You needn't have worried about the colors. They all look wonderful. I love and appreciate my once bloomers. Yours are grand.

Great pictures. I am so envious of you guys who have these amazing roses. My roses don't hold a candle.

Beautiful!!

BTW, your Maiden's Blush looks like my fortuniana. How large is your plant?

Thank you! I love this time of year for the roses. My few modern repeat bloomers are pathetic! Probably the gardener's fault :)

Eahamel, I don't think the Maiden's Blush is fortuniana. This is in my Pennsylvania garden. I believe it was a grafted J&P rose, but they usually graft on Dr. Huey or something else for northern gardens. Here is a photo with some of the blush color showing.
Marcia

Truly lovely, each and every one.

Rosefolly

You have certainly have some beautiful roses, Marcia. It's such a wonderful thing to have plants in your garden that have been passed along the generations. How very fortunate you are!

Marcia

What magnificent once-bloomers! Your photos really do those beauties justice...or is it the other way around? Those beauties really suit your photographic talent.

Your Maiden sure looks like it has alba foliage. Is your Maiden thorny?

I'll post a couple of photos of my Tuscany Superb since you are awaiting the unfolding of yours. While other gallicas bloom, she holds her captive audience in a state of anticipation.

Carol

Tuscany Superb plays peek-a-boo.

Absolutely lovely! I don't have any once bloomers, must try some.

There's something so special about these roses that no modern rose can equal. Even the foliage is different, and to my modern eyes these have a charm and exquisite beauty all their own. Your photography definitely does them justice. It would be very nice to also see whole-bush shots and views of your garden, which must be wonderful with these beauties in it.

Ingrid

Marcia, I totally understand your excitement over your once bloomers. They are wonderful roses! Do you have a favorite?

If you have more pictures of different kinds, I hope you'll post them. It would be great to see everyone's once bloomers, just like so many people posted pictures of their polyanthas!

I don't have Tuscany Superb, but do have Tuscany, which I love. Your TS pictures are beautiful, both of you. My favorite may be Belle de Crecy, but it's sure a toss up.

Thanks, Gean

The pictures are beautiful -- thank you for sharing.

Your Maiden's Blush looks more like the Alba Maxima I remember in Buffalo. The buds often had a hint of pink, but finished white when fully open. The Great Maiden's Blush I planted started a deeper pink (about the color that Konigen von Danemark finished), and then faded to blush pink (slightly pinker than Alba Maxima sometimes started), but didn't really finish pure white. The thorns also remind me more of Alba Maxima. And I also remember Great Maiden's Blush being more fully-double, while Alba Maxima was more open in the center, like your pics.

Regardless, the Albas are beautiful. I like to think of them as the lilacs of the rose world.

:-)

~Christopher

YES!!

I adore the once-bloomers too. Your 'Ispahan' looks different from mine. Mine has more modern-looking flowers and possibly is a more even pink. I have plants from two different sources and they're identical. I like yours better.
Does anybody have pictures of 'Tuscany' they can post? I have what are supposed to be 'Tuscany', 'Tuscany Superb', and 'Haddington', and they all look like the same variety. I'd like to see someone else's plant.

Anyway, the roses and your pics are great.

I love Damasks and Albas.... great pics of beautiful roses.

Love your photos! I grow a lot of once-bloomers too and they are trouble-free for the most part and so beautiful and fragrant! I also think your Maiden's Blush is probably Alba Maxima. My Great Maiden's Blush is light pink but does not finish white.

Beautiful roses!

I've always drooled over La Belle Sultane and Tuscany Superb--unfortunately, no room in the garden for them. : (

Thanks for sharing them.

Kate

Thank you, Marcia, for enriching the Antique Roses Forum with the best shots of OGR. Your roses are amazing, I would love to smell them. Apothecary rose is what I want for a long time ... all your roses are awesome.

I'm into dark pinks, purples, and yellows.... I have too many light pinks, red, and whites!

I love the unique crested moss and that Tuscany Superb is stunning! I have the Apothecary's Rose. It was with our house when we moved here 20+ years ago. I have moved it a few times and it just takes off every spring no matter what I do to it.

I love the once bloomers, most of my roses are once bloomers and I would never be without them!

Thank you again for the nice comments.

I'd like to say that these roses have had little care from me. I was very big into antique roses several years ago. But then rose rosette disease found its way into the garden and I decided I wouldn't add any new ones.

These roses have survived with no virus symptoms, although I haven't looked at the big ones closely yet this year. I did find some witches broom type symptoms on a Marchesa Bochella rose that has been smothered by a weeping crabapple. I cut out the cane with the misshapen foliage. I had been planning on moving her this spring, but I'll wait to see if any more symptoms appear.

Sidos-House, I never appreciated the rose from my Mom until I was in my late 30s, but I do now.

Gean, I guess I'd have to say my oldest rose is my favorite, the one handed down to me, Konigen Von Danemark. I look forward to smelling its blooms every June. I have added a couple additional rose photos on Photobucket, including Indigo, Shailer's Province, Paul Ricault buds, and some more photos of some that I shared above.

Carol, after seeing your photos of TS, I'm not sure mine is. I can't see the yellow stamens without holding the petals back. Also, it's possible what I believed is Maiden's Blush is something else. It does have thorns and the foliage has the bluish tint.

Ingrid, thank you. I love taking photos of my roses and the insects that inhabit them, both good and bad. I've added some photos of whole bush and garden shots on my Photobucket album. Of course, I've tried to avoid the messiest part of the garden. So many weeds and unwanted plants! I let my enthusiasm for roses overtake my common sense and now it is too large to care for as I would like.

Christopher, you could be right--what was labeled Maiden's Blush could be Alba Maxima. I did look at some of the photos on the HMF rose site and it looks a lot like mine. So much for J&P's packaging accuracy.

Melissa, the buds of Ispahan look like a modern rose bud, but it opens to many more petals. I do like that look on my antiques.

I have to thank mad_gallica for sharing her Apothecary's Rose and Mme. Hardy with me many years ago. :)

Sharing one more photo, not a rose though.
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Here is a link that might be useful: other photos on Photobucket

What a beautiful assortment of roses----I can only imagine how fragrant it is---I love my once-bloomers--it is a joy to open the doors and windows and let the perfume waft in-------
I love all your pictures and would love to have one of each----LOL sadly RRD has taken some of my favorite roses----wish I were a lot younger so I could plant more roses but I have to be content with the ones I have left.
Please keep our picture coming --they are wonderful
Florence

Marcia

Your last photo is enchanting! How on earth did you manage to capture that image of a skipper and a ladybug on your clematis?

Your OGR photos would make great candidates for forum rose pics (other ARF thread).

I think Tuscany Superb can vary in petal count. Sometimes I see her yellow center and sometimes not. TS may be generally a bit deeper in color than Tuscany. If one of them is just straight Tuscany and not Superb, it's probably mine.

Crabapples (Malus) are in the rose family. Does the virus just hit roses or can other family members carry it?

Carol

Florence, I have had RRD in my rose garden, too. It is heartbreaking to dig out the affected ones, and I have cried while doing it. I have also stopped buying new rose plants and have learned to be content with those still growing and blooming in my garden.

Carol, my tricks for getting those photos are being in the right place at the right time and taking a lot of photos, hoping one comes out right!

You're right about the rose family--I have crabapple trees as well as raspberry canes, both in the rose family. I don't know if they can pass the RRV disease, although I know there is a witch's broom type problem that can appear on raspberry canes. I don't know if the cause is the same.
Marcia

I hope more of you all will post pictures on that other thread. I don't care at all about being picked as the forum rose, but it is so nice to see all of those rose pictures and see what people grow. Marcia, I looked at your photobucket pictures, too. It is wonderful to see a garden shot with those once bloomers all grown up.

I think I must have Tuscany; both of your TS roses have a lot more petals than mine, and I think the foliage on mine is smaller, too. Your blooms look like they might be bigger, too.

Melissa, I posted a pic of my Tuscany on the other thread, but the petals weren't fully open. But that rose has a hard time opening well for me. I'll keep looking for a better rose to take a picture of. What I shot was the best I have. Or I hope maybe someone else has a Tuscany and they'll chime in too.

I think that is a Lily Leaf Eater, not a Ladybug, on top of that last pic. I hope after you snapped the pic you killed him without mercy!

Am I bitter?

You are damn right I am bitter! But I found the right spray to rid my garden of those pests.

That aside, when I was a kid I took care of these roses because no one else did. They were pretty. They reminded me more of carnations than roses at both of the houses we had growing up. They were about an inch in diameter but there were ZILLIONS of them covered in bees in the spring. Then they dried up, maybe a few here and there. The show was over.

Remember bees? We used to have bees back then.

The ones we had were not fragrant. The modern ones I have now aren't either. They old type however seem to live forever. We didn't plant them; they came with the house. I will bet the ones I tended are still alive. The only thing I ever did to them was cut away the dead branches.

And Lordy, you needed to be careful. Those thorns were as sharp as razor blades! I wish I had a bigger yard and space for some of these.

It could be a lily leaf eater beetle, mccommas--I've had problems with my lilies. I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip.
Marcia

Don't let him get away!