Evelyn

Potter and Moore

Gruss an Aachen, Plum Perfect and Friends

SdlM, Mme. Antoine Marie and Baronne Henriette de Snoy

The only perennial that hasn't been eaten, perhaps too toxic?

Ingrid, your garden is so magical with your landscape plus not forgetting wildlife.

I can never get tired. I really do enjoy seeing and reading. Sometimes, i do feel like i am repeating, haha :)

All that rain did good and your roses are blooming well. They look beautiful.

Always such a pleasure to see roses. Enjoy!

I love seeing your roses and gardens you are amazing gardener! Both you and your husband!

Beautiful, Ingrid! I’m happy to see things looking so lush, right now. That first picture in the second batch of pictures is just magical. I’m SO pleased that Evelyn has been not only hanging in there, but is blooming and happy! She’s a good one for those of us who live in the land of hot and dry. I’m happy to see that the purple foxglove has survived and is in bloom. The slugs LOVE eating mine, but I’m guessing snails and slugs are not a problem in your garden. Cute little bunny. My furry residents aren’t nearly as cute, but just as destructive. The gopher population has recently exploded. The traps and cats can’t keep up.

It’s wonderful to see your garden again. What new roses are you considering? I know you must have a few in mind:). Lisa

Wonderful pictures, Ingrid! I love the way your garden's abundance contrasts with the drier landscape around it. Beautiful.

I love your photos, Ingrid. I vote for more roses for Fall. I'm a Dr and it would be good for you and Cecil. I want you to know your spare environment looks to have fewer weeds than I do here. That is one more great thing about your garden.

Ha, Sheila, I wish there were no weeds! The yellow mustard is huge this year, and all over our property except for just around the house where the roses are. By the way, it took me quite a while to realize that the photo of the rabbit also contained a squirrel!

It's probably just a dream, but I'd love to have Cole's Settlement from the ARE again, which is now just two forlorn dry sticks. The large white single flowers were so eye-catching, but apparently the wildlife also found it delicious. I'm tempted by a few other roses, Golden Celebration being one, but I'll have a better idea of what to do when the long hot summer has passed, and I can see how much is left of the garden, and whether it's worth continuing with roses.

Yes, Lisa, Evelyn seems very happy here and is a great rose for our climate. Diane's gorgeous pictures of hers enticed me to try her, and perhaps you also. The lack of fertilizer and my less than stellar soil haven't seemed to faze this rose so far.

Cole's Settlement in the summer of 2019

Two months later, but now even these canes are gone

I'm really glad you are still planning and dreaming, Ingrid. Cole's Settlement looked so natural at your home. He does look so sad now.

Here today it is really windy. I hope I don't get too many broken canes. Here I am seeing bunnies and voles. They are so cute until they chomp my plants to bits. I could use another half dozen cages too. I have also had bites taken out of new basals that completely destroy a juicy new cane I have waited years for. It is really infuriating. I do hope I don't end up bitter or on Dateline.

Love your garden! Eyes For You is a really striking rose.

Ingrid, I planted Potter and Moore, Baronne Henriette de Snoy and Souv de la Mal because of your pictures. Fingers crossed they like my cooler, shadier, wetter locale!

Eyes for You is VERY tempting. Is it fragrant?

Sheila, I hate that you're also having issues with roses being eaten. It didn't happen here until 2018 and I don't know what changed. I suspect hotter and drier conditions are factors.

I had to run outside to sniff Eyes for You but couldn't detect much fragrance, unfortunately. It's so eye-catching that I think it could be forgiven, although HMF says mild to strong fragrance.

oursteelers, my fingers are also crossed that those roses will do well for you. Location and climate are such huge factors in how a rose will perform, and SdlM especially has been a problem in cool and moist climates.

I just happened to have a bloom of Potter and Moore, flanked by SdlM, on my dining table, picked the night before last. The first photo is from yesterday morning and the second from today.

So lovely, Ingrid! I agree—-I’ll never tire of seeing your garden! You planned it all so well to fit into your environment. I think a few more roses are a great idea...I love how you put it all together. 😊

Ingrid, I figured I was taking a chance with them but I had to try. Anything you or Lisa have that I MUST get I put in my sunniest spots.

If worse comes to worse I can put them on the other side of the fence-that gets all day sun but I hope I don’t have to. I really want them in the part of the yard I spend the most time in.

What a beautiful garden! If I was there I would never want to leave! Your roses are gorgeous and your foxglove is lovely too!

Oursteelers, you really should have all day sun for SdlM. Here, it looks pathetic every Spring and pulls itself together eventually and it is even in all day sun. Maybe I have more Spring freeze/thaw than you do and that could be better for you. I hope so.

The roses are beautiful. I like how you have designed them to work together in your setting!

Thank you all for your lovely comments; they mean so much. Oursteelers, I wish you every success!

Glad to see your roses blooming so beautifully, Ingrid. I love the pink and cream blend of William R. Smith. Cute rabbit and squirrel photo!