Isn't it amazing what these early spring gardens look like? I still can't get over so many roses blooming 6 weeks early!

Love your Folklore pictures--what a lovely rose. And Cornelia is definitely looking good. Hope she has learned her lesson about playing nice with the other roses--blooming at the right time, in this case.

Kate

Lincoln is looking quite dashing! Folklore blooms look nice and bright! All your roses look great this year!
And of course I see Eluane the camera ham...lol

Your roses look wonderful, Serena, great pics, and so colorful. I love the pastel swirls of color on Clem Carboniera.

I like the abundance of blooms on Cornelia, the Hybrid Musks are so much fun to grow.

Eluane looks like she enjoys the garden, she must be happy with spring here.

Gawjus blooms dahling!! MR LINCOLN and OKLAHOMA are to-die-for! FOLKLORE... mmm... yummy!! And wherever did you get that PASO DOBLE? I love it! I want it!! And that Eluane... always photogenic!!

I see that Eluane is a camera hog too. I can scarcely get a photo of the yard without Samantha's butt or nose in it.

I really love the color of Royal Sunset. The mix of apricot, salmon-pink, wow. And that last rose is a romantic one for sure.
Renee

Thank you Beth, Kate, Jim, Krista, and Renee!

Yes, Kate, it's been crazy how hot the weather got! Did you get the 88 degree and the 92 degree temps that we got in Kansas City? Yup we are 2 months ahead on EVERYTHING this rose season, bloom times, BS times and yes, even the bugs. I saw the dang cucumber beetles feeding when they should have come out in June, not April, lol! Oh, well, at least the blooms still look so cheery.

Folks, Anna de Diesbach is still in Limbo, but here is Climbing America:

Krista, Eluane sends you her puppy kisses. She and I think she's the prettiest thing in the garden, lol! Actually just to clarify, Renee and Jim, Eluane is not the camera ham, it's actually my manipulation! Pets live such short lives so I try to take as many photos of Little E as I can to reassure her that she still is very important to me... So I actually place her in the photo by calling her to me and holding up her frisbee and ball. That makes her smile otherwise she would be sitting several yards away watching quietly, lol! she is a fantastic gardener's dog, very well-behaved and gentle around plants.

Hehe, Renee wrote:"I can scarcely get a photo of the yard without Samantha's butt or nose in it." Well, we'd love to see Sammy anyway....I like to chase Eluane around the house saying Puppy Butt, Puppy Butt....

Everyone, Frederic Mistral bloomed! it was a big surprise; I was so busy looking at the backyard and only Cornelia in the front yard, lol! On par with what Renee said about Sammy's nose, here is Eluane's nose and! her face behind F.M. haha!

Beth, did you know so many Rosarians depend on your beautiful A-Z rose alphabets for the most unusual and rare roses, lol! I had to go to HMF several times to look up your Coronado rose and the Typhoo Tea and the Purple Beauty. They are FABULOUS...So any droolfest over the divine and the rare we depend on you....I will soon receive all three of those roses too! They will ship out this Monday. Oh, I almost forgot, Beth, Paso Doble is a baby climber from a baby seedling... The black is very consistent and very beautifully spaced with the black stripes and black speckling! It's from Linda at Long Ago Roses and it has scent too! A very cinnamon sweet scent.

Jim, I will soon email you photos of how tall Lincolns are and why people keep mistaking them for climbing roses. They are actually almost as tall as the soffit right beneath the rain gutter of the roof's baseline.... I have to bend down the canes about 3' to photograph the blooms. The first photo of Lincoln shows that roof soffit (I have ceiling tall windows Jim)...Here is another photo I just took today which shows a bent rose that still is so high that you can clearly see that roof soffit proximity.

Here's one more of Folklore:

So all that's left is the final closer of Anna de Diesbach!
She's got 40+ buds on her but they just aren't opening!! Hurry Anna!!! we need to finalize Part I in our Lumpy Garden!!!!!

Your roses are gorgeous. I haven't been to the rose forum in ages, used to be a regular. Your rose photos made it worth the trip!!! Love your Freddie and your Folklore. Amazing!

More great roses Serena! Ok on tall skyscraper Lincoln...lol

Hi, Ginni! and thank you! Please come to the Rose Gallery! We would love to see your roses and it's like having tea and company! We can talk about pets, stuff in our lives, and gardens, gardens, gardens....

Ginni, Frederic Mistral actually was inspired by a rose friend Cyndy Perez....She has the most gorgeous Freddie and why I got him in the first place. And Folklore is one of those wonderful HTs that look good no matter what...I have even more photos of him that ended up even nicer but I have to hold back, lol! My photos of repeat plants is getting pretty obnoxious. I wish there was a way to eliminate and swap out photos on the same thread like the way one can do at Peter Beales forum but sadly Gardenweb does not have this swapout editing feature....

Thank you Jim! Haha, about skyscraper Lincoln, but the terrible irony is with our horrid gusting winds, one of my Lincoln's giant canes is now leaning over like Leaning Tower of Pisa now! I hope he straightens out soon. I can't put up a support pole unfortunately!!!! There seems to be a solid cement block underneath which I can't get through AAAAARGH!

Anna is still not cooperating with me either- the opening flower remains tightly closed at the center! But geee, in my locale she is truly turning out to be a lavender pale bluish purple rose. Her color is supposed to be an intense mauve. Last year as a potted baby, she was a hot violet pink, but not in 2012, that's for sure....She is ground planted and fed coffee grinds, maybe this is what's changing her color and form. It almost seems like a completely different rose. I'm not sure how she'll turn out...I'm still waiting for the open blossom....

Lovely blooms, each and every one, but the first Folklore is absolutely beautiful.

I see your "lopsided, lumpy" roses are gorgeous at usual, Serena!

Two years now and I'm still looking for lumps...lol

Thank you Inga and Seil! Seil and Jim, actually the roses are no longer getting lumpy unless they are being fried by the thrips or the blazing hot sun or if extreme winds are messing with them....However, my garden is still a lopsided. clumsy horror, lol! with lumpy wire mesh against the Evil Furry Fiends (Rabbits).

Folks, Anna de Diesbach finally has started to bloom.

Here is Cornelia going at full blast.

Here is another Royal Sunset.

and another Folklore.

Here is poor Viking Queen. During thrips season (which is starting already) she gets massively attacked and to combat the thrips she tries to bloom extra tiny and hides the blooms under her foliage...Here are some of poor VQ's blooms...

Well, this is the last of my Part One Lumpy Garden. Royal Sunset, Climbing America have about 15 blooms left per plant, Anna has 40 more buds to go and Compassion is starting to open but I really need to give people a break from my Lumpy Garden thread, lol! Anna is supposed to be the closer, and she delivered! Hurray for Anna!

Awesome more roses! They look great Serena! Darn thrips!

Glad I went back to find your thread! Love so many of yours, but Paso Doble (sorry I; know I'm spelling that worng) and Folklore are my favorites! Also, very jelous that your dog poses for pictures with your roses, none of mine listen worth a darn outside!

Tammy

Your roses are gorgeous--I especially love the deep red ones---Many years ago I had a Mr Lincoln and he was always a favorite--

Ginni77---is that you from back in the old days???---didn't you have a different name in front of the 77?---
Serena--keep the pics coming--

Florence

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Your Cornelia is amazing- I hope my little unknown polyantha (Anne Marie de Montravel?) looks that good someday!

Hi Florence, yes, it's me! How are you doing? I haven't been here, except to read, for a long time. I used to go by TopperFan77 in the very beginning but then changed. I was a local hockey fan and Toporowski was my favorite player. When he left the team, the name seemed kind of moot. How are your roses growing? Mine are doing wonderful this year.

Serena, I also have a question for you...how tall does your Folklore get? I have that rose and was wondering what to expect.

Thank you soooo much Jim, Tammy, Florence, NewGirlinNorCal...

Florence I actually have to rebring in your link of Viking Queen to my friend in South Africa. She is drooling over VQ and I've already pre-sent a link to your thread a long time ago posting on how beautiful VQ is...Mine is very prolific, but the flowers are very small compared to yours so I always show your thread as to how VQ is supposed to look...
VQ is not available in South Africa, so she asked for cuttings last year. So it's time for me to repost "apologizing" that my VQ doesn't look near as wonderful as it should as in yours(thrips force VQ to explode with multiple small blooms by strength of numbers instead of huge blooms like yours)....

NewGirlinNorCal, we are looking forward to your photos of Anne Marie de Montravel! I loooove the rare roses!

Tammy, the Anna de Diesbach is actually in the Part II thread. I was going to post her to coincide with Eluane's birthday....

Ginni77, we love having you return, as Florence says... whereas many of us are newer. I've been here for about 3 years. This is such a fantastic place for Tea and Company! And yes, you can talk about hockey all you want! :D Heck here I talk about Eluane and her dog agility, haha!

Ginni, Folklore is still a relative youngster in my garden (I got him mid-May 2010) but I can already tell he's gonna be a BIG rose!!! He's own root, and his first year, I thought noooo way is he going to live up to the 8'-10' reputation that the grafted Folklore has....His first year in my garden, he was a humble 3'8" tall rose...This year, he is fast catching up with my skyscraper Lincolns lol! I have no doubt that Folklore will likely end up over 7' tall by the end of this year.

Hi Ginni----I couldn't remember the "topper fan" but 77 and Ginni rang a bell---nice to see you back here where it all began----my roses are starting to bloom----can't do much gardening after two hip and 2 back surgeries but I'm happy to be able to walk and enjoy the blooms----
Serena---my original VQ is not doing well but the one out in "Elba" even though neglected is doing OK--hope to get some blooms even though the area is now quite shady-------
I'm happy you enjoy the pictures ---she is a beauty---

"Elba" is what I call the back corner that used to be DH veggie garden ---I use it to put roses that are not doing well instead of shovel pruning them---because of my health problems it is now a neglected weedy patch ----but the roses seem to thrive--even in the shade
Maybe I will get some pictures this year----Please keep your pictures coming----they give me much pleasure
Florence