I can't get over your roses and their setting. Amazing!!!! Menard's carries MontheH if anyone still wants one late in the season. I need to sit a while and absorb this post.

In the fall, the roses here grow larger than any time of the year.

Here are some more photos from today.

One of my favorite Hybrid Musks, Clair Matin

Bayse's Purple, my only Rugosa. Very healthy, armed with beautiful but deadly thorns., suckers just a little.

Belinda's Dream. Maybe the best shrub rose for hot humid climates.

Another photo of Belinda's Dream.

Etoile de Lyon, a very nice Tea rose

This a fall blooming bulb called Hurricane Lily since it blooms around hurricane season. It is also called "Naked Lady" because it blooms before it sends up its foliage

This year I experimented with teas too, including Rozette Delizy. I love this rose, it is tiny but blooms non-stop. I hope all my baby teas make it through the winter. I will be sure to mulch high.

I wish you success. Teas are my most disease resistant roses.

You have such a splendid garden Valrose and all your roses are so healthy. Your photos and comments are a valuable source of information for me as your climate resembles mine (less the monsoon that is a big problem here in Islamabad).

How is the blooming performance and disease resistance of Souvenir de St. Annes?

Thanks for posting these lovely pics.

It is not as quite as good as the Tea roses, in both bloom quantity and disease resistant, but it's fragrance makes it very worth growing

Though I haven't posted a picture of her, if I could grow only one rose bush it would Mrs. BR Cant.

More Florida fall roses from just before the Hurricane.

Elina is very prolific and disease resistant for me

Mystic Beauty, I know that I post a lot of photos for this one, but nothing can beat if for clean foliage and blooming power

One of my favorite hybrid musks Gartendirector Otto Linne

Folklore, still impress with this one.

Another view of Folklore

Prairie Star, one of the better Bucks for me. Large blooms, clean foliage
Another Bucks named Freckles that preforms well here.
Belinda's Dream This shrub rose is about 5' high and is always in bloom
Carefree Beauty, A good performer, Its the rose that is frequently used as the control standard in disease resistants trials. It a pretty good rose here though the Teas have it beat for clean foliage.
Austin's Heritage. A good preforming Austin for the South.

The hurricane did little damage in North Central Florida. We got a lot of wind and a little rain.

Val: Thank you for those fantastic pics (lots of blooms), esp. of Gartendirector Otto Linne .. very pretty. Folklore has a very nice color.

Valrose: Wonderful photos of your roses. Your Gartendirector Otto Linne is simply spectacular..... breath taking.

Valrose: I love your thornless roses: Rubens, thornless Tea and Rosette Delizy, thornless tea. Too bad my zone 5a is too cold for tea !! I love thornless roses.

Really like my thornless Bohemian Rhapsody, but that one was bred in a hot & sandy California by Robert Rippetoe .. so that rose does best in your sandy & hot Florida .. it's wimpy in my heavy clay.

Gartendirector Otto Linne really got my attention also, beautiful!

Me as well. I'm also crazy about the stamens on Bayse's Purple. They remind me of some fancy passementerie fringe. Val, if you find the time in the next couple of months, could you post your experience with this rose on my ARE thread? BP is one I'm considering, but it's not a "must-have". I just adore those stamens!

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4313689/various-climbers-hmusks-etc-opinion-wanted?n=4

Basyes Blueberry (thornless, intense wild rose scent) is very drought-tolerant, it died in my soaking wet clay .... thus best for sandy/loamy soil & hot climate. Bees love Basye's Blueberry, and I didn't see any thorns on that one.

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.541&tab=36