this post! Anyone else see a favorite on this list or discover a new variety?
Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday…
********************************************************************************************
images via:
Eden Romantica (Hilverda De Boer)
Voodoo (Wikipedia)
Memory Lane & Amnesia (The Wedding if my Dreams)
Enya (Flirty Fleurs)
Dolce Vita & Peach Avalance (Florabundance)
Bombastic (Interplant Roses)
Mimi Eden (Whole Blossoms)
Jana (Bib.ge)
all others (Sierra Flower Finder)
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to provide educational information about all things related to floral design and production. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is available for viewing without profit to those who have an interest in reading or viewing the website information for educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. If your copyrighted material appears on this web site and you disagree with our assessment that it constitutes "fair use," please contact us and we will remove it from our site.
My favorite rose is Free Spirit too! They always come in perfect and are so pretty. Plus I love that they can lean orange or pink.