Roses up close and personal. Warning: lots of photos

10 years ago

Wandered thru the garden yesterday taking photos. Some of these are from the pot ghetto, some are in the ground. Wanted to share them with everyone. Oh how I love it when the roses are in bloom.

Alika

Grandmother's Hat

Madame Hardy

Nur Mahal

Portland from Glendora

Buff Beauty

Belle Isis

Cornelia with a Gallica officinalis behind it

Shailer's Provance

Sarah's Grandmother (found)

Reine des Violettes

Madame Alfred Carriere

Rosa Mundi

Will post more tomorrow. Enjoy!

Diane

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fogrose
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10 years ago

Glad you're all liking the photos. Posting more soon in a new thread..

Kippy, you must get Buff Beauty. I love this rose and have 4 of them even with my limited space. The fragrance is wonderful. OK in part shade. Takes a few years to get going so be patient.

Carol, I've got 2 Penelopes. Also a great shade rose.

Ingrid and Carol, not ready for wide shots yet as much of the garden is also pot ghettos until bands get established so it's all rather crazy here.

mzstitch, I purchased Belle Isis from Rogue Valley Roses as a huge 1 gallon plant. The blooms start out pinker than fade to white. It's a once blooming rose. Flowers last a few days.

Pamela, thanks for the warning. You'd helped me decide where to plant it. Belle Isis will go into one of the new 25 gallon above ground pots in the new front garden area that's my solution to the invading cypress roots and she can sucker to her heart's content then I'll have suckers to give away.

Jeri, I really love Alika and am glad my conditions are allowing me to grow Gallicas. I'd be sad without them. But you can grow the Teas which stick their tongues out at me and shrivel away. I had hopes for the Lady Roberts from Sac Cemetery but she's sulking and her blooms don't open well.

Thanks again for everyone's compliments,
Diane

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Tuggy3
10 years ago
Wow, what a beautiful collection. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more.
Mary
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
10 years ago
So beautiful, Diane. Madame Hardy and Reine de Violettes are especially gorgeous. Please keep the pictures coming. Some garden shots would also be welcome.

Ingrid
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Kippy
10 years ago
I love it!

The more I see Buff Beauty, the more I want one.
portlandmysteryrose
10 years ago
Diane

A wonderful collection of OGRs! You grow many of my favorites and some that I share in my current garden: Rosa Mundi, Madame Alfred, and Buff Beauty. Have you grown Penelope? She's great in shade and really low on disease. Sweet fragrance.

Carol
mzstitch
10 years ago
Beautiful pictures. My favorite has to be Belle Isis. I've wanted to add this type rose form to my yard. When I went to look it up on helpmefind it was pink there. Yours looks white, are there traces of pink in it? Can you tell me where you purchased it? Is it a once bloomer, if so how long do the blooms last? Thanks
carol6ma_7ari
10 years ago
Really impressive, Diane! Your Buff Beauty is blooming about 2 weeks before mine - the left coast vs. the right coast. And I agree with ingrid vc: let's also see some wider shots of your garden.

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jeannie2009
10 years ago
Thank you for sharing. Just delicious with first cup of coffee.
ms. violet grey
10 years ago
Too pretty!
strawchicago z5
10 years ago
Diane, I love the "blue shade" on your blue/purple roses. Lovely. I treasure those true-blue shades, very rare!
Thanks for those great pics.!
jerijen
10 years ago
A lot of things I love, there.

Diane, I saw Alika for the first time last week in Joyce Demits garden. It made me once again envious that I cannot grow Gallicas to advantage, here.

Belle Isis, we DID grow for several years, hoping that its mixed pedigree would help it, here. It did, SOME, but like most Gallicas, it eventually suffered from our lack of winter chill. I think we did win Dowager Queen with it tho, a time or two. It was pinker here.

Be 'WARE -- if it is on its own roots, and in the ground, Belle Isis (like most Gallicas) will sucker. Ours was planted in a 15-G pot in the ground, but the roots went down through the pot, and back up, to produce new plantlets 6- 8-ft. away from the mother plant.

Jeri
altorama Ray
10 years ago
Those are absolutely beautiful.
mendocino_rose
10 years ago
Diane, what a wonderful photographer you are and what lovely roses. Thank you for the treat. Please post more!
I just have to say something about Belle Isis. I wish I'd never planted her. The suckering is an immense pain in the neck.
harborrose_pnw
10 years ago
Diane, it's so nice to see what grows in your garden. So glad to see your pictures.
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10 years ago
Beautiful blooms and wonderfully fragrant, you have a lovely collection of roses.

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