Great blooms Beth - Edgar Degas?? Amazing! Really different! And mine just won't give me any stripes - always plain pink!! :( maybe this season!

Sharlene

Maurice looks amazing!! Such a breezy happy looking rose!

Eddy Degas looks so sunny. Just love the stripes!

I've never seen Eddy Mitchell look like that. A totally new side to her.

Lovely roses!! You add so much to this forum!

Carol

Hi Beth! Love Grey Pearl. Such a pretty and different shade of purple. Eddy Mitchel has a very pretty coloring too. Glad you prevailed over the weeds and saw her. Judy

MAURICE UTRILLO has wowed me.

I agree with oz, please keep them coming Beth. Helen

Nice Beth!

Wonderful photos! MAURICE UTRILLO is gorgeous.

Gorgeous pix, Beth. OT: Now if I can just remember which rose you grow that I saw on HMF that I wanted to ask you about...lol...all I can remember is I found it on Ludwig's site, and when I went to check it out I saw that you grow it. I know it was one of the weird colors.

John

Aha! I'm not as senile as I thought. It's Mama Africa. Tell me what you think, and how does the color hold up/change?

Thanks everybody.

Ok John... I am waiting for a response from Jan Spek roses about MAMA AFRICA/ESPRESSO. I got ESPRESSO quite a few yrs ago from Carltons Roses. As you can see from my photos on HMF, it was a beautiful multi-colored rose, with browns, tans, apricots, and russet. Unfortunately it was one of the many roses I lost several yrs ago, when I wasn't keeping good track of my sprinklers. I was thrilled when I saw that Ludwigs was carrying MAMA AFRICA, which had the same codename as my ESPRESSO. Or so It seemed.... Apparently MA has a codename of SPEbrown, which supposedly was the same as my original ESPRESSO. However... I looked on the Spek website, and they do not list a rose with the codename SPEbrown. And, their ESPRESSO rose, which looks alot like my pics, has a codename of SPEresso. HMF does not list a codename of SPEresso. The description on Ludwigs for MAMA AFRICA calls it a "brown, orange, yellow" which would be what my old one could be called... The rose they show on their website, tho, is a rusty-burgundy-looking color. The plant that I got from Ludwigs, has rust colored blooms, similar to their pic. I'm guessing either there are two different roses with differing codenames, or they used two codenames on the same rose. Not like that's never happened before.... But, unfortunately, my fear is that these are two totally different roses. Only time will tell with subsequent blooms on the Ludwigs plant, if it gets those other colors on it. In the meantime, I emailed Spek Roses regarding this confusion. Hopefully they will get back to me soon and let me know if these are indeed two different roses, or the same with differing codenames. There is a possibility they could've changed the codename for Ludwigs.

lol...thanks Beth. Just please, once you find out, let me know if Ludwig's rose is the same as the rose you have on HMF; because like you, that's the one I want! I'm not big on the weirdos, but this one has "got" me.

(Lustful) John