I LOVE the deep primrose yellow of that rose! I had talked myself out of getting one this year because I'm trying to stop buying more roses...but now I'm tempted again :)

What a beautiful, happy looking rose (no chafer beetles to make her sad), and cheery yellow iris. I love yellow roses and flowers. Diane

Magnificent rose! I love the yellows.

Steven

That looks amazing!!!! Lisa

What a fantastic rose!!!! It's amazing! I love the foliage, and that yellow is perfect.

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Congratulations, Anne Cecilia!! A glorious rose that competes with the sun. I celebrate the wonderful and unexpected gift of absent beetles! Pats to Forrest. Carol

Your rose is stunning. Is it fragrant? I am looking to add a yellow hardy climber to my garden.

Thank you everyone. It is like looking at sunshine, isn't it?

Bella Rosa, it has only a mild fragrance and is supposed to top out at 4' - that said, it did rise above the 4' chain link fence last year. (It took it five years to get there, however.) I don't know if it qualifies as a climber, but it does fill a fence corner. :-)

It isn't a climber.

Yellows rule, I love the singles/semi doubles.

I love that primrose yellow!

So very beautiful this should happen every year for you to enjoy.

OK, so a few beetles have arrived as of this morning.

I still feel lucky to have seen this rose in full bloom; to see just how beautiful it can be. Now to watch and see how many beetles come into the garden this year. So many other once bloomers began to open in yesterday's heat: Fruhlingsduft, Eddie's Jewel, Duplex, Geranium, Leda - and more. Hoping the numbers of chafers will be light - will my luck hold? (Watch for a new thread if it does!) :-)

Congratulations on your getting to see your rose in its full glory for once. I go through this every year with certain roses, and in particular with 'Etoile de Lyon', another yellow--quite possibly not by chance. Are your beetles the big green-gold ones? or a smaller black one dusted with white? Those are our plagues. They have their preferences. They like yellow roses and pale roses: EdL, 'Maiden's Blush'. 'Mme Jules Bouche', 'Marechal Niel'. These get hit year after year, so that I rarely get a perfect bloom of 'Etoile de Lyon', which otherwise would be the most superb rose imaginable. One year we had a very early spring and EdL bloomed early, as the warm climate roses tend to do: they grow and flower when conditions are suitable rather than on a fixed schedule. (I've noticed that this year, again a warm spring, the once bloomers are also somewhat early, but the change isn't as marked.) The beetles, on the other hand, are on a schedule, and came along at their usual time. For once I was able to enjoy fully 'Etoile de Lyon', and it was magnificent. I wonder if this hasn't happened in your case as well.

Hi Melissa - thanks for sharing your experience with EdL. It helps to know that I am not alone in this tease and torture routine and that you understand exactly what I mean. :-) My rose chafer beetles are a slim army green/brownish beetle. No shine, no beauty; just ugly twitchy legs and a great big mouth. They are a plague in this sandy part of Michigan, for sure.

I don't know what happened this spring; many things have been out of kilter and off schedule, some coming early and some late. The roses themselves are perhaps a week or so late. The beetles usually show up before Memorial Day at the end of May so they are there to catch the first buds unfurling. No, I've thought it through and I just don't know what the key to this odd reprieve has been. As I said, it wasn't the severity of the past winter. And spring was long and cool, but then that is what it is supposed to be up here. I think I would have to be more carefully scientific and write down every detail about weather in my garden diary over the next few years to get a clue! And since that is highly unlikely and even after I wouldn't be able to change a thing, I think I'll just enjoy this year's show and feel happy I had it. :-)

Anne

Anne, I just googled your beetles and they are scary looking. You're a brave soul for putting up with them.

Wow,,,,,I am glad to see that beautiful rose blooming!!!!! I love it!!!! Rosie

Sounds good to me! At least our big rose beetles are beautiful (though that doesn't make them more welcome).

We've had something digging all through our piles of old hay down in the big garden, our mulch supply, and eating all the grubs. It's a mess, but guess what? The beetle population is down. In this case the animal population is on our side.

Just glorious, Anne Cecelia, and I'm glad you were able to beat the JBs to the blooms! Do keep us posted with more lovely pictures. You're right that that brilliant yellow is just SO cheerful after the long winters up in MI!

Cynthia

Happy to see another picture of this rose. I don't normally care for bright yellow, but I really like this one. Its so happy and sunny looking. Lisa