An Orange Rose

The corner of the lower flagstone patio needs something. Especially something to break up the solid expanse of green vine from inside the living room.  

There's a yellow Swallowtail columbine in the corner and it's nice and full now. And a transplanted Japanese forest grass is bright and will be fountainy -- some day? 

To the right is the structural Blonde Ambition grass that looks great later in the season and all winter. And the turquoise birdbath at the end of the line.

But from inside all I can see is the flat wall of green vine covered fence.  And for seven months of the year it's a brown expanse.

The corner is a void, especially the forward spot where I took out a flagstone (and tried 3 times to get an ironwood tree to take). I could put the tall brown urn there, it isn't being used anywhere now.

But I need something colorful with form and presence, interest and vertical height, not a little tidy lonely perennial (that's a dwarf goldenrod Golden Baby there right now).

What I really want is an orange rose! I have no idea what variety this is (at Newman's in front of the parking lot) but wow.

A shrub rose, nothing big and tall, and something that flowers all summer. Nothing dinky. I like the color mix. With the lemon yellow columbine and the light yellow peony not far away, and the yellow foliage of the fountain grass, a darker color or varied colors are needed. Orange!

After days of searching so many roses in so many colors I finally ordered a 'Playboy' rose online from Sooner Plant Farm. 

It's a floribunda shrub rose, to about 3 or 4 feet tall and wide, so not a little dwarf . A presence, but not too tall. 

Multicolored red tinted, yellow and orange flowers. Some crystal pink at times, which will mirror the blushing pink on the patio, but will be mixed in with brighter and darker colors too. 

It will be seen.

There are no pictures of what the shrub looks like, only close ups of the flowers, which is the case for all the many roses I researched. No one photographs the plant, just the flower. 

I looked and looked at orange roses of all kinds and forms and color mixes, including one called Vavoom (really, better than Playboy?) that was described as traffic cone orange, but the right size and form.

I do want an eye catching flowery show, but I also want a plant that fills that space and looks good. This will be an experiment.

(I'll move the little goldenrod somewhere).