Thank you both for your help. No, the Granada, while sometimes striped just isn't "it" and the other one has no splotchy wide stripes. I mention the veining on the yellow backs, as it was there, ie visible, not a solid color, but it wasn't really that strong. on the inside every petal was wildly painted with the other colors. So far, the only one that looks like it at all is the Tropical Sunset. I know it couldn't be my rose, but it was huge and many petaled and the same colors and shape.
I've tried contacting the nursery I think I bought it at, but their rose lady is gone for a week or so. Maybe she will remember it.
It seems that roses really go into and out of fashion. People want new ones, so the older ones just fall out of favor and disappear from nurseries. sigh. Well, I may not be able to get my exact beloved roses, but I'll find something similar. ... now to find a Tropical Sunset I can afford that will ship to Oregon!
Then I have to find the rose with small flowers that were a dark rose orange with a center of bright fire yellow. Or was it the other way around... Anyway it always looked like little balls of flames on the bush. It was small, and wouldn't have been as noticeable as the other bigger flowered bushes, but it was so distinctive!
Then to find my soft rounded roses of a deep lavender color, and a replacement for my Abe Lincoln, and and and, LOL. I have almost no money, but a rose or two a year should be possible. (disability doesn't pay a lot!) Thankfully I now have friends that will do the heavy part of the chores of building a rose garden again.
Thank you guys for all your help!
Laura in Oregon
