This yellow rose, ‘Gold Medal‘, was introduced to me by landscape designer Roger Warner and it’s been such a hearty and warm addition to our English border garden. ‘Gold Medal’ is a grandiflora rose. Grandiflora roses blend the best of hybrid teas and floribunda roses. They produce the same elegantly shaped blooms as hybrid teas, but in long-stemmed clusters that continually repeat, like floribundas.
These full double flowers showcase glowing, golden yellow petals in the spring, but fade to a softer yellow in the intense summer heat in the Napa Valley. I love that these flowers keep flowering all spring, summer and fall-long. They stand up well in flower arrangements as well.
