Masha, you have outdone yourself this time. Masha, please create a coffee table book with all your photos of roses. I'll buy 12 of them! The pic of Ebb Tide and Sharifa broke my heart because of it's beauty. Between you and Ingrid with your incredible photos and gardens, well, I don't know why I even post photos, you both put mine to shame, but in a good way.

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Juliet

What can I say! I wish I could take a stroll through your garden myself! You have done a fantastic job! I love your close ups, bush shots, and long shots, thank you so much. I wish I could grow Austins here but I think it is waaay too humid. Do you ever spray your DA's? ~Meghan

It's just that wonderful wonderful time of year!

What a great collection I love the shot of Colette.

Masha, as my kids would say, "YOU ROCK!!!"

I cant seem to choose a favorite as I like all your roses. Superb photography, superb lighting, superb roses, superb companion plantsÂjust simply Superbalous! Is that even a word?

I aspire to have a garden like yoursÂ.somedayÂ.somedayÂ

Audrey

Masha your front garden must be a real jaw dropper for passersby. Everything is just absolutely perfect. I can't pick a favorite but Lady Hillingdon is mighty pretty. The pics of Penelope and Golden Celebration are awesome.

I love your yard--the color juxtapositions are wonderful and I'm studying the way you incorporate your companions.

Bravo,

Colleen

Masha, your garden is so wonderful. I feel this year you outdid yourself. I don't even know where to start to comment on your photos!

Maybe I should begin with my absolute favorite which is the first photo of Mme. Berard on the arbor. This rose looks so unbelievable beautiful in my eyes. The combination with the Sweet Pea bush sets of the colors of the rose perfectly!

The color combination of Sharifa Asma and Ebb Tide is also very well done.

Cecil Bruenner: just love it!

Gruss an Aachen is a very pretty rose and I really like the photo where he is growing into a Hebe.

Seeing you Jude the Obscure I really regret that I didn't order him from Heirloom Roses when they had the Austin Roses sale. Love the flower form and the color.

Again, I feel Janet stands out in terms of her beauty (and flower size!), but after you repeatedly are complaining that the rose is not able to support the flowers by herself I think I finally found one rose that I don't need to have ;-)!

Thanks for posting all these lovely photos!

Christina

Masha, this is one of the most wonderful groups of roses from a private garden I've seen in a long time. Your photography is superb. Lady Hillingdon, Bishop's Castle, William Shakespeare and Janet are some of my favorites. Strangely enough, my plant of Janet had fairly upright flowers and the spring blooms were phenomenal, very large and beautifully formed. Perhaps I'll have it again some day.

Ingrid

oh my goodness-----what a gorgeous collection of roses.

You said you have a small yard you sure make the best use of the space

How many roses do you have?

Thanks for sharing all this beauty.

Florence

I love the look of cranesbill with roses, beautiful pics of some wonderful roses. Thanks for sharing.

I'm baaack...

Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing your garden and roses. The df viburnum is beautiful.

Thank you very much! What wonderful people you all are.

Juliet, thanks for your suggestion, perhaps I will one day...

Meghan, if you are ever in California, you are very welcome to visit. I don't spray any of my roses (too lazy), that's why my Variegata di Bologna is so sick.

Mendocino rose, you must be looking at miles and miles of roses now! I hope you will post some pictures soon.

Thank you, labrea, and I hope your Pat has become more her usual self.

Thank you, Audrey for your Superbalous comment:-).

Oldblush, I am glad you liked my pictures. I can only hope to be as good a photographer as you are.

Thank you Colleen. I only became interested in companions after I couldn't fit any more roses in:-).

Christina, thank you, and I am sure Heirloom will have a sale again:-). My Jude took awhile to establish, and is not a fast rebloomer, but the fragrance is really and truly unbeliavable. It grows at a front corner of my yard at an intersection of sidewalks and I do see people smelling it from time to time.

Ingrid, your report of Janet gives me hope. Perhaps I should hard prune her in winter, did you hard prune yours? How big did yours get and why did you get rid of it?

Florence, counting all the doubles and triples of the same variety I have over 100, both modern and antique. I choose mainly for fragrance.

Thank you, Renee and harborrose.

Masha

I like how I can see your full bush's along with the blooms. How tall is your Pat Austin? It appears as if your Pat Austin stays shorter and much wider than any other Pat Austins I've seen before. Pat reminds me of a fireworks show the way the blooms come and go, then pop open in flurries all over the place. I understand the goofy WS2000 growth habit. I just cut about a 1/3 of my WS2000 out because there was a whole bunch of growth accommodating some lateral growth. It throws out canes on the lower more mature canes, but they are not strong enough and just grow straight out and up...not that it matters...the blooms and fragrance are more than worth it. Your Sharifa Asma sport looks very close to Evelyn in terms of color range and somewhat rosette, although not as cupped and quartered. An interesting sport. Francis Dubreuil looks intoxicating deep and rich in color...one I need to have.

Masha how do you post photos from your picasa album. I tried doing it with mine, but I couldn't find the HTML code to share on gardenweb.

Jeff, my Pat is just a little wider than tall, she is about 5'x5' now after pruning and will grow much taller by the end of the season. It is probably how I prune it that gives it its shape. My WS2000 is prone to cane breaking. I will have to prune mine severely as it is getting into the neighbors' shrubs - perhaps it will help with cane breaking. I don't think my Sharifa sported - it is just an unusual looking bloom.
In Picasa, designate your album as public or unlisted (not signin required). Then double click on the photo you want to upload. When the photo is displayed find "Link to this photo" to the right of it. Click on that, and in the little menu that will appear, select the size, then copy the code under "embed image". Paste that code into the GW message.

Masha

Masha, your description of Jude the Obscure didn't really help to reduce my regrets not to have ordered Jude the Obscure, especially the fragrance part ;-)!

Christina

Thank you much for posting all of these eye-candy pictures. That took a lot of work to do this.

I love the dreamy picture too and Sharifa and Ebb Tide and Francis Dubreuil and pretty much all of them. :)

Thank you, Christina, the bustopher and huttnem.

Masha

Masha, what a delightful treat to see your roses and garden. It's very beautiful!

Carla

YAY! more photos of your garden!

in the first photo ( http://lh4.ggpht.com/msYSyD4IXgA/S97-IX90i5I/AAAAAAAAAR0/d1qOVsupaW0/s800/send085.JPG )
How close together are they planted?

I love your cranesbill... I wanted to get some but I was worried about it requiring too much water or not being heat tolerant enough. What do you think?

Rosette Delizy is so interesting! How big is it for you?

Love Mme Berard. I got one thanks to your photos. :)
Can you take a farther back photo sometime of your arbor? It looks so pretty!

That photo of Heritage is so gorgeous.
that huge Cecille Brunner fills me with joy as does Gruss an Aachen and CPM.
I definitely need more thyme in my yard. :) The ones I have are doing so well... I need more!

Thank you, Carol.

Thank you, aimeekitty. In the first picture, I guess they are about 4 feet apart. Cranesbill does great for me here, I grow several different varieties and they bloom well and nothing died. My Rosette Delizy is a baby but the one at the Heritage is maybe 5x5. I can't take a picture of Mme Berard and the arbor because if I step away from it the contrast between the dark arbor and light Mme Berard becomes too much for the camera to handle and Mme Berard blooms become overexposed blobs:-(.

Masha

Thanks so much, Masha! I guess my backyard will look like yours one day if I play it right...! mine are about that far apart, approx... they look so cozy (yours!)

Does your camera have a more manual function? You might be able to change the light setting. I find I have to do that with whiter roses sometimes.

Masha, I did prune Janet, which I got from David Austin, and cut rather far back when I deadheaded. I very much regret having gotten rid of my two Janets who fried where they were planted. I should have moved the roses to a better location rathrer than discarding them.. I would know better now and not be so hasty. To me Janet is a different and beautiful Austin.

Ingrid

Thank you aimeekitty. My camera has lots of functions:-), but whichever way you go, you either see the arbor or the rose...

Thank you Ingrid. I cut Janet back hard when I prune too because of those thin laterals, but they keep growing as thin as ever. It is giving me two basals now and they seem thicker than the other canes so maybe there is hope for it...

Masha

Masha---I juat had to come back this morning for another peek at your collection of roses. It sure is a treat for the eyes and heart.
Your garden is amazing----and your photography is wonderful.

Thanks for the second visit--
Florence

Lordy, Masha! Words can't come right now--except what seems to be an understatement: how beautiful your garden is! I can only hope someday that mine will look half so good. I especially want to say THANKS FOR POSTING all the pics that you do.

P.S. Although it too bloomed generously, my Variegata di Bologna is almost solid black on one part of it due to BS. It is the worst in my yard in a very BS year. I was hoping that the heat would do the trick for the BS but so far the heat hasn't happened yet. I'm going to have to spray it and some others. Thanks for mentioning it as it makes me feel not so alone. :)
Annabeth

Masha, I just saw the heading of your post saying "long" and my heart started beating excitedly. I quickly grabbed a warm cup of coffee (its freezing cold and foggy here in Melbourne)and decided to settle down to enjoy the show. It was as breathtaking as ever. I absolutely love the combination of Sharifa and Ebb and am planning to do it myself. Your WS2K is so beautiful, I wish mine would grow like that. Do you prune it hard every winter? I have pruned mine the last two years, but I wonder if I should leave it as it is this year? Its hardly grown more than a foot and a half. Your Cecile Brunner is magnificent and I love Roseraie de L'Hay is beautiful and I was especially excited to see Christopher Marlowe since I have ordered it too this year. I am not fond of cream roses, but loved Gruss! All the others look wonderful too. You have a lovely garden and thanks for posting the pictures.
Sanju

Harumph.
Californians.
All those wonderful blooms. No bs.