While Dr. Huey is often the culprit when an unexpected red rose shows up, that seems unlikely here since the rose is from High Country Roses, a grower who doesn't use rootstock or offer Dr. Huey as a cultivar. They do stock several different single/semi-double red roses that I would consider as more likely options. It is not uncommon for a wrong ID rose to occur from time to time - I'm sure you'll hear from them shortly and they'll make it right.

I did not fertilize my plants growing roots. If Savannah is still green I would wait longer.

Gorgeous. I love the slightly cupped form and the well-shaped and well-placed petals, and the glowing center. It manages to be elegant and casual at the same time.

Just got mine from K&M, quite excited about it. Even had a bloom, has excellent fragrance too

I was at "Flowerland" nursery in Central Point, Oregon yesterday and had a Stumpy moment. The owner had a "Pink Heartbreaker" cercis canadensis who reminded me of Stumpy.

The tree is being delivered Saturday!!!

Here ya'll go

Sunny Mississippi I have been training my rose nose for some years, not only to detect different fragrance notes but to develop my sense of smell, which I would have described as ’poor’ in the past. The more you sniff the better your sense of smell gets and the more you can distinguish between different rose notes.

I found these generic perfume charts helpful to break down fragrance into recognisable notes I could apply to roses:

Some rose breeders, Like Delbard, include fragrance pyramids of base, middle and top notes, so it’s instructive to try and isolate the notes they say are present in a specific rose of theirs you have, excuse the French!

I love citrussy fragrances and my No.1 in that range is the intense, grapefruit aroma of the Delbard rose La Rose de Molinard/Parfum de Paris. Shame LRdM balls and browns in wet weather, I have nearly SP’d it so often but somehow it lives to experience another season because I am so addicted to its fragrance. Another classic citrussy Delbard is Souvenier de Marcel Proust, pure citronella, gorgeous blooms but a rather stingy rebloomer in my climate.

Others with a strong citrus notes to my nose are Austins such as Lady Emma Hamilton and Golden Celebration, plus new to me this year, The Poet's Wife, which has a zesty lemon scent:

On the topics of fragrance, I was looking up the rose "Boule de Neige" this morning and in the scent description it says "Milk fragrance." It makes me want to buy it just to see what exactly they mean by that

Sunny - yes, crisp citrus...that's exactly what NCM smells like. Good description. Yeah, we don't usually get rose diseases here. So I'm never sure of which roses to advise for good garden health. Another rose that smells like Fruit Loops (to me) is Pink Peace. :)

Noseometer - a rose that I had to get rid of because of the smell was Distant Drums. I could smell it from every corner of the yard...and it was a horrible myrrh smell.

Nollie - those are really instructive/helpful wheels for fragrance!! And I love your The Poet's Wife! It's a mesmerizing photo. :)

Elestrial - milk fragrance....that's pretty interesting!

My most deeply cupped Austin is Royal Jubilee. Took a while to get going, and didn't bloom much the first year, but so glad I kept her, she's been surprisingly good for an alba hybrid in my very warm climate. Excellent fragrance too!

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Gorgeous! I dream of my Boscobel looking like that!

pink rose, grafted but i do prefer own root

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Your Boscobel looks wonderful, but good to know that bloom are different once heat sets in

Pink rose,

Are your Austins on Fortuniana? Some Austin varieties grow vegetatively on that rootstock. When I first got Benjamin Britten and Gertrude Jekyll on Fort they were huge sprawly and mostly bloomless, giant thorny weeds. Later I read Dr Malcom Manners say the same thing about Austins on Fort. Some others have been terrifc for me, such as Evelyn and Abe.

I love your many buds and well-formed blooms. You did a fantastic job taking care of your roses. How many gallons of soil does your pot hold? Thank you.

I'm thinking about ordering Austin roses (grafted on Dr.Huey) for next year, and I usually buy bagged soil when they are on sale in late fall at 1/2 price. Like "Beyond Peat" potting soil was reduced down to $2 per bag in the fall (normal price is $8 per bag at Walmart).

I think I’ve told my story before:

My parents moved from NYC to Maryland when I was 8, and we had some land and started our first garden. One of their first purchases was a Miss All-American Beauty planted right outside the front door, so that was our very first rose. On my birthday I chose a Blossomtime, so that was my personal first. My parents have lived all over the world since then (Dad was a diplomat), but when they finally retired to California many decades later, they purchased a Miss AAB again and planted outside their front door. Coincidentally, my brother purchased a house that already had a Miss AAB near the front , too. When I moved to California, I took my Miss AAB with me, and planted outside the front of my door. This year, Burling sent me a Blossomtime, so I’ve come full circle with my first roses. Blossomtime has a distinct heady scent in my memory, so I’m very much looking forward to a bloom.

Miss AAB outside my current house

So, what is your story?

When I moved into my old house back in 1994 there was a huge unknown red rose bush on the property...My girlfriend showed me how to care for it...Around 2006 my Mom wanted that bush so I transplanted it to her house...( its still at her house to this day..) I actually missed it so bought a Precious Platinum rose in 2007-08ish that started me growing roses...

I no longer have PP and I have moved into a another

house in 2021...

Precious Platinum rose:

While more would be better, I get away with 2 emitters on many roses. I do have 4 on others in hot spots.

I suppose part of the answer to when a plant can survive with only drip is the frequency of the drip and volume of water you are dispensing each time.

Noseometer, haha they are different enough to justify both in my opinion (or lets hope they are once we see how they perform in our gardens). I’m glad to hesr they have both leafed out for you! thank you, I’m not giving up on my Wildeve..she came with an abundance of canes..maybe too many and that’s part of the problem? The weather here has been up and down with clouds and rain and not overly hot yet here in California. She needs to pick up before the weather gets too hot!

@Echo_Texas_zone9a I’m sorry to hear your JLA has been underperforming but I think the fact that it has started to push out leaves is a great sign! Last year when my Jubilee celebration died on me, they provided me with a refund after I e-mailed them regarding the failure and provided photos.

So interesting how some break dormancy and leaf out much faster than others! Carding Mill and Wildeve look amazing, I’m sure JLA will catch up in no time!

No leaves on my Wildeve :/ Just these growth buds sitting there doing nothing! I took these photos just now.

And here’s The Wedgwood, who i suspect will be pushing out rose buds soon!

Well, today another bloom opened on Fighting Temeraire. This one may be larger than the last one!! It was windy again today but I was able to snap a pic before it started raining again. Its over 7 inches!

Here's a Rosette deLizy for comparison at almost 4 1/2 inches

I actually remember saying years ago that roses were "tacky" and would never be in my garden. But one night I stumbled across Heirloom Roses' website and saw photos of flowers that didn't look anything like the high-centered blooms from the florist. That was back when Heirloom had an incredible display garden, so I visited and fell in love. Initially I was just drawn to the English roses, but they quickly led me to the the many varied classes of old garden roses. I started exploring all of the classes and finding lots to appreciate in all of them. And curiously, they led me back to where I started. My love of the old tea and hybrid perpetual roses engendered curiosity in the early hybrid teas. The early hybrid teas led me to an obsession with the Pernetianas. And before you know it, I was drooling over the modern hybrid teas, Grandifloras and floribundas that I had written off years ago. I still have a deep interest in the old roses, but roses are so interconnected, and it's fun to see how the genes of old favorites get reimagined in the later (and future) roses.