Love it, Catspaw! The bloom is indeed intricately and beautifully swirling. Creamy colored roses are so classy and romantic. Fabulous iris, as well. Thanks for the picture! I enjoyed it. Lisa

So beautiful, and perfect with these darling little irises. I'd love to see a picture when Hoag House Cream opens further. I have a feeling it's beautiful at every stage.

Thanks, all. I'll take a photo if and when the flower opens further, Ingrid. Hoag House does tend to have some of the more consistently best-formed flowers on the lot.

By the way, I didn't mean to designate a "best answer", if indeed it was due to some fumble-fingered act of mine -- I didn't even know this was a feature...(gee, thanks Houzz). I appreciate all your responses, no favorites!

Just gorgeous!

Elegant flower and that iris sounds like it smells delicious.

The iris does smell delicious and it wafts. I can't think of any other flower that smells like plums. Anyone know of one? I first grew this iris in Massachusetts, plants obtained from a local nursery, when I lived there -- it's quite hardy. But I started these from seed (imported from England) when we moved back to California.

Very detail and dreamy rose. It is amazing of wonderful mother nature creat the design. It is Perfect plus looking at pics posted i can see the form is beautiful.