Whoa, a month waiting on buds is torture, can see why you are so thrilled !

I have never seen Cinco De Mayo in person; all three shades in the photos are beautiful, hard to pick a favorite.

Very exciting, love the color variation.

Nat, i was trying to put my finger on what it is I like so much; it reminds me of the color of some Nasturtium I had last year that crossed, and in combination with sweet peas it would be so charming. Do you like the fragrance ?

Mudpie7:

I love the idea of this color with sweet peas! It's in a pot, so I still hadn't decided what it should be next to. I think it has a very nice soft fragrance. It's very subtle and sweet, almost like cantaloupe.

I think the fact that it's in a pot is also why I had to wait so long for the buds to open. It got a really early start growing in my sheltered breezeway, but it wasn't really hot enough until the past week or so, I don't think.

ratdogheads: it does have a lot of color variation, I am exited to see how it will progress.

Nice looking rose bloom nat1611!

Does your Cinco De May repeat fast? I bought 7 sets of Breck's summer collections, so I got 7 Cinco De May! I just planted them near the street in front of a rose garden 2 days ago, I hope they repeat fast and can take the salt from the road in the winter.

Looks beautiful! It's sooooo agonizing waaaaaiting for some buds to open.

summersrhythm_z6a

This is my first real year with it, so I can't say yet. It was a rose band at the end of last summer, but I did get flowers off it last year. It is an own root rose from Northland Rosarium, and their website says it is RRRR (the highest level of repeating) and blooms continuously. I'm not sure if that would be different if yours is grafted, but probably not.

I originally saw it at the Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon, and it always was filled with blooms there.

I planted a couple of Cinco De Mayos around this time last year, maybe a few weeks into June. They were the most prolific of all the new roses I planted. They repeated regularly, and were covered with blooms for the summer.

They haven't bloomed yet this year, but they're already covered with buds. I can hardly wait.

Rose Beginner(MA - 6A)

That's great news! I have a third bloom now! They are all different colors! How funny is that?

That a gorgeous flower, please let us know how it progresses for you. This is a great place for photos of all your roses. I've wondered what colors she might look nice with also. I'm sure soft yellow or cream would work. I've wondered about red, coral or salmon.

Love this rose! My teeny band CdM died to the ground during winter, but came back quickly. Love it so much I bought another one. I bought the first one because of photos I had seen of the muted, smokey colors. Then, when I saw that first garish, gaudy, bright orange bud, I came close to digging it up. I'm so glad patience won out because it is gorgeous. There is nothing garish or gaudy about it. Like nat1611, I am giving a lot of thought to where I will put this 2nd one. In any case, it is lovely with blue/purple companion plants.

Forgot to add my two cents about Northland Rosarium, where nat1611 purchased her CdM. I LOVE that place. Just about all my roses have come from there. Carol and her staff are knowledgable rosarians. It is a family run business and they care about their customers. The display gardens are mind boggling. Whenever you are in the Spokane area, it is worth the time spent to tour the gardens. I took my husband yesterday and he remarked that they ought to charge to see the gardens.

Very cheery bloom!

Very nice sultry_jasmine_nights!

Those Quick Silvers are great! Can't wait to see how they develop!

jim1961, I've never grown Quick Silver, but there's always a place for lavender roses in my garden. And, since they're Kordes, you can't go wrong. Do let us know how you like them.

Another Cinco de Mayo blossom opened today and it perfectly illustrates how the color changes in just a few days from red/coral to pink.

I don't remember it doing this last year, strange.

Cinco de Mayo? Yours does look pink in the photo. Your bush looks very healthy. Mine are never pink. They open russet, turn a smoky coral, then get lavender undertones. But, so far, no pink or even rose. So many factors can affect the color - climate, soil, amendments, etc. Love this rose.

Yes, it's the same Cinco de Mayo plant as in the first picture. It's in a pot since I got it last year and seems so happy that I'm afraid to mess around with planting it in the ground. The flowers may be a weird color since it's so young. It was a tiny tiny tiny band that I got last August.

I also removed about half its leaves that were either eaten to death or splotchy for another reason, so it was even bigger and fuller a few weeks ago.

It doesn't look like it suffered from whatever was eating the leaves. Hopefully you got the culprit. Do you use anything like alfalfa meal or tea or a rose food? I've been using alfalfa tea this year and definitely getting more blooms. I have used alfalfa meal, but the tea is easier/faster. Can't believe I almost dug this one up because of the neon orange buds. It is one of my favorites.

Looking back at your first photos, I can see that yours fades to a pretty rosy pink. It looks much like Bajazzo as the hot pink blooms age.

Thank you for posting your beautiful Cinco de Mayo blooms. I snapped up a Cinco de Mayo tree rose two weeks ago and am excited to see it bloom. Hopefully, soon, I too will have blooms and can share & compare rose blooms with you.

Flowersaremusic:

My husband also thought it was a bad color looking at catalog pictures, but I remembered seeing the big bush at the Rose Test Garden in Portland. Which by the way, if any of you can make a trip to at any point, is worth a very long drive! Now that he sees it in person, he is in love with it.

I also have daybreaker in a pot and it's got the most gorgeous glossy green foliage I've ever seen on a rose, so I'm glad that this one survived the bug attack. I sprayed them both with Neem and moved them in the shade for two days to minimize burning the leaves. I still think a few leaves were burned, however.

I think its anathema on this forum...but I use miracle gro bloom booster on everything. I may have used very diluted Foliage Pro as well, but I can't remember. I always make sure not to get any on the leaves. They were planted in good Farfard potting soil and got a little Farfard compost too last year, so I bet that helps. My new bare root roses are growing super well, even in very bad soil, but have no buds, so I think the bloom booster does help. I also used a little Epsom salt at the beginning of spring.

The people at Northland Rosarium warned me that I shouldn't be using this kind of stuff on young bands until they are a couple years old...so I can't really reccomend my methods if they could potentially be dangerous.

All I know is that I had the most amazing citrus trees until I stopped doing what was working and started doing what forum people said, so I'm going to just keep doing what the roses like, especially since I can move them in shade if I have to.

carlotaroser

A rose tree sounds fantastic!! That's going to be so stunning!

Ahh, Daybreaker. Winter kill got mine. I ended up replacing her with Morden Centennial because I wanted another color in that spot, but have fond memories of Daybreaker. What a blooming machine!

I won't fault you for using Miracle Gro! Whatever you are doing obviously works for your roses. "If it ain't broke......" As we get to know the needs of our own gardens, we can adjust our routine to what they thrive on. Sounds like that is what you are doing. Whatever works is fine by me.

I would love to move away from methods that work, but I'm afraid also cause sideline damage, like Miracle Gro and Neem oil, but right now I'm so new to things that I'm afraid to change too much around.

Was your Daybreaker own root or grafted?

My Daybreaker was own root and seemingly healthy. It was my fault - I didn't give it any help with mulch that winter.

You know, there are as many ways to care for roses as there are rosarians. We all have our favorite amendments and methods. Roses are amazing in how well they adapt and respond to our experiments.

If you're wondering about other ways to nourish your roses, there's a ton of information on the American Rose Society site. But, again, it sounds like your roses are responding well to your good care.

Here's my first Cinco De Mayo. You can see the variation in color, even on adjacent blooms. There's also a cluster of buds right at the top and in front of the two blooms on the left, showing how prolific this is. My second one, which is just a few feet away, is running behind. I wish I understood why their timing is different.

Gorgeous!!!! Mine is still too young to have great clusters like that, I think, but I am very excited for them to show up!

You brought up something that strikes a chord with me talking about the timing. For the first time ever, I planted multiples of each plant this year, and for many species, some are flourishing while others fail. Is it minuscule microclimate? Do some get extra water from the plants nearby? I have a hard time believing its just random. I wish I knew, because if it's as simple as "this one got two shakes of fertilizer pellets and this one only got one," then I could fix it!!

flowersaremusic I agree with the color( I don't think any of the photos here capture it) it does have a russet tea coral almost tan color at the outer edges for the petals. It is a very unusual color. And it scents up my house when I do gather masses inside for a few days.

Mine is 3 yeas old(4?) and and it has never stopped being PROLIFIC! It is also getting quite large..like 5ft x 5ft. In fact I am going to have to move it this winter. Unfortunately the flowers don't last as cut flowers..not for me any how and I cut them underwater and all. I love this rose..too bad it is getting so big... they show off in front my large LV RM windows..I live in Willamette Valley Ore. zone 7. Rocky acid clay soil. I am stingy with water. But water very deeply when I do.

Deborah, isn't this rose just everything a person would want from a rose. It might be a little vivid for some tastes; I thought is was for mine, but it mellows so quickly into muted, dusky, antique colors, that those flaming buds don't bother me anymore.

It must love your acidic clay to have grown so large. Mine are still under 3', which works for where they're planted. Prolific is the word! Mine didn't get pruned this year, and yet they are so covered in blooms, you can hardly see the foliage.

My 'Cinco de Mayo' taken this month:

Jasmine, what a beautiful healthy looking plant! Rose beginner, I was going to post a picture of mine but yours is a dead ringer for it even including the Clover! I'm in the 'completely love this Rose' Camp. I wish I had at least one more. It's in a very public spot in the front of my house and everyone compliments me on it... Neighbors that formerly couldn't give me the time of day! I'm thinking of planting Violets Pride near it to take advantage of the violet tint it goes as it ages.

That will be absolutely beautiful, vaporvac. I've always said Cinco de Mayo needs to be planted next to a purple or lavender rose or companion plants. I have not taken my own advice, but both of mine really need to be moved, so I hope I will have that combo soon. I hope you will post a pic of them when you get Violets Pride planted.