Thank you, Leo. I am thrilled that you have joined the forum. We actually met a couple of years ago and you graciously gave my friend and me a tour of this fantastic rose garden. You are not only a knowledgable and dedicated curator but also a gracious person. I mentioned you in my comment up on this thread. I posted the photo of this gorgeous rose on helpmefind.com and a couple of rosarians, as it were from Australia, contested that it's Mme de Watteville. I eventually had to remove the photo I posted there because I didn't want to cause any controversy and one HMF member felt very strongly that it was not Mme de Watteville. Either way it's gorgeous. I was so excited about the incredible roses you grow there that I enthusiastically posted on my visit to this garden twice on this forum: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4807667/visit-to-armstrong-park-rose-garden-nola https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4965219/new-orleans-rose-gardens-update-generals-noisettes-fairies BTW, I initiated that Louis Armstrong Rose Garden is included among the public gardens on helpmefind.com and provided them with the list as I saw them on tags during my visits in 2017 and 2018. If and when you have time, please take a look at that list and correct if any need be added or removed. The link is here: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=3.25191&tab=32 Based on that list, a dedicated administrator provided the links for each rose in the garden: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=3.25191&tab=2 General information with your name as the curator is here: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=3.25191&tab=1 I will be in New Orleans later this summer and hope we'll have a chance to meet again. Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing preserving the roses.

Sheila, I studied this rose again, and several of the stalks definitely have the S shape that you mention as being characteristic of General S. In looking at your photos (thank you for these, by the way) I do really like General S, which seems to have a much more graceful form in addition to a prettier flower. For now, at least, I'll think of this rose as being General Schablikine. I'm glad that yours is not unusually large, although of course the teas just keep on growing for many years, and I'll try to keep it within bounds with gentle trimming when needed. I'll give myself plenty of time to grow fond of this rose. They so often change in character from what they look like when young, and it will be interesting to see it develop. The color is a bit more strident than I'd like, but I notice that yours is a much nicer color so there may be hope yet.

Hi there. It could be a yellow Austin. My Charlotte can look like that.

Hi @Casey LouLou! Reine de violettes, Madame Isaac Pereire, and La Reine Victoria are bourbon and hybrid perpetual roses, which are old garden roses. Old garden roses tend to have long arching canes and matte green leaves. The flowers on your rose look very similar to those roses, but the growth habit seems to be more upright and the leaves look a little bit glossy to me. I think the rose you have is most likely a modern rose, probably a hybrid tea, grandiflora, or floribunda. I will see if I can come up with any more guesses. Have a wonderful evening, damask_rose : )