Feiy, you have fabulous roses and a fabulous garden. Your philosophy is exactly what mine is. I want great bloomers which are part of my garden and can fit beautifully with my perennials and flowering shrubs. I like big rose plants, so once I find a rose I really like, it stays forever. Of course, my space limitations really affect what I can grow, and I've reached the point where I can only add a rose or two per year (or less). Please post more of your beautiful garden, and thanks for this thread. Diane

I totally agree with Diane,Feiy,and feel the same way as both of you do. In my huge landscape, visual impact is paramount. My limitation also ,paradoxically, could be said to be about space as well (too much of it!), but also lack of resources,since I don't have running water out there in the woods.

Feiy, I, too, would love to see more pictures of your beautiful roses. About Pomponella-that rose has tempted me for a long time, but I am worried about those round little blooms balling-is it prone to that? Birthday Girl is wonderful-I have to see if that is available here in Europe.And your comment about Doctor Robert Korns-o, wow! THAT is the quality I most desire in a rose :

"The sight of thousands of flowers blooming simultaneously in the darkest corner of my backyard moves me deeply every year." What a beautiful line!!!!!!!!!!!

Feiy, your garden is absolutely breathtaking! I also have Garden Delight, which I planted last spring, and I hope that one day it will become as stunning as yours.

I often wish I had started gardening back when we lived in suburbia. My rose garden began after we moved to the city, and I feel fortunate to have even a small space to cultivate.

My approach is quite different—I prefer compact bushes with large, striking flowers. It’s a bit intimidating when some of my roses reach six feet tall by the end of the season!

I’m drawn to the unique beauty of individual blooms, which is likely why 99% of my photos focus on single flowers. My garden is a blend of evergreens, roses, and perennials. While I initially envisioned an English cottage garden, I’ve found myself leaning toward a more structured, formal design.

Lately, I’ve started to evaluate my existing roses more critically. I’m eager to experiment with Japanese and florist roses, varieties that weren’t available to me when I first began this journey.

Feiy, it is a snowy day here and your gorgeous rose pics are a real treat! Beautifully grown and captured!

Feiy, stunning rose photos. 🌟💝

Feiy,

I have never seen better grown and obviously extremely well cared for roses than your roses shown above.

This includes any public or private garden I have had the pleasure of visiting.

Keep inspiring me!

Moses

Feiy, what wonderful photos. Thank you. Disease resistance and flower power are my top two considerations. I planted South Africa a few months ago. I already love it, but your photos are exquisite and give me so much hope for mine. Garden Delight is on the short list for an orange/yellow bed. I remember seeing your photo of it from years ago. It may be too red for the space at times, but that first photo of it is stunning and it appears to be a nice bushy rose, so I think I'll just have to try it. Trish

Feiy, those are stunning photoes! The Garden Delight roses are above words

Thank you for the Dr Korns and Ppmponella baby plant and other roses you gave me. Mine are still small but especially the Dr Korns is super productive. As you suggested, I planted it at the corner and it certainly brightens the darkness

Given my climatic conditions, I'm rather out of step with most people. The combination of cold and usually wet means most of the showy roses in my garden are once bloomers which have a lot more in common with flowering shrubs like lilacs and spirea than hybrid teas.

Many years ago, I read that R. hugonis is one of the few shrubs that can begin to compete with the best of the viburnums. I really don't understand why it isn't grown more, except it is a rose, and in my part of the world, roses are fussy, difficult divas. It isn't really a better plant than its close relative R. primula, but I think at some point, it must have been easier to acquire.

I post pictures of this most years. They tend to look remarkably similar. This one is looking a bit ratty since the original, 20 year old canes have died out.

The big news in Mad Gallica Gardenland this past year, was the 110 ft white pines were taken down. So a lot of roses got a lot more sun than they have had in the past. Like Madam Hardy.

This is a rose a lot of people 'oooh and aaah' over. In the past I've been a skeptic because of the damask crud, and relatively poor bloom. Apparently it wants sun, because this year things were much better.

Go big or go home! This one isn't for everyone, but Baltimore Belle makes an impression. Twenty feet of 'you cannot kill this'. This isn't a flowering shrub, but a flowering beast.

BTW, Bart, Pomponella does ball. It also blackspots more than I like. It is in my other garden, and gets an amazing number of comments.

This is in the fall, when it seems to be at its best.

Feiy, I always love the pictures of your garden... gorgeous!

Thank you for sharing such beautiful pictures fabulously grown roses, Feiy! I think roses are the most worthy of the flowering shrubs by far, because they have beauty ,fragrance and the longest blooming season.

Sooo beautiful!

I have no new words to add, so I can only echo the admiration expressed in the above comments! I would love to walk through your lovely garden with you and learn from you. You have a talent for creating beauty!