Mark - I don't think so.. the leaves on yours & the leaves on mine are completely different, but yours looks a little heat stressed. They should be shiny & with a hint of red or purple in the leaves.. even mature leaves on mine stay a teensy bit purplishy like some new growth. But, like I said, it could just be heat-stress on yours. Where did you get yours from? I had to order mine from Palatine out of Canada.

GardenQuilts said:Thanks for the input. ,Marmalade skies looks like it is a similar color to Austin's Christopher Marlowe. It is one of those hard to describe pink-orange-coral colors. I like those colors in the garden. I have Radler's Carefree Celebration and some peach roses.

Sometimes, I put the potted rose in place and see how I like the color before putting it in the ground.

Heading back out with the fussy dog. Want to get a bit more done before it gets dark. He wants to walk around the lake again since it is finally a nice day again.

Lol My Christopher Marlowe is another one that doesn't get even a hint of orange to my eye. I was quite disapointed because I am going for that warm orange pink tone in my roses! I think it is my soil here, but a lot of plants that are supposed to be salmon or coral just look pink here! It is the rose in the forefront right corner...

Meredith - Could be the temperatures, too. My Mardi Gras is always much more orangey in cool temps and a lot more pink in hot temps.

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They are both beautiful either way - pink or salmon/coral.

Mardi Gras is especially nice, does it have a nice fragrance also?

Andi - Sometimes. I find that it's more fragrant in cooler weather than hot weather. But it *is* prone to blackspot, so you gotta think about that. And it can get leggy. I have mine literally buried right now in beebalm (I didn't plan it that way.. the beebalm just kinda took over), so seeing a Mardi Gras bloom in the middle of a beebalm patch is pretty cool looking IMO. Chris Everts has been blooming a wonderful orange for me this year, not very yellow at all.

Yup my Mardi Gras is all over the place in color! Funny because I find it very black spot resistant here. I wonder if that Bee Balm crowding it could be the culprit.

Andi If I stick my nose up to it I can smell it, but I wouldn't consider it Fragrant. Like Skiekitty said, I notice it is a little stronger in certain weather.

I wish we could have a thread of which roses are actually orange pink and fragrant! Disease resistant is a huge bonus, those are the roses I am on the hunt for!!

Start one!

Hi, Andi I'm assuming that you live close by my home even though you've moved. Maybe we can get together sometime (with Jessica also) to talk roses and gardening. Let me know.......Teri

Orange Pink is my favorite color blend on roses. My Christopher Marlowe is a gorgeous coral pink with just a faint touch of peach. It's also one of my biggest roses (I have 2 of them, both huge) and Zuzu says hers is one of her smaller Austins.
The super cool weather this week has made all the roses look better. The color saturation is very different, making the roses look like the pictures in the catalogs!

my Blue Bayou is gorgeous right now.. I really need to take a picture.

I wish I had a huge Christopher Marlowe. It's one of my favorite Austins. It's only about 2.5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Two of the other Austins in the same bed are easily 7 feet tall (Tea Clipper and The Generous Gardener).

Meredith, are you looking for an orange and pink blend? I thought you were looking for solid-colored roses with the official "orange-pink" color designation, which we might describe as salmon or coral.

I am dead heading my roses to encourage roots this year. the deer came into the yard to help one evening. I guess the Bambi-be gone spray wore off. As long as I keep spraying, they stay away.

I would love to see Jessica and you again! I sent you an email about my new place. Best get back out to battle the weeds and trees!

I came in to calm down and cool off. I was working in the future tiger garden when a hawk flew low and dropped a dead snake about 3' away from me. Yikes! Of course I screamed, Winston the pug started barking, Hershey the pitbull next door started barking and one of the roofers working across the street checked if I was alright. He warned me to look out for that kind of snake - black with a triangle head - because it has a poisonous bite. I always look out for snakes, but didn't expect them to drop from the sky.

I really hate snakes. I don't mind them slithering around catching rodents, as long as they don't surprise me - or me them.

I am providing comic relief for the neighborhood today.

I am thinking of own root Summer Song and Christopher Marlowe in the front bed. I love Austin roses!

@Meredith79, most of my roses are in the coral orange range, I am not a pink loving person but make an occasional exception. I would love to have Christopher Marlowe again, I left it behind when I moved.
My current rose list: http://garden.org/lists/view/C...

and we have a wonderful rose database here, Rose (Rosa 'Marmalade Skies') has lots of photos. If an entry is shy on photos, we often use HelpMeFind.com

zuzu said:I wish I had a huge Christopher Marlowe. It's one of my favorite Austins. It's only about 2.5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Two of the other Austins in the same bed are easily 7 feet tall (Tea Clipper and The Generous Gardener).

Meredith, are you looking for an orange and pink blend? I thought you were looking for solid-colored roses with the official "orange-pink" color designation, which we might describe as salmon or coral.

I don't think I am particular about whether it is solid or a blend. I just love that perfect balance of orange and pink that is so hard to find. I have tried roses because others have said they are coral or salmon only to have them be pink here. Like Christopher Marlowe, you can see in the pictures I posted it has no warmth to it at all. Aside from the tiny bit of yellow at the center. It is basically mauve here. So that also makes it hard because the roses are different colors in different areas.

I wonder what you all consider this roses color to be, in my mind it was that perfect color I was looking for. Maybe a tiny bit more to the peach side but I absolutely loved it!

Sweet Fragrance

Calif_Sue said:@Meredith79, most of my roses are in the coral orange range, I am not a pink loving person but make an occasional exception. I would love to have Christopher Marlowe again, I left it behind when I moved.
My current rose list: http://garden.org/lists/view/C...

and we have a wonderful rose database here, Rose (Rosa 'Marmalade Skies') has lots of photos. If an entry is shy on photos, we often use HelpMeFind.com

I often admire your Roses, but with you being in Cali I can't count on them looking the same here. I can't even tell you how many hours I have spent googling images of roses after seeing a post or plant listing, I often look at HelpMeFind and see that the people with northeastern locations, roses do exactly what mine do. If you have a perfect warm pink in Cali it loses most of it's warmth here. Maybe on a rare occasion I will see a slight hint of that warm tone you get but it is only a hint not enough for me to be in love. lol

I picked up a Lady of Shalot at a Nursery thinking I was getting Lady Emma Hamilton. Not by the labels, but I couldn't remember which one I had been admiring and pinning pictures of. Well it turned out I really wanted to try Lady Emma but the Lady of Shalot seems promising, except the last bloom it put out was pale yellow and had no other tones at all. Hoping it was just due t stress of being planted.

Here, Lady of Shalott is stunning. I would call it a warm orange coral. I lost mine and have not found a local nursery that carries it to replace it.

Thanks that's good to know! You should order one! I think I am going to order a Lady Emma Hamilton in spring.

Rose (Rosa 'Lady Emma Hamilton') is fabulous, I find the new bronze leaves growth especially attractive. I am currently getting a second flush right now.

Just what I need....more encouragement to order more roses!
OMG.
Palatine has gotten so much of my money the past few years it's not even funny.