More later suppers done and dishes to wash.

Nice roses Patty!

I was looking on Chamblees website for a disease resistant Kordes for in a large container... Would Kardinal be to large for a container?

I'm planting Plum Perfect and Fire Opal in the ground next year...

Wow!!! I love your Desmond Tutu!! Don't think I've seen that one before!!! Limoncellow is electric!!! That's the kind of yellow I love!! La Marne - swoon!!!

I won't add to this, because I can't comment on disease resistance, since it's not an issue here. This will be a nice resource for disease resistance if I don't contribute.

Carol

I never heard of a Brazelberry. Thank you. It's beautiful. Is the fruit tasty? Your roses look great too.

Patty, those look like some great roses! La Marne is something, so beautiful! They all look great. Love your reds!

Oh Carol, I'm so jealous roses without disease. I can only dream of such.

Jim the KK should be like Cream Veranda. Shrubby 3'x3' and wider with age. I've never done pots so I can't really vision what this would look like.

Jasmine they are nice and sweet they are advertised for pot culture. They are breed to be short. They also have a raspberry. The name Peach Sorbet is from the color of the foliage. It turns brilliant red in the fall. Heck the leaves stayed nice until she's buried in snow.

Thank you Sara,I don't have nearly the gorgeous variety that you do. Yet I'm so happy to be able to find roses now that can work well up here.

One more really quick, Campfire was just moved a few weeks ago. She was on the other side of La Marne where I could not see her. I removed almost all the buds and half of the foliage before moving. Not a good photo she's just now starting to recover. A very clean prolific bloomer so far. Just wanted to show the change in bloom color. Blooms are small due to move

She starts as a yellow with pink edges. The darker bloom is PINK no matter what my camera shows that is the last stage of flower.

In between there are other stages but white with pink edges is the most prevalent. They are decent sized flowers when not abused by the gardener.

Thanks for the info :)

Wow! Your roses are gorgeous! Your neighbors must be envious. I've been thinking of getting cream veranda, too, but I'll have to find a spot for it. Your picture makes it even more tempting.

Patty,

You have some real beauties!!! I'm shovel pruning my most blackspot prone roses and replacing them with more disease resistant ones. Desmond Tutu is one I've been considering to replace Veteran's Honor next year...VH is a horrible blackspotter here and has no scent that I can detect. Is Desmond Tutu fragrant?

I'm sorry to say Tutu has no scent but it's beautiful and the flowers last forever on the bush. Well not forever but some have been on there one and a half weeks and flower still looked great. This surprised on a new little plant.

Diane, I've got Caramel FT coming in spring. Thanks for your photos of Julia Child they made me realize I already had possibly the best yellow rose out there. Time to quit searching for others and pick up more JCs

Patty, your roses are just outstanding. La Marne here was a dirty white most of the time, nothing like your beautiful bush. I don't think it likes dry heat.

My best roses are just about all of the antique variety. They are La France, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Le Vesuve, Miss Atwood, Souvenir de St. Anne, The Faun, Aunt Margy's Rose, Bishop's Castle and Mlle. de Sombreuil.

Ingrid, When I started rose gardening 20+ years ago. All of my roses were Antique, Austins, hybrid musks, polyanthas if you could grow it in zone 5 I grew it. Where I live It meant that I must spray them to keep them healthy enough to survive our winters. After a god ten years I just couldn't do it any more. I had kitties that never should have been exposed. The praying mantis would come to the top of the bush and stare at you. Most all where dug out in the next two years. It was extremely difficult to stick to my decision.

I truly do wish you the best of luck with the environmental conditions that you dealing with.

Patty, in some ways you had a more difficult situation in regard to disease. I will not ever spray but the disease burden here is nothing like yours. I'm glad you had the courage to remove the roses instead of continuing with the use of poisons. By now we all know how harmful they are to any living thing. I'm going to keep my roses, and have discovered that drip irrigation is a great help in having them thrive and bloom. Wish I'd begun that much sooner. I hope your kitties are all thriving.

Dang, you had to spray your antiques? HMs? Polyanthas? Wow. I just live with the defoliated Austins...love them too much. But I don't have your winters, that's for sure.

So what else is looking good up there?

Ivor's Rose (now Flamenco Rosita) is bulletproof here. Nary a spot....ever....Clotilde Soupert...

I agree with Ingrid, roses worth growing do not include poisoning the planet and its inhabitants.

Susan

I have 2 Ivor's Rose they are planted in two completely separate places. They are in their first years and quite rambunctious. Boy they grow fast. Right now both have mildew that I hope is because they have outgrown their roots. No spots of any sort on them. Thank you for the comment it is appreciated.