Jeri - you are doing it again! Spreading lovely pictures so that we will all get attacks of rose lust! I love the bloom, of course, but also the spherical buds - so pretty!

Jackie

Jackie -- This would be a good one for you, I bet.

Jeri, you are a devil - I looked at the pictures, and it looks a lot like my version of TROMN, but a darker color, and I am sure other differences. Maybe I will get one and put it next to my TROMN.

Jackie

Jackie -- It's more like 'La REine' -- A version of 'La Reine' that grows taller than most. It's also disease-resistant here, where 'La Reine' never was. Larger bloom than TROMN.

Jeri - I have always had a secret doubt that my TROMN really is a TROMN - it never has quite the dark blooms of the others. Here is a pic of what we have been calling my TROMN (next to guess who? hee, hee) this past Spring - what do you think? Could it be closer to Barbara's Pasture Rose than TROMN? I got it from an old, old, bush in our old neighborhood - the lady who owns the house said it was there when they bought their house 50+ years ago.

Jackie

Gosh. I'd have to see it a lot closer up.

I will bring some blooms of it to the Spring Sacramento Cemetery rose sale.

Jackie

Here's Another image of "Barbara's Pasture Rose'.

These blooms are maybe twice as large as a regular 'La Reine'.