These are wonderful autumn blooms, Ingrid. I can imagine how welcome the cooler weather must be... I like the different stages of Baronne, a superb pink rose!

It's been cool for you? WOW. We've had days and days of scorching heat and East winds!

I went to bed last night and left these pictures hanging in limbo, thinking I had already posted them.

Lisa, strangely the winds that you had, and Jeri had in spades, bypassed us completely. Dire warnings on the internet for our area, but nothing happened. I suppose it was a trade-off for the frequent times that the rain missed us while coming down a few miles away.

The Baronne says thank you for the compliments. The large and unusually thick blooms for a tea rose, and its thick and relatively few canes, remind one that one of its parents is Gloire de Dijon (the other is Mme. Lambard).

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Two photos of Le Vesuve

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Baronne Henriette de Snoy has the largest blooms of all my roses

Ficus benjamina, now threatening the pavement and eventually our house to the right, but how can you cut down such a magnificent tree? (We did not plant it.)

Wow, I love these dark pink shades on the roses, and the pale Gruss as well.

Looking at Baronne H d Snoy, the blooms have the sumptuous quality of its parent. Gorgeous!

It's not an easy decision to cut down a tree, mature trees can be so beneficial...

Forgot to answer your question, Lisa, about what new roses I have. Some of my not quite new roses are Eyes for You and Quicksilver, which you knew, and then Abraham Darby, Mme. Joseph Schwartz, Sweet Frances and another Baronne Henriette de Snoy. I was somewhat limited in my choices because I wanted roses that were as large as possible to begin with, and the largest in my experience are from ARE, and they had to be tall roses because of the wabbits. Even Quicksilver in a quart container has been very slow to take off. There are many roses that I would have rather had, but of course some were already sold out, and quite a few that I would have preferred are not offered by ARE. Experience has taught me that I can no longer plant bands in the ground and have them flourish, which was the case before when it was cooler and there was more abundant rain, but I'm learning to adapt.

Krista, you're so right, and the ficus in that position not only shades the house but cools the air, and we're still trying to decide how to handle the situation.

Ingrid, your pink roses are just amazing! I love these cool weather hues!

(thank you—it really does help me with my baby plant impatience.) :-)

My goodness, your roses are looking fantastic! That’s a perfect passel of pinks, if I ever saw one:) I can’t believe you didn’t get all that awful hot, dry wind that we did, ALL of last week! It just kept going on and on. As they say, “The proof is in the pudding”, or in your case, the pictures of your perfect roses. Mine certainly don’t look as good as yours, after all our hot wind. Good for you! You DO deserve a break from garden hardships:)

I’ll have to look up Sweet Frances, as I’m totally unfamiliar with that one. I sure can see why you chose another Baronne Henriette de Snoy. What a wonderful rose he turned out to be! Quicksilver should be lovely, and I’m so glad Cecil has his Abe Darby back again. Let’s hope for abundant rain this winter to get them off to a great start! I’ve enjoyed seeing them all. Lisa

Thank you all, and Lisa I hope your roses recover soon. They're all so lusty and will surely give you a great fall display in no time.

Sweet Frances is one of the Pioneer Roses (and it's also not pink) and it's tall, so I'm giving it a try. Standing in the garden in the future is going to be like being surrounded by basketball players; all these roses are tall! I wonder if the spring crop of rabbits will be taller too.