Wow! All uncommon roses to me and exquisite. What a rich color is AC. I can never captue that color on my camera pr my phone! What a spring it has been and its not over.

Intermezzo (hybrid tea, Simon Dot)

Kordes Perfecta

Mothers Day polyantha

Mrs William G Koning polyantha

Occhi di Fata (Barni). Phototropic!

Paul Bocuse (blooms last for weeks)

Purple Lodge (from Burling!) Got it as a band in March. Unfading purple that wants to bloom!

Plum Perfect

Baronne Prevost no introduction needed!

Quicksilver

Mrs R.M. Finch polyantha

Smokey. In spring, the colors are breathtaking (in summer, more of an orange)

Snowbird

Sombreuil

Stile 800

Yolande dAragon

Just what I needed! Thanks for all your gorgeous photos.

Sidonie

WS2000

Boscobel I think

Wonderful, Kathy and Berry! So glad you are surviving with such beauty.

Kathy and Berry, thank you for the beautiful photos. Love them! Helen

What beautiful roses! I have never heard of "Purple Lodge" before. It is stunning!

Thanks for sharing the lovely photos! I hope all is well with you and your family in these times.

damask_rose : )

Oh boy, do you ever have some beauties! Wow !

Wonderful pics, I espcially enjoy seeing the early and mid century HTs, many rarely seen today, and some looking decidedly back in style.

Wow !! thank you .. I love all your roses.

They are stunning! I particularly like that picture of Honeymoon, it looks like something out of a calendar!

Kathy - Oh my goodness!!!! Smokey took my breath away...the color is surreal!!! What do you think about Kordes Perfecta? (fragrance and bloomability). I really, really enjoyed looking at your roses...so many that epitomize the grandeur of the OGRs!!!

Berry - your WS2000 is superb!!! The color, shape and the composition of the picture are amazing!!!!

Wonderful images! Thank you! You know the pictures are good when you have people like me looking at the photos and thinking -- "oh! I never thought about that one, but I REALLY ought to put it on my list for next year!" :)

Kathy, great photography !!

Wow, I am blown away with your collection.

They are absolutely beautiful.

I am so glad you took pics to share with us !

These are some stunning roses!!! What is your initial review of barock ? The color is so pretty. Would it look nice in a pot ?

KathyC I love your roses. Some of these I have not heard of before Chic, Barock.... You stated you are in zone 10. May I ask you where you live. I too live in Zone 10.... very hot and humid.... in South Florida. I was just wondering how some of your beauties that I haven't heard of might hold up in my climate.

Thank you for sharing your pictures.

Kathy C (and others who've been posting photos): Thank you for posting this. We've got such oppressive heat here (upper 90s with very high humidity) that I can hardly linger by my plants in the yard without feeling smacked down. That combined with the unending stress of reduced work hours and school starts that are either ill thought-out or very complicated (I've got one in college, one in public high school, and a husband who teaches college) have left me bedraggled. This post and the lovely photos are a real respite and a reminder that the roses will keep blooming in their beautiful way, no matter the worries of the world. They provide sustenance to so many of us. Thanks again!

Kathy -- A salute to you and to your roses ... and to you again, for holding things together in a bad time.

I keep saying -- without roses and dogs, I'd fall into despair.

jerijen - what kind of dogs do you have? :)

Wow, thank you so much everyone. Your comments are so kind! I'm overwhelmed!

thank you @User for your beautiful pictures! I have Sidonie on my list--can you tell me more about it?

Thank you @damask_rose_zone9b, we are all safe and healthy and I hope you and your family are as well. I think you need Purple Lodge! It's a great rose!

@RedBird_7a EastTN, completely understand where you are coming from!! My kids really struggled with the shutdown. They both have some aspect of educational accommodation they need and I worked with them in the day, tried to make my work meetings and then made up work hours at night. My husband is "essential" and had to go into work... it was worrying and exhausting. I am so glad my pictures brought some joy to you! hang in there!!

@BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14) I used to have a whole lot of early HTs and some pernetianas that sadly did not enjoy our heat. I do have left Fred Howard, Radiance and a few more oldies I got from Vintage Gardens before it closed down. I'll have to post more pics!

@rosecanadian Kordes Perfecta is tall and for a HT seems inclined to bloom a lot. The colors stay true and does not look bleached out or mottled as it ages. Nice scent! I really like it. I can see it from my kitchen window and it looks very elegant mixing with blue and purple annuals next to it.

@Lilyfinch z9a Murrieta Ca Barock really seems to want to be large. I had to go on the Russian site rosebook.ru to see enough pictures of it to understand it. here are some links I researched--just ask the browser to translate to english. Even with winter die back in Russia, it is quite vigorous. I gave it about a 5 foot wide space along a 7 foot high fence. http://www.rosebook.ru/roses/gallery/large-flowered-climber/barock/123/

http://www.rosebook.ru/roses/gallery/barock/page-1/

@sharon2079 I am in Southern California about 15 miles inland from the coast. It is hot here as I am in the foothills, but not humid-- we are very very dry and I have a small amount of blackspot on the hybrid perpetuals only. Before them, I had zero blackspot in my garden for the 15 years I have grown roses!

@jerijen thank you so much for your kind comments. I agree with you. I must have worn out a track in my yard checking on all my beauties when I needed a break from, well, everything. Roses and gardening truly are therapeutic!

thanks again for the kind comments, they really brought a smile to my face!

Kathy - thanks for the info on Kordes Perfecta...I guess I should have got it this year. Dang. :) Oh, and I used to go to that website, and then I couldn't remember the name of it. Thanks!

Kathy- Sidonie is a VERY pretty rose ; the buds start out the most intense silky pink of any rose, like a 1950's lipstick, with a beautiful set of head feathers. Sometimes the open blooms are cartoon flower shaped like Portland from Glendora, sometimes goblet, but many open up in unusual lopsided shapes , so quaint an old rose with a button eye.

It is said to be salmon pink, but I view Sidonie closer to a solid medium pink, fading slightly as the petals drop. Perfume is very strong at times , smells like a floral laundry soap to me.

Super healthy growth here in Pacific Northwest zone 5, not a speck of disease even though it sits in the shade most of the day. That aspect alone makes it outstanding for a no spray garden.

In it'

s Spring flush the number of roses came in fast and generously heavy. The second flush is starting , buds appear not as numerous, time will tell.

In it's second year the short bush was low to the ground and spread out " floppy " but i trimmed the low outside branches, now the middle ones are growing straight up, about two and a half feet tall. Doesn't seem too mind pruning at all. Mine has lots of little pokey thorns.

Sidonie has really captured my affection , definitely a keeper

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Your Sidonie is just stunning! And your photography skills are amazing :)

Wow!! Such lovely, lovely, roses!! I live in So Cal too, but more inland and we're finally getting a break from triple digit weather to some mid 90s, haha. It's nice to see your beauties despite all this heat!!

BerryPie - GASP!!!! Those are AMAZING blooms!!!! The color, the shape, the petals, the button center...everything is beyond beautiful!!!

Your roses look so gorgeous 😻😻😻

Kathy, Your Alfred Colomb is amazing! Such a dark red!

thank you @User !Those photos are amazing! I love the shape and color and that it blooms in the shade! Definitely one to put on my list!

Kathy, beautiful pictures. I don't find a place on that site to translate and am not clever enough to understand your directions. Can anyone help me?

Kathy - what a good idea! Here are some pics of roses I took which make me happy:

Jackie

Bloom on old old plant of Lamarque which came over the fence from the neighbors'

Susan Louise - thought to be a re-blooming seedling of Belle Portugaise

Longer shot of Sombreuil (LFC from 1960s - aka "Colonial White"

Fortune's Double Yellow

OMG! Fortune’s Double Yellow is breathtakingly beautiful!

Potted Rosie the Riveter in GA summer sun. A bit faded with an unusual (for her) bloom - a bit like an Austin.

More pretty girls , Sidonie and Evelyn

Jackie, I grew Sombreuil once and forgot how beautiful it can look. But Fortune's Double Yellow looks out of this world. What charm! Your photo brings out its beauty particularly well. Thank you for sharing.

Jacqueline - your Fortune's Double Yellow picture is EXQUISITE!!!! This picture should be in a calendar!! Oh my heavens!!! And your Sombreuil is amazing!!

Severe - your RtR blooms is really unusual!! I love it!! :)

BerryPie - I love your Sidonie!!! GASP!!

rosecanadian,

I like Rosie OK but I don't think she will become a permanent resident in my pot.

I want to have about 3 large permanent pots on my deck with 3 blooming machines - so I can see them from the kitchen which is towering above the deck. Even those 3 blooms she now has make for a nice view, but I need a whole lot more than that.

Quite prone to BS too.

I am now thinking Marmalade Skies or something over-the-top bloomy, eye-catching and very resistant to disease. For more impact, I'd probably need 3 of the same in the 3 pots but it's so hard to commit so deeply to one variety in a spot.

Severe - yes, I agree...that would be hard...I couldn't do it. LOL