It is a lovely bloom

I love wollerton !! Glowing orbs of goodness!! Yours looks so happy . Also I find it so interesting that we are so far apart distance wise and a zone , but mine also just started to bloom.

That is crazy Jen!! I would have thought yours would already have been blooming! It's sometimes hard to capture in photo because it literally glows as you said! This year the blooms are almost double in size to its first year..and far more petals. Makes me sad to be leaving it behind in a few months.

Beautiful!

Really pretty!

Agreed. I think it might be prettier than Jude. It’s also staying nicely in a vase as a cut flower.

Are you moving ?! What's the scoop ?

Gorgeous photos. Mine started blooming early May.

I wonder why thrips dont like WOH. I thought perhaps thrips dont like anise fragrance, but I also have Mme Anisette which smells almost identical to me and the thrips love her.

I love how shade tolerant WOH is. I wish the blush center lasted a bit longer.

I want one!!! Stunning!!!

J Sturg: and more winger hardy!

Jen: yes girl! moving to CO in August!

Totoro: so I may have spoken too soon because I noticed some thrip damage going on yesterday...womp womp...

Oh this is my kind of rose!

Totoro, is that a Rooguchi with your WOH? I just love those colors together. I was going to do the same combination, but was afraid the clematis would overwhelm the rose, which is only a year old. I put my Rooguchi between Graham Thomas and Bathsheba.

Yes it is Rooguchi. No it is not so dense like Jackmanii. Blooms are sparse but so dainty.

Your location betweeen GT and B sounds beautiful. Hope you can get some overlap in the bloom Times.

The blue clematis I love best for growing among the roses is H.F. Porter (on the right, with no roses). The blooms are very large, a lovely wedgewood blue like the color of periwinkle or the chickory flowers that grow on the roadside with Queen Anne’s lace.
The Porter flower looks so pretty with the roses that I often cut a portion of the vine to put in a vase of roses!
The other photo is Jackmanii with Dream Weaver

I’m sorry, a momentary lapse — it’s H F YOUNG (not Porter 🙄)