Wow Aprille, ENCHANTRESS is really lovely. I've often wondered what it looked like. Oh, and you're gonna love that darn KISME! Mine gets better and better all the time!

Aprille, Fabulous pictures, thank you. Really enjoyed Kisme, she's gorgeous! Loved the plonk, too! I am getting the hang of the vocabulary, tee-hee! Ummmmm, but may be that was a carefully arranged posy! Actually, it looks that way.:)
Pauline - Vancouver Island

Thank you Beth - I'm so excited about the roses I got this year - just wish I had a bit more room ... we are taking off bits of the lawn out back to fit most of them ... and then I'll work on the front lawn if I can't convince DH we have to move!!

Pauline - Thank you. um let's see - it's a plonk that's been slightly organized? lol!

aprille

Aprille--Your Arrangement of Charlotte & Snowfire looked so close to a painting I wondered what it would look like as one. Here's what I came up with. Great shots as always, Ron.

Ron Thank you - and that is lovely. Do you use Photoshop to do that? I always admire your work that you post - so interesting and artistic.

Aprille

Aprille, very beautiful roses and I loved the flower arrangement, it was perfect. Ron it was a great painting. I wondered what the roses looked like from Vintage, they look excellent. Kisme is very lovely... Leslie

Aprille--I use microsoft photo program for the brushed paint effect.--Ron

Aprille, Enchantres is sooo pretty, is she fragrant too?
She reminds me of Melody Parfumme. I also love the arrangement of Snowfire and Charlotte.

Aprille your roses are so beautiful and the colors
are so soft and pretty
I especially like Betty White(not just the rose but the actress) she is so funny.
Kiss Me, Bibi M, and Lordly O,
Niecey

Thanks Leslie - Vintage has some great roses - I was there yesterday for the Dirt Day clean up and boy what a wonderful place they have - it's rose heaven! I'm most difinetly going back to look at the gardens next spring.

Thank you Ron - I've been meaning to try out Photoshop and do some fun stuff with the pictures, might get around to it eventually!

Msjam, Thank you and yes Enchantress is very fragrant, and keeps the colour unlike melody who loses her colour as she opens (at least she does in my yard).

Thanks Bernice - Kisme and Lordly Oberon are new - just got them a few weeks back, but I'm really excited about seeing how it does next year. Bibi Maizoon is one of my favourite Austins cos of it's form and fragrance, just wish it was a more healthy rose, I got mine from Wayside, I think if it does not do any better next year I'll try replacing with from somewhere else that might sell it and see if it does any better - though I've heard it's a troublsome rose.

Aprille

Wow Aprille you have some fantastic looking rose there. Most of them are too tender for my climate but I sure as heck enjoy seeing their pictures anyway, thanks.

valerie

I love Enchantress and Maggie! They sure are breathtaking. Thanks for bringing some color to our white, winter world!
Carol

Thank you for sharing your lovely pictures, your roses are beautiful! Kisme looks wonderful. Lordly Oberon is one of my favorite roses!

Missy

Thanks Valerie. It is nice to be able to grow most roses here - we are lucky with our weather.

Carol, Thank you - the best thing about Maggie & Enchantress other that how gorgeous the blooms are is that they are both very fragrant!

Thanks Missy - looking forward to Kisme and Lordly Oberon's blooms next year - hopefully I'd have found a permanent spot for them by then!

Happy Thanksgiving all!

aprille