A Neighbor called me over to his backyard to look at a mountain laurel today.

While there, he pointed out a rose planted against the back of his house. He said he had moved it to that location, from its original site, many years ago to get more sun, but it had never once bloomed from the time of that move until just now. He mentioned that his clothes dryer vent opened right next to the rose until this winter, when work was done on the house, and the dryer (and vent) location was changed. He doesn’t remember if it had ever bloomed in its original location.

His wife tells me the blooms open yellow, then change to peach pink, and then red. She sent me these photos after I left the yard today. I did not get a chance to smell it.

It is over 40 years old. Any ideas?

Additional info: the canes have begun to arch and fall down over a retaining wall to the ground below.

Masquerade?

It's pretty. You take nice pictures. So let's see some pics of your plants! I don't know if I've ever seen one.

Joseph's Coat. Very popular then and now.

Joseph's Coat is more double than Masquerade (I'd say M has no more than 15 petals, *at most*), and almost never gets the saturated reds in Rifis' photo. JC tends to have a range of pink tones, yellows, and orangey reds. M starts yellow, and rapidly turns dark pink and red.