Rose Eureka is a butter yellow-apricot, and fairly typical of old school Floribunda roses; i.e. Eureka is a shortish bushy fellow that shoots out sprays of three to five roses in sprightly manner. Frankly, it’s hard for me to get too excited about most Floribundas, as they often look like azaleas with roses for flowers - sort of tight and compactish. Give me some graceful arching, please; the British know how to grow roses, sprays lounging decadently around the place in a wayward manner. Floribunda roses, and Eureka is no exception, are just a little too tidy for my taste.
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Another David Austin English Rose, The Pilgrim offers the soft texture of pale yellow on flat, quartered blooms. Re-bloom is good, with two to three strong flushes of bloom during the growing season. Flowers are produced in sprays of three to seven, and The Pilgrim has an unusual habit in that flower stems may emerge from the main stem (in addition to the normal leaf joints).
Grandiflora rose Gold Medal provides lovely flowers of Hybrid Tea rose form in a constant stream. If you are seeking a tallish rose that will produce deep yellow flowers of good form, then Gold Medal just might be the ticket. Rich, dark gold blooms open to fine flowers of deep yellow tinged with red. Long stems hold aloft flowers of good substance which will last long on the shrub and as cut roses. Many readers are by now familiar with the story behind 
Hybrid Tea rose Elina is our example for today as we ferret out the true meaning behind the carefully-worded descriptions our friendly garden retailers use when describing a rose. Elina is admittedly a stunning Hybrid Tea rose that has quite a bit of virtue; thus, it is not my intention to castigate the fair Elina nor the retailers who sell this rose, but merely to read between the lines. Let’s get right to it. 
Bred by legendary breeder Griffin Buck, shrub rose Folksinger has soft buff yellow blooms that are soft and lovely. Folksinger might be the answer for those of us who appreciate a yellow rose or three. This is a rose for those who enjoy fragrance and toughness of character. Yellow roses tend to be blackspot ridden problem children. You might want to read about 
Unfortunately, disease resistance with the rose Bloomfield Dainty is not very good, so this rose is for those in climates not favorable to 
History is often full of odd twists that reverberate onwards. Many rose gardeners are aware that most yellow roses suffer from frequent bouts with blackspot. Following is a brief history of the origins of most of the yellow roses grown today…which will lead us into an interesting twist in rose history.
