I attended the Heritage Rose Group event at San Juan Bautista, CA yesterday. Along Hwy 101 a shopping center in Salinas where Costco is located, has many hundreds of the pink and red landscape roses. Which they are, I’m not sure, but they certainly worked well.
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The State of California also uses some landscape types with some heavily tortured Fortuniana for shrubs at the rest stops. I don’t know which yellow it is, but the effect was quite nice. All foliage I observed was flawless, which isn’t bad as these are all areas subject to some pretty heavy fogs.
The yellow roses were quite impressive.
That yellow makes me want to reach out and grab a little pollen. Very floriferous little ground cover.
Yes ma’am, and as Laurie Chaffin always chuckled, “She’s ASKING for it!” LOL!
Gee, they don’t look like Knockouts to me…
(I dunno, Kim… Looking at them, I can’t help but think they could have the Fairy somewhat back there in their lineage. 
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I suppose Yellow Angel is more upright than those… I should think they would be roses that are somewhat familiar, but I don’t recognize them as drifts, or any of the more common landscape roses I know… They don’t look like any of the Kordes cultivars I’m familiar with…
Quite impressive looking specimens. I wouldn’t think they get any coddling there.
Would love to learn of an I.D., if only out of academic curiosity…
I’m not sure what they are, and they DO look “Fairy-esque” don’t they? All are prickly as the dickens and healthy. I missed getting the red ones at Costco and forgot to photograph their amazing penstemon planted in their lot. When we first drove into the rest area, I thought, “how odd, those Banksiaes are flowering as such small plants.” They really looked like Banksiaes, and they are planted everywhere here in town, but those aren’t. Whatever they are, they certainly are nice! You can see the pink ones from the freeway. They look so good, I thought they might have been rhaphiolepis. Well, it WAS foggy on the way up and I hadn’t slept much the night before…
Maybe one of the Flower Carpets?
NOAson?
NOAlesa?
Peter
They look quite a bit like Yellow Ribbons, size, color and flower wise. Used them once on a site and they were successful. Not exactly low water, but very attractive.
I was looking for orange anthers such as we see in the first of Kim’s second post. I don’t see those in Yellow Ribbons, but I did see those in a photo or two of NOAson.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/knitsteel/4578275013/
Check out this photo of Yellow Ribbons, and the one on Heirloom’s site. The stamen’s look pretty golden orange.
It would be nice if someone from Caltrans, or some nearby rose society, would speak up on the subject. It’s Kim’s fault for not getting the license number on those yellows so we could track them down. But we don’t even know where the rest area is.
It’s on Hwy 101 between San Luis Obispo and Salinas, CA. Can’t offer anything closer than that, unfortunately. It was the maximum distance I could hold the second LARGE cup of coffee from home, at 6 AM after four hours of sleep.
Aren’t you glad your bladder made you stop?
I was looking at some Poulsen roses, and I’m wondering if these aren’t cultivars from e.g. the Towne and Country collection.
http://www.poulsenroser.com/assortment/rose-collections/towne-country.aspx
I occasionally see a burst of such offered, but it’s comparably rare. I don’t know why they aren’t more prevalent. I’ve enjoyed a newer Poulsen or two in the last decade.
Is it unlikely they are the Oso Easy Lemon Zest?
A google images search for Oso Easy Lemon Zest brings up some photos that look a LOT like that yellow one.
Wayside gardens pictures pretty much match the close up picture here. After a little reading up on Lemon Zest I had to order it for next week delivery.
From Wayside site:
There are a million roses on the market, but none quite like this! The first thing that sets it apart is the intense, fade-proof yellow color. The second thing is the bloom form, which resembles a buttercup as much as a rose: fluffy yellow stamens peak out from behind the curled central petals. The last thing is the exceptional disease resistance and ease of culture. No wonder this rare garden rose was chosen as a Proven Winner®!
As its name suggests, this low-growing shrub rose is among the easiest of all to grow, thanks to superior resistance to blackspot and powdery mildew, two of the worst scourges the rose family endures! Hardy to -20 degrees F, this plant is long-lived and very vigorous. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just picking up your first trowel, Lemon Zest will grow and bloom profusely for you!
Butterflies flock to its blooms, and the bright hips attract songbirds in winter. Zones 5 to 9.
I have been growing Lemon Zest for two years and have some plants in the greenhouse now and do not think the semidouble yellow rose is Lemon Zest due to the petal number difference and leaflet color and shape.
David, Rob wants to hear you deliver an aside to the affect that Lemon Zest is nonetheless a phenomenal rose that lives up to all the hype that Wayside printed about it. Kim’s shots of the mystery rose do look rather spectacular. (I wonder what the plants will be looking like in August.)
Philip,
The yellow does resemble Poulsen’s Clear Cover.
That was hype?