Ah but who needs Versigny when you have Oshun and so many other lovelies!

I adore that last shot of Icecap and your wider garden, Feiy.

Ispahan is one of my most beautiful. I love this rose. It's just starting the spring bloom for the year, just a few open with many more to come.

summer song this morning

Lovely roses! @Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a), pink roses with orange center are my favs.

Peach Swirl

Believe or not, but this is Ascot

Feiy - my goodness!!! Your roses are exceptional!!! I especially love your last shot with all the roses together...a thing of vast beauty!!

Magpie - your Ispahan blooms are incredible!!! Oh my!!

BClark - your Summer Song glows. :)

Elena - I do so love your Peach Swirl...exquisite bloom!!! I tried that rose once, and it died...didn't even get a bloom. Amazing bloom, thank you!

Dancing in the Dark aka Hommage a Barbara

Princess Kishi

S Africa

Crazy Love

Sweet Delight

Peach Melba

Elena - those are beautiful blooms...my favorite is Dancing in the Dark. :) :) There's something extra special about that one. :)

some Ancient Mariner for everyone

Thierry Marx, own root, second year. Very early in the spring, it produced a huge basal shoot, which is now three times larger than the rest of the plant and carries a total of 11 blooms.

And its fragrant!

BClark - oh my heavens!!! Not too many people grow Ancient Mariner, so we don't see blooms of it very often. Those are amazingly beautiful!!!! Does it have fragrance? Wow!!

Elena - looks like an OGR, doesn't it? What a beauty!!! And it's fragrant...I love that. :) :) My fave pic is the 2nd one.

Caramel Antike - every bloom is huge and beautiful!

Elestrial, I have failed to tell you how pretty your name is. What a gorgeous rose. Is it new to your garden?

These pictures are enabling me, but where would you purchase them? Ancient Mariner, Thierry Marx, and Caramel Antike gorgeous blooms!

@kentucky_rose zone 6, Thierry Marx came to me from Etsy. I have also a positive experence with Hillside Farm.

Thank you Z10! This is her second year in my garden, I probably got her off of Etsy as well

First True Sincerity bloom this season....

Queen of Elegance

Jim and Elena those are 2 beautiful blooms!

I posted here last year and it’s great to see all the lovely roses from this year too.

Been such a lovely dry spring in the UK. Roses have been thriving.

The handful that have been my best ones:

MW:

Champagne Moment:

Graham T is always so heart-warming:

Chandos B - scent is just on another level:

Elena, great to see all your fabulous roses and everyone else’s of course, but I’m glad to see Thierry Marx doing so well for you. Mine was a disaster! A very reluctant grower whose blooms balled in my hot, humid and wet conditions. I never did get to see a fully open bloom.

Alfie, welcome back, I was just wondering on the UK/Europe thread where you were!

Nothing much to show here, my first flush is over. I was just saying on that thread how temperatures really bleach and pink out the colour of my apricot blend roses, including this one, Château de Vaumarcus. Carol if this is available in Canada, I think it might do well for you and other cold zoners because it’s Swiss-bred, so in theory is should be cold hardy!

All these roses are so beautiful.

Elestrial how long does the blooms last in the heat?

Thank you, Nollie! I am in love with Thierry Marx! My total disaster now is Pompon Veranda (Pashmina). She produced tons of buds and all of them are balling, just removed them all. We have rain every day!!

My roses are blooming not in the same time.

Coral Lion rose

Impressionist

Crazy Love

Bascobel

Florentina

Anuschka

Juliet DA, still a baby

Dancing in the Dark aka Hommage a Barbara

Ah well, there are always a few rain-sodden disasters, Elena. My roses have to cope with scorching summers AND heavy downpours, so it’s a constant trial to find the ones that can. I can’t tell you how many have met the shovel!

@Z10Socal I'm not sure, so sorry. I always bring her blooms in since they're so pretty and the vase life is great

Alfie - your Munstead Wood photos are some of the best I've EVER seen posted here!!! Incredible beauty!!! And I soooo agree with you about Chandos Beauty. When I grew it, I always cut a bloom a carried it around with me in the yard to sniff. Only rose I've ever done that with. Now I have another one...but it's a baby and hasn't bloomed yet.

Nollie - what a fabulous bloom!!! I'd get that in a heartbeat if it has fragrance, and if I could find it. :) :) I can't believe your roses have just finished their first flush, and mine are just starting...barely. :)

Elena - Great looking roses...especially your Impressionist!! I have a baby Anuschka. What do you think of the fragrance?

Elestrial if the vase life is good then it should be a long lasting rose.

Feiy pretty roses😍.

I won this rose in the unusual rose auction last month. Just bloomed today. Judy's Shaw

Feiy - oh my heavens!!! Your Garden Delight, PAoK, and Earth Angel are SWOON-worthy!!! SWOON!!! I also really love your Lemon Spice.

SoCal - I've never heard of Judy's Shaw before. It's gorgeous!!! What a lucky find. Is it fragrant?

Feiy, holy moly girl!! what a fabulous variety. I have never seen Garden Delight as a mature shrub and your Earth Angel is heavenly lol

SoCal, what a score to end up with Judy’s Shaw. what a delicious rose

Celestial Night

Now I see why folks are so crazy about Sharifa Asma.

Great roses, everyone!

Munstead wood in my garden.

Double Delight huge bloom

Belle Romantica

Popart

Catherdral Bells is really showing off right now. I really like this rose.

Plum Perfect

Our Anniversary

Kristine - your Celestial Night blooms are really deep and stuffed!!! What a beauty, and there are so many buds!! :) :)

Tututara - mmmmm...I love your MW!!! What an exquisite color!!! It's great to see your Pop Art bloom...so gorgeous!!! Mine (new last year) has its first buds ready to burst open. There are a lot of them (a lot for my roses, not for others' roses here, lol) . So nice to see what they'll be like!

Markay - oh, the color of your Plum Perfect rose blooms!!!! SWOON!!!! Your Cathedral Bells is really something special!! Mine is a wee thing (new last year) and it's going to bloom soon. Just a few flowers. :) :)

Carol, light fragrance in my warm weather at the moment.

Boy do I love Pop Art! Next on my list.

Markay, you know that I love Our Anniversary but I love your kitty even more.

Markay, my cathedral is so much lighter than yours. Can't wait for it to be as big and beautiful as yours.

I feel like the only rose person on here without Munstean wood 😢

Masora

Some Japanese rose

Charitowa

Martha Stewart

Mayabi

Hanxien

Connie Lohan

SoCal - yes, fragrance is very much dependent on weather; I find that too.

SoCal - mmmm...I love your Charitowa. What a beauty!! My other fave is your Hanxien.

Markay, your garden is just gorgeous.

Carol, Kristine, Elena, thank you for the compliments. I struggle every year to tame Garden Delight, grafted on multiflora is just tooooo vigorous. LOL. Earth Angel blooms only twice a year, probably because it is in high shade, but they also last surprisingly long, which makes me happy.

My garden is in its heyday in early to mid-June, usually peaking around the 10th, which means the end of the spring flush is not far away. It's a bit sad, but also a bit excited about the reduced workload in the summer. These are today's beauties.

Mother of Pearl. Very upright, very long-lasting, and very attractive because the dark reverse gives the flowers depth. The right side looks a bit hollow because I have cut a few branches indoors.

Icecap, the perfect welcome rose. One stem can make a bouquet (adding some weeds like fever few or orlaya to decorate :p), and the bloom lasts a long time. Repeats fast.

Country Dancer. One of the most shade tolerant roses in my garden. The raspberry scent always makes me want to take a bite.

Hot Cocoa. Smoky orange red always stands out.

Lion's Fairy Tale started blooming in 90+ temps and is one of my later blooming roses. Maybe it likes the heat? It seems a little big for the sidewalk (yes, it's also grafted on Multflora). It's also the rose that gets snipped off most often. Alas.

Maui Sunrise/Diane Loomer. Curious why it's called apricot blend. It's a rich orange to me. Moderate scent probably because it's young. Another one in a bodybag I found at the box store this year is about to bloom; hopefully it's the right variety.

Garden Sunshine, my favorite new rose this year, and I also think it's a great alternative to Julia Child. Beautiful yellow fading to nice pale yellow, healthy, fragrant.

@Kristine LeGault 8a pnw, it’s not even my cat! lol! My cats are all indoor kitties, but this is my garden buddy. I don’t know who it belongs too, but every now and then it gifts me a dead vole so kitty is welcome!

Thank you @Feiy (PNWZ8b/9a) you pictures are so beautiful! I absolutely live your Garden Delight in particular, but all of your roses are gorgeous!

Feiy, so glad to see that you grow Ice Cap. I just got one from High Country, so still small. Yours looks great!. How tall is it? I also have a new Mother Of Pearl and so far it is pretty droopy but the canes are small and it is loaded with blooms.

Markay, cool about your garden buddy, especially when she hrings you gifts.

Feiy, that icecap is so cute. I might have to get one. Does it stay small? Mother of pearl is so pretty reminds me of my climber pearly gates.

Feiy - Whatever you're doing with your Garden Delight, keep doing it. :) :) Your roses are stuffed with rose blooms...truly breathtaking!! Your MoP and LFT are my faves. Mmmmmm :) :)

Träumerei - wonderful Japanese rose, long lasting and very fragrant!

All blooms below are Maiden blooms.

Hanxian, do not see any difference with Juliet so far.

Amazing Grace just came naked from Heirloom, but has her first bloom already!

Wow, Traumerei is beautiful!

Yes, indeed — she has 15 blooms and buds now. The only downside? Thrips seem to like her too.

Elena - I'm loving the pearlescent quality of your Amazing Grace bloom...I'm getting an OR one from Heirloom...it's on the way. :) :) Träumerei is gorgeous!!

Kristine, Z10Socal, Icecap can be kept at 3'x3'. It forms a mound easily. I planted it at the top of the stairs so I could enjoy its pretty side profile when I come home.

It is not fragrant, but the creamy white petals have a very light pink edge when they first open. The only drawback may be that it is not self-cleaning, but since it blooms in large clusters, I just prune the stems (not so many really) after the bloom period. I just found out while looking for photos that the flowers that opened before 5/30 are still on the bush and they have survived rain and 93F weather ever since. It's amazing!

5/30

Poseidon, ownroot. This is also a rose that needs to be "tamed". It can exceed 6' tall every year. This year I pruned it more severely, and it finally bloomed at the expected 4.5'. The only strange thing is that the blooms are mostly facing north, even though Bolero, its neighbor to the south, is not taller than it and the blooms face south. Haha.

Munstead wood 🩷

Evelyn, first year, bare root. Great start!

Ashley and Eisevogel look good together.

Peach Melba

Hanxian, day 2:)

Coral Lions rose