Beautiful roses ! the color on Erinnerbrug is stunning . im also way ahead of schedule , which is exciting !!

These roses are amazing! I hope to enjoy Irene Bonnet’s flowers in the future. How long did it take your plant to become established? I love the many shades of pink!

Beautiful. La Belle Sultane is one of my favorites, too.

@jjkOC zone 10a/22, SoCal If memory serves, it was quick to get established, maybe four or five years. Once it started growing, it shot up quickly. I forget what the phrase is about climbing roses, but it followed that pattern. I overcrowd everything, so it fought for its position.

Here are a few more pics from yesterday:

Irene:

Morning Jewel:

Félicité et Perpétue:

Erinnerung an Brod (with lemons):

OMG! Irene Bonnet is literally a wall of roses! Incredible!!! I also love Erinnerung an Brod with lemons! I am planning to plant Deuil du Dr Reynaud against the fence beside my Meyer Lemon tree. I hope it will look just as pretty!

Beautiful photos.

Our spring has been kind of odd. We had a warm February, so that the late winter/early spring flowers opened a couple of weeks early. Then the weather turned chilly again, which wrenched the flowering schedule back to something more nearly normal. I'm glad it's still cool, and am hoping that the lilacs and kerria starting to open now aren't early--I think they're right--and am glad that the roses haven't yet begun to flower. Not even the Lady Banks roses! Except that 'Purezza' up in the handsome Leyland cypress has its first blooms, bless its beautiful heart. Nothing yet from 'Sanguinea', usually one of the first to open. 'Vanity' managed to keep a few flowers going all winter, which reminds me to propagate it, as it looks promising for a moderate climber. Anyway, we could use some rain, but all in all, it's good.

It's been an odd spring here too, after the heat wave, it went back to rainy and cool. I took some pictures today after a good soaking rain last night. My camera battery is now recharging to recover from all the photos I've been taking, so I will pause.

La Jolla going from bud to bloom:

Denise Cassegrain, a rose I often forget about:

A straggly Tip-Top:

Félicité Perpétue:

Heinrich Conrad Soth:

Erinnerung an Brod, this time with apple blossoms:

Pam's Choice, drying in the sun:

@Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17, Stunning roses! I am not familiar with Heinrich Conrad Soth, but it‘s so charming!

@Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17, I wonder if I could ask you a question. Could you send me a direct message? I am unable to send you one. Thank you in advance!

I see it now, sorry about that!

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Love that 'Erinnerung an Brod', @Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17! Unfortunately the cutting that my daughter brought me last year from her neighborhood in Kensington, that I THOUGHT might be it, turns out to be 'Seven Sisters' instead, which is a nice robust historic rose, too, but certainly not the enchanting dark velvety purple that EaB is.

My 'Irene Bonnet' (purchased as 'Emmeline de Mouchy' from RVR) is just entering her fourth year and finally gaining steam. I do hope she looks like yours some day!

By my reckoning, roses in general are indeed blooming at least three weeks ahead of schedule around here. For example, this is a photo of "Vina Banks" (probably 'Purezza', does rebloom in autumn) dated April 24, 2024:

But "Vina Banks" is pretty much done now this year; was at its peak the last week of March.

Similarly, 'Crepuscule' on April 24, 2024:

'Crepuscule' this year on March 31, 2026:

"Lundy's Lane Yellow" on April 29, 2024, just starting to bloom:

"Lundy's Lane Yellow" on April 8 this year:

"North Bloomfield Cemetery" (a setigera) and 'Lyda Rose' on May 8, 2025:

and the same pair on April 8, 2026:

I could post many more examples. I do wonder what blooms will be at the Celebration of Old Roses, which is being held on May 17, THIS strange year? Only blooms from the second flushes of reblooming roses?

A lot of my early blooming roses are not looking that great after the wind and rain of the late spring storm over the past two days!

Catspa, your roses are wonderful!

This morning we're experiencing rain, breeze, and chill, all forecast to continue through Wednesday morning. Thank goodness, as it has been warm and dry, to the point of cracks forming in the ground. Though the warm temperatures are forecast to return after the rain, this should water the garden and cool everything down.

In bloom now: lilacs, the first roses, money plant, laburnums and tree peonies starting to open. We have a tolerable lilac population, one of the privileges of owning a large garden, and every year I hope winter chill will be adequate for them, as well as for the fruit trees, peonies, and tulips. So far this has been the case.

We have money plant all over the garden, mostly an unassuming plant, somtimes annoying due to its extremely free seeding, though it's easy to pull up. At this time of year, though, all is forgiven, as it decorates the garden with its magenta or white blooms, filling spaces in sun and shade. It looks really good with laburnums.