Where did you get your quicksilver from, Sultry?

Sjn: Plum Perfect is now in AF's spot; healthy and productive last year, but alas not fragrant. Poseiden is further back - excellent in all respects. Wish there was room for QS.

Sultry

How does Quicksilver do for you?

I got 2 own root Quicksilvers from Northland when they first came out. I just got a large bare root one from Edmunds this spring late Feb. They all have buds now. I got the large bare root one to see if it would be a more vigorous climber. The 2 own root are about only 4.5ft now but they did come as small plants. The Edmunds bare root is already almost as tall as the 2 others from Northland.

I really like Quicksilver. Stays pretty clean and I am a sucker for both lavender and quartered blooms.

rifis, Plum Perfect is on my list! I hear its a good rose.

sultry

Are you growing QS as a bush or do you have a support for it? does it have flexible or stiff canes ?

I got Posiedon a few months ago . It just started blooming , not sure I like the color . It is washed out grey , it is in partial shade since I heard it crisps in full sun . I will see how it performs this season before deciding whether to keep it or not .

Right now QS canes are flexible. I don't know if they stiffen up later. I am growing them up a trellis so they will be trained as they grow.

My Poseidon sported into a climber. It gets a tiny bit of afternoon shade. It is a greyer color than QS. Poseidon is closer to Blue Girl with maybe a touch more lavender than Blue Girl. I love BG's coloring so its good with me lol.

~Sjn

Pink rose, keep the beautiful pictures coming!

Those are gorgeous!!

Heys you guys, guess what?? Some of Olivia's blooms opened today and they are fragrant! Like I can totally smell them. How odd, this is the first year they have decent scent. It is a soft rose smell, maybe baby powder and rose. I even have a bad cold right now and can still smell them.

Sultry - really? That's great news!! I love the way you described the fragrance!! Sounds wonderful!!

Carol

I would love to get Olivia !

Isn’t Grand Dame an amazing rose? The scent is to die for and she’s vigorous and disease resistant. I have 2 :)

SoFLrose

Yes she is too vigorous ! The bush looks beautiful with those nodding blooms but hard to cut for inside .

By the way how did Love grandiflora do for you ? I have it in a pot but not sure l like the blooms or not .

My Grand Dame doesn't nod at all. I just wish the fragrance would finally come it!!! :)

Carol

My GD is still small. Its own root in a 3 gallon pot. I got it as a small band. Its not doing much. Its bloomed a few times and they are beautiful.

Well, I am so happy to see Maggie bloom. The smell is so so beautiful. I can't get the colour right on my camera maybe tomorrow I will take a better one with a different camera.

Jin

Jin

Wow what a beautiful bloom with saturated color .Maggie is OGR ?

Wow, isn' Maggie a pretty girl

Maggie is Gorgeous!! Wow, what color! I don't have that one. You're doing a good job with your roses, Jin!

Reines des Violettes is blooming this cloudy sprinkly morning! This plant gets a bit chlorotic now and then. When you rub the leaves, they smell like fresh ground black pepper!

Crepuscule

Rosette Delizy still going. She only 2ft high and almost 4ft across. She's so prolific. I love her ♡ ! She's one of those roses that grow out, then up.

Thank you guys, I am still working to put more roses in the beds. I did not realized how many I got..lots of work. Anyways, here a few more pics..

I still have more to do over weekend and then 3 inches of manure then mulch it.

I just realized I never got my Rosette Delizy..hmmm.

I have baby buds coming on Evelyn and Pat Austin and Abe.

The rest are really tiny still. I cut twice my Cliff Richard 's buds due to rain. Never saw a single bloom.. dying to see his rose. Grrr..

Oh, I almost forgot Ebb Tide in direct sun looks so deep rich colour. Love it :)

Jin

I just picked up this Bordeaux from Kordes.

I love Ebb Tide! I had one in NC and I gave my mom one.

How is Maggie's repeat and disease resistance?

Bordeaux, wow!

Suncoastflowers

I also got a Bordeaux from Lowes ! It is not on Fort and looks like it's ownroot but I couldn't resist the ruffly red blooms .Will see how it will do .

Flowers and Pinkrose, I. Not sure about Maggie habits. It is a bourbon. As times goes I know more but if someone has this rose can answer promptly. Mine is about 1 foot tall maybe 1.5 ft. This is from HMF

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/roses/2104/maggie&ved=2ahUKEwi6y7zm9ZraAhWD21MKHWgUBmkQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1eb-VqpwH674JpADJhxGyi

Jin

Summer sun

Gorgeous all of them!

Thanks everyone for sharing your beautiful spring blooms. Pink rose, your St. Patrick is breathtaking. This morning I pulled back the mulch from last weeks’ cold spell. It is so windy. Thank goodness I don’t have tall basals cause the wind would break them off!

Pink Rose - oh my!!! I'm so glad you posted these wonderful pictures!! My fav is Red Intuition!! It is so worth it to click on the pics to make them bigger. :)

Carol

I also love Red Intuition ♡ They are all so pretty!

We had so much rain here lately its been crazy! Now I have some kind of caterpillar or bug that eats holes in rose buds grrr.

PinkRose - I have two "Love"s and I am very pleased so far. I bought them as body bags and they put out a bloom right after they leafed out. The bloom lasted forever, but it was cooler at the time. One of them is already blooming again! I was surprised that the blooms lacked the kind of folded back pointy look but that's OK because I don't love that look anyway.

We were under a tornado watch most the day..then we got heavy wind and rain. Anyone else gets rain today?

2 Little frogs hiding before the rain. Raspberry Cream Twirl

After the rain..some messed up blooms lol..

RCT

Jude the Obscure

America Cl

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Munstead Wood not dark as this makes it look but dark for April..the clouds were making my photos odd

Lady of Shalott

Poor Jubilee Celebration..rain made all her heavy blooms flop. This is a new flowerbed so everything is still small.

Peach Swirl...first bloom

So what's going on in your gardens lately?

Boscobel getting ready for its very first blooms

A white bougainvillea the blushes pink

Laguna

Lavender Lady Passiflora..this is the hummingbirds absolute favorite Passiflora..I grow several different ones and they make a beeline for this one.

Got a few new plants yesterday..

Hawaiian Ti plant..Miss Andrea

Some new Salvias for the butterfly/hummer/bee garden

Sultry

You got some fabulous blooms ! Love to get Peach Swirl and Boscobel .My roses are resting between flushes .we had a thunderstorm earlier today and l had to go out and stake some fallen branches .

Sultry - Those frogs are amazing!!! I had to search for the higher up one. How cool...you could write a counting book for kids based on the frog pictures you have. :) Your roses are blooming so nicely!! I love the lavender passionflower (how unique!!) and your Laguna!! Laguna is soooo gorgeous!

We're expecting 7 inches of snow overnight. blech.

Carol

Wow, Jasmin, your garden is blooming so well. It rain here hard all day. And yes, I hear frogs so loud.

Windy too and I had 4 roses in pots that was knocked down. But, all is good.

Does your Jude balls from rain ?

I think that was Penelope. It blooms few times and now gone. I see a lot of buds now .

Well, not much in my backyard. Blooms are gone now growing bigger with more buds.

I love Maggie a lot. It bloom 4 times already. It smells really good.

Jin

Thanks you guys! I am really loving Peach Swirl. Our weather has been so cool its taking forever for some of these blooms to open.

Jin,

I love your roses. I have Penelope but its not doing much right now.

Jude has a ball type of form to the blooms. It doesn't really ball here. Usually rose balling occurs during cold wet conditions which it has been lol but this is Jude's usual form. Every once in a while I get Jude blooms that are more open like this and more orange colored. They always smell amazing!!

Carol sorry to hear about all the snow. You just can't win this year. I hope you have an extra long summer and warm fall to make up for all this.

Distant Drums today

Thanks, Sultry....after Tuesday (more snow) the temps are going to go up to 14C/57F or so and stay up there!! Awesome!!! The nighttime lows will make me put my roses in the garage at night.

Carol

We should call this the Winter that never ends and certainly the Winter of our discontent. We get a couple a nice days and then it drops down into freezing again and lots of little sprouts are just crinkling up and drying up.

The rest of this week once we get past this rain is looking like the seventies . yay for seventies . I am so ready to let things start to leaf out and maybe even put out a bloom or two.

Same around here in Norh Alabama with the temps going up and then down. I think a lot of my buds are showing possible cold damage from all the craziness. They were looking greasy and lately they are showing darker tips like burn :(

Dianela - look at all of those buds!!! Wow!!

Good luck everyone with your roses and the weather. :)

Carol

Or the "Winter" in the show, Game of Thrones.."Winter is coming..." winter stays until all the White Walkers are dead lol.

dianela, wow you really have a lot of buds!

Lol Sultry

Thank you rosecanadian and Sultry =),

lol Sultry your comment made me laugh =). Ahh game of Thrones and roses, two of my favorite things. I am finally starting to get a few blooms. The ones I got last week from Mary rose were burnt, but this week is looking good.

Some of my clems are starting to bloom for the first time. This is their second year. I was starting to think I wasn’t being successful with them. I have killed several.

Mary rose and moonstone

I have never had good luck with Clematis but you are all inspiring me to try them again they are sure show stoppers aren't they

Kristine =),

You should give them another try. They seem to take their sweet time to do anything in my garden, but they are so lovely I am not giving up. Even the clematis Montana Fragrant spring that is supposed to be able to growth up to 10' in one season grew 4 inches in my yard lol. I am not certain what you have tried in the past, but of the 20 or so different ones I have tried one really stand out (Arabella). She has lots of buds already in my garden, and last year it was the only that bloomed. Not only it was the only one to bloom, but it did so until October. I was so happy with its sweet pale little flowers that I ordered 3 more this year from Brushwood. They all seem to be doing a bit better this year so maybe patience is the key (I don't have much of that), and ignoring them in the mean time lol.

So whats blooming for you now ?

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