Rosa minutifolia 'Pure Bea'. California native. R. minutifolia is one of the most ancient roses in existence. Very, very drought tolerant!

I love the foliage!

Rosa borissovae. From the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. Supposedly a once-bloomer per description on HMF, but mine repeats A LOT. I think not much is known about this rose in the west and so it is assumed it is a once-bloomer. Flowers are scented of citrus with a hint of linseed oil.

Micrugosa alba.

Rosa fedschenkoana. Scented strongly of linseed oil.

Rosa xanthina.

Julia Mannering. An eglantine and not quite single.

Rosa omeiensis 'Pteracantha'

Rosa primula. I have 5 seedlings of R. primula this year. Two have very fragrant foliage like their mother. Two have moderately fragrant foliage, and one has foliage with barely any scent. None have bloomed yet. Here is mom, a favorite of bees!

Rosa spinosissima.

Cassie.

Compactilla

Rosa pinetorum 'Beatrice Howitt'.

Jeri, I love your daughter Tika! What a cutie! LOL!

Well, since we are doing semi's, here are a few more...

Flamingo Dancer

Peach Blossom

They are all so very beautiful--I love their delicate look, though many are tough as nails. I am amazed at your climbing Carefree Delight, gdinie. I couldn't bear to cut back that wonderful rose. Seil, I am nuts about Eyeconic Pink Lemonade and your photo of it. I have wanted one for two years now. Diane

Oh good I have some semis!

Lillian Gibson

Westerland

Veilchenblau

Tausendschon

Thank you! Jeri, Tika likes you. I'm glad. Here are some more singles and almost singles.

April Mooncrest X Secret Garden. Scented, healthy, repeat flowering.

April Mooncrest X Velvet Fragrance.

C 04

Golden Angel X R. Californica nana

Lynnie X R. Arkansana "Peppermint"

Mutabilis - poly seedling

Little Butterfly

Indian Love Call X Morcrest

Indian Love Call X Blue for You

[{'Halo Today' X ['Geisha' X ('Tobo' X 'Singin' in the Rain')]} X 'Thrive!'] X Indian Love Call

Lynnie X Morjerry. Yes, it's spotted.

Manhattan Blue

[{'Halo Today' X ['Geisha' X ('Tobo' X 'Singin' in the Rain')]} X 'Thrive!'] X R. Fedtschenkoana

Smiling Jean

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

(International Herald Tribune X Lila Banks) X Secret Garden

Pretty Lady X Gina's Rose

Indian Love Call X Blue for You. Large, "painted", prolific, healthy and well-scented.

ok Kim...NOW you've gone and done it, lol. That last one is calling my name.

John

Me too!

I love kim's last one!!! "Indian Love Call X Blue for You. Large, "painted", prolific, healthy and well-scented". That's a breath taking beautiful rose. I'd love to grow that one in my ice hole garden someday. Is it cold hardy?

Right now, I have Polar Joy rose trees and one single red, I forgot the name, I will take a photo and check the name tag tomorrow.......

Thank you! Well, it's hardy enough for the California Central Coast and the San Fernando Valley. It germinated in the Valley and flowered once. The rest of its performance has been here, less than ten miles from the Pacific where it has been as "cold" as the low fifties and as "blistering" as the low eighties..so far. That's all I can report on "hardiness".

Well, Indian Love Call (yet another Rupert cutie) is rated hardy to 5a on HelpMeFind (someone was/is growing it in Iowa), but Blue For You just to 6b. I'd guess Kim's new rose would be hardy to at LEAST 6b, but it's a genetic crap shoot, lol.

John

Thanks for the info Kim. Indian Love Call is rated for 5a, Blue for You is rated for 6b, this pretty child of theirs might be a tall hardy girl (climber/rambler). Low50's-low 80's, that's our summer temp here. :-)

Love everyone's pictures! Simply gorgeous!

Oh my Kim! They are all lovely, but the last one is gorgeous. If you need to test it in a hotter climate let me know :-)

So many beautiful singles and Tika is adorable.

Kim, your bouquet of lovelies is stunning, as always. I have to agree that the 'painted lady' is a winner, but I'm also hoping to see more of the dark red and purple roses. How is it that they are so richly colored when your UV is so intense there?

Virginia

Thank you! That's simple, Virginia. You have genes which "tan" in high UV and those which fade. Remember, China genes darken with age, heat and light while European genes tend to fade. Those which possess more China genes darken or remain dark. The others, fade. It's those genes which should be providing the "painting" on this rose. With no light, it's whiter, like a Double Delight is where the light intensities and levels of heat are low. Give it a "hot", bright day and you get this.

It's the same thing you get with roses like Laughter Lines. When conditions are just right, it shows the painting. When they pass the tipping point, the pigmentation is solid.

Jacqueline du Pré, difficult and rather sickly for me, but the gorgeous eyelashes are worth some trouble.

Marianne

..some really nice roses on here, some I've not heard of... most people seem to have 'Mutabilis' so I'll just show my 'Kew Gardens' once again, as it's becoming rather large... 8 x 8' and needs to be cut back...before it gets on my nerves...

Aack! I need that polka dot rose, Kim! Do you need someone to test it for cold hardiness, lol?

Wow, gdinie - that photo of Carefree Delight is just stunning in her "glory days" as well as closeup. How much of the summer did you get an astonishing bloom like that? And Kim, those crosses are just magnificent triumphs of your breeding skill. Lynnie sure is a great parent, and you get to be a proud "grandpa" of her offspring. I also love the spotted cross and the last cross in both of her colorings, but the Lynnie X R. Arkansana "Peppermint" sets my heart a-flutter as well as Indian Love Call X Blue for You. Since many of those Hulthemia roses do so poorly for me here, I'm a bit cautious about some of the crosses involving those - I envy Seil her great photos of these. Tessiess - you do a great job of tempting us to want more species singles as well.

Here are a few singles I enjoy - starting with a whole bush shot of Smiling Jean that Kim mentioned - she's one of three or four die-hard roses that bloom like this all summer even in a bad year.

The Easy Elegance rose All The Rage has absolutely huge semidouble blooms almost as large as Kim's Carlin's Rhythm (can't find a photo of that one, but maybe Kim will oblige):

The nearly zero care Darlow's Enigma

The new Kordes Fire Opal

Guirlande d'Amour, in part shade

La Marne, complete with leaf-cutter bee evidence

The intriguing stripes of Marylene

The tantalizing deep colors of Paul Ecke Jr.

Cheerful Robin Hood, also in part shade

Maybe my favorite single, Watercolors (distinguished from Seil's Watercolors Home Run, but perhaps related??)

Cynthia

Beautiful, Cynthia. Thank you! Carlin's Rhythm is one I have to obtain again. It didn't make the move. Just too much, too little space and too little time.

Let me add Priscilla Burton in her various dresses. she is almost single and could be different colors

And Candy Cane, climbing mini

Laughter Lines

Red Hot

Golda Banks

Minutifolia

Puzzlement

1-72-1Hugonis

Dr. E. M. Mills

Fire'n Spice

Indian Love Call

The Charlatan

Wild Irish Rose is beautiful! As are all the roses in this thread!

I am just loving this thread. Thank you all for starting it and showing me all of your wonderful roses. Loved learning about the coloring of the China and European roses. You all are amazing and so generous in sharing your knowledge. Now, I have to put a spotted rose on my list to get next year....

Complicata, just coming into flower. It dominates my front garden because of its mass of blooms.

Oh sure, Kim - tempt us with roses we can't get!! Neither Laughter Lines nor Red Hot is listed on HMF as available in the US, so you're responsible for two more roses on my "unobtainable" wish list. Ah well, it gives me something to strive for.

Ironic that you should have to go hunting for your own rose. Let me know toward the end of this year or maybe next as my Carlin's Rhythm gets big enough to attempt cuttings, and I'll see if I can manage to get you something healthy enough to send you. That is, with the breeder's permission to propagate his rose for your personal use (smile). I need to bite the bullet and try cuttings anyway, so I might as well start with something that's clearly wanted.

Cynthia

Kim, tell us more about Puzzlement. What kind of growth habit does it have? Does it repeat?

Thanks, Cynthia. I'm sure "permission" could be wrangled! LOL! I have Laughter Lines. It roots and grows well own root, so once the hips ripening on the canes are harvested, cuttings can be available. A dear friend has it, and Red Hot and I'm certain cuttings from hers can be obtained, too. Problem solved!

Puzzlement flowered first in August 2013, after germinating January-ish 2012. It has grown in its five gallon can for several years now as there hasn't been anywhere to plant it in the ground yet. The plant isn't a rampant grower...yet (or, if ever) and had not expressed any apparent desire to sucker until I just went to photograph it a few minutes ago and discovered it attempting to escape from its can through the drain hole.

It is overcast, 71F with 77% humidity and the new growth tips are highly scented with the expected Fedtschenkoana smoky fir scent. There are flower buds as well as spent blooms. I have not perceived any scent from the flowers or pollen when I've collected it.

It has not supported any hips to maturity and I'm not certain yet if its pollen has resulted in any successful germinations. There are seedlings tagged as being from its use, but it will likely take time for them to express anything pointing toward Puzzlement's contribution.

The discoloration you see across the leaf surfaces is a play of light. There is a "bloom" to them which sometimes appears as a lavender cast to the leaves. I guess a polarizing filter might help eliminate the effect as it used to in 35 mm photography.

This provided the perfect boom this morning.

Sunburn

Lilac Charm, not a "great" plant but one of my favorites.

L56-1 X Indian Love Call

Art Nouveau seedling

Boy, Sunburn's petals are intriguing! You don't often see those deeply scalloped and wavy edges on a rose, and the single really sets if off. And the Art Nouveau seedling is clearly for the stamen lovers of the rose world - kinda like Dolly Parton (the lady, not the rose) letting the chest hang out there to the point you don't notice much else. Certainly has a presence!

Cynthia

I joke about that one needing to be called, "Come Hither", or "Asking for It". Definitely easy to work with without those nasty petals getting in the way!

I have only two recent contributions to this thread. First, this is a pic of the first bloom on my 'R. fedtschenkoana' from late May. It has the occasional bloom again on and off.

And here's the first open bloom on my new baby 'Miss Lowe's Variety' from a week ago. It keeps putting out more -- and growing -- so I'm letting it do its thing.

It'll eventually live in the barrel below, but after I do a round of repotting in a few days, it'll spend the rest of the season in a 2-gal container. I also have a 'Mutabilis' which will be treated the same, but its first bloom opened just today, and I didn't snap a pic. It was already stained with some orange, so it'll be interesting to experience its color change in-person for the first time.

:-)

~Christopher

Wait until you see those floppy, "eye lash" stamen in Miss Lowe. They are very similar to the overly long, floppy stamen found in the center of Secret Garden. Hopefully the hips forming on Miss Lowe really are from the Secret Garden, Primula, Hugonis and Minutifolia pollen I used on her!

Kim, I'll volunteer to test the spotted one too! LOL!

Gail

Me too Kim. :-)

I found 2 wild single roses( I think) on the hiking trail yesterday, they both are growing near the water by a lake, that means they can take wet feet! One bud was almost in full bloom, but for some reason I can't paste the photo here. I will go back check on them today, may be take some cuttings, more photos. Camping in the mountains right now, haven't seen any bears yet, just saw their footprints. 70 degrees right now and rain is coming.

There are not many roses can grow in the wet land, these 2 wild roses are so different.

Thanks, if the blamed thing will grow... this is a climbing seedling that's now putting out blooms.

OK, I finally took a picture of my Carlin's Rhythm, to tempt all you singles fans. The bloom is absolutely HUGE - routinely as long as my hand and even wider. It's totally hardy in my zone 5 and healthy as a horse. Here's a closeup shot -

And here is a shot to give you a sense of size. Down to the left is one Carlin's Rhythm bloom, giving the massive mopheads of my monster Annabelle hydrangea stiff competition for size (pardon the garden trug in the way).

Kim has created a total winner of a rose in this one, and Rogue Valley Roses sells it. Just sayin'...

Cynthia

Beautiful, Cynthia, thank you! It is always gratifying to see my "babies" in friends' gardens. But, particularly so when they behave themselves and please you. I'm pleased CR is pleasing YOU! Thank you!

Very pretty Cynthia! Kim has a lot of pretty babies! :-)

I just got back from a camping trip, here is one wild rose by a lake. I couldn't post it using my iphone last week. Here it is.

Thank you. That's pretty, summersrhythm. A few more which flowered during and after the rains...

Irish Fireflame self seedling.