Seil - just what I needed for a rainy day - rainy week!! Thank you for the fix. I know exactly what you are talking about, going just about stir crazy not having any roses blooming! and the downfall of that is that I've gone and ordered more roses after I promised myself I would not order any more till we've moved somewhere where there is more room! ha ha right! now I've got 20 some bands waiting to be planted in larger pots and I don't know what I'm going to do!! My pot ghetto is bursting at the seams now. what can I say - I have no will power!

Thanks for sharing.
Aprille

Beautiful roses Seil and your photos are excellent of them. You have a couple that are really terrific. Thanks for sharing such blooms on a gloomy afternoon as I have today.
Leslie

Your Garden Party and that macro of Dainty Bess look great!

Yay!! Just what we all needed!! I'm so sick of winter I could scream!!! So, Seil, what's so wrong with ALY? Looks pretty to me. Oooh! And BRILLIANT PINK ICEBERG.... Yummmy!!!

Thanks everyone. I'm so glad you're enjoying them and that I was able to help you all muddle through the winter blues.
However, I do have a disclaimer:

The photographer/poster is in no way responsible for the actions of a few very serious rose nuts who go and buy more roses than they have room for, can care for or afford.

Wheeew, now I'm off the hook.

Beth, this is a pic of ALY's usual form

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Every bloom I've ever gotten before has had this quilled star shape. That's why I kept questioning this picture. It just didn't look right. But the other two yellow roses I have didn't have any blooms on this date.

Wow Seil. LOVE EM!!!!! That pink iceberg is to die for. Gotta get it. Thanks, Judy

Garden Party is gorgeous. The Dainty Bess is wonderful and unusual, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing.

Carla

Oh Seil... yeah you're right, ALY does usually quill. The first shot is pretty too, tho. Maybe it was just a freak bloom!

I love the pic of Brilliant Pink Iceberg. Wonderful dark pink shadings to it.

Thanks everyone.

Brilliant Pink Iceberg is a wonderful constant bloomer. Mine seemes to want to be wider rather than tall. It did fairly well disease wise, with just a little black spot. I can't remember if it had any fragrance, sorry.

Carla, Nearly every bloom on both Garden Party and Dainty Bess is a photo op. If you don't have any singles get Dainty Bess. It's always the star attraction in my garden. Around 5 inches in diameter with five pale pink petals and those lovely lavender stamens in the center. I can't tell you how many times I had to explain to people that, "yes, it is a rose".

Beth, this bud came in November and I think it may have been the really cool temps that made the difference.