Dave, I think they look great. Why, anything without chew marks is suitable for me! Tell Deb she's doing good with those beauties.

Carla

Even with the heat your roses looks fantastic
Yes I must agree with Carla, Deb's doing a fine job with
those beauts.
Niecey

Thanks you guys :) Lucy never fails to impress me. I thought perhaps she would have less than her usual 50+ blooms per flush because of all the cuttings taken. I quit counting at 60. Deb says hi and blames me for the roses...
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but we all know Deb is the sorceress here.
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She has the yard across the drive looking pretty nice too :) Only thing is... I can't see much of my foliage with all her darned blooms in the way.

What a gorgeous sea of colour! Another one added to my wish list - 'Lucy' is sooooo pretty!

Awesome Digger! Look at all those gorgeous roses! Wow, just think of that, heat and very little humidity...you'd think you were back in CA, *LOL* I'm glad you posted your pics of your some of your gardens and roses, I don't think the roses are minding the heat any with all those blooms! I'll tell you again, my garden wants to look like yours when it grows up:)
Les

Tell Deb to continue being a sorceress lol Your garden with it's sea of blooms is truly SPECTACULAR!!!

Cheers
Gabby

Wow look at all those blooms!!! Your roses look great!

btw - how is your Ramblin Red doing???

Oh my,Them blooms are gorgous and don't look like they are suffering from the heat at all.You want to see roses suffering,you should see mine.some don't have hardly a leave on them,it rains then gets hot then rains some more,then gets hotter,and my roses looks like crap.Your doggy is pretty too. And I love them clematis you have growing.They beautiful.

Jean

Oh yeah... "heat damaged"... Mmmmm-hmmmmm! They look pretty darn good to me!! You wanna see heat damaged... crispy critters, all brown, "fried"...

Nah ya get no sympathy from ME!!! LOL Especially when LUCY looks so dang beautiful!!

I wish mine looked that bad.

Yeah thems some real ugly roses allright. Kidding aside, you guys sure do know what you're doing out there. Outstanding. I believe it's real difficult to even find Lucy now. I know I was on a waiting list somewhere and I never heard back - over a year. -Paul

Welcome to my world, Dave. Typically, during July, Aug. & Sept. I give the roses LOTS of water, and still the roses suffer and put out smaller blooms, often with fewer petals. I LOVE LOVE LOVE your garden shots - so beautiful! Hi to you and Deb.

Margaret

Thanks everyone :) Looks like y'all could tell Lucy is showing off even with damaged blooms.

missflippins, color coordinated visitors get dizzy wandering around in our riot of color but we like it.

Les, growing roses is more fun in Montana than it was in Sacramento. Just don't get this many roses. It is a lot of work :)

Gabby, I don't think Deb could stop if she wanted to :)

twohuskies, I was a victim of my own praise. All the RRs were gone by the time we went to get one. The nursery owner and his friends snatched them all up due to the enthusiasm I had when talking about it last year *sigh* still saving the spot for it.

Jean, Duke is the mellowest dog I've ever met. Clematis grow like weeds here. I gave many a serious haircut last week. They were blocking the sun on too many roses.

Beth, didn't think I would get much sympathy :) I remember the central valley summers well... always planting Oklahomas on the east side of the house so that blooms wouldn't fry. Lucy does seem to like us.

hoovb, Deb says the only thing bad here is me :)

Paul, some rascal has kept posting pics of Lucy over the years. The 'rose elite' say she is a bad rose. I wonder how a plain ol' digger can grow such a nice one if the 'elite' can't???

Hey Margaret :) Deb says hi (to all). I would wilt in your summers.

digger

The darned hot weather continues....
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Gemini blooms are small and petal edges are crispy
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Don't you feel sorry for us??
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Oh, well :) The roses are growing like they are on steroids. The heat loving ones like Helmut Schmidt are growing so fast even I don't believe it. Looks like a great last flush is in the future... if the snow doesn't come early. LOL, don't laugh. Snow in mid September often ends our 3rd flush of the season :) When it happens, I always wonder why we bother growing roses in Montana.

that danged digger again

oops, almost forgot, wildfire smoke was pretty thick yesterday. The sun shining through it made the blush on Gemini look a bit more orange than it is. I'm pretty sure firefighters would love to see some snow now and to heck with digger and Deb's roses.

Your gardens look fabulous to me, can't see any heat damage there! Beautiful roses! Thanks for posting.
Hope you are a safe distance away from those wildfires....
Judith

Thank you Judith :) We are pretty safe from the fires. The hot weather continues but the smoke from all the fires (more of them now) is acting like cloudcover and keeping it a few degrees cooler. Some of the roses are loving the hot weather
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Beautiful rose Digger. Looks like it's glowing.

You were correct about Gemini in the 100's also, once I started paying attention to the blooms. If I really want to enjoy them I cut and bring them inside. Sorry, I lost track on what flush it is now:)

Your Gemini are gorgeous and all your photos are all excellent.

On my best day my garden could never approch yours. Even with your hot weather. Wow it blows my mind.
My roses die back to the soil line every year and with the short growing season they are not any where as floriforus as yours. I think I will have to move south when in 2029 when I retire.
Liane

Thank you Leslie and Liane :) I knew Deb would like Sheila's Perfume when I got it for her Les. I'm getting to where I like the rascal too. It is much easier to keep track of the flushes here than in CA..... one in June, one in late July and (weather permitting) one in September.

I would like to see your roses in a few years Liane. Most of our roses are 7+ years old. Lucy is 14. This is how she looked in late March
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She was only 6 to 12 inches tall when I pruned the dead stuff off in mid April. (I cut some dead stuff off in March so we can clean the beds. I don't prune to live cane until later) Doesn't look like much does she? It never ceases to amaze me when those stumps become a wonderful bush.
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that was in late March too and naturally a couple days later...
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By mid May...
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they still didn't look like much but we were excited watching them grow.

I don't think you will have to wait until retirement to have a yard as nice as (or nicer than) ours :) Just a hunch I have.

I am just amazed at your roses----So lush and lovely.

What in the world do you feed these babies?

I have NEVER had such a gorgeous collection roses.

Can't think of enough words of praise.

Thanks for sharing------
Florence

Thank you Florence :) I seem to remember some pretty impressive photos of your yard. We feed them Miraclegro, epsom salt in spring and chelated iron as needed. Some mounding material gets worked in to the soil after we clean up in spring.
Some of the roses are loving the hot weather.
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Pascali always gets left out of pics and insisted I post one of him. I can't repeat the language he used.... I know everyone's roses talk to them but Pascali may have been a sailor.

Those are beautiful, especially Lucy. Alyssum is the best companion to roses; I think it keeps the soil protected from all that hot sun.
Mary

Dave, thank God we don't live in Las Vegas, 111 this week!!!!

Carla

Thank you Mary :) Alyssum seems to help winter protect too. The snow flattens it to a mat several inches thick. It is like a quilt when we clean the beds in spring.

Ain't that the truth Carla! We have been back to 'normal' the last week, highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s. Deb caught me jumping for joy at work the other day.
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.... diggers are incorrigible showoffs :)