Pink roses are so enchanting and endearing, softening any garden with their pale hues. Pink roses signify thankfulness, joy, admiration and joy, making them treasured tokens for parties such as birthdays, weddings and showers. This rose color is possibly the most gentle and innocent of all the improved shades, as well as all these varieties and forms to select from, it is easy to find one to fit your garden.
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Pink roses have a wide selection of hues, from sweet pastels to shocking brights, and your garden will have a very different feel depending on the colour you choose. An all-pink garden looks very feminine, as does a pink rose garden with other white blossoms. If you want to eliminate just a little sweetness and amp up the play, put pink roses with other flowers in shades of blue or purple. A Pink and red combo is much more monochromatic, while pink and yellow is a cheerful combination to brighten up any garden.
1. Best climber. ‘New Dawn’ was a favourite climber for years. It appears to be outstanding in just about any way a rose could be judged — it’s vigorous growth and abundant pink blossoms that fade to blush; it’s disease resistant and a repeat bloomer. It grows from 15 to 20 feet tall, can endure a bit of colour and grows well in USDA zones 5 to 9 (find your zone). And did I tell you it’s fragrant, too?
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Other pink climbers include ‘Weeping China Doll’ (syn. ‘Climbing China Doll’), ‘ ‘James Galway’, ‘Leander’ and ‘Eglantyne’.
Revealed: ‘Weeping China Doll’ (syn. ‘Climbing China Doll’)
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2. Best cut flower. ‘Chicago Peace’ is a hybrid tea rose that grows up to 6 feet tall in zones 5 to 9. Its classic bloom form is striking, with petals tinged a blend of pink, orange and yellow on long stems, which makes it perfect for cutting and bringing inside. It begins blooming in late spring and will continue to blossom on and off, until late summer or even collapse.
More pink roses for cutting edge comprise ‘Betty Boop’ and ‘Nearly Wild’.
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3. Easy-care favorite. ‘Blushing Knock Out’ defies all the rumors about roses being fussy. This one takes the warmth, is drought tolerant once established, resists pests and diseases, and does not require deadheading. It features single light pink blossoms and is perfect as a small shrub rose in a perennial garden or container garden, growing to about 3 to 4 ft tall for gardeners in zones 5 to 11.
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More easy-care pink roses comprise ‘Carefree Delight’, ‘Rainbow Knock Out’ and ‘All the Rage’.
Revealed: ‘Carefree Delight’
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4. Best scent. ‘Memorial Day’ is just another all-around great improved, but it’s particularly notable because of its strong damask rose fragrance. It’s a bigger shrub rose, growing up to 6 feet tall in zones 7 to 10, and it’s remarkable warmth tolerance. The blossoms are fully petaled in tones of pinkish lavender and bloom freely throughout the entire year.
Additional pink blossom roses comprise ‘Gertrude Jekyll’, ‘The Alnwick Rose’ and ‘Mortimer Sackler’.
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5. Best color variant. ‘Scentimental’ is extremely fragrant, since you can tell by its title, besides sporting unusual dark pink stripes and spots on white petals. ‘Scentimental’ is a shrub rose, growing up to 4 feet tall and wide with double blossoms, and has excellent disease resistance for gardeners in zones 6 to 9.
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Other interesting color variants are found on ‘Portrait’, ‘Carrousel’, and ‘Latin Lady’.
Revealed: ‘Portrait’