Super Sun

The yellow that holds its sun. Super Sun runs a saturated golden yellow — De Ruiter breeding tuned to lock the carotenoid pigment that most yellow roses lose within a week of cutting. The 39-petal head opens to a clean medium spiral with the warm gold that florists describe as "true yellow" rather than the cream-leaning or green-tipped registers of cheaper yellow varieties. The color reads as sunshine from across a room and stays that way.

The grow story

Grown at 3,200 meters in our own production in Cayambe, Ecuador, in the high Andes. Yellow carotenoids are the most fade-prone pigments in the rose trade — warmth speeds the breakdown, sunlight without cold balance washes the saturation. The cold Andean nights slow the pigment-loss reaction to a crawl while the strong equatorial light keeps loading more gold into every layer. The result is a yellow that arrives bright and finishes bright. Cut, hydrated, graded, and cold-packed within 48 hours of harvest.

At a glance

Best for

Get-well and congratulations retail programs, summer event work, friendship and graduation arrangements, sunflower-led farm-table recipes, and any palette that needs a real yellow rather than a pale stand-in. Yellow leads warmth in mixed bouquets — one Super Sun head can carry the recipe's emotional tone. Anchor the bright register from our wholesale rose range.

Pairs beautifully with

• Candlelight (soft yellow) for the tonal yellow gradient
• Brighton (lemon yellow) for the cooler yellow step
• Momentum (golden yellow) for matched-tone massing
• Mandarin Xpression (intense orange) to push toward harvest
• Solidago for golden filler that extends the saturation

Care notes

Re-cut at 45° under running water; first hydration in 95–100°F water with preservative, then hold at 34–38°F. Strip foliage below the water line and keep buckets scrupulously clean — yellow roses show bacterial stem-browning before any other color in the catalog. Moderately ethylene-sensitive. Yellow tones read warmer under tungsten and slightly cooler under LED, but the saturation holds clear in both.

What working pros say

"Super Sun is the yellow that doesn't fade on me. I quote it confidently for week-long installs that other yellows would never survive."

— Event floral designer, Indianapolis (13 yrs experience)

"Friendship and graduation bouquets need real yellow — pale yellow reads as cream and clients notice. Super Sun is the saturation I sell."

— Retail florist, St. Paul (11 yrs experience)