The Oklahoma trio is enchanting! Also like the bloom form and color of Sunrise. Great job!

Awesome photos of your roses! The leaves look very healthy also!

JIm

Very good-looking roses! I also have Carding Mill and it is a workhorse, and it never seems to take a day off. It's been so hot here but that doesn't faze CM. I love the pattern on Intrigue, very unusual but still pretty.

Ingrid

Awesome pics tb !!

LDB looks stunning, man I love that rose, it's one of my most favorites. It really compliments the FM's and they return the favor. Love those velvety Oklahomas, I'm becoming very fond of her as mine has been stellar this year. I also love the MM...her colors are very much like my Sunset Celebration.

That bloom on Marilyn Monroe is to swoon over.

Thanks for the pix!

Bustopher, I really loved your photos, thanks for showing them. My special favorite is Silver Spoon. I wish we had that rose here in Australia.

WOW!!! Very interesting. I love the color of Silver Spoon. How's it on fragrance?

OUTSTANDING looking roses, I especially like OKLAHOMA such a blood red. THANKS for posting.
Harold

Thanks for the comments. The Silver Spoon does not have much of a fragrance. It does get rather tall like Lady X. It has been blooming fairly regularly, but not with the flower quality it has here probably because of the heat. Since it has cooled off some, I would expect better flower quality on almost all my plants. I got Silver Spoon from Palatine's as an alternate for a sold out variety. However, it is not listed on the new rose list at Palatine's for this next season. There are also a number of changes in their list.

The Oklahoma plant has been having some flowers on and off all summer, but these were extra nice. I got that plant as a body bag rose, but I got it early, and it has managed to make it. This rose likes the heat. These flowers were taken during a hot spell.

the_bustopher,

That last pic of yours where that growth is growing on the ground.
That looks like the stuff we have growing here. Here it is considered a strangling weed and we have to keep it cut back from our plants/flowers. It has strangled the life out of our flowers in the past from letting it grow underneath our plants.
Have you had any problems where that stuff grows underneath your plants???
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I have to keep it cut back here. Pic below.

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I MUST get Carding Mill next spring! Your beautiful photo and your thoughts on repeat seals the deal. I even have a perfect spot. How big might I expect this rose to get in zone 6, Ky.? I also love your Oklahoma. That blood red color is just beautiful. Loved all of your pictures.....Lesley

I think that noxious weed growing on the ground is called ground ivy. I am not sure exactly what it is, but I just call it yard cancer because it spreads all over the place. I pull it out literally by the buckets. That is not the worst problem. If you look at the Freisinger Morgenrote and Olympiad pictures, in the background growing up the tree trunk and not limited to that location, it is what looks to me like a sizeable stand of poison ivy. It grows all over here. It is trying to spread into the yard also. I sprayed it with an appropriate weed killer. Hopefully it will die off. I have a creek running through the property, and there is all sorts of stuff and sometimes critters back there where I don't even mess with it. That situation might change if I were to win the lottery and have some money to somehow integrate both sides of the property into a unit, but the area is a wooded area amidst all the houses and businesses. I would like to be able to keep all the trees, and the city might also have final say as to what can and cannot be done with the creek.

Yes we have the same problem here with that stuff spreading and trying to take over the grass>>>LOL
Not really sure what it is called either or how to get rid of it.

JIM

Great-looking roses Bustopher! I am especially enjoying Freisenger Morgenrote; it looks so lively with happy, cheery colors!

Bustopher I too experienced my oh dear! with my Lincolns after I hacked and slashed it for the bushy shape. Both rebelled against my tyranny and sent gigantic goofy stalks that towered over the rest of the plant and sent me puny, agonizingly slow blooms at first. I too had low petal counts, not quite 5 but only 12-14? counts. It was not until I surrendered and left them alone that they started giving me big huge blooms again.

Here is one of the whoops, oh dear blooms from my Lincoln. There were 4 total whoops' blooms but I didn't even bother taking photos of them because they were so pathetic. Here is a nicer whoops' bloom, the only one I could stand to take a photo of and the only one to have a decent petal count...

Wow!! Oklahoma looks fantastic!!! Such a rich color - so velvety looking!!

I love L.D. Braithwaite - it is such a stellar rose!!

How is Carding Mill as a rose?

Carol

I tried really hard to get Carding Mill this summer, but everybody was out of CM. Definite must have for me next spring.

As a rose, Carding Mill appears to be on the more well-mannered growth side as opposed to some of the other Austins that want to throw long canes without much flowers such as Fisherman's Friend and Sweet Juliet. It hasn't gone nuts in the pot ghetto "apotment". The flowers are a glowing apricot unless it is too hot; then they are a pastel pink. The yellow pigments just seem to disappear in these roses in the heat. It has a nice, almost maybe fruity or tea rose smell as opposed to the damask smell of a Chrysler Imperial or the licorice/anise smell of Fair Bianca. It has been blooming on and off all summer without complaint in its pot, but I wonder how it will do in the ground. It is one of several Austins I have that if I had more room and could redo my whole garden I would consider having several of this variety after seeing how well it does in the ground. With my spray program, it seems to be reasonably healthy, but I wouldn't want to leave it or any other of my roses unsprayed because I know what happens when I don't spray or am late spraying.

Bustopher I noticed that you peg some of your roses do you find this productive in their bloom production. The reason I ask this my first year growing Austins and the way they grow I can do what they call summer prune or peg them and maybe have more blooms. THANKS
Harold

At the moment, I am not actively pegging anything. Some of the roses do have long canes that have arched over to a more horizontal position. Where that has happened, I have seen flowers coming from laterals off these long canes. So, in that respect, pegging things down to a more horizontal configuration can help some produce more flowers on varieties that care to bloom. I hope this will help.