The Question:

Name your favorite variety of orange rose, spray rose, bicolor/specialty rose, garden rose and lavender rose.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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From Laetitia Mayor (Floresie)

Orange rose – Free Spirit

Spray rose – Mimi Eden

Bicolor/Specialty Rose – Sweetberry

Garden rose – Madame Alfred Carrière

Lavender rose – Silverstone

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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…

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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)