Beautiful! Ingrid, you are a true ambassador for 'Potter and Moore', the rose I came to love on your photos but impossible to find as DA has sadly decided to discontinue it. The bloom form of your 'Baronne Henriette de Snoy' is exquisite, as is her delicate color.

Wonderful photos, Ingrid. Thanks for sharing them!

I love to see you posting photos, Ingrid. I want to see your new camera shots when you get it.

Lovely pink blooms, and nice scenes with the sun just above the horizon.

Whoa, very beautiful roses. The roses looks so happy and you can see the colours so clear and the shapes too.

Excellent photography. They are all my favorites and you capture the true beauty also :)

I can imagine how much heat that rock produce .

Jin

You are all such wonderful friends. Alas, my new camera (which is the same as the old one), bought on e-bay and only new to me, turned out to be unusable. I wish people would not sell items they know don't work.

Lisa, I'll be sad if the cutting doesn't take. We may just have to try again, perhaps in the cooler part of the year. vesfl, I could try to send you a cutting, although given Lisa's problems I'm not sure that would be successful.

Lisa, the garden doesn't matter. You're in pain and it's hot, two good reasons why you shouldn't be out there. I'm so glad you feel better about your hip replacement after receiving extensive information on the other thread. It sounds a little scary, but it's become so commonplace, and everyone seems very happy to have had the procedure.

The Faun is doing well except that the rabbits are discovering it, which is not a good thing. Cecil put up more cages, and frankly the yard looks like an intensive care ward in a lot of places. Only very cunning picture-taking techniques hide that fact, but in real life it looks pretty sad. We just have to go with the flow, enjoy what's good and wait for better times for the rest.

So sorry about that ebay fraud, Ingrid. The resolution of that camera was amazing.

Ingrid, BHS looks luscious, and the plants by your boulder have grown quite a bit, I think? It looks greener than I remember.

Ingrid, your last sentence was brilliant and thanks so much for sharing your beautiful garden!

Ingrid, thank you so much for your kind offer (what a wonderful group this is, glad to see we are all still here together). Sadly I'm a lost case for propagating roses from cuttings as I tried it a few times with different methods and nothing worked. I just have to resign myself to the fact that I can't do it. I think the license expired so perhaps there will be a nursery deciding to offer it again. Meanwhile, I'll continue enjoying 'Potter and Moore' on your photos.

I agree with Titian about the plants by your boulder. It actually looks quite spectacular.

What a beautiful garden! You're very funny though, as if we could ever get tired of seeing your birdbath "again". I saw a rose that reminded me of you when I visited High Country Roses called 'Enfant de France'. I'm considering it for next year. I'd never heard of it, but its delicate pink blooms and heady fragrance drew me in.

Vesfl, I'm hit or miss propagating, but have had excellent success this year just sticking my prunings into the soil behind the rose or in my north facing beds with not even Rootone or a special growing medium! I guess I was overthinking it.

vaporvac, I was thinking that very same thing when vesfl said she couldn't root anything. The only thing I've ever rooted were branches of Mutabilis that I cut off and stuck in the soil by the bush. Since then, and this was long ago, nothing ever took. Must have been overthinking it ever since.

The tree growing out of that boulder without a drop of irrigation water has grown a lot bigger, and so has the rosemary growing underneath it, hence the green look. Nothing I did, that's for sure, although the rosemary does have one of those emitter hoses strung along the length of it which I turn on about twice a week.

I've been wanting Enfant de France for a long time because it's such a beautiful rose but I wasn't sure it was up to the rigors of my sandy plot. Also, I do think I have enough pink roses, yes? I think you should go for it though.

Sheila, the camera is going back and I'll be reporting this person. I think they just hope that the recipient won't bother in many cases, but they are wrong in this one. I will get my money back.

I'm so very happy that a core group of dear rose friends is still here. I'm still hoping some of the others can be lured back.

Ingrid, your garden is lovely as always. Your photos always leave me feeling calm and stress melts away. I can't give word to exactly why but that's what happens. And the bird bath photos most of all. I hope you keep them coming.

MaryC

I came back so many times and keep looking at the colours . Very beautiful.

Mary, I know exactly what you meant becvi am also doing the same. I need to get colours like that.

Potter Moore is stealing my heart away. Then, so is SDLM, Bishop Castle and BHDS.

Your SDLM is so deep pink. I have seen some here but way lighter colour.

Jin

So gorgeous—thank you for sharing! Positively inspirational! :-)

Ingrid, I suspect (strongly) that success with cuttings depends on what exactly you are trying to propagate (they vary in difficulty) as well as humidity.

You would probably have success if you had them under a continuous mist system and/or picked an extremely vigorous variety.

Nothing worked for me until R. fortuniana, which I don't really care about since he blooms only once per year. But he is extremely vigorous and it was an older, thicker, shoot that I used.

That's my two cents worth, from a very inexperienced person.

Dern it, why isn't Bishop's Castle available here? It's so beautiful,and I remeber Ingrid's praising it's heat resistance...splendid phots, btw!

Love your pink roses, Ingrid. Your garden has a wonderfully soothing effect, largely due to the variations on pastel pink. And your rock formations--WOW! The "rock" I hauled into my garden is about 1-1/2 ft by 2 ft--ridiculous little thing next to your rocks!

Beautiful, as always! I'm amazed that your cupped roses remain cupped in your hot climate. Mine seem always to open out completely or reflex. I always thought it was the heat. Maybe it's something else...

Beautiful as always, Ingrid. Your Bishop's Castle is stunning! Blooms with raspberry-shaded hearts surrounded by swirls of strawberries and cream petals, that's heavenly. As Belle mentioned, your cupped roses really display wonderful form in your heat.

FYI, I noticed that you forgot to triple post in Appliances and Furniture. Just kidding. :-) Carol

So glad you like the roses, ladies. Kate, you made me laugh with your comparison of "our rocks". Did I mention that my "rock" extends about 80 feet, past the house into the back of the property? Never mind, your rock doesn't radiate nearly as much heat.

Belle and Carol, the cupped roses you see all enjoy afternoon shade and I'm sure that's part of the reason. The other part is that it's not as hot now as it will be in the next four months. Carol, you need to write descriptions of roses for all the nurseries. Darn it, I keep forgetting to triple-post! It came naturally early on.

I have missed seeing your roses! Haven’t been around this forum in quite a while.

I love the arid feel of your garden. We have so much moisture in the spring that I can’t grow souvenirs de la Malmaison. Mine died quickly.

Melody Idol, I hope you'll stay with us this time. It's funny how we always want what we don't have. I would love the moisture and greenness of your garden, and no doubt you have beautiful roses that would shrivel up here. In the end of course we do the best we can, and are content to admire others' gardens here that are so different from our own.

I like looking back at old posts and old photos. Ingrid's pictures were always inspiring.

I certainly found them so. They got me into Tea roses that I love so much. Something about Ingrid's romantic photos just blew me away.

Yours, too, Sheila. I might be venturing into tea territory and was looking up posts about Baronne Henriette Snoy. I saw your photos of her and your other teas, all wonderful. Ingrid's older posts also have me wanting Souvenir du President Carnot.