I planted 3 different color rose bushes and they all came up pink, why?

Question

MY NEW GARDEN IS ALL THE SAME COLOR I PLANTED A YELLOW ROSE A RED ROSE AND AN ORANGE ROSE NO WTHEY ARE ALL PINK

Answer 1

Something in the soil determines flower colors.

Answer 2

Two thoughts.......but first I'm not sure exactly where this changling happened. If it is coming from low down, like from the ground, then what you are seeing is the root stock. Most modern roses are grafted onto a more vigorous root stock. The grower (you) must be mindful of any new growth that comes from below this graft as it is the root variety which is almost always more vigorous than the top selected variety and will eventually overrun the top. One of the most used root stock is Dr. Huey with is a red climber. Remedy is to dig down and remove the sucker back where it originated below. The second thought is you have a sport.......that is a mutation. This occurs within the plant. Not surprisingly, this is how many new roses came into being. The sport or mutation was vegetatively propagated to make sure it remained steady and didn't revert back to the original plant. If steady and deemed worthy for production, a new rose was born. However, sometimes insect feeding can cause some weird miscoloring either directly or by passing on a virus into the plant. Mostly I'm thinking you are getting suckers up through your plant. Time to get down to ground level and dig around and see who is from the roots and who is from the graft.

Answer 3

Roses do not cross pollinate in a garden setting and it is impossible for the roots to combine into the same color. Genetics simply do not work that way. It is most likely that the graft has been damaged and the plant has reverted to a wild variety. If you live in a cold climate, be sure to mulch around the plants for the winter months. Be more careful with spring pruning.

Answer 4

Unless the place where you bought the roses screwed up, it could be : if they are hybrid roses, and you trimmed them too hard, you may have cut back to the "original" rose. When hybrids are developed, another color is grafted to an original rose, and when combined, a different color. If you trim, you are cutting off the graft. But, most likely, there was a mistake at purchase because I never heard of a yellow rose coming from a pink one..............check back to where you bought them.

Answer 5

maybe the tags they had on when you bought them were wrong. Or the tags showed one color and you thought that was supposed to be the color but it was only to show the rose and the real color was on the label (pink). That is the only solution I find to it. Sorry !!!

Answer 6

Most likely what happen was the roots joined together and caused a dominate color to come to lite.

Answer 7

cross pollination will cause the flowers to change color.

Answer 8

i dobnt know y that happemned

Answer 9

they were tagged wrong.