Jim - Everything looks so healthy! Your Mister Lincoln is so lovely. I love red roses, but the fragrant ones are the best! I planted Mister Lincoln this year and I've had a few blooms, including a couple right now, but they've been on the small side. The bush looks healthy, I think it just needs to become established. Gracie looks like a very nice dog.

Beautiful roses and plants! Love Gracie and Cagney! Gracie looks like she's posing in her first pic. Love it!! Judy

Sara Ann, we had our own root Mister Lincoln since Spring of 2010 and it has yet to set the world on fire with blooms.

We get approx. 20-30 blooms per entire season from ML.
But ML has been very BS resistant. ML got some powdery mildew for the first time late in this year.

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Just now took this pic of ML bloom...

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Jim, your photo of Gracie & Cagney outside in your garden is wonderful! Another photo that I'm really enjoying looking at the most is the butterfly atop of the purple bloom. Thanks so much for sharing the beauty of your garden with us!!! :-)

Jim, beautiful pics of the roses. I like having your pets included, too. Today was indoor cleaning and this is what my cat did after I polished the table.

Beautiful pictures especially Gracie. Thank you for sharing.

Your cat will be slip sliding away kentucky_rose...lol
Great pic!

Your cat kentucky_rose sort of looks like our cat Lacy...

Oh, I'm loving the pets - especially Gracie!!!

Your flowers look so pretty! I especially like Mr. Lincoln. What a beauty.
Carol

Thanks everyone!

Here's a shot I took today....

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Frost last night killed our Morning Glories So the end is near!

Water was freezing in our birdbath:

Bud on our unknown Mini rose bush opened today:

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D-Ko blooms:

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Lucky you to get such fine Mr. Lincoln roses. I used to have all 3 famous brothers from the Charles Mallerin X Chrysler Imperial cross. Now only Papa Meilland and Oklahoma are left. Mr Lincoln never liked our heat and when I got flowers, they were not deep red. But sometimes in the fall I got the kind of flowers he is famous for. Finally, I replaced with Firefighter which does not mind blooming in heat as much. I love seeing a great Mr. Lincoln rose picture though. Where he's happy, he's great.

Do you have Chrysler Imperial? The fragrance reminds me very much of Mr. Lincoln who likely inherited it from C I. Mr Lincoln has those wonderful long buds!