Thanks for the Merry Christmas, Rosemeadow, & Merry Christmas to you, too!

Those pics are simply *luscious*;
I'm especially smitten by Nahema, a new rose to me.

I'm agog at the thought of 885 roses;
I've been in nurseries that don't have 885 plants all told!

Here in my part of Texas (north central, around Dallas/Ft Worth), summer is a rigorous season, too.

Most of the roses& other plants stop blooming during the worst heat, & I have to really watch the little ones to be sure they get enough water, but so far I haven't lost any roses to the heat.

& once the autumn rains & cooler temps arrive, they have a more beautiful bloom cycle than the spring one.

Thanks again for sharing your lovely roses!

Ms Karen
May you and yours have a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year.
I am always amazed at the Beautiful roses that you grow, you always seem to have some Spectacular roses to post.
Mrs. Bushby's Bourbon is such a lovly rose. What is the last roses' name it's coluor stunning.
Harold

Lovely roses. Mrs. Bushby's Bourbon looks perfect. What is the rose in the last picture?

Masha

So your name is Karen? Well Karen, you have some lovely roses. 885 is not so bad. I have nearly double that... (idiot) Like I have time to deal with them.... LOL Aren't you just now heading into summer down there? I hope to see lots more pics to help us up here get thru our winter blahs. And yes... what is that beautiful last (deep pink) rose? Reminds me of YVES PIAGET?

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, also!!

Merry Christmas to you Karen, Ray, & family! I hope you get some more rain to help those roses flourish.

JIM

Gorgeous!

We have had rain!! I can't believe it ~ over 12 inches so far and I think that's higher than all of last year.

A Merry Christmas for the roses!

Sylviatexas, Nahema is a Delbard Climber. Here is what the rose catalogue said about it - " The essence from this rose has been used by the French fragrance house of Guerlain for its perfume. Throughout the season you will note the perfume of citrus' peach, apricot, pear and lingering rose.The delicate colour of almond pink has made it a 'must have 'in European bridal corsages. 3 - 5 mtrs.
It has grown very well here and blooms well. I must have a smell of it tomorrow.
Yes we have better roses in Autumn, just like in the area you live. I have lost quite a lot of roses die because I moved some just before a dry period about 5 years ago. As long as I have nearly that amount of roses by the time Winter comes, then I will be really happy.
Phatboyrose, I look foward to when I can post really good garden scenes. The rose at the bottom is another Delard rose called Chartreuse De Parme. Mine a smaller bush so far, but just last night I read a very good report of it from a Australian Garden Web poster. The blooms on it now are a different colour, because of the sun or heat.
I am so tired tonight I am going to post more tomorrow, as I don't want to rush talking to all you lovely Roserians.

Also thankyou to Masha, Jim and Iris Gal for your nice comments. As you can see I was very tired last night and made some mistakes. The last rose shown above, as well as Nahema, were bred by Delbard.
Talking about rain, they are predicting 200 mls of rain in North West N.S.W and Southern inland Queensland. So today they have fire warnings there and tomorrow they will have flood warnings. It is happenihg because of a Cyclone up in the North. They were saying we might get 20-40 mls of rain here. And this is to happen for Christmas, which is tommorrow ! Looks like my roses are going to all get a Christmas present too, hopfully there will be enough to put good water in the creek as well. I am glad to hear you got good rain, Iris Gal.
Is your Christmas happening now or soon or is it after ours ?
Beth, thats why you had so many beautiful red roses in your red rose post ! How big is the area you grow you roses in and how old is your garden ? So you would have all the Heritage roses ? I hope you don't mind me asking these questions but I am very interested.

Hi Karen,

Today is Christmas Eve here. Not sure how many hours difference we have between us.
Karen, hope you get that rain for Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

JIM

I adore your first two roses. They must be different roses, no? Gorgeous.

Merry Christmas everyone!! My kids are SO excited!!

Carol

I am very excitted too as for Christmas Day we are having wonderful set in rain. Last year I had plenty of roses up till Christmas to make a few really beautiful boquets each week. This Spring/Summer we have had not many roses, but we might after this rain. The most important thing though is that my new roses are getting this fantastic rain.

Karen,

Great to hear the rain is falling in your area!
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Karen! We got gorgeous snow on Christmas eve, blizzard snow but it was very very beautiful and deep! Eluane loves that snow, and even more so her frozen tennis ball which is so coated with ice that it is 4x its normal size. But if it's not that frozen ball she refuses to fetch a regular indoor non-frozen tennis ball. It has to be that nasty muddy, yucky mess that is now sheer ice. How she holds it in her mouth is beyond us. Weirdo dog, LOL! We roll the ball so she has to chase after it of course (can't have broken doggy teeth. But she is very stubborn with that one particular ball. Lovely thread and Christmas hugs!

Hi Jim and Serena. It is good to hear you had a white Christmas. I like my wet Christmas ! We have had 50 mls, the creek has water in it now and its still lightly rainy. I want it to come in heavier again and totally fill the creek up and get it running.
You had me smiling reading about Eluane. I am glad to hear she is having fun. I walked and fed my dogs this morning when I went to have a look at the creek and around the paddocks a bit. So I can stay inside all day now.
Here is a photo of Corrinne with her niece, taken yesterday when we were out for Christmas lunch. One of the presents I gave her was a toy/learning laptop. It will be great for teaching her letters, numbers etc. Ray got her a racing track and cars.

Karen,

very nice pic of corrinne and her niece! Enjoy that Christmas rain Karen. We are also getting rain here today.
It started off as freezing rain, which caused the roads and sidewalks to ice. Now, the temps went up to 35 degrees and it's raining.

It has been raining here since 9am on Christmas Day.
We are getting alittle worried about flooding. The rain has melted most of the 6 inches of snow we had on the ground.
In the past we have had flooding that filled up our basement with 3 ft of water in January. The water ruined our furnace and hot water tank.
I have since then, added some pumps to pump the water out if needed. Just worried if they will pump the water out fast enough as they have never been tested or used yet. lol

Well we have had 100 mls and its still comming down the same. How much have you had Jim ?

Hurrray, for your rain, Karen! I know water is a huge concern in Australia and this rain is a real blessing for you and will save you so much work as well. Your beautiful roses will be coming up gangbusters! Corrinne looks so adorable! Karen, you would laugh at this, but as a little girl I hated dolls with a passion--I loved building blocks and Legos, I was fascinated with train sets, and I loved watching race car tracks; the Little Serena would have been thrilled with a racing car set, but did I ever get that, nooooo....LOL, LOL! I also loved books but we always had to go to the library for those. I ended up with so many fines from the library because I was always losing my books (constant forgetfulness and absentmindedness) and borrowing more and more books, hahahaha! I owed piggy banks of book fines, hahaha!

By the way, it's still snowing in Kansas-2 feet deep in certain pockets of my yard. Big fat flakes and deep, deep snow! Used to be that our snows were very brief and very shallow. Not this year, LOL!

I think it's fascinating how Nahema will have this beautiful wedding pink and then this awesome violet color to it. Very lovely and I also liked the 2nd bloom but I am not sure which rose this is from, but it reminds me a little bit of the Marcessa Boccella that I'm getting from Connie Hartwood.

Well Serena, your will know what to buy your future daughter for Christmas. And you will be able play car racing too. Corrinne likes playing with all, though she is still only young.
I didn't post the purlpe roses's name as I would have had to go out into the dark to see what it was. So it is not Nahema, as the one above it is, but is Charteuse De Parme.
The other one is a own root David Austin that I have since moved am not sure what the name is. I just put it there as I didn't have any others photos left and I liked the photo a bit.

Love that pink Nahema!

Karen,

We do not have a rain guage to measure how much rain we got.
But, the threat of flooding is over as the rain has stopped and our basement is still dry. lol

Karen,

I have a older camcorder which i filmed our basement flooding a few times. I film for insurance purposes.
We have had about 6 -7 times we were flooded in the past 25 years. Most happened during warm weather.
One time happened in Janurary when it was very cold outside.
My friend had a huge pump for pumping out water, so, he slid the pump hose down into the basement through a basement window from the outside.
After awhile it stopped pumping, so, i had to go into the basement which had around 36 inches of freezing, freezing, water to move the long hose to another spot for better pumping.
I also had to move things we had in the cellar as they were floating and plugging the pump hose.
I was in that freezing water for only about 2 - 3 minutes and my legs/feet were totally numb, filled with pain, and frost bitten.

How terrible for you Jim. I know a bit about what you mean about it hurting, as once I had to hold my arms in some icy water for about three minutes. Then I think I tried to warm them up with warm water but I probably made it worse. I remember how very painful it was.