A Pair of Yellow Roses

Posted by Angela England Jul 19, 2007

Th Peace Rose is a Modern Hybrid Tea and the Yellow Lady Banks Rose is an Old Garden Rose. Both are yellow roses that are popular in todays gardens for a variety of good uses.

Peace Rose (Rosa 'Peace) – One of the most widely grown hybrid tea roses of all time, the Peace rose was red in 1935 but not released for sale in the US until 1945 because of the war. The Peace rose has pale yellow flowers with pink edged petals that are lightly fragrant. Peace roses make excellent cut flower plants and will repeat bloom from early summer through fall. One of the more disease resistant hybrid tea roses, Peace is prone to attack by Japanese beetles which can be pulled off by hand and drowned in a cup of water. Peace roses are hardy in zones 3-10 (with winter protection, hardy to zone 4 without) and will grow 5-6' tall. Full sun is preferred for Peace to bloom to it's full potential and the rose plant should be pruned only in the fall right before winter dormancy begins.

Yellow Lady Banks Rose (Rosa banksiae 'Lutea') – Named for the wife of it's creator, John Banks, the Lady Banks Rose was introduced in 1824 and because it was grown in the garden of an Empress it soon became a popular rambling rose. Rambling roses like the yellow Lady Banks rose can grow to a huge size and are suitable as climbers up a wall, for large hedges against fence rows, or for sprawling down steep hillsides to control erosion. Hardy in zones 3-10 the Lady Banks rose is mildly fragrant and nearly thornless. Provide Yellow Lady Banks with full sun and well-drained soil of any kind and it is capable of growing up to 20' in a single year. Because the Lady Banks rose blooms on old wood you should prune only the canes that have finished blooming immediately upon completion of the bloom cycle finishes in summer. The new summer canes will grow 10-20' and produce huge clusters of bright golden-yellow roses the following year late spring through midsummer. While individual flowers are tiny, only about an inch across, the yellow roses are produced in large clusters that create a dramatic showing each spring along fence rows and hillsides.