Looks pretty good to me. Especially if the blooms did not just open today. Possibly your photo doesn’t capture all that someone on site would see. Expectations may be higher, too, on the west coast, than here, in N.J.

Well we all have different tastes! All the blooms had a weird brown tinge to them, the description was supposed to be pink with a dark pink edge. Here is the ad photo, what I was expecting

Yes. I see your point. No question - top photo not close to the bottom. The bottom is a very nice rose.

I also was looking for this one but was very disappointed when I saw it in person.

I saw it at Home Depot earlier this year but passed on it because I had spent so much money on Austin bareroots this year. Maybe good I did as it probably wouldn't like our high heat and humidity.

Ann, your bloom looks gorgeous even better than the promo pic.

I think most of the blooms in the first pic are old blooms that are waiting to be deadheaded so to use them to judge the rose may not be fair to the rose.

Most of hybrid teas and floribundas have the problem of their old blooms look kind of ugly and that the reason I go toward English roses nowadays because their spent blooms still look amazing. Helen

Thanks Helen! I agree it's hard to judge any rose based on its worst day.

My garden is so battered by rain right now but I agree the Austins look better than most.

Ann

I bought Pinkerbelle as an impulse buy back in April. I am also very disappointed. My blooms also don't look anything like the advertised picture.

RosePetal, I like the scattered pinks in your photo. For some people, that’s considered a good feature, making the rose unique. On the other hand, life is short so if you think a rose doesn’t look good, it can go to one of your friends and you have room for one more rose :) Helen

I'd be interested in Ann's photos today, after our heat wave this week. I think Pinkerbell is more of a spring rose.
Carla in Sac

Mine hardly smells.

Agree. Every time I see it at the nursery, I just think to myself, “why?”

Here is how it looks in my garden. Helen

How I wish your roses were for sale at my nursery!
Maybe I should just print out your photos, cut out the rose, and hang them on my plants. :)
Carla in Sac

Hi Carla - I was in Hawaii visiting my mom last week when I saw this post but I couldn't respond without my computer.

You asked what Pinkerbelle might look like now. Here's a pic of a bloom I found yesterday when I returned.

Pinkerbelle, along with Distant Drums and Sterling Silver, all new roses and planted together have been completely shut down for the last six weeks. This isn't typical of my garden because it doesn't get that super hot here so I think they're getting settled.

Pinkerbelle looks quite different from earlier this year when it had better form; it still continues the pink and white striations shown in my earlier pic which I like but the color is much more of dark pink instead of the salmon/pink from earlier.

I've seen the "messy" side of this rose that you mentioned. It seems that Pinkerbelle opens up really fast in hotter weather and loses it shape and color which is disappointing. After seeing that, I think I may move Pinkerbelle to a shadier and cooler spot next to another Meilland bi-color rose, Best Kept Secret to see if it retains form and color better. BKS seems to be ok in some shade so maybe Pinkerbelle might find it ok too and perform better.

I hope my pic provides another data point on this rose. Helen's lovely roses do set a high bar for all of us!

Ann

Ann, the colors are beautiful. Many rose collectors would love to have this rose in a big pot and just move it around to see it changes colors. Helen

Hi Ann
Obviously your roses shut down because they missed you!
;)
Carla

Thanks for the suggestion about putting it in a pot Helen! I may just do that.

Carla - LOL! I was gone four days and only the scrub jays missed me.

Ann

I am always amazed at how much blooms tend to get better as a plant matures. The blooms from a rose in a small pot are not apt to be what they might look like after a few years in the ground.

Just a note: It bloomed messy, as its first baby bloom on warm days. Then we had unusual, terrible heat, now it has cold back down, its bloom is picture perfect...seems to really hate heat and love cool sun.

Oooh...it would do well for me then! I wish I could get one. :)

Are you near Select Roses or Frazer Valley Rose farm and wonder if they might get them?

No, I'm a few days away. Thanks, Ann....I'll keep my eyes out for it...you never know!! ;) :)

I just can't get past the cringey, cutesy, marketing department driven type name!

Steven

Can anyone speak to whether this rose gets better with age? It is very healthy, but otherwise the shapeless speckled blooms are not very attractive in my garden.

This is one of the roses i got rid right away after purchasing from J&P, it never bloomed a single one.

It is super vigorous here, not a speck of black spot, with candelabra full of bud canes, BUT once the blooms get to the exhibition stage strange things happen. Colors get muddy, petals go wonky, and for the sake of beauty in the rose bed, an early dead heading is in order just when a normal flowering rose bush has days of beauty left in a bloom at the same stage.

Dig it out? If it had additional faults, probably, but it is just too vigorous and persistently pushing out blooms to go that route, so when a bloom gets nasty, dead heading is next, that solves its problem nicely.

And yes, the name choice is 'juvenile.'

Moses

I briefly glanced at the title now. Not only had I forgotten I had previously commented here, but I found myself nodding in agreement with the title, which my brain processed as:

Pickleball What a Mess