Karl, your roses are gorgeous! I loved seeing your photo's. Thank you!

Carol

WOW Karl; Fantastic pics! Your neigbors must love watching your yard evolve! Are these roses all blooming now?? What a garden!! Sit down, sip that drink and be PROUD! Thanks for sharing the show with us! --dazi

Looks GREAT Karl!

Holy cow, can't wait to see them in person!

Wow. You are an inspiration to us all. Everything looks magnificent.

Fantastic Karl! Thanks for sharing those. I love seeing the full bush photos. Some of them that I thought might be lanky growers are not. And I love how your Hope for Humanity is shaped. Is that a result of pruning?

I also really like Variagata (sp?) Can we just call it the Lunch Meat Rose so I can spell the name? :-)) (kidding!) It's a very shapely shrub, in addition to sporting those magnificent striped blooms.

Thanks for sharing your photos Karl. I especially love to see the explorer roses. Your yard looks wonderful.
Kathy

Karl, your roses are magnificent! I especially like the fence with New Dawn on it - my hubby and I are going to be building a semi-formal veggie garden with a fence around it and that's exactly the sort of thing I'd like.

One question, though - where's the shepherd's hook for the cat? ;)

KCC

Beautiful. They all look so clean, healthy and prolific.

My Hope for Humanity grows that way. It was green to the tips this spring so wasn't pruned . All I do now is deadhead.
Shepherds hook is on the otherside of the house but a cat problem is no longer an issue so it's used to hang a bird house from.

HFH looks for all the world to have been ideally pruned according to the David Stone video. It is lovely, Karl. George Vancouver is a stunner, too.

mexicanhat,
Actually, I find leaving my roses grow as they want and not trying to shape them makes for a nice look.
Regarding G. Vancouver;
As with most Explorers he does not rebloom that great, but the first flush makes waiting well worth while.

I had a good winter this year - much more green canes left than usual - but the only green-to-the-tips roses were Ramblin Red and William Baffin. Hubby would like a nice, dark red sprawler to lay over a fence around the veggies. I'm thinking another RR or maybe a Blaze or Dortmund. He doesn't care as long as it's red and covers the fence. Our discussion mainly revolves around the type of fencing now, LOL! He likes wood, I want white vinyl (wood rots too quickly to me).

Do you still have your little cat? I haven't been around much these past few years, mostly lurking since the dust-up around Spike's selling the site, so I lost track of many things. I hope he still follows you around the garden!

I'm glad I came to the library to open this one, Karl. Great photos, sadly invisible for anyone with a slow land line. But well worth the wait.

Wow ! Very nice.
It is hard to believe; those are from Indiana? I thought maybe those photos could be from a trip to California?
Maybe you have a visit from Jose Canseco from baseball Injecting the roses with Illegal steroids? Those rose bushes are huge. ;)
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing your photos Karl.
Samuel