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Wonderful! I love Devoniensis's delicate coloring and strong scent! Mine was attacked by thrips this spring, so I really enjoyed seeing yours and remembering how good it can look!

Thanks! I’ve planted this little baby to go up over an arbor. Right now it looks so dainty and a little ridiculous, but I’ve seen pictures of what she can do, so hopefully I’ll have pictures of a nice big plant in a few months. I’ve fallen in love with these creamy blushy roses! I really love the pale roses against the dark green leaves. Just heaven!

Well, it's a tea rose, so it might take a little longer than a few months, but given a few years it will probably stop traffic with its beauty!

What a beautiful baby, Perma, with its shell-like shape and coloring. Sheila, your picture perfectly showcases its more mature beauty with so many more petals. One positive change for me at least that Houzz has caused is a very large picture when I click on the original one. Which causes me to ask, what it the pink beauty to the left of Devoniensis? I want to say Madame Lambard but there are so many tea roses with that coloring. Your garden is flourishing!

From my admitted lack of experience Devoniensis is the best scented tea, hands down. A distant second would be Duchesse du Brabant.

But as I look around my garden, with everything kind of bleached out from the sun at the moment, Isabelle Ducrot going full white and Munstead wood going pale pink, I am going to concentrate on darker roses from now on. At least for a while. And we will see how "dark" they get in my garden where every color turns out to be white. This apparently is mainly true only for the hybrid musks as a class but for me, at my latitude and at this time of year, it is true for all classes.

I can't think of a stronger smelling tea rose, either...

Thank you Sheila for posting that gorgeous photo of grown-up Devoniensis. Something to dream of! Your roses are spectacular!

Yes Ingrid, that is Madame Lambard. Above and blurry on the right is Georgetown Tea, which to me also looks to be Madame Lambard. I'm between major flushes at the moment, but it is gratifying to see the roses get past the baby stage.

Gads, I love Tea Roses! Sheila, you may be the new Queen Tea of the forum. So beautiful!

Perma, I am overjoyed you are growing this fragrant beauty. Duchess de B is my all time fav, perhaps followed by sport Madame Schwartz or by Rhodologue Jules G, but Devoniensis is waaaay at the top of my OMG list! Its fragrance is all that you say. I'm glad a sneaky bloom remained for you to enjoy. A sign of wonders to come...

John, I am sooooo sorry about the thrips! What a spring in Portland rose gardens, yes? I hear your pain and raise you some cane borers. Carol

Perma , it is absolutely, beautiful. I can't wait for sale at ARE for that rose.

Carol, you have RJG, that is wonderful. Mine is getting ship on June 26 to me. Can you post a bush shot so I know what to expect ?

I love Dutchess de Brebant. It blooms a lot. So, now I have to get Devoniensis.

Sweet :)

Jin

Thank you Carol, what a compliment. The Queens are the gardeners who inspired me. Ingrid, Jeri, the Tea ladies in Australia, Gwen Fagan and many others.

Sheila, I call the compliments as I see 'em! :-) Those queens you mentioned are my inspirations, too. Very much.

Jin, I wish I did grow RJG. Catspat grows a wonderful specimen, and Ingrid also grows a beautiful RJG, although hers is a younger plant. They can provide so much more info than I can. A while back, I had a "Not RJG," probably the only mislabeled rose I ever received from Vintage in all the years I ordered from that wonderful company. If I add another Tea to my garden someday, it WILL be M Schwartz or RJG...or Devoniensis now that Perma has reminded me why I love that rose so much.

And speaking of Teas/Tea-Noistettes, Marechal Neil is such a gorgeous if possibly finicky thing. If only. That one may eternally be a rose I enjoy in Sheila's photos, but I do encourage anyone to grow it if you think it might thrive in your location. Oh, and ditto Gloire de Dijon. :-) Carol

I just got Maréchal Niel...I know he’s fussy, but I’m hoping he’ll like it here. And an RJG, or what was labeled RJG. :-) I have taken everyone’s advice, and focused on chinas, teas, & a few noisettes, since those seem to be best for this area.

I’m really excited about my “root babies” that I’ve started, because they are putting on more leaves now & look like they might be forming roots. I have Reve d’Or, Duchesse de Brabant & Souvenir de Madame Leonie Viennot all growing leaves and I’m being Really patient and not peaking in the soil yet.

Okay now I am getting jealous. Marechal Neil ? Is it in Fortuniana it own roots ?

I have Perle d' Or, I think. I was mad with myself for not taking pics . All the blooms gone and I just dead headed on Monday. Time flew and I got so side tracked.

I am going for antiques, DA and a few modern. Scent n cut blooms. I am loving my bourbon so much.

I am staying away from any climbers. Not yet.

Got to check Souvenir de madam Leonie V. Omg, such a long name... lol.

Wow, it is beautiful. Large double bloom...woot.

Can't wait to see it grow for you.

Jin

I decided to do all mine own-roots, in the name of science. :-) We’ll see if I can pull it off.

Here is my young Rhodologue Jules Gravereaux, in afternoon shade, which has just popped out a new cane, still red but with buds on it. I really like this rose, which has become more cupped with age, and more beautiful in my eyes.

Wow, Ingrid! Beautiful, and I just love seeing a new red cane. My RJG is growing well, but my Triomphe is just sitting there (after in ground planting) after the huge gorgeous bloom in her pot earlier. Apparently, it took all she had.

RJG is so sublime!

Perma, best of luck with the own roots! Keep us posted. Carol

Wow, Ingrid, look at that colour. It is so beautiful. Wow, I am getting really excited. It looks so luscious and healthy. I hope it will accept full sun and I have one spot that has shade. I have to study that spot on my day off bec I think it has too much shade .

I was going to ask you but I am glad you post it . Thank you so much. :)

Jin

Jin, if you are in doubt as to the degree of shade you might be better off putting either a hybrid musk or a china there instead of a tea. Geoff has Lyda Rose which is on my wishlist. She is ok with shade and she reputedly smells great. RPN did not have it today otherwise I would have gotten it.