Many lovely roses to see. There are at least three or four that I would love to have.

Excellent work on this catalog. It made for entertaining reading with this morning's cup of coffee. I am sure you will have a wonderful open garden!

Oh, one day! Thank you for the catalog!

Thanks for the great read!

Jeri, thanks so much for yet another wonderful catalog. Any of you who can come for our Open Garden should do so - we have so many roses available this year - 95 different varieties, would you believe, and nearly 500 plants. The funds go to our cemetery and its garden, and some very good, drought-tolerant roses will find a good home. Complete list of roses available is on the cemeteryrose.org website.

Jeri, or Anita (or anyone else with an opinion!) Is your Mousseline there the same rose as Alfred de Dalmas? If not, can you say what the main differences are? I'd be interested to know how either of them copes with your hot Californian sun, since it may not be dissimilar to here, and how often and profusely they repeat. Would you say they smell like honeysuckle? Thanks for any and all info - I've long been interested in this rose.

Comtesse :¬)

Thanks Jeri. You always do such a great job.

Comtesse -- Anita grows this rose. She said that she understands them to be the same rose.

My conditions being wildly different, I wouldn't even try it.

Gong to read this NOW!

Very interesting. I used to have Ferndale Red China.... But somehow I killed it :(

The rose in my garden came to me as Alfred de Dalmas, but apparently most of the roses in commerce in the US are actually Mousseline. They are two distinct cultivars but often confused, I've read. I love my rose and how it performs in Sacramento. It is quite short and bears sweetly scented flowers (honeysuckle? maybe...) in repeated flushes. It doesn't bloom as often or profusely as many other roses, but I'd say it blooms at least four times a year, which is not bad. Mine gets some afternoon shade but copes quite well with our heat and sun. The one in the cemetery gets too much shade and is straggly as a result. Hope this helps.

Beautiful catalog, as always. Jeri does such nice work.

altorama -- We have a young Ferndale Red China. It's done very well in a 5-G pot, and is now in the ground, two spaces East of Elisabeth's China. Ferndale's foliage interests me, and I like the bloom. And it's a rose I want to grow, since the mother plants were lost.

Moreover, I really love red China Roses, which do remarkably well for us.

Now, I still have Papa Hemeray to find a spot for, but I'm strongly considering a very large permanent pot for him, since I think he remains small.

Must Get Elizabeth's China Rose....Must Get Elizabeth's China Rose...Must
Get Elizabeth's China Rose.... Is this cemetery close to the train station at all?

Not far. 1.9 mi.
Click on this:
ROUTING

Thanks for the link. It is too bad they are not more widely available.

Mustbe are you going? I hope they have a couple of Elizabeth's China, I want one too. I have an itty bitty Ferndale planted under my favorite garden thing, a faux rusty 9 foot windmill. It has gold glass sun faces that remind me of a sun have had since a kid. Ferndale has wire baskets all around it to protect it from skunks and little boys.

We have multiple Elisabeth's Red China. If there's something you really want, however, I'd suggest that you come a bit early and wait in line. We cut the tape at 930. Roses are arranged alphabetically so they are pretty easy to find on the tables.

Anita's right about getting there for the first "wave" -- Roses disappear pretty quickly, in those first minutes. It's a Le Mans Start.

Jeri I think I remember you wanting it a few years back? I'm in zone 5 and overwintered it inside and it still bloomed some. One summer it got some disease and that was that. Definitely one that more people should grow.

I wish I lived near enough to get a shot at Elisabeth's China. :-(

Which roses are in the silent auction?

Kippy, the list is at the back of Jeri's catalog. Petite Perle d'Or, Mousseline, Eureka Lemon, Dr. Rouges, Old Town Novato, Eugene de Beauharnais/Le Grande Capitaine and several species. If there is anything else particularly good we'll add it on Open Garden day. We also have some great books.

Thank you. I knew I had seen the list but I think I missed the last page

Petite Perle d'Or is a delight.

I am finally getting back and seeing all the wonderful comments on trying to help me obtain this rose. My life has been a bit chaotic lately. Putting both of my parents in assisted living and selling their house. Unfortunately, I was not able to get up there. Perhaps next year...Thank you all for your help. It was very thoughtful. Maybe I will have room next year and water restrictions will be lifted (I could also win the Lotto too--have to play it first, of course which might be a problem....). It would be fun to meet all of you in person. Thank you so much again. It looks like everyone who was there had fun.

Thanks Jeri. My favorite is the cute Dalmatian :-). Thanks for including so many full bush shots--nice to see those natural-growing roses. Looks like the roses at the cemetery have been spaced well. Nate

Nate -- You would love it there. Just walking through that garden is an education. :-)

One of my favorite gardens though I haven't seen it yet in person. I'm really taken with those California Poppies in the mix--never would have thought they would look good with the old roses but they do.

I saw it first in mid-November, and it simply blew me away. I've enjoyed it on a rainy day in December. I don't think there is a bad time for this garden.

Jeri. Do you want any of my photos for fb or ?

YES! If you have "liked" the Gold Coast and HRG "pages" I think you can directly upload them.