Marlorena, Jackie took the words out of my mouth. So pretty! It's good to see you posting here again. I hope it's a sign that life is less stressful.

Jackie, your photo is so romantic.

Jackie/Trish... thanks so much...yes things are looking up and I hope all is well with your both, and your respective families...

... and what a charming photo, I hope the young lady grows up to be as good a gardener as you are, as your garden always tends to look stunning.. I do like those stone pillars too, or whatever they are made of, so architectural...

It's always a source of wonder to me, Marlorena, how you crowd your roses so closely together (which looks absolutely stunning) without their ending up as a diseased mess. In your case more is definitely better!

Jackie, that is a wonderful photo, lovely little girl, lovely roses - it's just a perfect shot.

This is a picture of my garden when in retrospect everything was perfect.

Thanks Ingrid... I hope you still have this beautiful rose... 'Bishop's Castle'..??

Marlorena, you have such beautiful roses, and so incredibly healthy! For those of us totally sun-baked, it’s a breath of fresh air!

Ingrid, I have admired this in other photos of yours, but in this one especially...there is quality of light in your garden that is so ethereal and lovely!

I wish I could stroll through both of these gardens! :-)

I have been hoping you would show your garden Marlorena. I look forward to it every year. It looks like you have some new roses this year. It looks gorgeous.

Daisy

Well, I wrote a nice long comment here yesterday and I see that it’s not here. I can’t really blame Houzz because I may have forgotten to hit submit. It wouldn’t be the first time:)

Anyway, your garden is looking wonderful, Marlorena! I always look forward to seeing it. That rose in your third photo has such a beautiful soft color to it. I love it. The color reminds me of Felicia, a great favorite of mine. It’s wonderful to see roses looking so fresh and vibrant at this time of year. I can’t come close to matching it, not even in the early spring. Everything is clearly happy under your care.

Jackie that’s an enchanting picture. I hope you have it framed and hung. It’s that special!

Beautiful pink rose, Ingrid......I’m so glad you love pink roses as much as I do!

Lisa

The pink rose in my picture is actually another older Austin, Cottage Rose. Long gone, I'm afraid, since this was before drip watering and this rose got rather scraggly in the heat.

Marlorena, the Tea Rose in the last pic is wonderful with the pink shadings, is that an Austin next to it?

All the garden pics are lovely...

A few indoor and outdoor pictures, the last two are from a neighbor's house. The garden buddy visits here, as well... helps with spring pruning, I do have to fence a few roses in winter to keep cane lengths intact.

Mme Pierre Oger

Clotilde Soupert

Lovely blush pink roses Krista, thanks for showing... and the bunny... I don't see too many of those here, but deer are just the other side of my fence... when it eventually falls down.. they'll have quite a lunch...

Yes, 'Mme Antoine Mari' with 'Scarborough Fair' which I'm going to move to another part of the garden very soon... the colours are too similar and all the spent flowers on my 'SF' blow across to my neighbours pristine Astroturf, which embarrasses me somewhat..

My pics are not recent but earlier this summer... I ought to have made that clear, in case anyone thinks I've got all these blooms out right now.... it's a bit more sparse..

Yes, deer can eat a lot. We have deer a short distance away, but not in the neighborhood here. Scarborough Fair looks like a generous bloomer, very nice!

Great pictures, Krista! I keep envying your pink blushed Clotilde Soupert. How long has it been in the ground? Do you ever get pure white blooms on yours? Mine bloomed the most perfect pink blushed blooms in the 2 years it was potted, and has bloomed nothing but white, since planting out. I can’t decide if it just needs time to get its roots more established, or if it’s getting too much sun. I really don’t like moving roses, so I’ll wait and see what happens. Your Mme Pierre Oger is such a beautiful soft pink. How I wish I had more space! It’s good to see your lovely Alnwick Rose, too. Seeing yours reminds me that it’s about time to trim mine a little to encourage a Fall flush. My poor Alnwick was constantly trying to bloom, in spite of our hot temperatures. The dwarfed blooms hardly lasted a day. I finally stopped deadheading it to give it a rest, but I’m tired of seeing it’s ugly candelabras of spent blooms. In cooler temperatures it has such a beautiful, peony shaped flowers, that I put up with the tiny summer blooms. Plus, it doesn’t take up much space. That’s always a good thing for me. Here’s a Spring Alnwick photo.

Marlorena, what’s the beautiful rose in your third photo? It’s such a lovely soft color. Lisa

Lisa... that's 'Felicia'.. I think you've got it as well... sometimes it's hard to tell even when we grow the same roses...

... it's funny but I used to have 'The Alnwick Rose' because I love the gardens it's named after, and when I visited there, they have a large collection of Austin roses, and 'Alnwick' was still blooming when the others had finished, so I got it, but in my own garden it was very narrow grower and I couldn't love it, so it went..

I can enjoy yours though...

Lisa, my Clotilde usually has a bit of pink in the bloom, but sometimes is almost white. The plant is about 10 years old, and gets some morning shade.

My Alnwick has smaller blooms in summer, as well. I have three of them planted close together.