Here are a few great florist website links that have lots of pictures. Maybe you can tell what they are from some of these. SIERRA FLOWER FINDER ..... FOUR SEASONS .... CUT FLOWER WHOLESALE I think some of the most popular white roses are VENDELA and maybe BLIZZARD or AVALANCHE. The most popular red I've seen consistently at our Safeway market's florist dept is FREEDOM. There are lots of others tho. Have fun looking thru these websites. It can be really addicting just looking at them and wishing....

Thank you Virginia :), I will go and try my luck at the roses forum since I have a couple of those lowes roses I haven't been able to identify. THank you suncoastflowers for you pictures and answer. Your rose does look a lot like mine. Does your rose get those darker edges that mine are showing? Thank you both for replying, and I apologize for taking this long to log in and see your messages. Dianela

Daniela,don't use any chemical insecticides. You run the risk of killing off the aphids, but also the insects that eat the aphids. Worse yet,IME insecticide can really backfire on you: it'll be strong enough to kill the small, weak and soft-bodied aphids, but far more damaging pests will just take their place, or even be strengthened,developing immunity to the poison. This happened to me; I used to spray,got rid of the aphids all right, but every year my roses looked worse and worse: more bugs, thrips, etc than ever before. I gave up spraying and now things are once again looking good. What's more, that rose looks like its growing right next to your house; you do not want to use poison there. Aphids are just not all that harmful, in the long run.

I think your suspicions are well founded. A five year old Bolero should have hit its stride by now producing consistently, typical Bolero blooms, considerably larger blooms than seen on your mom's bush. My Boleros have larger blooms, the size of your Bolero's blooms. Now, if mom's questionable Bolero bush is not getting a full sun exposure, that may account for the blooms smaller size, and the bush may be a genuine Bolero after all. Plus, light to no spring pruning will result in more but smaller blooms. Heavy pruning in spring, and Bolero's blooms will be a good bit larger, but fewer in number. Going by fragrance comparisons is not always reliable in identifying a bush's variety. Just a slight difference in: location, soil type, fertilizer program, growing in shade or sun, watering, even time of day, etc., can result in fragrances of the same variety varying considerably. Moses