Very pretty Margaret I am sorry I cannot help you with a name. There are so many different pink ones, I have six and none of them look like that. Lovely Collage....MM.

Thank you for your comment. However, I only know the Turkish names of these roses (I live on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey) I have searched a lot of Web sources and books for the names, even talked to professsors of agricultural faculty. But there is a big problem with the names and classification of roses both in English and Turkish. I would really appreciate if someone can help with the names. For example, I have read 5 different names for this rose:

Diane - Thank you for nice comments - especially from such a great gardener! Just wanted to say a bit more about Leander's size. I often refer to the book below by Clair G. Martin who was the curator of the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, CA as a helpful guide to many of the older Austins. Martin has been very accurate in his descriptions of the size and character of roses like Brother Cadfael, Happy Child, The Prince, and Prospero to name a few. His guide distinguishes between warm and cool climates, and offered a more realistic idea of what a warm climate grower of Austin roses could expect given how different the climate of most of England is compared to most of California. Here's what he says about Leander's size: Stature and Habit: 6 feet x 8 feet (warm climate); 6 feet x 5 feet (cool climate) "Like 'Cymbeline', 'Leander' shares a problem with others of the same habit: It grows much wider than tall, and unless self-pegged, it flowers only at the ends of the long, sinuous canes. Self-pegging will help to control the size and encourage more flower production. Otherwise, this is definitely a rose for a low wall or fence where the arching canes can be trained to display the charming flowers to their utmost." He says a lot of nice things about this rose and he clearly likes it, but wishes the growth habit was different. Here's a collage I made of photos I took of Leander today using my weed bucket as a reference point for size. After six months, he's about 18" high and about 2.5 ft wide. The lower right corner shows how the blooms are sitting on top of the canes, which corresponds to Clair Martin's description. Leander and Brother Cadfael (which I've had for 5 years), share Charles Austin as a parent. My expectation is that Leander will be wider, about 5ft compared to Brother Cadfael's 3ft or so, but about the same height, 6ft as the tag from DA says. I'm sure there's someone out there who grew a 14' Leander but I'm going with Clair Martin's experience, and my experience with BC in my climate. Here's a lovely arrangement from the Celebration of Old Roses earlier this spring which was aspirational! I had already planted my Leander but was happy to see and smell this beautiful bouquet. I wish I could have talked to the grower; many people kept coming back to Leander to check it out and smell it. My Madame Ernst Calvat is a sport of Madame Issac Periere which is a darker pink version of MEC. Both are beautiful and fragrant, but typically I prefer a medium pink over dark pink. MEC is a bourbon rose and not a once bloomer; she has bloomed sporadically since the spring flush but she's still so young, and not too developed yet. I've heard that if she's "well grown", she'll do very well in terms of re-bloom, but we'll see. Recently a bird dumped a huge amount of poop all over her and I had to clean all the leaves after it had dried for awhile. So if well grown means poop cleaning, I guess I've done my part. :)) I have considered Chianti, but I'm afraid I don't have room for once bloomers. It's a lovely rose though! Ann

All the roses I got were own root that were already potted when I bought them with leaves. Haven’t been over fertilizing, have been doing monthly feeding - with recent use of banana peels also. This photo isn’t the thrips, they affected my pearly gates and my chicago peace (2) which haven’t been growing very well. All new buds, shoots, leaves were attacked continuously- brown and curly deformed leaves, shoots became brown and died before being allowed to grow and buds were brown and deformed, some partially opened and edges of flowers were brown also. This was what led me to post and that’s how I finally found the culprit. Initially I did nothing but remove foliage looking that way, thinking it was all the extreme heat. The above photos are of my Dublin bay climber which led the garden centre to advise me on spraying. I was totally anti spray and pesticide for so many reasons. I’m always smelling my flowers and touching canes and buds as all my plants are new, getting a feel and learning about all of them, my niece and nephew are around the area and especially with my 5 giant babies (my dogs) that are running in the yard! This was what led me to do a very dilute mixture in the first place. My plan was to spray one and wait but after doing such a dilution I decided ok, maybe it won’t be too bad. I don’t plan on using chemicals ever again in the future. It’s too scary and way too risky to health. I’ve since then fed once but I followed the instructions to a T, however, perhaps feeding after spraying was wrong. Not sure. They’re out of the blazing sun now, one day at a time