I have 2 witharge blooms ( well 3 but Papa Meilland is new and not a great bloomer yet )

Love Song has nice large blooms and for me has been very healthy.

Memorial Day is my favorite

Big blousy blooms that are pinky/lavender with a wonderful fragrance

Love Song

Memorial Day

Roberto Cappucci was quite large here

I no longer have it, but Medallion had the largest blooms I've ever grown. Apricot to peach, near-exhibition form blooms, sometimes as much as 8 inches across (when dis-budded).

Peace can be a very large rose, especially if you can find a virus-indexed clone. They can be even larger on fortuniana rootstock.

The largest non-HT I've grown is the hybrid perpetual Paul Neyron - about 6 inch blooms, but a sparse bloomer.

EDIT: I forgot another oldie-but-goody, Great Century. Easily, and consistently, had 7-8 inch blooms. I only had it for a couple of years because it's not quite hardy here (I don't winter protect). But it was gorgeous while it survived.

The roses with largest blooms in my garden are Augusta Luise, Abbaye de Cluny, Brother Cadfael, Jude the Obscure, Caramel Antique, and Love Song. Jude and Brother are shrub roses, Love Song is a floribunda, and Augusta, Abbaye, and Caramel Antique are hybrid teas. Diane

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Diane,

You know I am in love with your AL. Problem is I have seen other pictures and none were like yours. It' like you have some magic for AL that makes her really special.

I had Love Songs but it died, not sure why. It stayed smal and may have succubed to some accidental over watering. I do remember the first year blooms - very large indeed.

But next time I try a Lavender, it will have to be Poseidon which I heard has an overall better profile.

Are you addressing me about Augusta (Diane Brakefield)? She probably has the largest of all blooms in my garden, but it's close among the others above. Diane

Diane,

I am SO sorry! For whatever reason, when I type @, your name does not come up and I only get dianela's instead. I did not notice when I posted the above which I have now edited with your name.

So yes - I definitely was addressing you! You have the most incredible AL I have ever seen. You can reach the end of the Internet searching and you won't find better. :)

Kristine - gotta love Memorial Day! Love yours!

Diane - your Jude and Love Song are EXQUISITE!!! SWOON!!! And then you show us your phenomenal AL!!! Diane, Diane, Diane! :) :) :)

I like Augusta Luise more the longer I have it. Mine is grafted from Palatine. It started out as a grade 1.5 plant but is now a good sized , branchy plant. I planted it in part sun but it has done well in that spot. Since cutting down 8 Leyland Cypress trees ( they turned out not to be bushes) Augusta is getting more sun and it is branching even more. So far, after several years, it is blackspot resistant, has great repeat, strong fragrance, very beautiful ruffly blooms and colors. I have only had a few of the brighter orangish blooms. Most of the time they're soft but not washed out colors, pinks and peaches. Blooms come in clusters. It's a great rose.

Polka is one with big blooms. This plant has been in a lot of shade for many years but keeps on growing and blooming, fairly bs resistant. I planted another one in more sun to grow over a big arbor as it is vigorous.

I second Medallion and add Buxom Beauty. Belindas Dream also will cover my hand at times, although they are, admittedly, small.

KJ - your Love Song is fabulous!!! SWOON!

With lots of disease resistance

Fiji

dark desire

summer romance next to peony

crazy love

madame Anisette

@rosecanadian Thank you! Love Song is one of my top performers! Currently it's in the third flush this year.

Dianela, holy smokes, your Madame Anisette is spectacular!

Fiji is one of my favorites too. It is such a reliable plant.

Maybe I should give Buxom Beauty another go.

Is Fiji deep pink or cherry red? I have too many deep pink, but I'd like to have a cherry red.

All these pictures of Love Song tempt me once again just as they tempted me the first time.

I had it but it didn't work out. It was the only rose that died on me. Well, this one and Rosie the Riveter, sort of.

Failure to thrive, may have been flooded a bit at some point...I will never know. It only had one good first season - but it stayed small and slowly dried up and died. Poor BS resistance too.

I keep thinking about another mauve (Poseidon?) but the large blooms of Love Song seem irreplaceable. Over the top as I love them...and I remember how gorgeous it was :).

This is my Belinda's Dream - an own root from a band. It is still not vigorous but after two seasons, this is the first time it seems to produce some larger blooms and more than one at a time.

Fiji is a cherry color and it blooms a lot .

fiji is mostly a very deep pink here. Some times depending on temps i get this very cerry color

I like Pretty Lady Rose for large blooms and great fragrance. She tends to bloom in flushes. Blooms tend to be in the 4.5-5" range.

Photos taken Wed. Sept. 28. 2022. Planted as a band from High Country Roses 5/17.

Whole bush.

I don't know on black spot resistance since we tend to not have enough moisture here to get black spot.

Mine is Abbaye de Cluny.

Carla in Sac

Carla, wow! Did you get yours from Palatine ?

Those look huge, Carla! Beautiful orange!

Carla, How big are those blooms? They look huge! Helpmefind says 4" but those look bigger. Gorgeous color.

Bliss has the largest blooms for me. It It’s a first year plant as well!

Sorry for the delay.

Ms. Cluney is probably 5 inches across. But for full disclosure-- that only happens on the first flush in Spring. Subsequent blooms are about three to four inches.

Carla in Sac

I grow Abbaye (a French Abby) as I mentioned above, and the blooms are huge. So is the rose which is about 8 feet tall, and grows in quite a bit of shade, but still manages to bloom pretty much continuously. Diane