Kim, gorgeous pics! Thank you for sharing. Helen

Thank you, Helen!

Beautiful and unique, I don’t think I’ve seen such lush Grey Pearl blooms before.

Thanks for sharing, Kim! Those are some haunting Grey Pearl blossoms. I LOVE 'em.

Thank you. As they are maturing, they are improving! I've read it's scented but never smelled it, until tonight. It's not "very fragrant", but it is "fragrant" if opened indoors.

Opened a bit more and even more beautiful the second day... please click on the photos so you see the full frame.

Absolutely stunning! Alas, I'll never see or grow it in person. <grin>

I know a lot of people do not like the unusual colors, but these truly are fabulously unique colors to mix into flower arrangements for contrast.

Completely agree. Helen

gorgeous. I especially like the ones in the 2nd set with the flash on. Looks like something out of an art gallery!

Really gorgeous, Kim! So interesting.

Thank you! The second set were actually cell phone photos. Not bad!

Whoa! Absolutely stunning :)
The colours are very unique :)

jin

Kim, your second set of photos are so fitting for a Victorian novel....... Haunting and unforgettable!

Thank you, Ben. When opened this way, you can see what motivated the old description of "chocolate, olive, saffron and tan". And, Constance Spry's comments about it in Favorite Flowers, her final book. She was, among MANY other things, a floral designer. A friend phoned her saying she simply "MUST come down to London" to see this new rose. She required a wedding bouquet for an antique, heavily brocaded wedding dress. Grey Pearl was IT. Thank you, Lin! They are maturing further, so I am watching to see when the optimum time to catch them is. I wish I could put them in a jar and save them forever.

I never wanted to leave the first photo - but then I was glad I did when I saw the roses on the second day. What a unique and very special rose.

Positively dreamy! I love the colors...remind me of antique millinery. I imagine the colors paired with the petal texture is just divine! :-)

The third day....if you're tired of seeing them, please don't look. I've never seen anyone demonstrate the progression these tints evolve through and I'm enjoying the dickens out of them.

Drooling with envy!

So lovely! Really enjoying these pics.

Wow awesome beautiful roses!

Keep it up, Kim!

What a terrible TEASE! <grin>

Thanks (again),

Chris

Day four, the beginning... please remember to click on each photo to see the full image. There is an issue between Android images and Houzz so the thumbnails don't always present the full image.

And, some day four afternoon. Each evening, I place the vase under the kitchen faucet and fill up the water to insure none of them go dry due to use and evaporation. These are Nikon images so the entire image shows in the thumbnail.

Kim, this is the reason we pamper our primadonna roses, LOL. Helen