Flowers!! You're back. How are you doing? I hope you post more here. We miss you so much. I'm going to email you later today. I think you are correct about LotP, which is also Huntington's 100th. As I'm sure you know, Tom Carruth is the head of the rose garden at Huntington, and one of my favorite rose hybridizers, and it sounds like he's a favorite of yours, too. Carruth's roses do well for us in the Northwest. Do you have photos of your roses? I'm sure the effect a mass planting makes is just gorgeous. Talk to you later. Diane

I think Ben T. Posted some mass plantings at a test garden before they were named.

Thank you.

Is it fragrant? If not, it might be Music Box.

Close inspection of foliage and stems imply it is from a genetically miniature of miniflora background.

There used to be a miniature called 'Olympic Gold' that was very popular on the west coast for 2 decades. That was my first impression, but these days who knows. So many grocery store minis are out there, and it could be any of those and we wouldn't know.

It is definitely a mini or miniflora -- genetically. Inspect the foliage and stems for the phenotype to genotype match.

Vapor, I just realized you answered my question, but I don't think it was the photos Ben T posted that I was remembering. Seems to me it was someone who doesn't post often - a name I wasn't familiar with. I wish I had saved the photo and name.

Jadae, you are right, there are several roses with that coloring. Besides Music Box, there is also Easter Basket, Watercolors Home Run and even the new Pop Art. Also OSO Easy Italian Ice. I am not familiar with miniature roses, but there are a few in that category, too. Pink and yellow have always been a classic combo. I'm being stubborn and sticking with Life of the Party. The full bush photos on HMF just look so much like socks' photo.

I think that is one of my favorite roses, Life of the Party. I have two.

Jadae: Can you please put into words what you saw (in the foliage and stems) that led you conclude it is from a genetically miniature/miniflora background - thank you.

Hi, rifis,

Note the foliage size and relativity when compared to the Hen and Chicks in the photo. Also, note how pinnate (slend and pointed) they are. Miniature genetics tend to create pinnation in the foliage and petals (not always, but often). Now, compare the relativity of the Hen and Chicks to the stem size. Last, note the architecture of the stems that are creating the plants structure. That is rarely the structure for a floribunda or larger. Typically, that is the structure of miniatures influenced by floribunda, grandiflora or hybrid tea genetics.