Fragrance. You are the Qween of flower arrangements. Each one is winner. It is hard to pick a favorite , they are all so gorgeous.

Wow! I really like how you used the strappy leaves in the gift for your friend. Did you pin them? Tie them?

They’re all fantastic!

Your roses are a dream. The bouquets are inspiring. You can see the progressive sophistication of the arrangements. Thank you so much for sharing. This thread is heaven.

Thank you all!

Cori Ann the palm leaflets have been bent with tapes at the bottom end. You can also thread them through each other or a slit in the leaflet lower down. You can also twist them before you fix them for a different effect.

Poseidonprincess, sophistication is a big word... I am not sure if my arrangements are getting more sophisticated but I am certainly getting quicker and quicker at putting them together!

A few more in the cold weather. Brother Cadfael has been good this year late in the season, producing some nice big fat very double blooms. Other reliable late producers include PJP II, Granada, Nehema, Memorial Day, and Crimson Glory. I have use more palm leaves in another gift box arrangement, Cori Ann!

A few recent bunches. Nahema is having a decent winter flush.

Fragrancenutter would you consider starting a part two for this thread.

I am deeply in awe! You should write a book about arranging/growing roses...it would be a beautiful coffee table book too with all the pictures you have!!! I would buy it for sure!!!

Carol

Fragrance, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at your thread. I’m struck again with how incredibly beautiful your rose bouquets are. They really are works of art. It’s always such a pleasure to visit this thread. I also love to arrange flowers, and enjoy getting fresh ideas from your pictures. It’s an extra bonus that we live in similar climates, so what grows well for you, also grows well for me. I’ve forgotten the name of the green and white foliaged filler that you use so often, but I like it so much that I’d like to grow it myself for bouquets. It sets off anything and everything so perfectly.

‘Neptune’ must be a very heat tolerant rose. Somehow I’d never noticed it in your arrangements, until today,( in the last May 22 bouquet, the rose Diane asked about). I was visiting my sister in Hanford last week, and spied a gorgeous lavender tree rose from my spot in the swimming pool. It was beautiful and loaded with blooms, despite being in full sun, and 95F-105F temps being the daily norm all summer. It was ‘Neptune’, a rose that had never been on my radar for hot, dry climates. I was so impressed with hers. It really was outstanding. Today, as my eyes eagerly your bouquets, I see a gorgeous, enormous, swirled, lavender rose, and low and behold! There’s ‘Neptune’ again! Where has this beautiful rose been all my life? It’s just stunning, and obviously quite heat tolerant. Can you tell me anything about it? I’d love know a bit about Neptune’s size, growth habit, bloom frequently, and vase life, if you have time. It was just so lovely at my sisters, and now I see your beautiful pictures of it.

I enjoyed them all very much, Fragrancenutter. Thank you for keeping this thread going. I love it! Lisa

I would love to hear more about Neptune too as I'm trying to decide what to do with them! I had two last year that arrived smashed up but in spite of it, I had a couple of little blooms that we exceptionally fragrant and assumed that Neptune must be very vigorous.

So I ordered a third one this spring and that one is still sitting there doing nothing like the earlier ones. Since they are only six inches tall in a row where I have to constantly prune to keep it at four feet tall, I finally threw up my hands a few days ago and dug them up to put them in a less conspicuous spot.

They had no root system to speak of! Mine are own-root by the way. So now I'm wondering if I should just try another vendor or if it just doesn't like it here? Or doesn't do well own-root?

By comparison, Lisa's wonderful recommendation of PCdMs have only been here a couple of months, are constantly blooming and have quadrupled in size. Own-root and same hot conditions.

Yes Neptune is a very heat tolerant rose. Mine is next to hot pavement and gets full day sun all summer and it does not get burnt. It is one of those roses that takes a few years to build up its size before performing well - similar to Dolly Parton.

I have been busy with many projects lately and have not had time to do much with my roses. Cut a bunch today to make a birthday present. The snaps and sweet peas are doing well too.

It's been a while since my last post. I have been busy propagating plants and cleaning up the garden, killing weeds etc. Been a bit late with my annual winter pruning this year. Normally I would start in July and finish by mid August. As a reward for my laziness the Sonia Rykiel bush has decided to start producing her Spring flush without pruning! As these flowers are produced in the cold and wet weather, they are completely free from thrips and pristine! What a nice surprise! I need to be lazy with this bush every year! Sonia Rykiel's flowers are thrips magnets in Summer so maybe the best time to prune this rose in zone 10 thrips affected areas is in fact Summer! I'll try that this Summer.

How fun that this thread popped up

It is fabulous to revisit all of your gorgeous roses and arrangements. I look forward to many more.

I was just thinking about your roses the other day, fragrancenutter. Sonia Rykiel is so beautiful! I’m looking forward to your Spring arrangements very much! Lisa

Oh, gorgeous, fragrance. Are those humongous sweet peas in your arrangement? They are stunning. Of course, Sonia is beautiful as well. I hope to see more of your garden this year. What have you been propagating? Diane

Fragrancenuter ,

Waiting for your Fall pics !

Fragrancen, I'm missing you and your beautiful rose bouquets. I hope all is well with you, and you'll return soon, and that you haven't been having trouble posting on dear, old Houzz. This has really caused some problems for all of us. Hurry back, Diane

Fragrancenutter, your pics help to get us through our winter season! I’m wishing you loads of roses and beautiful photos to share!

Fragrancenutter: Your arrangements are so lovely! What area do you grow them in? I’m in SoCal Zone 10b - Sunset Zone 22... about 6 miles from the Coast.

Can you tell me the name of this rose?
The color and shape is so striking... it reminds me of a peony... I need this rose in my life.

Fragrancenutter: I also love making floral arrangements with my roses... here’s one I just made of one of my favorite single varieties... the rose that started it all for me... Eden Rose.

Ann, here you are again. Your bouquet is just exquisite--perfect in every way. I love Eden, too. Fragrancenutter is from Perth, Australia, and we have been missing her for the past year. Her roses are superb, as are the other flowers she grows. She's a master sweet pea grower and a surgeon to boot.

Fragrance, where are you? We need you back and you are missed. Nanadoll/Diane

Diane: I sure hope she’ll come back and join us on here. Her roses and floral arrangements are gorgeous. I would love to see and learn more from her.

I love this thread and have often referred to it for rose inspiration! I would love to see updates from Fragrancenutter and her gorgeous garden.

Chris Martins: Here’s some more inspiration for you... I made this boutique for my friend’s birthday.

Perfection!!!

Ann, what is the beautiful rose--I love its exquisite coloring? Is the white lacey stuff orlaya? I have a lot of that finally blooming and can't wait to use it. Your friend is lucky to receive this bouquet. Diane

And a few more... these are my White Eden Rose.

Ann, you have clearly been holding out on us!!!

Ann, those are beautiful! Thank you for the inspiration! :)

Diane Brakefield: the white lacy flour is...
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia. It randomly grew in my grew garden and I was curious to see what it would grow into and boy did it surprise me with lovely Lacey blooms.

That's interesting, Ann, because I grow Daucus carolta Dara, the brownish purple form of wild carrot, and it's invasive around here. Four feet tall and comes up all over the place. I like it in small doses. Orlaya is a lacey substitute for the more invasive types. watch out you wild carrot carefully in case yours becomes invasive, too.

Ann: Is that eden climber? How you get so many blooms at once? It must be established. I just started this season and lucky to have 2 roses bloom at once. Anyone have experience with white eden? Too bad edens are not fragrant climber..

Ann: how would you rate white eden with just eden? where would you recomm getting it from? David Austin online?

I am curious how to grow fillers such as statiice (I worked at a floral shop one summer in college).. I have white liatris already.. Queen ann would be substitute for babys breath.. I saw astromeria plant as well

Diane Brakfield: Thank you for the tip on or Orlaya “white lace”... i’m going to try and see if I can get some seeds so I can grow it with my roses. Do you grow Orlaya?

While I love the look of Queen Anne’s lace… I agree with you on the concern over it’s invasiveness… So I pulled it after I cut off all the blooms. And also, it grows too big and tall for my garden space. So something more compact like Orlaya will be perfect. Now I need to search for Orlaya seeds.

Tina: I love both my Eden and my White Eden... honestly I can not pick a favorite. Both are climbers... but I train them into looking more like really large shrub roses by bending the canes down into a loop and tying it to itself.

You have to be very patient with Edens... 3 years to get well established before you’re truly rewarded with massive blooms. Mine are about 6 years in the ground... I think. I think they’re well worth the wait.

My Edens have a faint scent... lovely... but faint.

I love planting Budleia “butterfly bush” in my garden to go with my Edens for floral arrangements. The budleia smell like sweet lilacs. I have one planted by my front door to greet me and guests with a sweet scent when them come for a visit.

Tina: also, I second what Diane recommended... check out Orlaya “white lace”

One of our forum members, Lisa, grows orlaya (she's recovering from surgery and isn't posting for a bit). She lives in the San Diego area, and buys single plants from Annie's Annuals (get one of their wonderful catalogs) which then reseed to produce more plants and seeds. She generously shared some of her seeds with me, and that's how I got my orlaya. I would like more plants (I may regret that), so at this point, I'd like it to reseed. You could try the Annie's route, or try to find seed for sale. I can't remember if I've seen any orlaya seed in the catalogs. Maybe try Googling it, too. I think the white wild carrot/Queen Ann's Lace is prettier than the purple Dara. Diane

Tina, you could try orlaya, also. For more informal bouquets, I like the yellow daisy form of heliopsis, a perennial false sunflower. It has slowly reseeded and makes a lovely display of its own, but the plants are large. Even Shasta daisy makes a nice filler, but it doesn't bloom nearly as long as heliopsis.

Ann, be sure to check out Lisa's bouquets when she starts posing again. Diane

Ann - GASP!!!! Your bouquet of Eden is so dreamily beautiful!!! I'm in awe!!! And then you have that gorgeous arrangement for your friend!! You are very, very talented!!!

I, too, want Fragrancenutter to come back!!! She brought so much to the forum!!

Ann, I was curious why my Proven Winners butterfly bushes don't have a scent (I checked), and PW describes most of its BBs as scented, including the ones I grow. I wuz cheated. Seriously, why is it so hard to get a good scent around here? And I checked during a light drizzle, so it wasn't dry, which does depress scent. And your white Eden is just stunning. I wasn't aware this rose had a white variation. Diane

Thanks! I wikl look into orlaya as well. Although pincushion flower has that airy light look.

I have several dwarf butterfly bush but I do not detect any great scent. May I ask where you buy Eden (I have not ordered roses online before)

Tina: I tend to like to see my Roses in person and pick them out myself whenever possible… So I purchase my Eden’s from Roger’s Gardens in corona Del Mar, California and also from the Plant Depot in San Juan Capistrano, California.

Tina & Diane... that is so strange that your butterfly bushes do not have a scent. I grown A few different varieties… And they all have a scent... that’s one of the reasons they’re worth growing for me. I was actually just at Roger‘s Gardens this past week… Checking out some different varieties of butterfly bushes… And again they all have scent.

Ann where are you? I live in San Diego and can give you some seeds.

Hi Jemma! I’m just north of you in Orange County. I love your little gnome amongst your Orlaya. Thank you so much for the offer. I was able to source some seeds and have since fallen in love with this flower and went a bit overboard spreading it everywhere this year. 🤣

As you can see in this video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CTTXv6xFfQv/?igshid=YTM0ZjI4ZDI=

Jemma: What other companion plants are you growing and loving?

I've got a lot of orlaya growing and starting to bloom now, but no gnome. I do have a wonderful granddaughter named Jemma. Not bad. Diane

blue moon does great for cut flowers

Jemma - your gnome on his chair made me smile...adorable!

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