Belle Story is just beginning:

The side yard yard with Gene Boerner on the right and Abraham Darby, Mary Rose and the red of Crimson Sky on the left:

Beyond is The Wedgwood Rose, also just beginning to flush.

And, I almost forgot Barbra Streisand. The fragrance is absolutely amazing. It’s her year -

Thanks so so much for looking.

Jo

Absolutely stunning! I particularly like Belle Story and Lady of Shallot!

What a gorgeous display, It’s so colorful and everything goes together so beautifully! I don’t think I could say which ones are my favorites, I love them all!

Thanks Lavenderlace. Belle Story has a subtle beauty and she is a favorite of mine, too.

Sara-Ann: I have a small garden and a huge want list, so the roses are all crammed in. I also have a poor eye for color, and some of my juxtapositions would cause purists to faint in horror, I fear. The roses do look their best in our foggy mornings when the colors appear muted. Your roses are lovely - and we share a common love for Tiffany

Jo

Beautiful Austin's, superbly grown and photographed...

So many gorgeous blooms! Belle Story is so beautiful I'm gonna die♡♡

Hang in there with LOS she should pick up the pace. Mine is a really strong grower here.

Jo, everything is gorgeous as always. Your Princess Alexandra of Kent is amazing. Mine is in a shady location so it is slow in showing its blooms. It is true in real estate and roses, location is everything, lol. Helen

Spectacular!!!

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.

Oh my gosh! Your gardens are a glorious little piece of heaven. You are truly talented. Thanks for sharing, Judy!!!

Wow, what beautiful roses! I also really like your hardscaping, particularly the low stone wall with the stone cap that looks like it could be used for sitting. It makes it easy to get up close and personal with the roses :)

Marlorena - thank you. That’s some compliment coming from you!

SJN - I think LOS would do better with more summer heat than we have here. I am seriously considering potting her up as I did Lady Emma Hamilton, who is now much happier. I’ll put a climbing Iceberg in her place. I think white behind PAoK and against the brown fence would look nice.

Helen - The PAoKs do seem to like the almost-full day sun they receive. I just wish they weren’t so vigorous <sigh>.

Dizzylizzy and Totoro- thanks for your kind comments.

Lilyfinch - I was hoping to show foxgloves as you had once asked. But the foxgloves are really late this year and they are also much shorter than last year. They are just beginning to open up and interestingly they are all cream; no pinks and magenta ones at all.

Judy - your garden is delightful. I remember the lovely white arbors you have. And, your gorgeous bouquets.

Roselady - thank you. I do very often sit on the low wall and contemplate my plans for the garden. It’s especially enjoyable to sit there on the sun-warmed stone on a cool summer day....

Jo

Amazing! Every bush is covered in flowers and they all look perfect! You must be a true lover of DA roses!

Stunning, Jo! Everything looks wonderful. I think I’s spend every minute outside looking at them, if I were you. What do you mean, you “have a poor eye for color”? They look wonderful together! Lisa

Breathtaking! Looking great! I can almost smell those wafting fragrances upon gentle spring breezes...

Steven

Amazing display ! Love them all especially Gene Boerner & Lady of shalott.

Do you have any disease pressure in your area ?

Fragrancenutter - I started out more than 10 years ago now enamored by the tea roses. Unfortunately, the small bands that I got really struggled to grow in my cool summer climate. So I got some grafted Austins to fill in until the teas grew to size. Well, the Austins did splendidly while the teas continued to languish. I now have just one tea rose left. I do have noisettes, Portlands, hybrid musks and hybrid teas crammed into my small garden. Most either bloom earlier or later than the Austins.

Lisa - I have refrained from sticking Blaze of Glory into the mix, so I am not completely a lost cause with my color coordination attempts!! An aside - Blaze of Glory is such a great rose; I wish I could figure out where to put him where he won’t stick out like a sore florescent orange thumb!

Steven - I am enjoying the wafting fragrances this year which is so rare here. But gentle spring breezes? Nah - we get the stiff brisk downright-chilly winds, unfortunately.

Pink Rose - powdery mildew, anthracnose and cercospora are the main diseases I see. All roses (and plants) that are severely affected by PM are no longer here. Roses get rust and and black spot when conditions are right. BS is rampant right now and most roses have it or cercospora spots right now. I just live with it...

Jo

Jo, I've always liked lots of color and I think your garden is colorful without being overpowering, to me it's lovely1

Your Austin roses look so grand, I am wondering how many you have of each variety? Mine, so far have stayed so small compared to others.

Why, thank you, Sara-Ann. I enjoyed seeing your garden pics in the ‘General view of your garden’ thread and thinking how lovely and neat everything looked. I wish my roses were less exuberant than they are. They each take too much space. There’s only one of each. I do have two PAoKs planted 10-12 feet apart and they are coming together like a giant unibrow! And two Molineux bushes - one in the side garden and one in the back garden because he is such a ready bloomer.

The majority of my Austins are grafted and I think that makes a huge difference in my garden. The grafted ones are generally far larger than the own roots for me. The exception was Crown Princess Margareta who ended up being a once-blooming monster on her own roots. A grafted specimen a few miles away in a public park is smaller and blooms in flushes throughout the year. I thought I was being clever getting her own root so that she would be smaller than her grafted sister - hah!

Jo