Wow, the dark stems and foliage are the perfect backdrop for those luminous pink blooms. Thanks for sharing her!

Eric

Luanne, gorgeous pictures as always! Your garden is looking great.

Hi Luanne,
that is a most remarkable rose - I was so impressed by it that I looked it up to see if it was appropriate for my climate.

All the photos in your post are of 'Re've d'or', right?

Well... none of the pictures that I saw on the web under "Re've d'or" look like your rose. The pictures that I've seen, including on the Vintage Rose website, are apricot to very yellow, and no dark stems.

Do you think that the rose could have been sold to you mis-tagged or do you think that your climate could be affecting the color? It's possible that I am misconstruing/misinterpreting the other photos of it, but I don't think so - the dark stems were definitely missing.

Could you tell me where you purchased your rose?
I'm very interested in acquiring that lovely flower, but I think that there's at least a possibility that it's not 'Re've D'or'.

Of course, I'm as "rose newbie", so maybe I'm way off base.

thanks,
Avalon

luanne, I really like the first rose, of which you are so fond of. It is indeed a very elegant rose. Unfortunately, I am not so familiar with ORGs, yet, so I don't know what variety it is. Would you share the secret of her name, please?

Thanks for posting the wonderful photos!

Oh, Luanne, I had to go look at mine. I walked all the way back down there because your picture was so lovely just to see mine and it indeed looks very much like yours. Perhaps yours has a little more red but mine is sort of slowing putting on the new growth secondary to the fact that it has been a bit cooler here, but I must say the colors in my garden are much more intense this year than I ever recall. Is it because we have had so much rain this year, or because we had a very cold winter, the combination thereof, or is it because my vision is growing dimmer and I appreciate the new growth more. Madame Isaiac Periere is blooming and alas, no fragrance, in this weather. It was below freezing at earliest morning but now we are up into the 40s but still not enough warm for the roses to smell good and stinky. Katie Road Pink is amazingly beautiful. Brrr, and my some of the early blooming clematis are in full bloom. Bridal wreath have reached the point where they are beginning to look like spent baby's breath and the azaleas look like dirty Kleenex from all the rain but Reve d'Or is bery pretty and so are the many roses that are beginning to bloom, but it's just too cold this morning to enjoy their beauty. The Chinese fringe plants are so mahogany colored today, and the yoshino cherries and dogwoods have peaked, but the crabapples and Kwanzan cherries are starting to show signs of bloom. Flowering quince has leafed out very well. Wyegelia have blooomed and now have fresh new growth. Forsythia are beautiful with their tender young leaves which a month ago was bloom. Everything is beautiful!

I attended a church meeting this morning early and surprisingly, most there had slipped back into their winter attire. I braved it with a spring dress (and a wool coa). :-)

No, I think she meant that Reve d'Or, which is shown in the final photo,
is not as lovely to her as the rose seen in bud form in the other pix.

So the rosebud in the first 6 images is "NOT-Reve-d'Or"

Jeri

I think the rose in the first pictures is Devoniensis.

Yes, I think it is Devoniensis. I had to go look to see if my Reve d'Or is blooming, which it is and I can see Devoniensis from my desk. In fact, my neighbor can see it from her desk. It has become the rose that visits friends and neighbors and it is as lovely as can be. I do think Reve d'Or is beautiful but the fragrance and form of Devoniensis is better (well, maybe). I know the fragrance is much better, but none today, too cold. Still, the blooms rise high, (mine is the climber) as high as an elephant's eye and it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky. Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day and I have a beautiful feeling...

You are right of course. I meant to tell you that the first rose is called Devoniensis, the Devon Rose. It grows splendidly in warm climates and is just very beautiful from the bronze sepaled young buds to the large blowsey full blooms. I got her from Ashdown's when they were still budding their roses. She was supposed to be a bush but is the climber and I have never been sorry.
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You can only imagine an entire bush covered with these things or Vintage's retail store festooned with swags of the climber. Unbelievable. I am growing her as a large bush but she is more gawky and awkward than MAC which I grow in the same fashion. This one rates a pergola or arbor but that does not mean I'm giving her up anytime soon.
la

Thanks for giving the response to the name secret and posting more photos of this beauty. I would like to find out more about this rose and will do some research later. She is truly special!

Oh, Organic, you definitely need Devoniensis. It's a wonderful rose by any standard.

Hi Again Luanne,
Oh, please excuse my misreading of your post. I'm glad that it's not a misnamed mystery rose. 'Devoniensis' is already on my rose wish list, even though I had never seen such good pictures of it before. I didn't realize that the foliage and stems were so lovely.

If it wants to climb, I'll just have to give it a trellis!
thanks again,
Avalon

If this inspires even one more planting of this rose then humanity is enriched. There are more subtlties to her beauty. The substance of the petals, rather like the hand of fabric is like a thick creamy silk twill almost. The fragrance is so fresh and clean almost cucumbery would you say, Patricia or Jerry who are familiar with this rose? Organic and Avalon you are in perfect situations to grow this beauty who doesn't like cold climates.
She is of the tea rose persuasion, bred by Foster, UK 1838, also called TheMagnolia Rose. It is said that it can cover a cottage on its own so perhaps a trellis is to be rethunk a bit.I see in my book of tea roses that the fragrance is "strong, sweet, floral, fruity and peppery" so don't trust my nose,it is odd.
la

I HAVE IT! I HAVE IT! It's one of the three that I got early last Spring - my very first OGRs. Those three had a hard year, because of my ignorance, and also because of a prolonged move that I made in the Summer. They are all coming out nicely this Spring, and Devoniensis has a bud, which I'm watching with bated breath! Luanne, all those photos make me happier than ever that I got this rose - I got the bush, not the climber, because of my lack of space, but I know I'm going to love it!!!
Thanks for the pix,
Laura

Hi Luanne,
Since 'Mermaid' is already covering one side of our house, the Devon rose can have another side, if a trellis isn't enough. Room will be made for it.
Avalon

Luanne, I agree with your prosaic description of this beauty. It really is quite elegant, a silk shantung, of maybe ivory with bridal pink undertones. Fragrance is the best. Even my husband who has not smelled anything since before the First World War claims Devoniensis, Lemon Spice and MIP are the only fragrant roses in the garden.

You are discussing the shrub Devoniensis? People have complained in the past about it. It does take time to build. People in colder climes have a much harder time with it I think. I hate to think of them getting too excited and then dissappointed. Gregg once showed me one he had been growing for 18 years. It was still pretty small even there. Mine has done really well here. I love it. The climber is a monster.

LA, when I read the subject line, I expected to see your lovely Irene C.
But your Devoniensis IS very beautiful.

Randy

LA, will you be posting more lyrical prose tomorrow with pictures of Wednesday's favorite? Or is this really the prettiest rose in the world?

My baby devoniensis wants to know if your love is fickle or if she can count on it ... mirror, mirror on the wall? she hasn't bloomed yet for me so I can't answer her ?'s. I'm starting to think she is quite vain.

Pam the big old house eating climber is the one we're talking about.
Randy I love Irene and as Gean says she could be the Wednesday favorite on account of I love her honey scent so much but from bloom to bloom, Devi is the more elegant rose to my eye but only by a smidge. Perhaps it is her elegant coloring and the petal substance. There's no one quite like her.
Gean, vanity is not particular to our species. All the roses are like that.
la

LA, twisted my arm a few years back and forced me to order Devoniensis. Well the first year nothing. The second year nada, oh some PM. The third maybe something. Then a few years back Paula, Luanne and Andrea came over to help me prune. Paula decided my roses had Downey Mildew and she leveled this rose to the ground. The next spring the rose started to grow back and by the fall was starting to produce beautiful blooms. Then last year oh my gosh, it bloomed. Sometime with a yellow blush, sometimes with a pink blush. This year it is full of buds and one lovely bloom is just ending. So when Pamela says it takes time, it takes time, but oh so worth the wait.
Lovely shots LA.

Carol

I think for no other reason but that Jaune Desprez has a better location it can compete with Lady Devoniensis at my house. Jaune's fragrance is also just so wonderful that it drifts into my neighbor's nostrils and she is compelled to stop her dainty pruning, which I have thought for sometime is all for show and tell, and that she is actually enabling herself to catch a whiff of Jaune. You know, just to make it worth her while that she might get some bug on her, or pieces of grass that she might track in onto her beautiful slate floors in her indoor/outdoor room, or that she might accidentally have a flea that she could accidentally carry into the yorkie. I know what it is, it's about smelling roses. She has no problem smelling Devoniensis as Lady D is growing all up into her trees, but she must find a position in which to smell Jaune and that would be weeding that bed of perfectly groomed annuals that her gardener keeps so neatly trimmed.

A word of warning: the rose sold as 'Climbing Devoniensis' must have a warm climate to prosper. I made two attempts to grow it in my Zone 8a garden and it died both times. Although we are listed as an 8 here, we do experience an occasional Winter night of 12 to 15F and those cold snaps were sufficient to put a stake in the heart of 'Devoniensis'. I wish I could grow it, but I won't make a third attempt. :-(

Paul

Ah Patricia, you have woken rose lust in the heart of your neighbor. The string of old ladies sauntering past my door increases exponentially for the next few months...funney that's not the way they usually go home...Bluesibe it touches my heart whenever you have the good sense to follow my advice and it actually works out well. I'm just glad you had the patience to wait so long.
As Paul says, a warm climate is de rigeur for this rose and as I said Organic and Avalon are well situated to grow this baby. The world could use more Devoniensis and rather less of some other things.
la

I have had 3 Devoniensis bushes for maybe 3-4 years now. They grow slowly and they mildew, but this year they're beginning to take off. I'd say with this plant, just put them in, and forget about it except to coddle with good compost and manure for a few years. I can tell they're going to be fantastic - it just takes a while.

I am not in the type of climate Paul describes, the lowest temperature I can recall in 23 years here was down to 30 degrees one night, maybe. We never get close to 15 degrees.

It must be the small bush which takes so long because my climber leapt from the ground--Ashdown sent me a large budded plant which took off like a house afire and has never looked back except when a hired yard worker got scratched and hacked off several canes--he has not been asked back but it has not really recovered in that area.
la