I saw them and they are exquisite. She's also a wonderful writer.

Thanks for referring this blog to us. The garden is beautiful. If I ever win the lottery, I will definitely want a garden like this one. Then again, I am sure all of our members would too...lol.

I confess to agreeing with comtessedelacouche. I had the same reaction in Queen Mary's rose garden in Regent's Park in London. I prefer some underplanting, variations in height, contrasting or harmonizing colours. This is too much of a muchness to me.

There are some roses in the perennial garden next to the formal rose garden. The climbing roses on the arches were outstanding at Easter when I was there. What I like is how the DA beds are getting a mix of good shrub roses not just English roses. The group of Grand Dame at the end was stunning.

Also the antiques looked better than I have ever seen them. Paul Neyron was showing perfect huge cabbage roses. I can see why it was so loved.

Don't forget about the plant sale coming up this month.

The Huntington is the place to see what these roses at their best can do. Congratulations to them for their triumph this spring

Thanks, hoov, for these gorgeous blog photos. They are a lovely upper for this rose bloom starved person in the north. I enjoyed the 2014 photos as well. Is Tom Carruth still in charge of the roses at the Huntington? What a fine job he has done for the garden. Diane

Glad you liked the pictures. On one of our visits a few months ago TC was walking around the garden looking at the roses, and we talked to him a bit. He's very nice.

Hoov, I love your blog. Thank you so much for putting so much time to it. Can't wait to go to the Huntington.

You are very kind, jasminerose4u, thank you. Don't miss Descanso also--huge rose garden there as well.

Just in case there should have been any misunderstanding re my previous comment, my general distaste for modern roses in mass plantings such as those shown in the linked post, is in no way a criticism of Hoov's blog - or her own garden - which, from the little I've seen of them, are both delightful and full of interest and beauty! I would hate for anything negative about them to have been inferred from my comments on some of the views shown in this particular post from the Huntingdon Gardens. I'm sorry if that offends anyone, but this IS the Antique Roses forum - a blessed haven for those of us that often can't suppress a shudder at some of the latest garish or murkily coloured, stiff and sickly Hybrid Teas, et al.

I well remember those then very fashionable formal rose beds, sticky with poison sprays and powders, massed in great blocks of one colour/variety of HT or floribunda only, in public gardens from my childhood in the 1950s, and had rather thought we'd moved on from that particular mid-20th century aesthetic. I don't know how it connects historically with the period of the house and its neo-classical style; perhaps there was a fashion for this garden style around that time too, although obviously there wouldn't have been beds full of Icebergs!!. (or 'Passionate Kisses!' for that matter...)

Comtesse :¬D