67--Or is It 68? Roses

 Above 'Ambridge Rose'

Why I get irrationally happy about winter rain: 

 'Yves Piaget':

 Unknown:

'Tropical Lightning':

Below:  'The Prince' :

 'The Poet's Wife':

 'The Endeavour':

'Tamora':

 'Tamora':

'Souvenir de la Malmaison':

 'Snow Goose':

 'Snowbird':

New one:  'Silas Marner'.  At a garden center to buy potting mix, I made the mistake of sticking my nose in one of these flowers and inhaling. 
'Rose Rhapsody':

 'Queen of Elegance':

'Princess Alexandra of Kent':

'Princesse Charlene de Monaco':

'Princesse Charlene de Monaco':

'Pink Gruß an Aachen':

'Munstead Wood':

'Munstead Wood' is in here somewhere.  'Princess Alexandra of Kent' in the foreground: 

'Moondance':

'Molineux':

 'Julia Child':

 'Iceberg, Climbing':

'Iceberg' (Shrub version) on the wall amidst general rosiness.  It will climb, too.  Also visible 'Brass Band', 'Molineux', 'Julia Child', and 'Drop Dead Red':
'Golden Celebration':
'Golden Celebration':
 'Geranium Red':

'Fourth Of July':

'Easy Does It':

'Easy Spirit':

'Earth Angel':
'Drop Dead Red':
'Dee-Lish'

'Darcey Bussell' :

Poor Darcey B. was the #1 favorite of rabbits.  They would slip through the front gate and start chomping.  Darcey finally looks decent since I screened all the gates to keep out the long-eared:
'Charles Rennie Mackintosh':

'Charles Rennie Mackintosh':

'Brass Band':

 'Brass Band': 

'Bolero 2004':

'Bishop's Castle':

'Bishop's Castle'
'Belinda's Dream'.  

'Ambridge Rose'
There are more, but that's about 50 photos.  Maybe I'll do another post.

Comments

  1. Ah, yes, your roses do look so very healthy. I can't get enough of rose photos, so please do share more. :)

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    1. Have plenty more! So happy you enjoyed them. Sorry for delayed answer--internet was down. I was forced to spend a lot of extra time out in the garden as a result.

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  2. When I think about the amount of time you must spend deadheading during summer and pruning in winter, I just cringe in sympathy. But I do admit the flowers are lovely, and worth the risk of carpel tunnel syndrome. I'm in the Central Valley, where the heat fades the colors of the blooms almost as soon as they open. It's a treat to see how much more vibrant the colors are in a cooler area. Sue

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    1. I had several hundred roses pre-drought, so what I've got now is easy-peasy in comparison. I kept the very best of them. Fading is somewhat of an issue here--though not as much as inland. I'd probably grow a whole lot of white roses inland. The roses in December are always the best for color--rich and saturated even compared to May, though we're getting a good bit of May-Gray this year which really helps the color and longevity.

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  3. Early on, I gave up on growing roses. Just not the right conditions. But you have many of the ones I'd be growing if I could. So this is absolutely swoon worthy looking at your roses. I can almost smell them.

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    1. Yes cold is very hard on them--at least so I have read. Glad you liked the pictures! Fragrance is important I think to have in a garden--that extra dimension, along with birds singing and butterflies fluttering through.

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  4. Oh my, what an incredible way to start my morning. Pure heaven. The scent must be incredible. Funny how when you start counting plants you love how many you have in your collection. Thank-you for this gorgeous post. I am awestruck.

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    1. So happy you like the pictures! Thank you! Roses are rather of out of fashion these days--houseplants and edibles all the rage--glad some gardeners still love them. They will be making a comeback soon enough--they always do.

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  5. it's funny, the other day on palmtalk, i mentioned that i sometimes day dream about being able to send all my current gardening info back in time to myself when i was 11. i would have grafted all my mom's roses onto a single rose bush, which would have freed up so much space in the garden for tropical fruit trees such as luc's garcinia, achacha, kwai muk, yangmei, annona deliciosa/reticulata and so many eugenias.

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    1. Week's roses used to do "two-fer"s, two different rose cultivars grafted on to the same rootsysten plant. I read inevitably one rose takes over and the other vanishes. So your Mom might have lost her collection.

      Hopefully nowadays you have the space for all those exotics--and many more besides!

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  6. Exquisite. Beautiful selections and lovely plantings.

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  7. I was just saying over on Kris's blog that I wished that we could send scent over the internet. Now, I doubly want that feature. I was a bit fascinated with the combination of golds, yellow iris, and the pink/gold Ambridge Rose at the top. And then the plethora of flowers in the second shot. The rains have been good to you. Amazing what breeders have been able to do with roses. I only have a few myself, our two native roses, Red Cascade, and Radway. Would love a yellow Lady Banks. I can just hear Mary from the movie The Secret Garden whispering in awe as she looked at the garden she discovered "There'll be roses!". Just curious, has there ever been a rose that you didn't buy because of the name?

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    1. Yes the rain!

      There are rose names that evoke eye rolls. 'Weight Watchers Success' a memorable example--too commercial. (After the licensing agreement was complete, the name became 'Success'.) Not fond of 'Petal Pushers', that name is just kinda silly. It's really about the rose, not the name. "By any other name", right?

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    2. There was one rose that I thought was really pretty, was thinking about buying it, and then saw it was named after someone that I thought was particularly awful. I just walked away. I don't even remember who it was. I am tempted at times to change some of the sillier names. No one would know but me.

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    3. Perhaps sometimes it's okay to "forget" the name--deliberately!

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  8. Oh, Goodness! This is quite a collection, though upon reading a comment above, I understand that pre drought you had so many more... jaw dropped.
    I don't grow roses but always stop to smell them whenever I see blooms in other people's gardens.
    'Brass Band', 'Easy Does It', 'Princesse Charlene de Monaco' and 'Ambridge Rose', are my favorites. The last two say "Bridal" with every blessed petal.
    Chavli

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    1. Those last two roses you named have particularly wonderful fragrances.

      Trying a whole lot of different species/cultivars from a genus, then narrowing down and keeping multiples of the best of the very best is what I seem to be doing--have done that with Roses, Agaves, Aloes, and may also with Alstroemerias and Hellebores eventually. Works for me.

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  9. I have my three. Tempted to add one or two more.

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