my wife and i like red roses, so, these are right up our alley. very nice!

Wow, Beth, great roses! I had to resist the urge to go check them out on HMF - I can't order any more... I really like all the ones with white reverses, they are all beautiful. Is the color on your pic of Paul Ecke true?

Thanks for posting,

Masha

Love those pics, Beth. Do you have Osiria, which I imagine would be right up your alley? It's just about the best looking rose I've ever seen.
PS- How do we upload our photo's?

Thanks Jim! As I said, reds are not my favorite, but they are growing on me!! Especially if they aren't solid red.

Masha, as I'm sure you know, the reds are the hardest to get right, especially the darkest ones. I have a good camera, but it still has problems with the reds, especially certain times of the day. I tweak my pictures as best I can to get the closest color I see on my computer, without distorting the rest of the colors. Sometimes the backgrounds get a little too green. But I'm trying to get as close to the real color as I can. On my computer monitor, PAUL ECKE JR looks very close, to me. I don't know if it looks the same on your monitor as on mine. I'm not a big fan of single roses, but I love this one! It's so unusual. I guess Cliff (Eurodesert Roses) had some available last month when he first put up his list, but got so bombarded with orders, he had to remove it because he had less plants available than he thought. Everybody wants it!

Steve, I do have OSIRIA. But it's still a small plant. It was an own root I got yrs ago from Michael Fischer (Michael's Premiere Roses - no longer in existence) and it has taken a very long time to do anything. I did get one small bloom this yr, but the pic wasn't good enough to add here. I have horrible soil here, and some of the beds I didn't get amended well enough, so some of the roses take forever to get going. That particular bed, I never did get any decent mulch or organics added to it. That's something I really need to do in the spring, because I have a lot of roses that just sit there doing nothing! As for posting pics in here, you have to have an image hosting website where you upload your photos to it, and then you link them into the post. Most people here use Photobucket. I've used Picturetrails for many yrs now and like it. But I pay about $29 a yr to use it because I have sooo many more pictures than the free version will allow. Not sure how much room you get with Photobucket.

Thanks for posting. That Paul Ecke Jr. sure looks interesting. It is quite unusual. The shading just makes it seem to glow. I remember seeing it in the Armstrong Garden Center a few years ago when I was out there in January. I thought about it, but couldn't fit any more than two plants in my carry-on bag.

Solid red roses are one of my top 3 favs in roses ~~ they are Christmas for me.

Lasting Love looks like a wonderful deep pink on my monitor!

Love the spiral bloom of American Dream!

Luce di Todi - nice shot! Don't know this rose.

Wonderfully flattering pic of Peggy Rockefeller.

Great job on the reds Beth!

To steal the exclamations of those roses I shall shout,

"Alleluia, Bajazzo, and Snowfire Almighty!!!", wow and wow those are some eye-popping dazzling reds! WOWWWWW! That is some Disco Queen and Candella Can-Can, definitely showing their flouncy style, LOL! and LUCE DI TODI is very beautiful, as lovely as its name! uh, if that is not your favorite color scheme then donnez-moi, s'il vous plait! LOL! oooo, to get a beautiful red is truly wonderful. I get stuck with garish magenta when it's hot in Kansas, no beautiful red unless it's spring or fall. Wonderful, Beth, really wonderful! and not just the color but also the form of those flowers!

Thanks guys!

Bustopher... PAUL ECKE JR is a really cool rose. Mine has managed to get nearly 5ft tall. He's going into his third yr, and I'm hoping he really struts his stuff in the coming season.

Iris gal, LUCE DI TODI is a rose from Benjamin Williams. I got mine from Hortico a few yrs ago. Cliff has it available right now at Eurodesert Roses. It's a nice red that gets a lighter glow. And LASTING LOVE does kinda get some pinkish tones; at least for me it does.

Serena, if you want a really good "true" red, if you can find SACRED HEART, now there's a pure solid almost fluorescent red. I didn't post a pic of it, because I had a hard time photographing it all yr. The color is so intense it rarely comes out good enough. It usually just shows up as a big molten red blob!

Beth
I love your red roses. I especially like Taboo, Bajazzo and Intrepid. Keep them coming for as long as you can I always enjoy looking at your roses because of all the varieties that you post.
Harold

Just one word.....BEAUTIFUL

I don't like red as much as the other colors (just like you), but I detest :) the white reverses - I don't know why LOL. But you do have some that REALLY appeal to me!

-Taboo
-Stephanie Diane
- San Antonio
- Papa
- Opening Night
- Mr. Lincoln
- Luci di Todi
- Kentucky Derby
- Intrepid
- Dolly Parton
- American Dream

So would you pick 2 or 3 of these as your favorites? Don't base it on disease - since that's not a problem here. But base it on any other criteria you think relevant.

Thanks!!

Carol

A amazing collection of red roses. Thankyou for the work of putting them on here for us to view.
What is your opinion of Kuroshinju ? Its my very favorite of your photos. Also Midnight Magic.

Thanks Harold and Russell!

Carol, sorry I didn't answer sooner. Forgot to come back to this! Of the ones you named, my favorites would be TABOO and AMERICAN DREAM. TABOO has the deepest darkest black-red coloring, especially in the fall. The plant grows very tall, to over 6ft straight upright. AMERICAN DREAM has put out some really beautiful roses lately. Excellent form and good pure red color. It's a smaller bush, reaching between 3-4ft with decent repeat.

Rosemeadow, KUROSHINJU is a very beautiful, and sometimes strange rose. Early in the season it gets weird shaped blooms for some reason. But after the first batch, they are deep blackish-red velvety blooms, mostly in clusters of 3-5 long-lasting blooms. MIDNIGHT MAGIC is one I had many yrs ago, and it died when we moved here almost 10yrs ago. Took awhile to get it replaced. Hortico was out of it for sometime. Just got it replaced last yr. It's a lovely dark red with white reverse.

Thanks Beth, they will probably nevercome here, but now I will know their name and what they are like if they ever do.

Thanks, Beth!!

You gave some very good information! Thanks!

Carol