Hi, aliska, I'll try to get some pics when the crop of current buds open. I'm trying to figure out how to share a thought in a friendly "let's chat about roses and our experiences" way that doesn't sound pompous or preachy....when you say you hope you're not unlucky enough to get ones that are too orange....well, sometimes this rose *will* look sort of "orange" or at least the color of orange juice. Sometimes it will look the purest soft apricot sometimes a golden apricot, sometimes it will have apricot, orange juice, and soft peach all mixed and then a day or two later will be a different color. That is one of the beauties of many roses, and especially of the Austin roses. I'm just mentioning this because I happened to notice in some of your posts that you have some concerns that roses won't look like the pictures, or that they will look like one certain picture that is a shade you don't care for. Sincerely, I don't mean this in a "talking down to you" way, but you do need to be prepared for the form, shade and sometimes even the color of roses to be different (sometimes wildly different) at different stages of maturity, at different times of the year, and sometimes even from one week to the other if the weather changes dramatically. You should see my Gruss an Aachens right now, they don't look like any pics of them I've ever seen and I probably wouldn't have fallen in love with them if the only pics I'd ever seen looked like my whole bush full of blooms does right now; but part of the fun is knowing that next week or next month, or especially this fall...it'll be like having a whole different rose!

Thanks Jen. I does look a bit like secret, but I was at a nusery today and saw the spitting image of my baby and her name is "Kordes Perfecta". I think we have a winner folks.

Uhhh-ohhhh ...it seems another Oklahoma-or-Mirandy discussion is about to happen. ;-) As I and others have stated in previous discussions, Oklahoma and Mirandy blooms can be VERY difficult to tell apart. So, in this thread, I'll just mention differences between them rather than list all their similarities. I grow both of them ...and I planted them in the same row so I could compare them more easily. In my opinion, Mirandy's blooms age to several simultaneous shades of "grapejuice" red ...and Oklahoma's do not age to multihued grapejuice. Oklahoma's oldest (fully-mature) leaves are ARS-described as "matte" (non-glossy). Also, Mirandy's bloom-form is ARS-described as Globular ...and in my yard, it is somewhat "looser-petaled" when open than Oklahoma's (which tend to remain comparatively "well-ordered"). The "looser" form I'm speaking of refers mainly to the outer petals - but please also notice the mish-mash of petals at the center of Angelsmell's blooms. Mirandy is known for its tendency to produce thin-stemmed buds, which result in "nodding" when the bloom has become well-open. So, with consideration of the factors of bloom-color, bloom-form, and "nodding," AngelSmell's photos look to me more like Mirandy than Oklahoma. Angelsmell, please check your rose's blooms with those three factors in mind and let me know whether or not my description of Mirandy's blooms fits yours. Regarding my theory about petal ATTACHMENT-tip color (and size) for identifying red roses... it can't "identify" a red, it can only tell you what a red rose is NOT. For example, Mr. Lincoln's petal attachment-tips are "electric" deep-yellow, and that color is ona large area of the petal's base. So if a red mystery-rose's opening bloom's attachment-tip area color is white, it cannot be Mr. Lincoln. But please note: The petal base-tip color of many rose-varieties tends to lighten SIGNIFICANTLY as the bloom gets old. Therefore I recommend checking the tip-color while the bloom is still opening up. As of today, I've only got unopened buds and old blooms on my yard's (two) Oklahomas and (two) Mirandy bushes. As soon as the buds open I will check & compare their base-tip colors and get back to you. As always, I could be wrong. In this case I'm guessing based on what I can observe in the photos, without other desciptive info like bush-height & habit. Speaking of which... my yard's Mirandy(s) tend to produce significantly more buds per SPRAY (not per flush) than my Oklahoma(s). Regards, JohnReb

Sara-Ann, My Scentsational came from Burlington Nursery 5-6 years ago. No photos I have seen of it show the pink color mine always has. Also, the flowers are heavily petaled and last a long time on the bush. The flower size is large for a mini, 2.75", Irresistible sized bloom, but it is not tall enough or quite large enough to be classified a miniflora. It likes to bloom a lot, but is not particularly vigorous, not lush looking. Scentsational reminds me of Gray Pearl in this regard. Its disease resistance to black spot is average for a mini - nonexistent! Spider mites like it too, just like all minis. As hard as I am on roses which have serious faults, I should have evicted Scentsational by now, but when it blooms, which is frequently (above average for a mini), it stops me in my tracks. It takes so little space, too, and I do spray for black spot and mites. I should start propagating it this year, because if it should die I may not be able to replace it easily. Moses