So lovely, I always enjoy your picture so much. Your DHsS is absolutely gorgeous. The Faun is a great little workhorse of a rose, isn't it? Mine was finally liberated from its pot. Hopefully it will thrive in its new spot. Everything looks great! Lisa

Thank you for sharing, Ingrid. Just incredible! I have a 2 month old Baronne Henrietta and I so wish mine was headed in your's direction. Mine must be mislabeled, with lime green foliage and soft matte leaves. No red new foliage. I hope it's something good, but I miss having Baronne H. already.

Bless you! Like, like, like.... Carol

Beautiful photos, Ingrid. Hard to believe your garden ever looked better, as it looks wonderful now. I love your yellow iris, and am so jealous that you have too many! I can't get iris to do well here, and I do love them. In a previous garden I had an area under a neighbour's Camphor Laurel, where almost nothing would grow. In the end, I planted a repeating yellow iris (3 or 4 flushes a year!) with forget-me-nots, with stepping stones through, and they did wonderfully, and multiplied crazily. I did take a tuber when I left, but don't have it any more.

Your BHdS is very pretty, and that MAM is looking good already to my eye. Are you happier with her? I have that phlomis, and have never detected any scent. I shall have a good sniff this morning.

Trish

So beautiful. I love my Faun too!!

Sheila, just give your Baronne some time, mine has very little red foliage and is actually a very wimpy plant, with MMM barging into it. It's so weak that I probably shouldn't allow it to bloom at all, but I couldn't resist. I'm so tired of disbudding everything and still seeing very slow growth.

Trish, I wish I could send you my extra irises, but it sounds as though they don't do well in your present garden. Perhaps you should try again; the reblooming irises are so rewarding. My phlomis actually wafts its fragrance for a few feet so I'm very surprised you're not aware of any fragrance with yours.

Lisa, you're more than welcome to visit, but the Baronne only has two buds other than this flower and we would have to time it just right. I read that this was a very strong and thick-caned rose but no one told mine about that characteristic. Patience, I must have patience.

I hope you are right about my Baronne, Ingrid. It doesn't look like a Tea at all to me.

Quite a show developing there Ingrid... I especially like, this time, photo no. 8 which gives an overall view of an area, cleverly photographed with a mellowing effect of the sun and the huge boulder to the right perhaps fortuitously out of shot, which if I might say so and I hope you don't mind this, gives an English style cottage garden look... something extraordinarily difficult to achieve I would think, in a region close to Mexico...? if indeed that was the intention, or not...

Marlorena, you discerned my purpose, which is to have a Mediterranean version of the English country garden look, since I like that informal, somewhat haphazard approach. There's a slight nod to the Italian garden with the cypresses. I cut my teeth on illustrated English gardening books where even the grand gardens had a charmingly informal and natural appearance, and have never found another style that resonates as well with me.

Gorgeous roses as always .loved the Faun