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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I have to be honest about this rose, or most accurately, I have to be honest about my sorry treatment of Livin’ Easy in my own garden. I betrayed it, I really did. Just plunked it the ground and walked away. And yet…Livin’ Easy survived, prospered even. Rewarded my miserly care with flower after flower and no diseases to hand wring over. Livin’ Easy, I’m here to make amends. You are the bomb.
Named in honor of 
Introduced in 1930, Betty Boop is notable because she was the first cartoon character to represent a fully-sexualized woman. Garter belts, prominent breasts, Betty Boop was no Minnie Mouse, what with a debaucherous parade of characters endlessly trying to look up her skirt (at least until Production Code censors put an end to her antics in 1934). Betty Boop: flapper, sex symbol, and now a rose.
Floribunda rose Betty Prior was introduced in 1935 and is still one of the best after more than seventy years. Reputed to be Queen Elizabeth’s favorite, Betty Prior grows quite tall for a Floribunda, to four or five feet. Combine this height with continuous bloom and you have a rose ideally suited for the back of the perennial or mixed border. Medium pink with five petals, the flowers are reminiscent of dogwood blooms (although dogwood flowers have four bracts instead of five petals). Betty Prior is an excellent rose for beginners, and I can also recommend 
Floribunda rose Playboy is an outstanding choice for those seeking a bright and bold garden rose. Single to semi-double flowers of red, gold, and orange are borne in profuse clusters from midseason on. The bright petals surround golden stamens. Growth habit is compact, bushy and vigorous; the glossy, dark green leaves are disease resistant. Winter hardiness is very good; Playboy rose is hardy to Zone 4b.
Floribunda rose Angel Face is a tremendous rose. Ruffled, deep mauve flowers are produced profusely on a vigorous, low-growing shrub which is winter hardy. Fragrance is superb, with the only drawback being that Angel Face is so low-growing that the scent may not reach your nose unless you bend over to enjoy it.
Floribunda rose Europeana is an option for those who are looking for a rose which is reliable AND bears exhibition quality blooms. Consider this: Europeana rose is featured on many, many rose societies lists of disease resistant roses AND won the Best Floribunda award in the Horticultural Section of that 
