Rosy Shade

Marmalade Skies® 'Meimonblan'

Marmalade Skies, an everblooming floribunda and a 2001 All-America Rose Selections award winner, is a tangerine blooming machine. Blooming won't be quite so abundant in partial shade, but shouldn't disappoint. This compact, everblooming plant is ideal for low borders, or as a specimen in any landscape. Blooms early summer through fall Zones 5 - 9

Mary Rose® ‘Ausmary’

Dark pink buds open to full, paler pink rosettes with a soft honey fragrance. Mary Rose is a David Austin English Rose and is a great repeat-flowering, shade tolerant, disease resistant specimen. Makes a nice, bushy shrub , growing up to four feet. Zones 6 - 10

Passionate Kisses™ ‘Meizebel’

Passionate Kisses is a relatively new rose that first attracted attention because of its name. As if a rose needed to advertise being romantic. A continual blooming floribunda, Passionate Kisses has salmon colored blossoms that light up in partial shade. Staying compact at about 3 1/2 to 4 feet, its a good candidate for borders and containers. Zones 5-9

Playboy

Some rosarians say this is the best shade tolerant rose there is this side of Knock Out. Glossy green foliage offsets the large, orange-scarlet semi-double blooms. Playboy's flowers pass through shades of yellow and orange on their way to the deep red of the fading blooms. A 1989 GOld Medal winner, Playboy has very good disease resistance. Its heavy blooming and medium, rounded habit make it a great rose in the border or landscape or planted as a hedge. Zones 4-9

Seafoam

Seafoam, being one of the mounding groundcover type roses or a Floribunda landscape rose, can also be trained as a climber. The persistent mass of white blooms gave rise to its name. It is extremely cold hardy and adaptable. Works great a an edger or in mass plantings. Zones 4 - 9

The Knock-Out™ Rose 'Radrazz'

By far the most shade tolerant of roses is this 2000 All-America Rose Selection winner and 2004 American Rose “Member’s Choice” winner. The Knock-Out™ Rose 'Radrazz' is incredibly disease resistant and easy growing. It is also drought tolerant; surviving and even thriving in the most devastating of dry summers. Humidity... bring it on. It is highly resistant to black spot. The cycle of bloom and growth is never ending and provides a show of brightly colored cherry-red blooms from early spring until well into the hard frosts of winter. Zones 4 - 9

CLIMBERS

Eden Climber™ 'Meiviolin' (aka 'Pierre de Ronsard')

Eden Climber is a large, old-fashioned looking rose with large, double blooms in pastel shades of pink, cream and yellow. Eden Climber has a pleasant scent and looks and smells wonderful along a fence. It is one of the most floriferous climbers, with equally attractive deep green foliage. Zones 5 - 9

Golden Showers®

Considered a modern climber, Golden Showers was named an AARS winner in 1956. Its name comes from the bright yellow blossoms that seem to flower continuously. With a honey-like fragrance, the blossoms make excellent cut flowers. Grow 6 to 8 feet tall and looks equally nice against walls or structures. Zones 5 - 9

New Dawn

Beautiful, disease resistant and fragrant, New Dawn is a near perfect rose. New Dawn was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Society Hall of Fame in 1997. The double pink, fragrant flowers fade to soft pink and stay attractive for a long season. Expect New Dawn to bloom in the spring and again in late summer. Zones 5 - 9

Zepherine Drouhin (aka Zephirine Drouhin)

Zepherine Drouhin is known as the thornless climber, making it not just beautiful but easy to work with. Canes grow 8 - 10 feet long and can be easily trained and trellised. Deep cerise pink bloom and an old fashioned rose fragrance have kept this Bourbon climber growing in gardens for decades. Although it accommodates shade, it is prone to fungal problems in high humidity. Zones 6 - 9