Beth, very beautiful and interesting roses, as always!

I love your iris. The pale lavender color with the white looks very pretty. Is it a repeat blooming iris?

Please, keep more pictures coming!

Beautiful pictures, Beth! Tomorrow I am going to present some roses to a policeman! The roses I will give him will be the best, he will love them!

Nice pictures and very pretty blooms! I am a sucker for lavender/mauve blooms. That iris would be SO beautiful as a large planting; I can picture an entire bed with something like alyssum massed in front! (can't grow that kind of iris here so I'll just dream about yours!).

I am having a fit in my garden with "bugs" too.

Lynn

Beautiful roses. I want to see more photos, please.
Svetlana

Great pictures, Beth. Is it usual for Falling in Love to show no pink like this?
Masha
I want more pictures, too:-)

Beautiful Beth! I love the shades of aka, The Painter and your iris. I'm glad your roses are blooming again, I'm looking forward to this seasons pics.

do you have sakura there, Beth?

Beth, I swooned over your iris!!! Falling In Love is like a true breath of spring with it's white beauty. Have you gotten a new camera or do your pictures just make me melt?

Carla

Thanks everyone!

Organic... no it's not a repeat one. I do have one a little deeper in color that repeats in Dec and often blooms up til New Yr's!

Masha, I don't know why FIL came out all white. We've had some bizarre weather lately, so that' probably why. Alot of times a particular rose will have an odd first bloom due to weather conditions. I'm sure the next blooms will be normal.

Bgrose, no I don't have SAKURA. I'm not familiar with that one.

Carla, I still have my same camera the last 4-5yrs. It's a Sony Cybershot. I hope it keeps going for a few more yrs. I've looked at newer similar ones, and they're so confusing. Mine's relatively easy to use. The important thing is a good macro lens.

Ah, forget the robins, the surest sign of spring is when the garden of Beth, Queen of (nearly) All Roses bursts forth with oodles and oodles of blooms!

Thank you!

Gorgeous! Still waiting for our spring flush here in So Cal. Cheers :D Becky

Sunny Delite is just wonderful, Beth. Love your roses.
Kathy

I love that Sunny Delight, I think I need more yellows..

Sorry Beth, thay you have not heard of Sakura. It won't be for long I am sure.

Liparfum - Wow! I looked her up and was surprised to find she is a hybrid tea. What unique form for an HT. And the color is wonderful.

Hi Beth, thanks for answering my question regarding the iris. Now of course I would like to know the name of the "one a little deeper in color", that is re-blooming in December :-)! What an unusual time for an iris to repeat!

I just have a slight feeling that irises are almost as addictive as roses. They are so pretty, too, and go so well with the "queen of the flowers"!

That SUNNY DELITE was bought to replace one I had a couple yrs ago, that I stupidly killed last yr. I lost a bunch of potted roses to being a dummy and dumping (composed no-less) steer manure as a mulch/fetilizer, after their big early-summer flush and a hard pruning. Just fried the cr@p out of maybe 8 roses. SD was one that biffed it almost within days of doing that. But it was struggling to begin with. This new plant seems to be healthier than the waxed bareroot one I originally got.

So, Bgrose, you're gonna hafta tell us about SAKURA!!

Huttnem, I got LIPARFUM from Hortico maybe 8yrs ago, sight unseen. They have no pics, or real info on this rose, and I'm actually wondering if it's even what it's supposed to be. It was described as "mauve." But, I guess you could call it that. I think it's more of a cool-pink. The scent is really quite nice. Very perfumey!

Organic... the repeating iris I referred to is called MISTY TWILIGHT. I guess it's not exactly "deeper in color," it's more of a solid color of a bit more "blue" than PERFECT COUPLE. PC is more lavender. I have so many irises I get confused.... (They really are another whole addiction...)

Here's a pic of it, actually from this past January 16!

MISTY TWILIGHT
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Beth, thank you soo... much for not only telling me the name of the repeat blooming iris that looks similar to Perfect Couple but also posting a photo of Misty Twilight. Actually I like both a lot, but I think it is awesome to have an iris that repeats in December/January. I am wondering if it would do the same for me, here...

I am sorry to hear, that you lost roses due to the steer-manure treatment! You have often so special and rare roses, I hope you can replace the ones that died.

Please, post more photos of your rose beauties. I always enjoy tremendously looking at them! If you through in a photo or two of an iris I certainly won't mind ;-)!

Beth, what do you attribute the death of those roses to? Potted, steer manure or the combo of chemicals plus steer manure? Strange kinda.

Carla

Been waiting for you Beth. Always worth it. I just got through pruning my FIL. Running a month behind because of our typical/atypical spring weather. I don't grow Iris but I do like to peek at everyone elses. Glad you posted a few of those too.

There is a rose called Sakurina by Meilland. It is good for encicling borders. I think it is a good combination around St Patrick.