I have it, the first year. It does have some beautiful blooms. I also have Magnificent, which is a sport with a bit more color in it. I am hoping to get one nice bloom for our show next week.

Beautiful bloom! I planted one this year, my blooms haven't been that pretty yet, but hopefully I will get one more cycle from mine, and the blooms will look more like yours, we are having perfect rose weather right now, hope it lasts a few weeks!

I'll have to check out Magnificent... Sounds gorgeous!

That one bloom happened when we were having great weather. I'll admit some of the other times the blooms have been a lot smaller and not nearly as luminous. But I have high hopes for it!

I can't find anything on the internet about a sport of Moonstone called Magnificent. Buford, by any chance do you mean Marlon's Day?

Opps, it's Magnificence and it's not a sport, but bred from Moonstone.

Buford, that is absolutely stunning!!!!!! Now I have to have it :)

Got a lot of split centers from Moonstone, and it was a terrible Ruster, so I got rid of several of them, but it had a lot of vigor and was always willing to bloom. Great rose except for the centers and the Rust.

Oh my gosh, Seil, that picture is GORGEOUS! No wonder you won! I knew you had won Queens of Show but didn't know Moonstone was one of them. How special :)

What do you do to yours to get it to look that nice? Fertilizers? If so, what do you use?

I've been growing Moonstone for quite a while. I like it a LOT. I think I might have a pure white sport of it. 1/2 of one of my bush's has been putting out pure white blooms all growing season. I'll mark that bush and see what it does next year. I know there is a pure white spot of Cagun Moon called Miss Kitty but I haven't seen any pure white sports of Moonstone.

I have had mine for a number of years now. It is quite a strong grower and puts out a lot of flowers. The flower quality, however, is inconsistent. Only a small percentage is what I would consider showable. When it is good, it is very good, but when it is not, oh well.

Seil, your picture looks like the petals are perfectly outlined in pink. It is so pretty.

Thanks all!

I don't do anything special, hosta, prune in the spring, feed them and water them. I do spray some fungicide in the spring up until show time but there isn't a lot of BS pressure at that time of year. After the shows I don't spray and they do get black spot during the late summer when the pressure is highest. I just live with that.

That Magnificence is pretty, Buford. I wonder how it compares to Moonstone? There are no comments on HMF and only one photo. Did you have your rose show yet? It looks promising.

It seems to bloom more than Moonstone. I have a few blooms on it now, but it's been raining for a few days, so I'm not sure what shape they are in. I did cut one that just opened last night and I have it in the fridge for the show, which is on Saturday. I hope it lasts!

I will see if I can get a picture and post it.

Good luck!

Can someone please tell me more about magnificence? I do have a bush but it came unlabelled and so i aint sure whether it is moonstone or magnificence :(