Lovely! Souvenir de St. Anne's is always so elegant. My Mary Queen of Scots (ex Vintage Gardens) is much much paler than yours, looking a lot like this photo: HMF photo, and grows entirely in the shade of a lemon tree. So, I don't think it's shade, but there does seem to be a wide range of color intensity, judging by the photos on HMF. Where is yours from?

Lucky you, to have a 'Sunsprite' over six feet tall. I always liked that rose. When the roses get going, there's just too much to see. It's the season!

The blooms sure look like 'Sunsprite.' But, WOW! Who knew it could grow to tall!

I got Sunsprite from RVR back in 2014. She's actually quite a bit taller than 6', she's as high as the roofline of the house. If I'd known she was going to get so big, I would definitely have planted her somewhere else! But, she is gorgeous and brightens the fenceline for sure. I guess she really likes construction fill! Or else the dosing with kelp solution she got for a couple of years.

I got Mary Queen of Scots also from RVR, back in 2016. RVR doesn't have a photo on their website so I can't compare mine to what theirs looks like. Maybe she was mislabeled? She definitely looks like a spin, though.

Wow !!! I bought my friend a souvenir de st Ann’s and now I need one for myself . I love that it’s in some shade , very encouraging for me . Absolutely gorgeous!

Lovely photos and really beautiful roses!

Wow, my Soleil d'Or has never been that floriferous--yours looks wonderful.

Wow...such great pics of some varieties I don't see many pictures of. I especially like Mary Queen of Scots, Harrison's Yellow with poppies, and Soleil d'Or. Does your Sunsprite have an intense fragrance?

Thanks everyone!

Comtesse, I do love yellows but the vast majority of my roses are pinks. The yellows just tend to bloom earlier. Thanks for the suggestion of Golden Showers - she looks like a great yellow! I've got to do some careful planning to figure out where to put some more climbers....

Erasmus, I'll have to check the scent of Sunsprite, she's not in a location where I can put my nose in and smell her on a regular basis (i.e. she's behind a fence). From walking by underneath her, I can report that I've never noticed a strong scent wafting from her. Yes, I'm definitely attracted to species roses, OGRs, and miscellaneous obscure varieties; I have some HT's but they're <10% of my collection. And I prefer to take "bush shots" rather than "bloom shots", mainly because when I'm researching what roses I want to buy, a process for which I really value pictures of the whole plant so I can see where I may want to put it, I often find the only pictures online are the blooms. So I try to fill the gap a little bit, and add comments about shade tolerance or whatever, so hopefully other people can use the info.

Formerly RBEHS, thanks for the compliments for Soleil d'Or, but I don't think I can take any credit! I really haven't done anything other than stick her in the ground and give her a chance. I almost didn't buy this rose since it has such a miserable reputation for being disease-ridden. I'm so glad I gave her a try! Here in my Mediterranean climate she's been almost completely disease-free, except I think the first couple of years when she was still in a pot I seem to recall she got some leaf disease and defoliated mid-summer, but since she's been in the ground that hasn't happened. She has bloomed well for me. Last winter I moved her from her original location to a new one where she's in a raised bed with relatively dense, mildly acid (I think?) soil and drip irrigation, and she seems exuberantly happy. I like to post her so people know that she really does do well in the right climate.

Fantastic roses slumgullion! Your Soleil d'Or is particularly magnificent. :)

Wow slumgullion!
Those are so beautiful and amazing. I certainly can't pick a favourite, but Soleil d'Or is looking mighty impressive, and I've always adored Lady Hillingdon!

Steven

Beautiful! Yea, another person that grows Sequoia Gold! I love mine. It just is so reliable and keeps pumping out the blooms. Great rose!

I agree, Sequoia Gold is definitely one of my favorite minis, it's just perfect to fill in a tight location. Gorgeous blooms and lots of 'em, and a very healthy and carefree plant. Highly recommended.

Your Lady Hillingdon is spectacular! You must be giving exactly what it needs.

LOLOL I don't give her much! Water, a handful of fertilizer and a scoop of horse poop in the spring...Here are some pics from a couple of weeks later than the pic above:

Your LH leaves me speechless! Carol

Wow. Just wow.

On further thought I do think last winter's pruning has significantly increased the floriferousness (is that a word?) of LH, and actually all the roses that got pruned, with the sole exception of Father Hugo and Wingthorn (neither of whom had much bloom at all this year, but the red thorns on the many side branches Wingthorn has thrown out are very attractive).

Last winter was the first time I really did much pruning on the roses. For the most part they're still pretty young, most of them <5 years, so I've been letting them get established and trying to let them get tall so they would create the big hedge I'm after. But finally they were getting big enough that some of them were interfering with each other, or leaning too much in one direction, or tall enough that I could shorten the top while still having a tall bush. So I decided I'd better get going on some shaping, removing crossed canes, etc.

LOLOL when I was done I hauled out at least a half dozen truckloads of trimmings to the green waste dump! (I'm still debating whether I should follow in Italian Melissa's footsteps and use them as mulch...I'm worried about harboring diseases...I get a ton of leaves from my sycamore/oak/ash/maple trees every year and I think it's probably safer to stick with those for mulch, rather than rose or fruit tree trimmings....)

I was a bit worried that many in my collection wouldn't like getting pruned, so I tried to be somewhat conservative, but I did cut many of them by up to 25%. And this year I have more blooms than ever! I'm glad everyone survived!