Just beautiful. So serene. Thank you for sharing. Yesterday in my garden 2 roses were the first to open Harisonii yellow and Theresa Bugnet. Ms Bugnet smelled so lovely. But certainly not as beautiful as your etherial view. Have a great day.
Jeannie

Sherry, that is very beautiful. I can understand why you are on cloud nine. You must get people slowing down as they drive by, or just stopping altogether, no? What you have done is not only an improvement for your own home but a kindness for the entire neighborhood.

Hurray for you! They're beautiful.

WOW Sherry. Incredible. You have SO much to be proud of. Congratulations.

Beautiful, Sherry! You have worked so hard on this, and it certainly shows!

Hey hey - haven't you come a long way from the sniffy posts in the early days (don't do latin names) to the realisation that you are now a fully fledged and knowledgeable gardener. And wasn't it fun getting there....although 'there' is always a little bit more distant. So yep, big hugs and a huge psychic pat on the back for you, Sherry. Take a bow, it looks very fine indeed.

Sherry, your garden is just lovely. You've done an amazing job. It's astounding to me that my garden has totally bloomed out and yours is just at it's peak when, geographically, we're not that many miles apart.

Jeannie, thank you!! Serene and green! Is your spring just starting to warm up? Ours has been more than warm for a long time. Makes a huge difference and then we grow different roses to boot. Post photos of yours.

Jerome, that's a sweet way to think of it...a kindness for the neighborhood. Thanks.

Mendocino Rose, thanks for the cheer! It was like a marathon - not a sprint, but you know how that goes.

Incredible is right, Harmony. I really thought I'd never see this. Thank you!

Ogrose, the work is almost forgotten (like childbirth, I guess), but seeing the beautiful bushes is amazing. Thanks for liking it with me.

No longer a fledgling, huh? Well, Campanula, thanks for pushing me out of the nest a few times. I have really learned a lot from you and not all latin. The word dodgy comes to mind. I appreciate the hugs, and the huge psychic pat on the back was WONDERFUL.

Floridarosez, the different roses in my garden bloom on different schedules, so my garden denies me the huge, simultaneous flushes of northern and Californian gardens. It's dribs and drabs here and there. Point the camera at this side and forget the other. Technically, Clotilde Soupert's flush (1st pic) was partially sabotaged already by last week's rain, so I got about half a flush out of her. And today it rained again, so I'm sure she's done. And before she started Mme Abel Chatenay had a flush that seemed to last forever but not much overlap. Before that CS was demolished by thrips and deadheaded. It's just the way it works, plus I guess they all want to be solo artists. No spotlight-sharing in MY garden. I have noticed that SDLM cycles quickly. Flushes pop up all of a sudden and don't last long. I'm starting to get the hang of it though, and blooming companions help.

Sherry

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This is so beautiful, lush and mature looking. Well done! I love how green everything is as well. Too often there are rose bushes which look like sticks with flowers, with only some raggedy foliage. Yours look very healthy!

I want that!

And lots of flowers at that!! It looks wonderful, Sherry!

Sherry, I've followed your garden since the very beginning with special interest since I began about the same time with mine. What you've achieved is wondrous. I'm not sure what you mean by all of them not blooming simultaneously. All I see is a sea of roses! I'm so proud of you and happy for you. You've earned this! A big hug from me too.

Ingrid

What a wonderful garden! Your roses are delicious! If I were you, I'd be running out of the house at least 3 times every hour to check them out one more time! LOL

Kate

Your long journey to this point makes you appreciate them even more than someone for whom they came easily. Congratulations, they are very beautiful. Long may they bloom!

Rosefolly

Rabbit, I've done the sticks and didn't like it. Part of it was the wrong roses and part was not watering often enough. I'm happy with 95% of my roses now - OGRs that get nice & bushy.

Chelly, I can remember saying that.

Oh, thank you, Seil.

No, Ingrid, you see about 6 bushes in the top photo and only one (Duquesa - last photo) of them is in early full flush. The others are in their later half of bloom (Clotilde) or almost no bloom left. Maybe this will evolve, but even the first flush isn't all at once, and then repeats depend on the timing of individuals. Le Vesuve (and the other half of the garden) are not in the pictures - deliberately - because he's been void of flowers for a good while and is just starting to rebloom. I'm not complaining. It's just an oddity of rose selection, I guess. Maybe some roses are more similar in their timing, but mine seem to be all over the place. When Mme Abel was in gorgeous full bloom, Clotilde was sitting there twiddling her thumbs (though gorgeously green). It's okay because it generally means there are flowers here and there all the time - but never all over all at once. I've seen pictures of California gardens that are all awash in flowers, absolutely everywhere. Don't know the reason or if it will change. Still learning. Thanks for the praise, Ingrid, and especially for that big hug.

Kate, thank you. I would probably be doing just that but I do have a job, but I take tons of photos - that never get deleted!

Ooohh, Rosefolly, I like that. Long may they bloom!! Thank you so much.

All of you should share in the success because without your encouragement, support and wisdom there would be no garden.

Sherry

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Sherry, it looks fabulous. I remember when you first planted everything! It has that nice grown in cottage garden look...

We are having plenty of rain here, and hail, so I won't be taking pictures anytime soon.

Sherry, the phenomenon of not all roses blooming at the same time is fairly common, I think, and certainly true of my garden. Most of my tea roses have been blooming for weeks but Le Vesuve is just now having its first full flush. Alexander Hill Gray was also a laggard. Betty Prior is still mostly closed buds, as are Lavender Dream and Bermuda Kathleen. It's not just placement either because Bermuda Kathleen is in full sun, backed up to a hill of heat-retaining boulders, one of which she's leaning against. The Fawn is also still 70% closed buds. I don't really mind this as long as 60-70% of the roses are blooming and the rest have nice foliage. I know you have scores of day lilies and other companion plants so I doubt there's ever a time when your garden doesn't have color. Looking at your neighbors' boring strips of grass in the background, you should be feeling very smug and happy with what you have!

Ingrid

Well, good, it makes sense that it's not just my garden. Happy, yes, smug, no. Could I ever go back to boring grass?

Sherry

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