For some reason it would not let me upload any more pics on that post. Is there a limit on how many?

ANyway, to continue:

My favorite rose, Geranium Red

This season's first blossom of Gruss an Coberg, looking a bit paler than the pic from last summer I used on the name that rose game thread...


Sophie's Perpetual

I was trying to take a full bush picture of Spong, but the farther away i got the paler the roses became on camera. This is a fair compromise. Not bad for a new band. Yes, I know I should have plucked the rest of the buds once I saw it was the right rose....


Anne-Marie de Montravel

And finally, a bud of Condesa de Sástago, so you can really see the bicolor

Gorgeous roses. I love everyone of them, but that Sophie's Perpetual is really special.

yes, Sophie's only looks that way when she first opens, and then only sometimes. usually she's a bit darker and the colors aren't so well seperated.

You have some really lovely roses, KSGreenman. Great photographs. That Geranium Red is beautiful, although I couldn't really pick a favorite!

Jo

Well, the reason Geranium Red is my favorite isn't so much for how it looks as how it smells to be honest...

I'm impressed, ksgreenman. You have some real beauties in there--and they are all growing in containers? I'm doubly impressed.

Yes, Sophie Perpetual is gorgeous--I'm sorry to hear that is not her usual appearance. So lovely. Well, I guess I can settle for the bi-color bud of Condesa de Sástago--I do like those bi-colors, ya know.

That Rotkäppchen is new to me--I really like it.

Kate

They're gorgeous! Love the colors on the Condesa!

Beautiful blooms! Love THE IMPRESSIONIST and ANNE-MARIE DE MONTRAVEL! And yes there is a limit to how many pics you can put in one posting... that's 10.

Wow! That's some beautiful blooms you have. You're going to let be Quietness!! Judy

You have a lot of great roses! Sophie's Perpetual is one I would like to have.

I'm drooling for more pics of 'Condesa de Sástago'.

Very well. Here is the same blossom as above, more fully opened.

aaand, here is a blossom, the one i posted way back on my "found my camera" thread, on the same afternoon it opened, already fully blown. on day two all the petals fall off. This would be why the Condessa is not a more popular rose despite its frequency of blooms and being pretty healthy for a Pernetiana.

while I'm at it, here is Gruss an Coberg more fully opened as well.