What a treat, Jerome! Your photos are glorious. I have younger versions of your Teas and love the whole plant shots. Everything looks so healthy and happy. I particularly appreciate the SdPN photo because mine is such a baby. Thank you so much for making our day.

What was your Niles pruning mistake? My Niles is young and darker bloomed. I guess I'll see if my blooms look like yours this Spring.

Thank you for sharing these pictures! That Souvenir de Pierre Notting is spectacular, and Rosette Delizy is just so... voluminous. I love them.

These pictures are so beautiful and inspiring! It's nice to see what tea roses look like as mature plants. Thank you for posting!

Okay...I want to answer everyone, so if I forget you, it's an oversight. Sheila, thanks for your kind words. Glad I could help your day! All the Teas you see in those photos are about 13 years old now. Frankly SdPN has gone through phases. Started out amazing, went through an ugly duckling phase about 3-4 years ago, and is coming back now. It's a great plant in that it renews itself by producing numerous basals. My pruning mistake with Niles Cochet was, about 7 years ago, a group of us decided to prune the teas really really hard, ignoring advice I'd received from more experienced gardeners. Some Teas bounced right back and didn't skip a beat: Niles Cochet was one of them. I am still learning, and am not suggesting Teas cannot be pruned. My best experience up to this point is to treat them as shrubs and shape them like that, forgetting they're roses. That, plus removing dead wood. It's amazing how spruced up they look with that kind of maintenance.

KS, thanks! Glad you liked the photos.

Plumeria Girl, I love to see full bush shots too. If I'd seen more of them, I'd have made fewer placement mistakes in planting roses. I'd read that Rosette Delizy was around 3-4 feet high somewhere. It's not. It could get enormous if you let it. We keep the ones here to around the 7' mark, and they seem very happy.

Roselady, my pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the photos.

They're all beautiful and look so well grown.

Jerome, Glad to see your beautiful photos! Happy Easter father Jerome! :-)

Can you drink? ;-) Cheers for the Holiday!

The roses are exquisite, I love the beautiful colors and bloom forms. The companion plants and pine trees are nice as well...

Your roses are amazing, and beautifully maintained, Jerome. My hands-down favorite is SdPN since I have nothing similar and would certainly love to have one. Too many pink roses in my garden, and I'm in dire need of soft yellow such as Pierre. The lavender Mexican sage in your photo is the perfect companion plant for it.

Jerome, your roses are so healthy and bushy and I’m particularly amazed at your Carding Mill! May I ask you what zone you are in, how old the plant is, and whether or not you spray for bs? I have three Carding Mills (grafted), planted last year. They sent out beautiful flowers but not much foliage growth although they receive mid-day to afternoon sun. They are still only 2‘-3’ tall. If only mine will get lush like yours one day!

Jeri, your doggies put a smileoin my face. They are so adorable. Those are happy and well-loved babies; their faces say it all.

lBeautiful, wish I could grow Teas...

Hi everyone, sorry for my delayed response: Holy Week and Easter here are a grueling thing (beautiful but grueling) and there wasn't time to get to the computer.

Erasmus - thanks!

Summersrhythm Thanks for the Easter greetings! The community will have wine with meals on the really big holidays, yes, just not regularly.

Krista, Thanks! I can't take credit for planting the pine trees, but many of the companion plants I did plant. The purple sage is beautiful when in bloom and hummingbirds love it. It spreads like wildfire though. If I had to do it again, I'd choose another plant.

Ingrid - You should get a SdPN. It's an easy rose to grow, and it has been pretty bullet proof here. Thanks for your kind comments.

Jeri, Happy Easter to you too! The doggies are cute as a button. Hope all is well with you and Clay.

zzzone I have really mixed luck with Austins. Some here are great, others not. Even a different location on our property can yield diametrically opposed results. Carding Mill is happy in that place. Other ones we have are miserable. The one in the photo was planted in 2010, and took a few years to take off. Unfortunately, it is planted on the south face of a building here in California, so it gets pretty fried in the summer/autumn. This year, we've had lots of rain and it's stayed cooler than normal, which the roses love, and so do I.

Altorama Ray, are you in a cold zone? Yes the Teas are fun to grow, and I especially like how big they get!

Jerome, I agree with what you've said about 'Souvenir de Pierre Notting', which I have grown for roughly 15 years. I also love how reliable it is and this year it certainly is superb, while being, every year, a mainstay during hot weather. The similar-looking 'Etoile de Lyon' was not nearly as consistently good as SdPN has been (Etoile de Lyon's first-flush blooms were almost 100% always ruined by the humid conditions of spring, with the added insult that they did not drop cleanly but stayed on as ugly, sodden brown masses until dead-headed -- quite an enterprise on an 8' x 12' x 12' tea rose!).

Thanks for sharing! Love seeing photos of the entire bush, especially mature ones. Your teas are beautiful. I have not had luck with them, even RD died on me.