Lovely! & I never imagined squirrels ate roses!

Hi

Always liked roses but stayed away from them except for the miniatures. Did fair but bugs thought of them as a salad bar .

In feb bought a potted hybrid tea mostly because it looked so healthy and that it was "peace" variety and of greatest importance was 8 bucks lol. potted it up in a 4 gallon . A few bug bites on old leaves but no mildew or black spot so far. see no buds as yet but has developed canes which look incredibly healthy. I just might get a flower or two before summer sets in??

My squirrels wrecked my christmas cactus just when i had the most spectacular display ,naturally. Never wanted to be a murderer as well as a gardener but moving in that direction lol gary

Your roses are lovely. The shading in the colors is very pretty.

Nice flowers. Some advice from an amateur photographer. While it's best not to try to center things, make sure you get all of the item's pieces in the shot. Closeups are the hardest, you've got great focus on your subject. What's the new camera?

Lovely! My roses had a spring flush too but just at the height of the heat wave we have had the last week or two, so they weren't too pretty by later afternoon. I thought I had lost the 'Carnation' rose you gave me but it's managed to grow tall and bloom through the oak tree next to it!

Beautiful roses! No wonder your name has a rose in it, you are a rose expert!

Silvia

So beautiful! I can't grow roses. I've tried and tried. I even kill the ones on Fortuniana rootstock. I do love seeing pictures, though.

Yes, what a surprise to see him munching away. I didn't run him off, thinking his regular fodder might have been sparse. It was a few weeks ago for that pic.

Gary, HTs are very hard to grow here. Three of the above are antiques, therefore much healthier. Gio is a Kordes HT. That breeder is going for health so I am trying a few.

Thank you, Garden Gal and Marcia. Ricky, that is actually my new phone, Samsung, Note 4. I am so pleased with the quality of the pics. Now if I can just figure out a simpler way top get them posted..... Thanks for the pic tips!

Not an expert, Silvia, just besotted since childhood and DETERMINED to have them in my life. Richest soil, fort root stock if I can get it and if (when) they fail a new one comes to live here. (I don't buy shoes, fancy clothes, etc. I stopped any [expensive} partying many years ago. The garden and my sewing are my only remaining vices.) Also, I have a very high tolerance for naked, thorny canes. If they can manage to bloom, they stay.

DG, the best one for here is the Cracker Rose, Louis Phillippe. Does very well, own root in most of Florida. Of course, the better soil it get the better it will do.