Question
I have three rose bushes.  One was a delicious orange, one peach and the other orange with red tipped petals.  All of them have changed to your basic red. Should I add something to the soil?  Or do they just revert?HELP!!

Answer
Hybrid Roses are almost always 'grafted' to older, stronger, less pretty Roses to help them survive northern winters.  Usually they end up with feet from a Rambler Rose named 'Dr Huey'.  You can see Dr Huey here:

www.ph-rose-gardens.com/00704.htm

When a bitter cold winter comes along, fragile blooming Roses are frequently wiped out.  The tough Dr Huey roots survive, and in spring they bloom.  It's a common occurrence.  When it happens, we say the Rose as 'reverted'.

Sound familiar?

See the photo:

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=1550

Remember, grafting a pretty but fragile Rose raises the odds that a delicate variety will get through a Winter that's too cold otherwise.  But if the Winter is REALLY cold, and the whole top is killed, the bottom may bloom if it survives.  The Roses seem to have completely changed.

Next time you get a beautiful Rose like the one you had, give it the red carpet treatment in the Fall and protect it from the worst winter weather.  That way your biggest problem will be suckers from the rootstock.  Not the complete transformation into a Rose you probably would have not selected to replace the delicious Orange, Peach and regular Orange Roses that you planted so carefully.

Good luck.  Keep me posted.