Love the beautiful rose pictures!

Wow Sharlene they look great!! I love the NOID! Your cross is stunning. Good for you!! Judy

Your roses are so pretty!

Very pretty! I especially love the Own Rose Cross and Lavender Ice. Do you notice any fragrance from Lavender Ice? Help Me Find says none to mild.

Ann

Thanks all!

Ann, I actually stuck my nose into Lavender Ice yesterday. No fragrance at all! Don't know if all the rain an cooler temps make a difference!

Sharlene

Superb photos! :)

The look of Hot Chocolate woke me up pretty fast. Love the Purple Tiger, but all are lovely.

Your DD and other photos are excellent photography as well as being beautiful subjects.

Kate

lol - Ingrida! Hot Chocolate is quite beautiful isn't it!

Kate - I was really disappointed with DD last year but it was planted bare root in March and I find that bare roots planted in spring seem to take a season to catch up to the fall planted roses.

My biggest disappointment this year is Dick Clark! I even have serious doubts as to if it really is Dick Clark!! Maybe the second flush will prove me wrong!??!

Really nice pics of gorgeous roses, suketesh. I've had a similar experience with DD. Planted at about the same time as you and started thinking it was a mistake and was thinking about putting DD on the shovel pruning list. This year it's done much better but not as well as yours.

"Own rose cross" - does that mean you're doing your own hybridizing?

Your roses look amazing, Sharlene! Those florist roses are gorgeous and your cross is so pretty!

I think maybe your Dick Clark is mislabled. I have never seen a bloom like that on mine. All are bicolor and high cenetered bloom form. Mine is own root.

Thank you for sharing your lovelies! My Purple Tiger is a goner this year and your photo makes me miss her.

Andrea

Al yes, I do a bit of hobby hybridizing - that rose is Compassion X Arthur Bell. A lovey, very fragrant rose with good resitance and grows well on it's own roots. Also easy to propagate. It sort of reminds me of Sheila's Perfume.

Andrea, sorry to hear that you lost Purple Tiger! I pack my two really well because I have read that they don't like the winters. So far so good but it is a finicky rose!

About DC - that was my first reaction! Another wrong delivery!! But then I googled a bit and found some photos that made me wonder - this one in particular http://starnursery.blogspot.ch/2015/03/desert-rose.html (you have to scroll down)
Not so sure but it definitely isn't what I expected!

Sharlene

That's impressive, suketesh, taking your interest in roses to another level. Also very nice results.

Beautiful blooms Sharlene! Nope... none of my attempts to root florist roses worked. I may try budding one of these days. Kim helped me get a bunch of different rootstocks to propagate, so I can try it. The plants aren't big enough to try yet tho. Maybe in the fall. I'm glad you got CHERRY BRANDY to bud for you. That's one I want to replace. I love your "own cross." Very pretty! Have you named it yet? And I would have to say I don't think that's DICK CLARK. I guess only subsequent blooms will tell!

'Lavender Ice' is a petal packed beauty. But it was 'Hot Chocolate' that made me groan I've gotta have it. What a color!

Yes, Beth - she does have a name 'Loving Lorna'. I have named four others which I will post when they bloom. I just didn't want to post a name which you cannot find a reference to. Will put the name in brackets next time.

I am 98% sure that DC is a wrong delivery but one of the blooms today had quite a bit of yellow/cream at the base of the petals and the reverse is much light. So 2% not sure!

Sharlene

Yes, Beth - she does have a name 'Loving Lorna'. I have named four others which I will post when they bloom. I just didn't want to post a name which you cannot find a reference to. Will put the name in brackets next time.

I am 98% sure that DC is a wrong delivery but one of the blooms today had quite a bit of yellow/cream at the base of the petals and the reverse is much light. So 2% not sure!

Sharlene

Love all of them especially lavender ice. Unfortunately, I have not been lucky enough to have lavender/lilac/mauve roses survive in my garden except Wild Blue Yonder. It is the holy grail for me to be able to grow lavender roses. I have been searching for novalis to see if that will survive.

Hope you are successful in your search!

Your roses are stunning! I love every one of them!

lovely lovely lovely all your roses are lovely!