Such an artistic bouquet of lovely wine reds and russets, very unique! What amazing talent! I loved those fringed grasses and is that red salvia? Beautiful!

Blue For You is absolutely stunning! I love the bee nestled in the beautiful Ambridge bloom(roses with bees are my ultimate paradise photos). Your St. Alba cluster has got to be the loveliest up close spray of St. Alba that I have ever seen. I am sure that any ordinary hybrid tea grower would be converted to OGRs with that photo!

I remember your lovely Violon d'Ingre from a previous thread, and once again she graces your new thread with her softness and beautiful color like chiffon.

Ledreborg and Queen of Sweden, I am also admiring.

Marina, what a GORGEOUS variety of roses and your arrangement is just BEAUTIFUL. My picks are ST. ALNAN & BLUE FOR YOU. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming.
Harold

Wow! very nice roses & bouquet dark lady!

JIM

Beautiful pictures! James Galway and St. Alban are gorgeous, I wish I had more room...

Masha

Violon d'Ingres -- Parky -- Ledreborg Castle ~~ do these last long on the bush?

Such gorgeous roses!! I am trying to figure what I can pull out to fit in some of these. Every pink Austin you post looks more beautiful than the last.

Thank you, Serena, Harold, Jim, Masha and Iris!

Serena, the red flowers are Persicaria Firetail.
Iris, all the roses you asked about, do last for a long time on the bush. The Violon d'Ingres bloom is at least one week old and it does not look like it is going to retire any time soon. Also, I would like to mention it's size - about 5 1/2" across.
I am really happy with Parky (bought it this year either from Hortico or Pickering) - abundant pure white blooms, old-fashioned in form, strong pleasant fragrance. It never stopped blooming, nor the blooms became smaller in the heat of the summer. Unlike the other new (for me) rose from one of the above vendors - Macmillan Nurse - whose blooms dwarfed to a size of a mini rose.

Marina

Amazing the vase and theme has me stuck in WOW wonderfull choise of accents too

Nice pictures. Just curious, where did you get the Blue for You? I haven't seen it listed in US/Canada rose catalogs, only in Britain. How did you get it?

I can't choose a favorite!! The only one I didn't drool over is the single rose Carefree Spirit. I'm just not into singles yet.

My goodness!!! Which one has the best scent?

Your bouquet is amazing. Rarely does one see a bouquet in that color palette. It's amazing - you do great work!!

Carol

Thanks again!

The Bustopher, you can get 'Blue for You' from EuroDesert Roses (Cliff Orent). It might be not on the list on the website, but it is listed on HMF availability list, and I believe, Cliff still has a few plants. They might be on a smaller size right now, but he said in a month they will be shippable.

Carol, from all the pictured roses the best fragrance have Windermere, Ambridge rose (although it's myrrh - not to everybody's liking) and Parky.

Marina

Here is a link that might be useful: EuroDesert Roses

Marina, I love them all! And that bouquet is amazing. Could you pretty please tell me what the dark burgundy flowers and the grasses are, they are beautiful! I honestly think you out did yourself. I can't wait to see your next bouquet.

Thank you for sharing with us,
Carrie B.

awww, I was hoping Violon D'Ingres would be as fragrant as Ambridge and Windermere. If it was a strongly fragranced rose, I'd definitely replace my Special Occasion in case one of mine does not make it through the next year's winter. I think from what I've seen that Violon d'Ingres is a superior rose over Special Occasion. I love big showy blooms. And Special Occasion is turning out to be too squat(short of a rose). I prefer taller and bigger roses and that Violon is so lush and unique.

Thank you! I'm glad to hear Violon d'Ingres lasts well. It is such a pretty combination of pink and yellow.

Thanks again, ladies.
Carrie, I used the following roses:
1. The Dark Lady
2. Sophy's Rose
3. Kathryn Morley
4. Potter & Moore
5. Falstaff
6. Astrid Grafin von Hardenberg
7. Benjamin Britten
8. The Mayflower
9. Wilhelm (reddish rose with small clustered blooms)

As fillers I used:
1. Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
2. Grass is plain 'Maiden Grass' - I cut a few young plumes
3. The very dark daisy-like flowers are 'Chocolate Cosmos'
4. The flowers with long thin red 'sticks' are 'Persicaria Firetail'
5. Another red flower (you can see it on the left side of the bouquet, next to Cosmos) - Jupiter's Beard 'Scarlet Lightning'

I really liked the effect of Sedum - the flower heads are so big and so interesting in color and texture.

I hope I have enough blooms and inspiration for the coming Sunday - it is my turn again for the arrangement for the church. I am running out of ideas :)))

Marina

Keep them coming Marina!!! Thank you for the list of plants. These forms are such a source of inspiration and knowledge. I'm not sure I could mange with out them.

Your terrific,
Carrie

Marina--you have such a gorgeous assortment of roses---Your garden must be a joy to walk through.

Difficult to pick a favorite but I have to say Violon d Ingress is lovely and new to me.

Lovely arrangement

Florence