Love them!

Our party is done, the pressure is off and I plan on bringing out my camera too!

Great idea, Kippy, the more garden pictures from everyone the better!

Ingrid

Lovely.

Ingrid on reason I always love your pictures (and you can't post too many!!!) is that you have "gardens with roses in them" which appeals to me more than "rose gardens."

I think if more people saw that roses can be incorporated like you do in your landscapes that the popularity of OGRs would increase. I worked with a local garden designer (who is a friend) when I first lay out my place and she never specs roses for clients in her designs because as she says "she's not a rose person." My long term goal is to find a few OGR that do really well here that she can incorporate into her designs and bust the myth that you have to be a "rose person" to grow them.

Don't stop! Your Rosette Delizy is really lovely! I've never seen Mr. Bluebird before, what lovely color!

subk3, your comment means a lot to me because, like you, I don't generally care for rose gardens, and for my garden personally I think I'd be bored stiff if it contained only roses. Some areas have more roses and some fewer, but it's never just all roses.

I find it regrettable that anyone who designs gardens hasn't informed his/herself thoroughly about roses, and has not learned that there are many different kinds, not just the hybrid teas and floribundas and that, especially in a warm climate, roses like teas, Chinas and polyanthas, and some of the old climbers and ramblers, can make a garden spectacular in a way that few other plants can, and with little care at that. I've found that the average person is woefully ignorant about roses in general, and certainly the old and landscape roses in particular. It's a great pity because so much potential beauty is lost.

Ingrid

We love seeing pictures of you beautiful garden, Ingrid, please don't stop!

Foggy or no you have a beautiful rose garden!

Sweet, sweet, sweet, Ingrid.

There's that dang Mr. Bluebird again! I saw a bluebird yesterday and I thought of the rose! I have gone crazy. How does it do for you Ingrid?
Susan

Thank you, seil, Alana and floridarose. Fortunately the mildew isn't too noticeable in the pictures!

Susan, I can well understand the fascination. There's something about its color and the cuteness of the blooms that's irresistible. It hasn't been the easiest rose, not the fastest grower, and then this spring it had major blackspot . I took off all the infected leaves, and now it seems to be mostly clean. I'm really glad I have it though, and you may not have any problems with it.

Ingrid

I don't think I've ever seen a Cels Multifora before, it's so beautiful and interesting.

I'm also glad to see your Mrs. Dudley Cross bloom is at an angle much like mine. I was expecting "nodding" blooms but I seem to have gotten "upside down" ones!

Ingrid, you could never post too many pictures. Keep them coming! The fog adds a special romantic quality to the perfect setting and your beautifuly designed landscape with roses.

Yes, NewGirl, quite often the Mrs. does seem to grow upside down. I like to put her in a vase where I can force her to hold her head up.

roselee, I so appreciate your very kind comments. It's a great pleasure to share my garden with kindred spirits who really understand and like what I've tried to do.

Ingrid

Beautiful! I almost always wait for a foggy morning to take pictures.

You all got lucky...the wind was howling so the camera stayed home. But the apples are bloom along with most of the roses. I think I missed Janet-just discovered she was covered in buds but the wind is mistreating her.

Ingrid----I think the fog enhances the beauty of your garden--It gives a very romantic mysterious feeling to your beautiful garden
Florence

I love the misty look; we don't get that much here.

All your roses are beautiful; love Rosette Delizy. I have a couple but they are not blooming nearly as much as yours.

Everything is lovely!

lovely!! :) thanks for sharing. :)

Always appreciate your photos, Ingrid.

Thanks for posting,
Diane

Sooo pretty. So peaceful & lovely. What is the plant with the purple flowers in pic #5? I love the different heights, textures & colors. Beautiful

Blue, it is commonly called Sea Lavender

Kippy, I'd be so happy if you could post a picture of Janet. I love that rose.

mendocinorose, Florence and Jasper, the fog is my friend right now because it's keeping it cool for the roses. I agree, it does enhance the roses and other plants in photographs.

Thank you aimee, Diane and Bluegirl. I think you can see that my aim has been to incorporate the roses into the garden and landscape. As beautiful as they are, I find them a little boring when there is no other planting to complement them.

Kippy is correct, that is sea lavender (limonium perezii). I like the contrast of this plant in shape and color with the roses.

Ingrid

ah, thanks Kippy & Ingrid. I'm gonna try the limonium again, now that I'm in a drier climate--beautiful.

Just beautiful. Your roses are so vigerous. You are an extraordinary gardener.
Would you happen to know if Rosette Delize has fragrance?
Thank you for sharing.
Jeannie

bluegirl, the good thing about the sea lavender is that it makes babies that spread around in the most unexpected places, and it always seems to fit in wherever it chooses to park itself.

Jeannie, I ran outside to sniff Rosette Delizy and I don't detect any fragrance. However, I can detect fragrance in very few teas so my sniffer is not trustworthy.

Thank you for the compliment, but to tell you the truth I'm not much of a gardener at all, and it's very much survival of the fittest. I try to keep the color scheme harmonious and mix in companion plants and the rest has to take care of itself.

Ingrid

So pretty!! love them all. Your Rosety Delizy has inspired me Ingrid, its top of my list. Not sure how it will do in TX but I sure want to give it a shot.

I had Rosette Delizy in a zone 9 Tx coast garden for many years. She was a very happy plant, easy grower & I loved the flowers. Think she was from Chamblees.

Starting over in zn8 I have an HEB plant from this spring, hope to enjoy those flowers again this fall or next spring.

ibheri, if I can grow it here I think you may have a good chance at succeeding too. Mulch is extremely important, and water of course, and some alfalfa meal would be welcome, although I haven't fertilized this rose since last year. As mentioned frequently, the teas take a while to build up. I think mine is probably at least four years old, but even when they're younger it's still enjoyable to see those beautiful flowers. I'm having a great time hovering over the bands that I received from Vintage and a few other nurseries recently, and seeing that first bloom is always so exciting. After that I force myself to disbud most of them to encourage growth.

Ingrid

I like your garden, especially the the way you have made use of the natural landscape and the interplay of the roses with other plants to create an interesting pattern of voids and shapes. Very nice indeed.

newtie, thank you for your thoughtful and interesting analysis. I hadn't ever consciously thought in terms of spaces and voids, and yet I do think that's what's behind the planting decisions I make. My goal is harmony, tranquility and balance, although I never actually achieve it. That's probably what keeps me going.

Ingrid

I was looking for info on Mr. Bluebird and saw these pictures. They're so pretty that I'm bumping it up. Too bad Mme Dore is impossible to find these days.

I love the revived threads I missed. Go Ingrid!

It was poignant for me to see this old thread brought up again, because some of the lovely people from four years ago no longer post here, and also because the garden was so different then, something that I don't think I'll be able to recreate given the difference in climate and temperature. However, I'll give it my best shot. As I walked around tonight and looked at everything in the evening light, I felt so fortunate that I have what I do, and that more roses would bloom soon. Just then an owl came flying out of a nearby tree and circled overhead, and my evening was complete.