Veronica, Love your pictures! You have such lovely blooms and healthy plants. I keep telling myself I have no more room for more roses but I do have a couple who are not performing up to my expectations! I would love to add Mrs B R Cant and Maggie to my collection!

Celine F. is one of my favorites, tho she does try to get leggy, with her pink buds that fade to yellow blooms with the most wonderful scent. Cornelia is new this year, I got her at Seminole Springs as a 3 gallon plant, and is just now putting out her first bloom. She is a sprawling type rose and has tripled in size since I have had her. As soon as she is finished blooming I will try to get some cuttings started.

Can you post a picture of your "Soncy"? I know you did once before but I have forgotten what it looked like.

nova

Susan,

Soncy "not" is the first pic I posted in the WBIYG thread. I shall be rooting Maggie, a wonderful performer. The Mrs is a young matron, but if I can get one or two going, you get first pick.

Thank you for your compliments and so glad to hear Celine is strongly scented. How is the scent on Cornelia?

Veronica

Here's a picture of my modern rose bed. It is a little hard to see the progress it has made in 4 months but it is doing quite well and I'm able to cut some short stem roses.

As soon as I post this I'm going to go plant the Julia Child that I got as a door prize in January as a (just) rooted cutting. It was very small and took some TLC to get it going.

Thonotorose, could your Soncy "Not" be climbing Clotilde Soupert? It sure looks a lot like mine.

Marcia

Laura, Beautiful and very healthy! Congrats...

Marcia, I shall pursue that thought and thanks. One of the reasons I so want to identify this wonderful rose is so that I can scratch one off my "must have" list and CS is on it.

Veronica

Marcia,

I went to HelpMeFind/Roses and the pics of the climbing polyantha, Clotilde Soupert, do not look like mine at all. They are very pink.

However, the pics of the none-climber CS polyantha has many that are very much like mine. Those would be the whitest ones. The one I have did have a pinker bloom when it was somewhat cool here last spring, but it was still very pale white/pink. The fragrance on this one is very good.

I shall now call it Clotilde Soupert "probably".

Thanks again.

Thanks to your beautiful rose postings , I have fallen in love with the OGRs . I vowed I would never , ever have roses but after reading about all your luck and seeing the pictures I was converted to a rose lover . Thank you GW Florida rose lovers for helping me to see the light !

Watch out Thonotorose...Properity really does get big!
This is at my old house first flush in the spring.

Thonotorose, my climbing Clotilde is very white, with only the slightest blush of pink on the edges of the petals and deep inside when it first opens. After it opens out all the way, it is almost completely white. A very "flat" faced rose, highly fragrant. I love it!

Your photo looks exactly like mine, but as I'm sure you know, roses can be deceiving. Temperature and other factors can definitely change the depth of color, for one thing.

Hope you pin it down, so you know whether or not you can mark it off your list.

Marcia

Veronica, Found the picture of your non-Soncy, and while I agree with Marcia that it could be Clotilde, I just wonder if you have ever compared it with "Spice"? Spice is fairly common in Florida, is nearly thornless and blooms white with a pinkish tint that is more evident in cooler weather. It also has a wonderful "Tea" scent. The only thing that makes me think that it may not be Spice is that my Spice makes a more "shrubby" type bush. Check it out and let me know what you think. Here is a picture of my Spice when it was just a baby -

Cornelia has a wonderful strong scent. The DH has lost alot of his sense of small to chemo but he can smell Cornelia. If you have room for a potted rose and like a good scent another one to consider is Miss Caroline. I got her for my birthday [Feb] and she has been in almost constant bloom ever since. Here is another picture to tempt you -

nova

Gatormom, Consider yourself infected! Lol.. Start with the Duchess de Brabant, if you get a chance. Mine is covered with buds and I will be posting a pic when she is just right. Cupped and lovely pink, very fragrant, nearly thornless. Very healthy!

Wow, Laura! Mine is in a 30 gallon tree pot, crammed between the well house and a shed, up against a fence and quite sun deprived. I hope that will hold her down.

Marcia and Susan, I do think that it is CS. One trait is that the bloom edge forms a perfect circle rather then the raggedy edge of your Spice. It is also a white with a shadow of pink at times. In the winter when I first saw the buds they had guard petals that were quite pink and when they opened the center also had a pink cast. And it definitely is a climber, long limber canes all over the place. That spray in the photo had a total of fourteen blooms! And it is a lateral off the first cane the band threw up. I am so excited to see what the REST of the canes do.

I like that Miss Caroline. If she is scented, then she is welcome here.

I'm glad you have made at least a tentative ID, TR. I hate not knowing what I'm growing! Funny, my grandmother was the best gardener I've ever known, yet she didn't know the name of two-thirds of her plants. She only knew the basic ones (azaleas, hydrangeas, etc). The rest were things like "Jessie's Lily" (hosta), Christine's Rose (Louis Phillipe), or "That Fluffy Pink One." We are all so different in how we approach this hobby of ours.

Here are a couple of pics of my Climbing Clotilde Soupert for you. They are a bit overexposed and washed out, but they are the only photos I could find.

You can see they are very white, flat, very round blossoms. The do have some pink deep between the petals, but it doesn't show in this photo. In cooler weather, they are pinker than they are in summer, at least for me.

Marcia

This is for you, Gatormom.

Consider yourself enabled. Lol...

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All this rose gets from me is fertilizer, good soil and water. I do not spray and you can see how wonderful the foliage is. Many antiques may get some disease when young, but will throw most stuff off when mature. She has been with me for four years. And she smells very good.

Ok you enablers, I've GOT to have a rose bed. Spring project! lol

Ginny

Ginny,

You will be very, very glad...

A few pointers. Repeat after me: Chinas, Teas, Noisettes....Chinas, Teas, Noisettes....Chinas, Teas, Noisettes.... Hybrid Musks do pretty good here, too. Cs & HMs are not the best for cutting, but are great in the garden.

Many Old Garden Roses get HUGE here, so keep that in mind if size is a factor. And to top that off, some will sulk and quit blooming if pruned. I think the Duchesse will go to 6X6 when fully mature.

Have fun...

V~

They're all so beautiful!!!...and I can almost smell their heavenly scents. :)

I've planted only three here in Flarda.
I've always been fearful to try roses here, even tho I had many up north.

These are all grafted on fortuneana stock.

Knock Out Arbusto Rose Del Golpe de gracia:

Gemni

Fourth of July

Lovely, lellie.

Those KOs are growing on me. They certainly put on a show of color. There are quite a few in the landscape of the ramp at one of the Plant City exits on I4. They are filling in well and always colorful.

I love the look of Gemini, but am staying away from HTs as best I can. I am addicted to the rose scent and this one is not scented, I believe.

Fourth of July is a great looking rose. I got mine at HD and it is grafted to Fortuniana rootstock, but not doing well. I think that it needs much more sun then I can provide right now. As the sun travels further south, it will be getting more and then we shall see. If not, I will be moving it this winter. Love to see what the Rose Buds are growing. Lol...

Thono...my Gemini does smell fragrant!
Try one......... :)
It's been thru a rough time...first, it was in the original pot for almost a year because I couldn't figure out where to plant it...then, after I did plant it, it hated that spot...thought I lost it.
Now it resides next to the fence, in full sun alongside the Fourth of July.
As long as I water both of them well once a day, they do great.
But...let me forget a day and they stress...fussy, fussy!
LOL