I would like to get them both, Sunflare and Sunsprite but no more roses until next year.

Gotta bump this to page one as the question of favorite florabundas has come up again.

Well, since it came up again
Gingersnap is without a doubt my favorite floribunda. Its relatively long lasting blooms start out bright orange and slowly fade to a pleasant yellow/apricot blend.
Another orange blend that I have to include is Disneyland (and not just for sentimental reasons, though IÂll admit that I was originally attracted to the rose by its name alone). Its blooms look electric.

All these photos were taken in June, 3 months after planting
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Apricot Nectar (this one gets big)

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Love the picture of Special Occasion. This thread is a really great source of information for us new rosers (like me)!

I keep looking out my window when I am at my computer to the four Lavagluts I planted this year. The flowers are the most beautiful shade of smokey crimson red and they seem to last for forever! Love this rose.

Summer Fashion - long out of commerce but due back as the patent has expired. Bi-color white with a lovely pink edging.

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Marmalade Skies - new for me this past year, looks like a three year old bush already and has bloomed non-stop. Unusual salmon-orange color that manages to not be garish and just lites up its corner of the garden.

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Hot Cocoa - The floribunda with size issues. I have three shrubs. Two are nicely behaved keeping between four and five feet tall. One has reached for the heavens and sent up massive (two inch at the base) canes that have soared to seven feet! Unusual color that is usually love it or hate it. In cooler weather it has the color below, warmer weather makes it bright (possibly garish) reddish orange color. The dual nature of its color makes it hard to pair with other roses, but mine do well with Marilyn Monroe, French Lace, Just Joey and Fragrant Cloud all in a bed.

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Trumpeter - Red. On the orange side of red. Some people call it orange. I say its red. Just warning you in case there's an argu... er 'discussion' ensues. :) Pumps out the blooms, stays low but can spread its wings a bit. Ignore the sign that says charisma in the pic, its for the standard above it.

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Simply Marvelous - One of those roses that actually lives up to its name. Mauve. Fragrant. The pictures say the rest.

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Outrageous - Beautiful bright blooms, strong fragrance. Mine isn't blooming enough but its got some shade issues and it does bloom on the sunny cane, as it were, so its getting moved.

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Honey Perfume - Not so great its first year, Honey Perfume has exploded with growth and blooms in it second. Apricot with lovely form and fragrance.

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Gingersnap - One of the strongest orange roses going. Fades the least, never seems to stop blooming.

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French Lace - A delicate beauty that has huge heavy but distinct flushes. Adding a second one this coming season.

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Disneyland - This rose has distinct coloration and as it matures just gets better and better. Really pumps out the blooms and just makes you go 'wow!'.

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Angel Face - Mauve, ruffled blooms, fragrant. Mine gets better and better as it matures. Loves afternoon shade in the heat.

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Lime Sublime, Brass Band, Rusty, Daybreaker and Victorian Spice look really promising but are still babies.

Suz

Seconds for:

Gruss an Aachen, Angel Face, and Hot Cocoa (NOT together though!lol)

LOVE the first two. AF blooms nonstop for me and smells awesome! HC is new, so we'll see, but I like it so far. No scent though.

'Special Occasion' is a FLORABUNDA? Pickering sells it as a Hybrid Tea & the American Rose Society, in its 'Encyclopedia of Roses', identifies it as a Hybrid Tea.

I guess I must be the only person on the planet who has ever shovel-pruned 'Iceberg' . . . What a dog! I tried several plants (grafted [Dr Huey & multiflora], as well as own-root), only to conclude that this highly rated rose is the most over-rated rose in history. Hmmm . . . must be my micro-climate.

Can we also mention our HTs that bloom as if they're FBs?

In that case:
Stainless Steel (I have one with about 10 blooms on a spray)
Pascali (should be an FB)
Double Delight (also usually in sprays for me)

Is it me? I'd just like to cut one nice longggg-stemmed single rose sometime...

And Stainless Steel and Double Delight smell SO good!

These are great performers for me:

Charles Aznavor
Europeana
Gruss an Aachen
Guy de Maupassant
Miami Moon
OLOG
Passionate Kisses
Playgirl
Playboy
Showbiz

HA!!! I am so smart! I just figgured out a nice spot I can plant four oses. Two on earther side of my front walkway way out by the street. Full sun.

Now I am reviewing this Florabunda thread to decide which to choose to plant there. I guess there is no hurry to decide as they will not be planted until next spring. Bigest criteria is they can't grow too tall!!!

If you are planting on the sides ot the walkway - make sure they are not "octopus" canes that grab people as they walk. Those are not nice!
My nicest most well behaved floribunda is "trumpeter". Tomato red color, no disease and blooms constantly. Very easy rose.
Another very easy is "valentine". I also have "pink rosette" which is a good bloomer too with really cute pink button flowers.
All are own root from chamblees roses.
I too, am looking for a few more floribundas this year. So I am interested in this thread as well... I am looking for a yellow and a peach, apricot or a coral colored one.
I am looking at apricot nectar. I like a lot of the "boerner" classic floribundas.

Good luck!

No one has mentioned Love Potion. My favorite! A super bloomer with wonderful fragrance that carries! You don't even have to bend down to smell it, the fragance jumps up to meet you.

Everything I read about this rose says that it's lavender but mine has been a dusty rose color since I got it last year. The color stays true even in the heat. The petals look as if they were made of suede. It's so beautiful. Makes a good cutting rose too. Flowers lasting a long time on the bush or in a vase.

No diesease problems at all and even the Japanese Beetles left it alone which I was amazing since this is such a sweet smelling rose.

Good luck with your rose hunt.
Cherrie

Love Potion Floribuna
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Sunsprite and Moonsprite. I've been hankering for Vintage's Moonsprite sport, Apricot Moon, as well :-)

I love Floribundas myself and my favorites are:
Sunspirte, George Burns, Bill Warriner and Daybreaker.

There are so many good ones you would have a hard time getting a really bad one.

Happy shopping!

Can someone tell me where to buy them in Chicao area (or oder online) the "Burgundy" Iceberg rose plant?

I searched the web high and low and found only sites based in UK and AU listing them.

tahgnks

I'll second Stainless Steel, beautitul, fragrant and tough.
Shrugs off disease no problem

And I will mention Rainforest, the blooms are a bit small, but you won't find the color on anything else

DayBreaker is my favorite of all roses as it is floriferous, healthy, vigorous growing bush, and gorgeous foliage.
Also to recommend--Our Lady of Guadalupe, Hot Cocoa, Sunsprite, Apricot Nectar, Bill Warriner.

I cannot believe no one has suggested Easy Going, the sport of Livin Easy. Fragrant, disease resistant and abundant blooms. What more could you want?

Still a great thread on Florabundas. I found it on the last page about to fall off.

Pink: Bill Warriner
Yellow: Sheila's Perfume
Peach: Toss up between Apricot Nectar and Fragrant Apricot
White: Iceberg, of course!

Nearly Wild is a good one:

I also would recommend Honey Perfume. It has very good disease resistance. And while it may bit slow to start own-root the blooms become gorgeous, and it has scent.

I love Sheila's Perfume, but it does get powdery mildew.

A new one from Clements that technically may be a shrub, Tropical Fragrance really does smell like tangerines!!! Semi-double, but a beautiful rich red. Does get some blackspot, but I still like it.

A classic that hasn't been mentioned--Singing in the Rain. Has awesome color changes, coffee, apricot, pink, cream and gold, very floriferous, cute licorice scent. Foliage isn't the cleanest, but still a very healthy plant. (Especially mine, since I got it from Edmund's.) If you don't mind or are interested in the occasional coffee look, this is a good one, IMO.

I actually got Apricot Moon, but I really don't see very much difference between Apricot Moon and Moonsprite. Moonsprite is very nice though especially if you like licorice. STRONGly scented.

Hurray for Love Potion and Disneyland

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Two hardy floribundas not mentioned that I love are Good Morning that one is apricot colored and Nicole a pink blend, but that one can get tall.

I added quite afew florabundas this year-

Black Cherry
Trumpeter
Sunsprite
Heaven on Earth
Tuscan Sun
Outrageous
Playboy
Hot Coccoa

At this time, my favorite are Tuscan Sun, Disneyland, Julia Child, Easy Going, Lvin Easy and Honey Perfume.

I just rescued my Simply Marvelous from a lousy spot and am hoping it does well this year.

I have a white floribunda called Fabulous which lives up to it's name, although it tends to get floppy during flushes.

Melody parfume puts out tons of blooms and the scent is great.

Grus An Achen was my first Floribunda last year. I bought it bare root in early Summer, and even under our rough KS conditions, it has done well--no BS, no bugs except some aphids this spring. I have mine on the north side of my house, where it receives only morning sun. In the same area, I've added Brilliant Pink Iceberg this year, and am really excited about how it will perform. I've also been looking for a spot for Iceberg, as I noticed it performs extremely well in the Loose Park Rose Garden each year.

Right now the four Lavagluts I planted last year are blooming and I just can not believe the amount of flowers on them!

If I knew now what I knew then... Decide what you'll do with them, will you want to make bouquets? Do you want the bouquets to somewhat match or can it be anything goes? A few weeks ago I gave out 5+ bouquets, all with complimentary colors. Will you spray for pests? That alone will make the world of difference. Most light colored roses will get thrips, which damage the blooms.

Some of my faves:
Trumpeter
Brilliant Pink Iceberg (Planted next to iceberg & an orange rose) awesome combo.
Anthony Meilland
Charles Aznavour
Dicky
Gene Boerner
Gruss An Aachen (and Pink)
Victorian Spice
Passionate Kisses
Showbiz
Singin In The Rain
Strawberry Ice - total bloom machine
Sunsprite
Tournament of Roses
Cherry Parfait
Benjamine Britten - this is awesome for color & scent
Morden Fireglow- color
Heritage
Redoute - bloom machine
Wise Portia
Carefree Wonder - bloom machine
Distant Drums
Outta The Blue
Auguste renoir - another bloom machine
Painted Moon - HT but awesome
Lady of the Mist - shrub, love it

Love this thread! I'm seeing lots of comments on "Sunsprite", thank goodness. I got this guy several years ago, he's been towards the back, never did much. This year, I moved him to a spot where he gets more sun and he's exploded! Gorgeous! I was giving him his last chance before he's gone, and I'm thrilled I stuck him out in front! About Iceberg- I SP this one last week. It's really pretty, but I want cut flowers and fragrance, and my friend wanted tons of blooms in her yard, so it seemed fair to give her Iceberg-she's thrilled! Sterling Silver is very disappointing for me, she's going to an orchid-growing friend who wants to nuture more than me. And many of those everyone recommended are supposed to be on their way from Park (it's taking FOREVER, I've called them twice).

i love floribundas too.....am amazed at how many some of you have...envious here......the ones i do have and like are sunflare...heaven on earth...disneyland...showbiz.

Ones I really like this year-
Lavaglut
Black Cherry
Charles Aznavour
Gingersnap
Heaven on Earth
Purple Tiger
Playboy

All except Lavaglut are new to me this year.

I only have one floribunda at the moment, a Sunsprite, so I guess it's my favorite. :^)

I also like Pinnacle, Marmalade Skies, Ebb Tide, Chihuly, and Sheila's Perfume. All have performed well for me.
john

I love Floribundas! Have ordered more for this spring. This is such a great thread on Floribundas mainly I just didn't want it to fall off the board!

Besides DayBreaker and Our Lady Of Guadalupe that I already mentioned, I must now add Pinnacle and Chihuly. Chihuly is truly vibrant and very healthy and vigorous growing for me. My neighbor across the street really likes it as well.
John

I would never recommend Angel Face to a beginner, lovely blooms,total black spot magnet here. Hot Cocoa is one you either love the color or you hate it. I love it. Tuscan Sun is gorgeous. Tons of blooms in ever changing shades of orange and apricot. Sunsprite? Lovely but don't blink, they blow in a flash. A really pretty one from Jackson and Perkins is Sisters at Heart.

If you really want a lot of bloom for your bucks look into some polyantha roses. I have Margo Koster, Zenaitta and Verdun. Masses of blooms on fairly compact plants that do well in pots.

I have a rose garden in a section of my front yard which is way out by the street. All passersby get a great view of all the roses. It is mostly floribundas (but not all), some put in last year and others moved into this garden this spring, plus new ones bought this year. Its not completely finished but is finished for this year.

Roses in this section are
Robusta
Home Run
Rosa Mundi
Sunsprite
Sunflare
Julia Child
Purple Tiger
Outrageous
Tuscan Sun
Eureka
Charisma
Topsey Turvey
Easy Going
Cherry Parfeit (my second one)
Crimson Glory HT
Playboy
and some others that I just can't remember right now

The rose that people comment on the most and point to out of the whole group is Playboy so right now Playboy is my favotite floribunda.

I note Pete likes Apricot Nectar in FL -- Well, I'm in coastal SoCal, in what is a fogbelt much of the time (not today!) and Apricot Nectar is also a wonderful rose here.
We've grown it for 15-18 years, and it's still going strong. No disease problems for us.
Blackspot isn't a problem here, but Angel Face is something of a weak grower here. VERY weak! And so is the lovely Purple Tiger.
Sunsprite is a dependable, disease-free bloom-machine in California. Can't be beat for continuous bloom.
I, too, recommend that you consider some of the Polyanthas. Wonderful, heavy-blooming workhorses.

Jeri

"Nimbus" a slate-mauve rose, with a pale tan-mauve center. Frilly and floriferous ours has bloomed continually from May 3 to June 28th and is still in full flush. a graceful plant too, with more supple canes than most of this class.
Gingersnap for best orange
Margaret Merril for best white.

Luxrosa

Wow, this is a great old thread that is still here. Bumping up.

Just out of curiosity, since you are in the Bay area, have you made a trip to the rose garden in Golden Gate Park? Many moons ago I had the opportunity to visit the place and saw the roses there. Sunsprite looked particularly happy. It would be a good place to visit to see what the roses look like in your area.

Here are two nobody's mentioned. Royal Occasion-orange red
good sprays. And a old one Circus a yellow blend

no one has mentioned the Buck roses. While listed as shrubs, many are really just hardy floribundas.
Praisie Sunrise, Prairie Star, and Honeysweet are excellent floribundas that are winter hardy and provide nice fragrance

I am a big Country Dancer fan. This Buck is clean and always in bloom!!

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I was doing a search for "sunsprite" and came across this thread. I just bought one today a HD (yuk but they had it for 8.88) Glad to see that I will be happy with it!

I was doing a search for good floribundas and Sheila's Perfume and see many names repeated over and over. There's some great info in this old thread! I just may have to try Gingersnap. For me, floribundas do better than HT's or Austins.

Hi!
As a Floridian, my "catalog time" is summer, not winter because Fall, not Spring, is my best time to acquire and acclimate new perennials and roses. And honestly I can't stop thinking about 'Tropical Fragrance"since I read that it has a tangerine fragrance. Tangerine!
Then I found this thread!
It is 5 or 6 years on since these posts. Can you update your experience with it and the others? I'm particularly concerned about disease susceptibility since I don't spray.
Thanks,
Chris