R. hemisphaerica 'Flore Pleno', species, before 1516. Own root from Greenmantle. I was on the waiting list for several years or so. Worth the wait. This is about as yellow as a rose can get. Does not fade at all in the sun. Has had no disease in my garden.

Charles Metroz, polyantha, Schwartz, France, 1900. Not in commerce in the USA which is a shame, he is a lovely rose. Shown here draped over his pot neighbor, Sunny Day. I got Charles Metroz from Eurodesert in 2011, and he is still in the same pot I brought him home in, and that is because he is grafted on something with a TAP ROOT. Never seen anything like it. Bought 2 plants from Eurodesert of Charles Metroz. The first one I brought home with a group of other roses I'd purchased. I thought I had seen what looked like a tap root when he was dug up, but then thought I was crazy, roses don't have tap roots do they? But when I got that load of roses home (approximately a 90-mile trip IIRC), only CM was wilted, and I mean bigtime wilted. Huh. Watered thoroughly and soon planted. He died. So when I went back for the second plant I paid close attention while he was being dug up. Sure enough a whopping big tap root. So I zipped home and rushed him into the shade. He was very, very wilted. I doused him with water, and kept spritzing him frequently. Didn't even think of replanting and disturbing that root again. He recovered fairly quickly but I haven't dared take him out of the pot. So he lives in a pot on my front porch along with some other small roses, Renny, Memory Lane, Sunny Day, and Sequoia Gold.

Jenny Duval, gallica, Duval, France, before 1846. Maybe it is the real Jenny Duval. I got her from Heirloom in 1994, but Heirloom wasn't sure if this ID is correct. Is it JD or President du Seze (or something else). Whatever, she is beautiful and one of my favorite roses. A garden thug, she spreads everywhere! Very fragrant and healthy. Shade tolerant. Drought tolerant. Thorny. Mutable too. This year she is looking pinker than usual, but her flowers go more into purple/grey tones as they age as seen in the shots above, all taken tonight.

Felicite Parmentier, alba, Parmentier, Belgium, before 1836. My favorite rose. Extremely fragrant, and this scent is the most heavenly of all my roses. It wafts through the air. I could find her in the dark with my eyes closed. Healthy, floriferous, drought tolerant, and shade tolerant. Blooms packed with petals. That pushes all my buttons.;)

Paul Ricault, centifolia, Portemer (pere), France, 1845. Own root from Heirloom in the mid 1990s. Shot taken from below. He probably normally doesn't get this tall, but he is next to Cl. Cecile Brunner and she is such a massive grower, she has strangled out most of her neighbors over the decades, she has a trunk like a tree. Any rose that couldn't hunt for the sun by growing above her clutches simply was smothered. He has survived by getting very, very tall. Between 15 and 20 feet I'd say.

Renny, miniature, Moore, USA, 1989. Happily growing in a pot shared with lemon balm on my front porch. Such a cheerful rose and rarely without flowers.

You'd be most welcome to have it. My propagating skills are not the best. I can try layering it--a very primitive way that seems to work for me. I bend a cane into an adjacent pot and put a rock on top of it. Then wait for it to root. I'm afraid I would forget about cuttings stuck in the ground (as in they wouldn't get watered so even if they are easy to root, not if I am doing it*g*). Right now it has just sent up a new basal. It is fairly flexible and close to the ground (none of the other bendable canes are). It does worry me, that I have this, and some others, that nobody or almost nobody else in the US grows. Need to spread them around. Most of my oddities came from Eurodesert, and I actually sought out the peculiar ones because they simply appealed to me, and the rareness was a source of worry. Take a look at my other roses on HMF and let me know if there is anything else of interest to you. After all it doesn't hurt to fill up the box!

Tessiess, WOW!! II'm still gazing at all your photos and rereading your text. Wonderful photos and discriptions of varieties I'm familiar with plus photos/descriptions of many roses I've never encountered...even on the internet! Carol

Tessie, you have the most interesting, varied and beautiful collection of roses. There is nothing run-of-the-mill about them. I'm glad there are a few people like you who grow these unusual roses and keep them in commerce. R. hemisphaerica 'Flore Pleno' has for some reason fascinated me for many years and I was glad to see your picture.

Thank you for the kind words Ingrid. Flore Pleno is still a bit small, but I can try propagating it for you, if you like. From Marina at Greenmantle I heard this rose is notoriously hard to propagate, but then again, I do like a challenge.

Thank you so much, Tessie. I definitely would like a Khirghisia. I'll check out your list asap, and I'll try not to be TOO greedy, lol. If by chance I have a rose you might like I'd be glad to try rooting one for you. Right now, I think the most rare one I have is Fakir's Delight, which I think you would love. But I've had NO luck propagating it, even though Paul Barden says it's an easy rooter, lol. See the discussion on "Yellow Mosses", down toward the end.

If you'd like a fig plant or two in exchange, let me know. I DO have some rare ones that are yummy. But they grow so fast the window for shipping young plants is mighty small, lol. I'll send you a private message when I've had a chance to peruse your list. Thanks again!

John

Absolutely beautiful ! I love excellence Von Schubert , that color is something else !

Would it be too much to share a full shrub photo of the Huntington rose ? I just planted one from k and m. I'm really looking forward to it blooming !

Thank you for sharing your beautiful roses with us !