All very lovely indeed... Any chance you could post that delectable photo of 'Daybreak' to HMF? It would fill a need, IMO... those buds are beautiful, and the flowers ain't bad, neither...

Thanks for sharing,

Virginia

Your garden and roses are beautiful!

Hear, hear. I wish my 'Daybreak' were half that beautiful.

Love your Wollerton--and the garden shots. But all the roses are lovely.

Kate

The roses are wonderful, especially Marianne. I hope you'll post more garden shots, Chris, since I see glimpses of a wonderful garden of roses and other plants.

Beautiful selection. I love Daybreak and Carefree Sunshine (wish I had room!) BTW, I can't help wondering how you cope with deer and voles in your environment? Or are these just worse in sandy pine barren environments?

Thanks everybody! We've been in the house about 4 years and I finally feel like things are beginning to look like I've been envisioning. I will certainly post the pic of Daybreak to Hmf. Monarda, deer are certainly worse further east on the island, in the pine barrens and elsewhere,, but we do have them here too. I get nibbling in my front yard from time to time, but not much more than that thankfully. Maybe there aren't enough of them to cause more damage? Voles, we don't have much of, or chipmunks or rabbits. Too many cats on the prowl I think.

-Chris

Wowzers! It's all so so beautiful! Love the shots of groupings. Those iris are beautiful. I told myself mo roses next year but that Colonial White may have to be ordered if possible. Love it and Marianne which is another one I've been so tempted to get. Lovely lovely lovely! Thanks for sharing!!! Judy

i went to look it up and it's Sombrieul which I've tried to grow and it did nothing. May need to try again.. Lol

Beautiful! Lucky you with regard to the varmints, Chris -- Long Island would seem to be a prime spot for them, intuitively, but pest problems can be serendipitous.

In the woods of Massachusetts I once had voles eat ALL the roots on about 12' x 5' of a border of perennials during a year of deep snow. The snow melted off, the plants all looked great for about a day, then all started wilting. When I went to investigate, there was not a root to be had -- only the tops -- I'm sure the expression on my face when I discovered this was memorable! Fortunately, they left the peonies alone and only ate half the rose roots. It should be noted that the cat I had at the time was the best friend of mice -- would lovingly watch them as they ate cat food out of his bowl! I think I needed more, or more effective, cats...

On the other hand, chipmunks there, who tunneled a lawn area so extensively that it collapsed a foot during heavy rains, and regularly ate ALL the alpine strawberries, low-bush blueberries, and every bud off of Callirhoe involucrata (?!), didn't bother much else. A lone bunny (for some reason we didn't have many -- and this one also died at a young age, over winter -- found his pelt in a snow drift one spring) regularly nibbled all the clover in the lawn down to ground level one year, but didn't bother much else, either. There were numerous deer, who had a well-used path along our south property line, but amazingly only entered the yard to eat the hips off 'Bonica' once in ten years. Why? I could never figure that out. We had no dog or other deterrent.

Re catspa's comments, I wonder if animals don't learn? We had a terrible box moth infestation last year, which required repeated spraying: it was an awful job, with all the box we have, and it scattered all over the garden(s). This year, only the mildest presence of box moth larvae, and those vanished without doing significant damage. Did we so thoroughly eradicated the caterpillars last year that they weren't able to reproduce? Or did the birds discover they're edible?

Still haven't noticed any natural controls for the rose-devouring beetles. I think we need more grub eaters, whatever they may be: hedgehogs? moles? toads? I know we have toads, though I don't see them often.

Melissa, I'm pleased with the pheromone traps I get from Hungary;thanks to these plus hand-picking and screening out, I've managed to dramatically reduce my beetle problem. I'll put up a new thread so as not to "steal"this one. Beautiful photos, Chris!

Melissa, insect populations naturally have dramatic population fluctuations from year to year. So perhaps last year just happened to be a bad year for box moths are in your area.

-Chris

Chris, your garden is stunning. If it was mine, I don't know how I'd ever get anything else done, since I'd be running out the door every few minutes to see what else is in bloom.

Kes, I must confess, there are days when I'm late to work because I must go out to just "take a peak" at the garden in the morning and, before I know it, end up weeding and watering. The word obsession comes to mind, lol.

Your garden is stunning ! My garden hopes to look that good when it grows up someday . ;)

Beautiful garden!

Lovely garden! Wish I could stroll thru.

I took some pics today since some new things had opened.

Queen of Sweden - A really terrific rose; healthy, beautiful flowers and blue/green foliage, floriferous, vigorous, nice fruity myrrh fragrance, etc. These only came from Chamblee's last spring!

This was taken a week or so ago. My Therese Bugnet hedge at it's peak.

Everything is beautiful!

VMR, I posted that photo of Daybreak, along with a couple of others.

-Chris

Thanks, Chris- they are great additions, and that photo of the whole plant is amazing. I commented there that that is my idea of floriferous.

Virginia

Beautiful garden Chris, thanks so much for the inspiration.

Thanks again for all the compliments. A lot of hard work has gone into the garden and it's finally start to show. I wanted to add that all of these roses are grown no spray and have excellent disease resistance, at least in my garden. So for those looking for healthy roses, these are some good ones to start with.

-Chris

Absolutely Stunning...you must be sooo proud. I'm sure its hard work but so worth it look it its paradise

They are all beautiful, And I was glad to see the picture of Theresa bug net, it gives me a good idea of growth habit.