Belinda's Dream

Royal William

Julia Child

Double Delight

Forgotten Dreams

Aloha

Liebeszauber

OLOG

America

Love seeing your JULIA CHILD, since I will get her soon.

Thanks Carol and Jasmine. Carol, you have lots of beautiful roses too! Love your Chicago Peace. They all look lovely! My Pink Peace is getting lots of buds, can't wait to see the blooms, it and Perfume Delight are loaded with buds. Your Jadis is gorgeous, mine died, but I'm going to try to replace it. Glad your Ch-Ching is doing good, mine has been struggling, but seems to be doing better. Valencia is on my must have list , I love yours!

Wow. Those look great. I'm really digging leibazsauber and English perfume.

My best this year has been:

easy does it

Followed by:

1. Dick Clark
2. Tamora
3. love
4. the shepherdess
5. veterans honor
6. pope John Paul ii
7. Pat Austin

Thank you SoFL. Your Easy Does It looks great! I'm especially glad your Dick Clark, PJPII and Veterans Honor are doing good. I have DC and PJPII, and they are slowly getting better. I planted a Veterans Honor in 2013 and it never did that great for me, it didn't survive last year, I think it wasn't a good plant to begin with it, that happens. I love the blooms, I really do want to try it again.

Great post Sara - good to read/see which roses do well even though it doesn't necessarily mean they do well everywhere it shows that they have the potential of being good plants. Julia Child looks really great and I have ordered her - she will be arriving, bare root, around the end of October.

(It may also be an idea to start a post for the roses that don't do that great??)

SoFL - Easy Does It is stunning!

Sharlene

It's been practically a non-rose year for me with the hot spring, drought, heat spell now, etc., so it's a treat to see so many lovely roses here. I was glad to see the beautiful blooms on Aloha since I have a young plant. I love La France which I've had before and lost, but will receive again next month. Too many other pretty ones to name in your pictures, but great to see them.

Sara-Ann, some of my best producers this year are: PJPII, South Africa, Rose', Tineke, Let Freedom Ring, Marijke Koopman, Bride's Dream, veteran's Honor, Beverly, Tahitian Sunset, Fabulous, Voluptuous, Sexy REXY, European Touch, Granada, and Scentimental.

Disappointed in (new this year): Pretty Lady Rose. I do want more blooms on Neil Diamond.

Disappointed in (established): Stainless Steel-love the bloom, but didn't rebound enough from hard winter and had her few blooms.

Kentucky_rose - I have a question about your Beverly. Mine seems to hide the blooms in the new growth. This shows the rose is vigorous, but I don't like having to get my nose scratched while smelling a bloom. LOL - Is yours like this?

Carol

Carol, I haven't noticed this, but it sure does smell good. My garden is more for cutting. About a month ago, I started foliar spraying with Peter's/Miracle Gro fertilizer and I am getting a lot more blooms. Maybe what you're experiencing is due to your climate?

Here's some Beverly pics:

Thanks so much everyone! Sharlene, I agree, that would be an interesting thread too, telling about the ones that aren't doing so good! Ingrid, Aloha has been a great rose for me, it does better when the conditions aren't too wet. The blooms were the best I had ever seen them during the spring flush, also I've never noticed it being bothered that much by the heat. Good luck with your new La France, it's so lovely! Kentucky, some great roses on your list , there's a couple I need to look up though . Your Beverly blooms are gorgeous! What beautiful bouquets, which I haven't seen nearly enough of this year!

Another picture of ALOHA

Sara-Ann,

Aloha is breathtaking and lots of blooms!

Kentucky Rose - your Beverly pictures look much nicer than mine do. Wow!!!

Sara-Ann - yes those Aloha flowers are gorgeous!!!! So many flowers too!!!

Wow!

Carol

Beautiful Blooms Sarah, especiallly Belinda's dream and Aloha. My only rose that's really been outstanding has been Pope John Paull II. The crazy dry heat has really slowed down any action from the other roses since spring, but this one keeps on blooming and it takes the heat like a champ. I just took this picture now, it's almost always in blooms like this..I can't wait to see what it can do in its second year.

I'm not sure what I can add to this list since I don't grow HT's and I don't have pictures to show, but maybe it will be informational.

New roses this year that look like they're going to do well: Clothilde Soupert (disease-free for the most part, 3 flushes since I got it and flowers are to die for), Pink Gruss an Auchen (and now I want the regular one), Cinco de Mayo (Wasn't sure how I'd feel about this one but I like "chameleon" roses; so far healthy and forgiving; goes with most of my roses), Del Rio (reminds me of a tea but who knows? It was in rough shape when I took it out of the box but is just fine now and blooming for the third time. So pretty!), and two mini's: Chipmunk/PB&J (time will tell how well it winters but so far healthy and has lovely, unusual blooms), and Rachel (another mini that grows well and has the most beautiful foliage. Hasn't bloomed much yet- got deer-pruned- but the flowers are like giftwrap bows that stay perfect a long time. Fragrant!)

There may be others but some have been a little slow to get started.

Loved seeing your roses, Sara-Ann, Rosecanadian, Kentucky Rose, So FL and Dan. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Dan. Your Pope John Paul II looks great. I love the blooms, mine is not vigorous though. I think I'll plant another one, sometimes I plant two of the same variety that perform differently. Mine is in its second season, maybe it needs more time.

Kes, thank you! This thread doesn't just have to be about hybrid teas, any rose that has done good for you, we are interested in. I did just tell about my hybrid teas and floribundas, but I love all kinds of roses, and during the spring flush my old garden roses were the stars!

Reine des Violettes

I've had a lot of top notch performers this year. OGR's--- Pink Pet, Compt de Chambrod, Rosa Rugosa, Rosa Rugosa Alba, Zephy (heavy spring flush and blooms on it all summer long).

Shrubs--- Distant drums, Munstead Woods, Lady of Shallot, Septer'd Isle, Molineux, Belinda's Dream.

Florabundas--- Hot Cocoa, Charisma, (new) Shelia's Perfume.

HT's--- (established) Remember Me, Dark Night, Louise Estes, Brinessa, Moonstone, Marlons Day, Kardinal. (new) Dark Desire, JFK, Shug, Caramel Cream.

Minifloras--- Shameless, Leading Lady, Tiffany Lynn, Whirlaway, Tammy Clemons, Regina Lee, Ambience, Cooper, First Choice, Joy Kathline, (new) Ingrid.

Mini's---Kiss Kordana, Black Jade, Incognito, Soroptomist International, Joy, Glowing Amber, Pierrine.

All great pics of your roses everyone!

Still got a few months to go before the season is over here. There wasn't much activity bloom-wise during July and August due to heat and no rain, so everything is just now waking up again. Off the cuff, I'd say that Poseiden, Beverly, rouge Royale, Rock hill peach tea, Munstead Wood and Trinity were the biggest bloomers so far.

I don't have many roses but I really enjoyed Ebb Tide and First Crush. Ebb Tide is 2 years old and I received First Crush this past July.

Thanks again everyone. Ken, that's quite a list. I'm amazed that JFK does good for you, it is beautiful at its best though. How many roses do you have? Brittle, I would like to try Rouge Royale. but haven't decided yet. I think Beverly must be a very good rose. I am anxious to see what my Poseidon does, it didn't get a very good start, but looks very healthy now. Ut2nc, your roses look great!

Sara-Ann, I have 88 roses at present and will be adding 13 more this fall & next spring. As far as JFK goes, rootstock makes all the difference in the world with this rose. I grew JFK when I lived in Florida on fortuniana rootstock. Big healthy bush pumped out dozens of roses. When I moved to N.E. GA. in 08, I bought one on Dr Huey. What a dog. 5 blooms in 2 years. Are you kidding me???? I finally contacted the nursery that carries it on fortuniana and bought 2. BANG!!! Same kind of bush's I had in FL., only the blooms were bigger in the cooler weather. Added 2 more this past summer. I have a point to prove with this rose.

I just reread my list. I forgot a mini. Daddy Frank has been fantastic all summer. A REALLY good dark red that never quits, even when it gets hot.

My PJPII and Veterans Honor are both on Fortuniana and both have produced tons of blooms this year. It's well known that in Florida, most roses won't do well at all unless grafted in fort, but I guess some varieties do better on fortuniana. Root stock makes a difference. If Fortuniana wasn't so cold tender it would be the most widely used stock I think.

Thanks Ken and SoFL. I wish the fortuniana wasn't so iffy where I live, I'd really like to try it.

My best performers this year were About Face, Anna's Promise and Hot Chocolate. Ann's promise was new this year. The other 2 were nearly destroyed last winter, but came back strong.

About Face

Most of my old roses were neglected for a few years for various reasons and I had to repot all of them. they are just now beginning to recuperate and bloom. A few of my Breck's Sale Roses have been outstanding:

All Ablaze

In the Mood buds in front of my new favorite yellow, Summer Love

Pink Home Run. I have been so impressed with this one. I wish you could have seen it before the storm knocked almost all the blooms off

Veteran's Honor: New to me this year, slower rebloom than the others, but worth waiting for.

Veteran's Honor. Need I say more.