this is a very beautiful rose. So many blooms in your garden, thanks for posting.

Ditto, the wind & aphids!!!!! What a mess, must be colder up here on the ridge, not many opened yet but soon, if they don't all blow to Nevada.
Ladybugs, you and ALL your friend are invited to free room and board, Please Come.....

Aprille, Don't you love Abraham? I enjoy your pictures.

Carla

Just gorgeous Aprille even if you do have aphids. I can't tell in these pics. I love all the different stages of AD. I would love to get this one. Maybe one day. Judy

I had Abe for years. It was a love hate relationship and hate won out. It was really difficult to say goodbye--it took years. Your photos remind me of the love part.
Kathy

Beautiful Aprille, he looks like he's bowing his head shyly in the last few:)

I feel your pain on the aphids, I even went and bought some ladybugs in desperation and I can't keep them. Someone else must be enjoying their help, I'm about to give up and resort to soap too.

Beautiful rose.Its been windy here for over 2 months,and its not aphids so bad,its worms and caterpillars eating up buds and leaves.They ate every bud I had on Fragrant Cloud and Garden Party,moonstone and Love and Peace..

Jean

Wow Aprille. This was one of the very first roses I have wanted and now I want it even MORE. Gorgeous pictures. Thanks for renewing my love for ol Abe! April

Some beautiful examples of Abe, thanks Beth.
My rose shoots are between two and four inches long right now, (others in the area are far more advanced) So I doubt if I will see a bloom until JUne. Sometimes luck enough to get the odd one in May. :shrug

Pauline VI

THIS is my favorite of them all, and the only rose I have two of. I love AD with a passion, and you captured the colors and form perfectly. Can I come over now and smell it, because mine are a loooong way from blooming.

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Wendy

your AD rose pics are so lovely. I bought this rose and put it in my garden only about a week ago. Can't wait till it looks like yours!

karima

Thank you everyone.

bodica - today seems a bit calmer but they are expecting more winds later in the week. you know the funny thing is we keep running into Ladybugs everywhere. We were at the beach this weekend and there were Ladybugs all over the sand! My little one's kept picking them up and putting them on the plants around so they would not get swept away - these were nice big fat ladybugs too! Then my daughter said that they have ladybugs in their play ground and that the kids were playing with them, she was trying to get them to leave the ladybugs alone "cos they are good for our plants" - lol - she's a good gardener that one - and only 5. I also spot a lot of them on our walks at the park - but they don't really seem to make it out here in the numbers that we find else where - bummer!

Thanks Carla & Judy. Judy I have a love hate relationship with this rose like Kathy. It's been quite small for me for the past 3 years, but the blooms are so stunning that I keep it, I am hoping it will do better this year.

Kathy - I know exactly what you mean. I feel the same way about him. We'll see how he does this year. I might try and get him own root and see if it does better.

Leslie - he's a big nodder, the blooms are so huge that his skinny neck can't hold up :o) - I just hate aphids! We got two bags of Ladybugs, some stayed and some left - oh well, that's how it goes!

Jean - ouch, that sounds horrible! Don't you just take it so personally when things start attacking your roses? I do get so worked up over that and curse and cuss at the critters! lol DH thinks I've lost my mind. He's most probably correct!

April, you should give it a chance. I think he takes a while to settle. The blooms are just so beautiful that I forgive him most transgressions. My main problem is that he does not repeat as well and that basically for the past 3 years has grown maybe 1 inch with no new shoots. We are hoping for some progress this year.

Pauline - thank you. I can't imagine having to wait that long for blooms. But your garden is such a dream that I think it's well worth the wait.

Wendy - sure come on over :o)

Thanks Karima. You will love this rose.

Aprille

Beautiful pics Aprille!
Your Abraham is stunning

Well I'm giving my AD one more chance
I have had him for 6 years and has not showed me anything
impressive.
Anyway I decided to move him last fall, so I'm going to see how well he performes in his new space or else he will be a goner.
No time to waste with roses that do not want to thrive, when there are others that I am dying to try.
Niecey

Aprille---that is a lovely "study" of a beautiful rose.

thanks for sharing-----it makes my wait fpr blooms a little easier

Florence