Softee

Clair Matin

Outta the Blue

Valencia

Gruss an Aachen (another with spotty foliage)

Dee-lish

Apricot Candy looking very apricot last weekend (first pic), but much
pinker this weekend (2nd pic)

La Rose de Molinard

Quietness

Wow, so gorgeous! Every pic is perfect. Wish my roses look as nice! But thank you so much for posting.

And the reason I grow the garishly harsh yellow/tomato red colored Tropical Milkweed (the only milkweed that will grow in our soil) that you see in the background of some pics…I get tons of these guys munching on it every fall

which give me these every summer

You have a wonderful garden Pat. I love seeing the photos you share. :-)

Gorgeous photos Pat! Love that SUSAN WILLIAMS-ELLIS! And AUTUMN SUNSET!

Wow--all the roses you have growing at this season! So lovely as usual.

I'm in Zone 6 and all I have blooming now is Pretty Jessica--probably about a dozen full-bodied blooms on it. A few others still put out a stray bloom here or there--Easter Basket and Munstead Wood and Double KO--maybe also Lady of Shalott--but not usually more than 1 or 2 blooms at most. : (

Kate

Love the roses !

I missed these! Lovely! I enlarged 'Valencia' - wow oh wow. Several others making my heart go pitter-pat. Thank you.

wonderful photos!

I really like your blue hydrangea. My water and soil are so alkaline here they are never blue... sigh!

Thanks everyone! Many of my roses only have a bloom here and there on less than great looking bushes right now, but lots still looking pretty good and putting out nice flushes for this late in our season. The hydrangeas, encore azaleas and many of the dahlias have been looking nice, too. fragrancenutter, I used to try to amend my soil to have some pink hydrangeas amongst the blues, but with our high acidity, they revert back to blue quickly. I grow one in a pot now to satisfy my pink hydrangea lust.

I'm thankful for the extended season this year, since some years we've had freezes that stopped everything by Halloween. Although it was 70 this Saturday, we had 35 mph winds, so not a good day to take pics. A couple turned out okay, but most were just a blur. The sky looked like this all day:

We had strong storms that evening, and then high was in the low 40s Sunday with overnight temp dropping to 27. So, my season may be over now :( Here are the couple of pics I got in the wind storm:

Gruss an Aachen with Eutin behind:

A terrible pic of Dame de Coeur, but shows buds that were sadly frozen the next night:

Clair Matin:

I cut a bunch Sunday before the freeze:

A mix of Dark Desire, Beverly, Double Delight, Sweet Surrender, Over the Moon, Dolly Parton, Princess Charlene de Monaco, etc:

Dame de Coeur

Julia Child:

It's still very warm here but there's been no rain since spring and I think the roses feel it. Most of the roses have just a few flowers, but here are some.

An unusual striped bloom on Aloha

Souvenir de la Malmaison

Charles Darwin, an older bloom

Rosette Delizy, during its last fall bloom flush, now bare of blooms

Madame Lambard

Baronne Henriette de Snoy

Potter and Moore, an old Austin rose

They are all so beautiful! Do you know the name of that smashingly beautiful dahlia? I had some success with store bought dahlias this year so I may order some from a good online source in the spring. Do you dig yours up and store them in the winter?

So many beautiful pics. Thank you for sharing.

It's so nice to see all these blooms as I look out my window at what seems like a collection of sticks...my new rose garden.

Pics like this help me keep the faith :)

Beautiful!

Pat and Ingrid these are fantastic photos !! Really beautiful gardens and I'm so glad to see them as everything is resting now for winter . I really love your rosette delizy Ingrid !! Gorgeous colors !

Pat , I really love the coloring on Clair matin, I have to add that to my list. I'm glad you are getting monarch cats to come , that's wonderful! I planted a milkweed but it didn't come back . I leave the maypops up for other caterpillars and enjoy those . I do get some monarch passerby as they head south and love to see them !!

We had a frost last weekend and now it's warmed up again. These are the cold spell.

It’s warmed back up a bit here, too. I walked around this morning before work and actually still have some roses blooming after the freeze..yay! Maybe I will have a few to cut for a Thanksgiving arrangement. If not, at least I was able to take bouquets to the cemetery on Veteran's Day for DH's father & brother.

Ingrid, your pictures are lovely as always. That Baronne Henriette de Snoy bloom is perfection! Your garden posts are always so inspiring to me. Although our climates are very different, the fact that you persevere through your climate challenges gives me strength to trudge on through ours. I actually think of you often when I'm cursing the skies over too much rain or not enough and wonder how I would handle the drought issues you deal with.

Sultry, I only started growing dahlias a few years ago, but I'm enchanted with them. If only they had fragrance, I'd be ripping out some roses to make room for more. I don't dig up my tubers, and most have come back for me...a few haven't, though. I've ordered some online, but I've gotten most from a dahlia society out of Birmingham. They set up a booth at a spring festival each year at a nearby monastery. Those ladies have been so helpful in my choices, but it's funny to talk with them...dahlia experts are like rose addicts…I’m sure they roll their eyes at my newbie questions when I’m not looking…lol Anyway, those are aging blooms on Myrtle's Folly...a kinda crazy, fun dahlia in form and color. It's a late summer through frost bloomer for me; whereas, some others will bloom from late spring until frost.

Other favorites purchased from the dahlia society are Almand Joy:

Senior Ball (with volunteer pop ups of the clashing tropical milkweed for the Monarchs surrounding it):

Chilson's Pride:

Tartan was just from a Breck’s sale a few years ago...tall plant with HUGE blooms &
requires strong staking, but a good bloomer, and I think the coloring is striking (and more tropical milkweed in back of it...lol):

American Dawn (another from a Breck’s sale a few years ago) is one of my best bloomers and doesn't require staking, but coloring is not everyone's cup of tea (and yes, that's more of the tropical milkweed around it...but you really can't imagine the amount of Monarch cats that come for it):

Lilyfinch, If I could get another milkweed to live in our soil, I sure would pick a different color…but glaring tropical milkweed is it for here. It reseeds like crazy, so I pull out a bunch each year, but leave a bunch, too. In addition to seeing the Monarch cats munch on it every year, I also get their cocoons hanging from all the outdoor furniture, door frames, etc…really cool! Clair Matin smells divine! Mine is just a few years old being grown as a shrub rather than a climber. It does blackspot some, but not horribly. I looked for a full bush shot, but don’t seem to have one. Here are a couple of pics from August.

And one from May:

Sheila, Your pictures are just magical!!! That first one should be made into a puzzle…I could see myself working your frozen garden picture puzzle on a cold winter’s day :)

Oh Pat those are all so gorgeous! I am definitely going to try some more this spring especially the Myrtle's Folly! I have my dahlias in pots so I may just slip them into the greenhouse towards the back and let them go dormant for the winter and not water them until spring. It works for some of my gingers that go dormant. I just store them dry in their pots lol.

Here is my unknown pink Dahlia. I think it came from Walmart.

I don't see any reason that wouldn't work. If you like Myrtle's Folly, you might like Belle of Barmera, too. It was new for me this year from the dahlia society ladies and looks good with Myrtle. I don't seem to have a picture of that one, though.

Sultry, Somehow I missed your dahlia picture when I read your post earlier. That's gorgeous!!! I have several unknowns too. The dahlia society booth has the tubers in bins with their names and pictures above each bin, but they also carefully write the dahlia's name on each tuber that you buy. I can't believe I didn't keep better notes of what I bought those first couple of years after they went to the trouble to write on the tubers. I'm embarrassed to tell them of my carelessness and ask for help identifying ones I don't see there anymore.

Excellent dahlias! I'm a bit of a dahlia fan too, although I havent been growing long enough to have unknowns yet :). The soil is so sandy here I just leave them in year round and they dont rot, just come back every year and give me lovely flowers. Only ones I managed to kill were the ones I planted out the front in full sun. They fried badly after just coming up, and didnt have the strength to reshoot :(

I would love blue hydrangeas! I treasure my two resolutely pink Hydrangeas which are just starting to flower now. Almost lost one this year, because it was at the wrong end of the "morning sun only" section- which resulted in crispy leaves, so its living on the back porch now.