Two large blooms of AlohaAloha photo bombing the gardenGruss an Aachen bending down with moisture-laden petals

Mrs. B.R. Cant struggling to flee her cage

Madame Lambard and Mlle. de Sombreuil

Evelyn on her umpteenth day of bloom.

Lavender Mist

There must be others in the more southern part of CA with roses in bloom, Stephanie, Tiffany, anyone - pictures please, more from Jackie too and Lisa, when possible. Please feel free to add on here if you don't want to begin your own post.

Your garden and views are so beautiful! Really like the color blend of Aloha.

Ingrid, those pictures are breathtaking! I love all your roses and flowers, and your setting makes them even more beautiful!

Great pics Ingrid!

Gorgeous photos Ingrid! It was a lovely rainy day for it.

Ingrid, beautiful as always. I usually don’t like gray days, but today I decided to make lemonade: cleaned the grill (ugh), bought mulch and placed it all around the roses. Can’t do things like that when it’s 95.

So much going on and my hands are killing me so I haven’t commented much but I just had to say what a joy it is to sit down and see pictures from your garden.

The colors and combinations are so much fun to look at, a great end to the day. Thank you!

Sylvia, you go girl. The roses will love the mulch, especially when it's 95 degrees. oursteelers, you overwhelm me, thank you for the sweet words. Take care of those hands, not much fun when they hurt.

It's a pleasure to share my garden with all of you. Looking forward to seeing all of yours!

Ingrid, I can't believe how lush, green and gorgeous your garden is after the drought you endured for years. It's just wonderful to see things like this. Every photos is eye candy, and even the background countryside looks awash in green. What a payoff after all the struggle. I am so happy for you. Diane

Looks so lovely, like it was always meant to be!

Beautiful as always!

As much as I too, love this cool, damp weather, a few roses aren’t appreciating it quite as much. Although there are plenty of perfect blooms and buds, my “Not Louise Odier- Maybe Grandmother’s Hat” has some very unsightly balled, rotten blooms on it. I need to remove these, but I’m showing a picture of what can happen in these weather conditions. Roses don’t always look perfect, so all pictures shouldn’t be either, right? :-). Lisa

Ingrid, these rainy day photos are delightful, and beautifully composed. Bishop's Castle is one of my favorite Austins, great fragrance and charming blooms.

Gruss is so enchanting with the subtle color shadings.

Lisa, your Not Louise Odier is so sumptuous, looks like a great rose...

Lisa, The Faun was completely eaten by the rabbits pre-caging. It's a short rose, as you know, and it was situated in the triangle plot, exactly where Evelyn is right now. Your plant is extra-fine with those lovely swirled petals. Tall Evelyn will fare much better there, and I'd rather have the apricot tones of Evelyn than the pink tones of The Faun as I already have a good number of pinks. Yes, the days of frenzied rose buying are gone, alas, but I'm not discounting adding one or two superb, dying-to-have roses, even if it means substituting if for a less-favored rose. So far I'm not loving Mlle. Franziska Kruger, but it will need a few more years before I even think about replacing it. William R. Smith is growing like crazy, but I have the disquieting feeling that this rose is different from my previous, and to my eyes, more beautiful rose I had by that name before. There again I'm not touching it for a good long time. Mlle. de Sombreuil is not thriving and even this wonderful weather has not improved it, so we'll see.

Krista, I couldn't agree more about Bishop's Castle, of which I have two, and I appreciate the deeper pink color and its fragrance. It's not a rose that I'd want to be without. Gruss an Aachen has such large blooms this year courtesy of the weather, which will change when it gets hot, but I'm so enjoying them now.

I'm with you on this weather, Ingrid. It's giving us a chance to actually enjoy our roses, no?

But give 'Mlle. de Sombreuil' some time. It's just starting to pick up, here. And the blooms are so lovely!

That is a seriously lovely flower, Jeri. I don't see my blooms as being quite as shapely, and the shrub as a whole is rather sparse, but we'll see how it continues to go on throughout the year.

I just got back from vacation and was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t miss the first big flush of Darcey Bussell. I left my rain gauge out and we got a full inch here in the foothills (La Crescenta, CA) over the last 10 days. The cool misty weather is making the blooms last longer. Everything was covered with rain this morning as the first rays of sun hit DB. I just love all this rain! Also I picked a bouquet clockwise DB, Madame Alfred Carriere, Monsieur Tillier, Belinda’s Blush and Star of the a Republic in the center. And the sweet little flowers of Excellenz von Schubert. The colors all look very correct.

Stephanie, that's so beautiful! DB in the vase has the most beautiful, rich color. EvS may be small but what beautifully formed flowers, and the color is sublime.