I have a great fondness for semi-double roses and your pictures very well illustrate why. Applejack has an innocent loveliness that is captivating.

Single and semi-double roses are real favorites, here. Bees love 'em.

Ah, Hebe's Lip is on my "must acquire" list. So nice to see a picture of it in your garden. :)

All beautiful, in this world of busyness it is nice to be reminded of simple pleasures. I was not familiar with Applejack, it is something!

I grow Applejack in faraway Sweden. It is not a favorite but then it has a less than ideal position and would probably do better with more sun. I put it next to Complicata in the hope that it would take over after the onceblooming Complicata with similar flowers.

Applejack has been a very reliable rose for me in zone 4 for twenty years. It makes a large shrub that took a few years to catch its stride, but has been disease resistant and trouble free ever since.

Here's a Semi-Double you may not have seen: Sean McCann's 'Gentle Annie'

I'm an Applejack fan, too! Love that rose best of all the Buck's I ever tried (and I grew most of 'em at one time) and it's the only Buck rose I still grow today.

But man oh man, I sure wish Rayon Butterfed would survive up here in the north. What a captivating rose!

I just love semi's. I find their centers so charming. Here are a couple from my garden. They are new to me this year, but look like they will be doing just fine.

Love your Tuscany, it's one I've seen in books and been tempted by.

They're all beautiful. !!! They perform so well when there is allot of rain....Which I get every year at bloom time..

Fighting Temeraire, one of Austin's few semi doubles. I love it to bits - the flowers are huge and colour change fascinatingly.

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