Buck's 'Honey Sweet' is a very pretty peach/coral rose. It is classified as a "shrub" but has the manageable, vase like form and cutting worthy blooms that I wish hybrid teas had in my garden. It is mildly fragrant. I bought mine as an own root plant from Chamblees. It has survived two moves and two polar vortex winters. This is tied with the next rose as my favorite surviving rose.
Rose (Rosa 'Honeysweet') (aka Honey Sweet)
This is another favorite. It also survived moving twice in a year in the worst winters of recent memory. It has classic old fashioned blooms. It is mildly fragrant. It is a beautiful rose,. but can be a large plant. It would need more room than a basic hybrid tea. If you love peach colored , old fashioned style roses, this one is for you!
Rose (Rosa 'Crown Princess Margareta') (aka AUSwinter)
I am mentioning another hardy, coral colored rose because it has been so hardy and beautiful in my gardens. It also survived the moves and the winters. It is a cousin to the knock out roses, by the same breeder. It isn't a cutting rose. No fragrance, different styled blooms. It is a shrub rose, not a hybrid tea, but it will bloom non stop once established. This is the most commented upon rose from my old garden. I think it is stunning planted with dark purple flowering plants. This rose can handle being planted near a walkway or roadway that is snow blown and salted by indifferent maintenance men. Not only will it survive being pummeled by a "kick ball" by neighboring brats, it will teach them to keep their antics away from the pretty prickly plants. If you have a place in your rose garden that you want to grow a rose, but it is too vulnerable for grafted hybrid tea roses, this is a good choice. Likewise if you wish knockouts came in colors other than radioactive cherry red and hot pink (or the always sold out sunny or rainbow).
Rose (Rosa 'Carefree Celebration') (aka RADral)
