None! Not one new rose this year, and I'm getting itchy just reading what you all are doing. I only have about 25 roses. I'd love more but don't really have room on my urban tract-size lot. We took advantage of a garden open house for charity last year, and toured several area gardens, most of them smallish lots. Some had a hundred or more roses planted. Much as I admired them, I came home with a new appreciation of open space in the yard. I felt almost claustrophobic in a couple of the more crammed gardens. Just my preference. But I'd love to have some of those beautiful old roses, grown tall and wide, covering the walls. Sigh. I must keep reminding myself. No more for now.

There are no ways to take them with you in the move? Might you make arrangements with others who grow them for cuttings or plants after the move? Might it be a good time to learn to propagate or make arrangements with other forum members to propagate them for you? I would volunteer to help, but my only sure fire method of propagation is closing for the season. It's getting warm enough out there to inhibit rooting and this material is already pushed too far for wrapping. Plus, I'm maxed out on room until what's already there is gone. Kim

Hmmm, well many look shockingly well, despite the horrid weather. Guess the #1 standout would be Mme Antoine Mari. Planted her as a sturdy new ARE bush this spring & she has never had any disease, has kept a thick bush of green leaves & still has more blooms than I can be bothered to deadhead. The flowers are small but have good color & form despite the heat. Really, she doesn't look like a plant from my garden--more like one photographed in one of the rose gardens from the blessed land of CA. Iceberg, Champney's, Mme Laurette Messime, Peach Belle, keep churning out blooms but they're a bit chlorotic & I don't feel like amending the problem right now--too dang hot to mess around outside. Caldwell Pink aka Pink Pet--well, she always does so beautifully I neglect to even think about her. Have it in several spots, from big shrubs to little cuttings & they are all covered with blooms & healthy foliage. If only she were fragrant. R. Moschata & Eglantine have very healthy foliage. Moschata keeps throwing flowers. Several new plants stand out: bands that I planted in the ground early in the year. I'm keeping most in pots until fall & disbudding, as recommended, but several young plants in the ground have been real stand-outs: William R. Smith--he's near 3' now, bushing out & wants to throw lots of blooms. I'm keeping most pinched, but the flowers I miss are large & very pretty. Sunsprite--as good as I remembered it. BIG deep-yellow flowers, shiny leaves. Pax--doing nicely under the Mexican Persimmon tree I want it to climb up. Very large flowers from such a young plant. Very white, like Iceberg's Baronne Prevost--amazingly healthy leaves for a HP. He keeps throwing those over-stuffed fragrant flowers. I'm amazed they look so good in this heat. He is "reaching for the sky"--about 4' tall, but the canes are arching now & throwing some side branches. Mousseaux du Japon--poor rose is so happy now. I dragged it up from the old place. Now that it's planted deep in full sun it has bushed out nicely. Rene D'Anjou--had it long ago & reordered. Like Mousseaux, it does so much better in the full hot sun than it did when I had it in a pot in partial sun in the muggy south. Comtesse de Rocquigney--never heard of it until Marissa at Greenmantle recommended it to me. Planted last year as a big Greenmantle plant. Nothing exciting about it until this year. It has bushed up & thrown lots of bouquets of sweet-scented flowers, regardless of the heat. Very healthy foliage. Little White Pet from a spring band, now in a big pot, has been excellent here, too. Also Marie Pavie, Anne Marie de Montravaal. Rosette Delizy, Souv. de la Malmaison, Mrs. Dudley--bought as chopped-roots, planted in wood-shavings from the grocery store this spring---doing very nicely in the ground. Good new canes, healthy foliage. The blooms I miss dis-budding have good size & color. Surprised how well these plants have done considering their condition as sold. These are all HEB plants, for those of you that have the store locally. The recommendations I picked up here have worked very well. The roses I've put in the ground are planted deeper--at least a couple of inches deeper than they were in their pots & it seems to be very beneficial. Also, dis-budding, feeding "weakly, weekly" & amending with pine-fines--Thanks!

Red Scentsation has a very nice scent, but not as strong as Overnight Scentsation. It is however in my opinion the healthiest of the whole Scentsation series. Here are a couple of more Memorial Day photos--since these were local I had taken them out the day before the above posts and had forgotten to take pictures at the time, so did so today when I was picking them up from the cemetery. Freddie Mercury. Kind of appropriate for this person, though he would have preferred a rose named Trent Reznor or Tool. Eugene de Beauharnais