...all lovely, but Valencia in particular I find very appealing...not one I know of that.... I'll go check it out I think...

Thomas a Becket

Kew Gardens

Blush Noisette

Gruss an Teplitz

Mortimer Sackler

..and I never tire of 'Bonica'...

Wow!! I love Thomas Beckett. Why is that one never mentioned on the forum???

Wow!! Bonica is superb!!! What a gorgeous bush!!!

Oh, and Valencia blooms up a storm, and the flowers last for weeks on the bush here in zone 3 (grown in a pot). Huge blooms in profusion. Supposed to have a nice fragrance - but I have yet to smell any fragrance. Here are a few pictures that I found. The bush shots are a few weeks AFTER we had two hail storms that broke off huge canes and lots and lots of buds. It is so vigorous that it still looks fantastic even after significant cane loss.

Carol

Those are all so beautiful!

Tiffany

Double Delight

Pink Peace

Peace

Aloha

America

Sunsprite

And many more!

I love your Aloha!!! Your Peace and Pink Peace roses are wonderful too!!

Double Delight looks amazing!!! DD, for me, isn't a rose that's very photogenic. Wish it was.

Lovely!

Carol

Thank you Carol. I love your Valencia, hope to have that rose some day, it's beautiful.

You ask a pretty loaded question, but I agree with you wholeheartedly about one of yours, Chicago Peace - that rose has so many facets to its appearance it is incredible.

Double Delight (one of the best photos of that I've seen), Bonica, and Thomas a Becket are going to keep me searching for more rose room! Thanks for all of these.

I missed Evelyn ! I have been wavering over this one for years, but that photo is beautiful, just the kind of rose I drool over.

Wow!!! Your Chicago Peace photos are INCREDIBLE - especially the last one. Isn't it a marvelous rose!!

Here's another Evelyn picture for you mossy!

LOL! You are going to have me digging another hole where there is no room for another hole, at this rate. Beautiful, thank you.

Yup, we're all enablers here. :)

Carol

More Pink Peace

More Double Delight

Yes, I can see that DD and PP are very photogenic for you!!! I wish my Pink Peace was like yours. Yours has sooooo many blooms. Mine only gets 2 blooms at a time. But then, maybe the problem is that it's in a pot. Whatever the cause - I wish it was like yours - FABULOUS!!!!!

That last DD picture is superb!!! Just gawgeous!!!

Carol

I can attest to Chicago Peace and Double Delight being totally photogenic roses. The pictures that are posted above are amazing! I just got a replacement for my long lost DD and can't wait to see it bloom. Here are some of my most photogenic roses (look even better in photos than in reality, if that is possible!)

Gemini, always perfect, a must-have rose

Abracadabra

Ballerina

Heaven on Earth, peach to pink, does well in a pot

Jean Giono, a real ham

Summer Fashion, my first rose, beginner's luck!

Just Joey

mini-climber, Lifelines

Symphony, the best little Austin ever

Angel Face loves my hot dry climate

I haven't seen much on the forum about Symphony. It's gorgeous!!! Wow!!! I'm going to look that up on HMF.

Your Angel Face is soooooo pretty!!! And there's so many flowers.

I so agree with you about Gemini - it's a must have rose.

Wonderful roses!!

Carol

Great thread, Carol! So many picture perfect beauties!!! And Carol, your pups checking out the roses are precious, too! Evelyn, Valencia, Kew Gardens, Bonica, Pink Peace, Chicago Peace and Ballerina are all roses I've lusted after, but never grown...these pictures are moving them up on my wish list.

Love & Peace is always photo ready for me:

Thank you for all of these gorgeous roses and photos! Fun eye candy for a cold day!

I have three that topped out the list for most photos this season.

Moonstone

Tiffany

and Veterans' Honor

I have so many. LOL Here's a few...
EASY DOES IT

ELLE
HONEY BOUQUET
PADDY STEPHENS
RE INTUITION
MARILYN MONROE
ROEDEAN
FIRST ENTERPRISE

Wow, so many gorgeous roses! Symphony, Angel Face, Love & Peace, Moonstone is stunning! Marilyn Monroe, Red Intuition, etc. Everyone of you have some lovely roses, I enjoy seeing all these beauties!

There is something about the Peace roses - Pink Peace, Chicago Peace, Peace, Love and Peace. They're all stunning and so photogenic.

Pat - you're making me lust after Love and Peace. I didn't know it had so many color variations.

Moonstone and Tiffany!!! Yikes!! Gorgeous!! You've made me glad that I have Tiffany on order for spring.

Roedean is HEAVENLY!!!! Gasp!!! And I love your First Enterprise - come on - how can it be THAT divine!!

You all are outdoing yourselves.

This is a good reference for buying roses if you want them to be CONSISTENTLY amazing in the looks department.

Thanks!

Carol

Jackson and Perkins called, they just opened a few positions in the photography department, lol.

Those are gorgeous! What are the varieties? I think I recognize Red Intuition.

Whoops! Sorry Sara. LOL

1.) Elina

2.) Cabana

3.) Black Magic

4.) Veteran's Honor

5.) St. Patrick

6.) Iceberg

7.) Bella Roma (I think)

8.) Rainbow Sorbet (Had to pull up my 2007 garden planner for that, lol)

Another batch of wonderfully photogenic roses. I really like your Black Magic and Cabana!!

Carol

Yesterday's harvest ... the stingy Francis Meilland, hanging in there Neptune and always prolific Grande Dame.

Thanks for naming your roses. I guessed wrong on Black Magic, but it is such a gorgeous rose and I want it so badly, I can't find where to order it though. Msdorkgirl, your FM is lovely, mine has been stingy too, but it bloomed more the second year than the first year, so hopefully it will take off this year. It is such a pretty and fragrant rose. I ordered Grande Dame, anxious to see what it does.

Wow! That Grande Dame is huge!!!!

Too bad Francis Meilland is stingy - the flowers are soooo beautiful.

Carol

Sara: I'd give Geoff & Debbie Coolidge over at Cool Roses a call or K&M and see if they have it. I know I purchased one from Nelson's Roses, but I won't vouch for it being a true BM given the fact that all the pics of Grande Dame I see don't exactly match the one I have. I won't complain though, my grand dame is a super rose with great scent and form (unlike everything else I keep seeing). Perhaps I'm just seeing fully opened GD. Anymind, what I just bought from Nelson's was what I remember BM looking like when I bought it from MerryGro Farms many moons ago.

Warning! Sara is in zone 6 and botth Cool Roses and K & M use fortunianna root stock. It probably will not be winter hardy for zone 6.

OK, you`all ...stop it!! I am so out of room that several I have ordered will go in pots! I would love to squeeze in Pink Peace...lovely.

South Africa

Daybreaker

Pope John Paul

So many beautiful roses...I can hardly wait for spring.Heck, I would just like to see grass about now! Snow everywhere! Lesley

Lesley, those are gorgeous!

I love, love, love your Pope John Paul!!!! I avoid light colored roses for the main part because of thrips. Yours doesn't seem to be bothered by thrips.

Gorgeous!!

Carol