Oh my your roses are lovely but I especially love Clothilde Soupert. I must have this roses!

I love them all Kate! Not a huge fan of stripes, but Broceliande is gorgeous, and you already know Love Song is one of my favorites.

I think my best new rose (this year) is Easy Does It. Seems to be a very healthy rose, anxious for it to get more growth on it.

Two of my newer favorites from last year are Poseidon an Beverly, they are so healthy!

POSEIDON

BEVERLY

Strike it rich is new this year & I'm loving it, keeps blooming & growing well. Pests & disease are leaving this one alone.

hallo--excellent idea. Why don't you start a thread for Problematic First Season Bloomers (or something like that). This is the first year I have had no problems with my new plants. Need to keep my fingers crossed--maybe, after thirty-some years of gardening, I'm finally managing to do it all right? LOL

Your Strike It Rich certainly is a striking plant!

Sara--love Poseidon also. Easy Does It has long had a reputation for being an easy-grower. You evidently would most heartily agree.

Boncrow--glad you like my Clothilde Soupert. Just remember if you get one that she is a BIG and SPRAWLING ROSE. Plant where she has lots of room just to be her naturally big, sprawly self. : )

Kate

Wow beautiful blooms everybody! Love the scalloped edges on STRIKE IT RICH. Don't think mine's ever done that!

Here's a few of my "new" roses this yr...

CANDY CANE COCKTAIL - still in a pot, but man oh man what a bloomer! Repeats all the time. Each batch of blooms is a little bit different from the last. Sometimes more pink, sometimes more red. I love it!! Can't wait to get it in the ground!

FREE SPIRIT - got it from Hortico. Lovely coral-pink blooms that repeat pretty decently.

OUR ANNIVERSRY - from Palatine... OMG the camera just cannot do it justice. Big huge purpley-red blooms that last quite awhile.

POLYNESIAN PUNCH - pretty but not quite as full a flower as I was expecting. I do like the changing tropical punch colors tho. Not quite a good a repeater as the others... so far anyway. Will be anxious to see the fall blooms.

SOS CHILDRENS' ROSE - got it from Ludwigs. Love the subtle striping on the edges of the petals. She started out pretty short, but all of a sudden she'd got a big tall shoot coming up. Good repeat.

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT - my replacement one for the one DA Roses sent last yr that was the wrong rose, and also died on me. She's quite a beauty!! Excellent repeat.

TROPICAL LIGHTNING - got off to a slow start, and about half the plant has died back, but what a beauty! Hard to get a true-color photo on this one. It's got an interesting coloring... kinda almost a rusty-brown with orange and yellow. Supposed to be a climber, which I don't really want it to be... but it hasn't gotten that tall anyway. In a pot so it's only about 3ft tall.

MITSOUKO - another one from Palatine... A little bit of a surprise. Blooms way better than I expected and the blooms are a lovely almost-ruffly pale yellow with a faint pink blush at the edges. It fades to a nice light cream.

EGLANTYNE - gotten from DA USA.... really lovely pink blooms. Decent repeat...

THE WEDGEWOOD ROSE - from DA and very lovely so far...

All are beautiful!!

More beautiful blooms. I want the prince & twilight zone. I'm really liking these rich colours!

@dublinbay - I'm going to start a thread on the general rose forums for 1st season rose disappointments. Thanks for the idea!

I added 3 new rose's to the garden this year. SUNNY SKY, a HT from Kords. Babies Blush a new HT from John Smith and Randy Scott another HT from John Smith. Randy Scott has been around for a few years but is new to my garden. I like what I have seen from them so far.

Sunny Sky

Lets see new roses I got just this season...

Carefree Celebration own-root: growing very fast and blooming a lot for being only planted in mid May...

Miracle on the Hudson own-root:

Oh and I can not forget these new rose additions.....lol

I bought far too many new ones this year! What was I thinking! Anyway, here are the ones I've gotten blooms on so far. I'm hopeful that a few of the others will bloom in the fall when it cools off some. We'll wait and see.

Abby's Angel has bloomed very well and often. It's been pretty healthy too. For me, of course, it's whether it winters or not...

All American Magic, didn't know anything about this one but I like stripes so I tried it. It bloomed once in the spring but it was a beauty!

R. Gallica Officinalis aka Apothocary's Rose. Once blooming but they're gorgeous and smell good!

Cutie Pie, I mentioned in another post has been a bit of a disappointment. Came with buds from the nursery which opened beautiful but has not put on a single new leaf since then.

Chicago Peace, only one bloom so far and it sort of got fried in the heat but the bud was lovely.

Doris Day, I got as a tree rose. Bloomed it's head off and has been quite healthy.

First Prize, lovely pink color and pretty large size blooms that last well.

Kordes Perfecta, I've bought this one several times only to have it turn out to be a mislabel. I think I got the right one this time but I missed the best form because it opened too fast in the heat. It was a tight bud one night and by the next morning was fully open!

Mojave, another one I can't seem to catch before it blows. But I love the color!

St Patrick, I'm thrilled with it! This is the first bloom and it just opened today. It seems to be holding some pretty good form despite the heat.

@seil - all beauties. Just wanted to let you know my St. Patrick blooms have held up for 3 weeks. It has been ridiculously hot & humid here. So I think you will be happy with it!

A lovely bunch Seil - St. Patrick is perfect. I am very partial to high centred HT's! Sadly, I can't find St. Patrick over here!

So many new beauties! I love them all!

One that I didn't mention above, is Veteran's Honor! I planted it this year, and it's getting a good start, unlike the one I planted three years ago.

Tahitian Treasure is real surprise for me in this season. I bought this bush couple months ago from Menards, so far it was excellent bloomer, fragrance is amazing even during hot day, long vase life. Not so much new grows, we will see next year. And no JB was caught in this one (I spray, but any way, some of my roses eaten horribly despite of spraying).

Tahitian Treasure

Good Life

Solero from Chamblee - always in bloom, love it.

Day breaker - from Hortico. Very nice bloomer, fast grower.

Miss All American Beauty - from Lowes - Very good bloomer, even in hot weather.

Thanks everyone! I'm trying not to look to closely at all of these because of the terrible enabling factor, lol! I can't handle any more!

Our Anniversary is so pretty

My best new rose is probably Séduction Picarde (another new Massad rose). Very vigourous (seven new basal breaks in addition to the original four), very healthy, nice fragrance and I have a soft spot for frilly/scalloped edges.

Only problem is I'm not 100% sure it is really the correct rose. It is supposed to be more orange in colour...

Wow! I love the frilly/scalloped look too. Combined with the unique color, it's a really striking rose.

Ann

Wow Henrik, that Massad is gorgeous! Thanks to all your photos I'm even starting too recognize a Massad when I see pics.

I don't remove roses often, but if I ever had the opportunity to purchase Massad roses, I would be more than willing to rip some out! Lisa

Ann- where did you find the prince? That one has been on my want list for awhile..new this year:

Nehema

dames de chenonceau

poseidon

jolie veranda

Dark desire

Fiji

Jeannie la joie

Florentina

apricot twist mini

Lavender veranda

Jeannie la joie, tiny, but perfect. Nice blooms, Kelly.

Hi Kelly -

I got The Prince from David Austin earlier this year, but I know they've since discontinued this rose.

Roses Unlimited has The Prince on their website. While they don't offer every rose listed every year, you might contact them to see if The Prince is available now, or will be available in 2017.

RU - Alphabetical Rose List

Good luck!

Ann

I'm with Lisa! I'd get rid of roses that under-perform if I could get ahold of some of those Massad roses! Just gorgeous!

And Openmoon...OMG! I keep passing up GOOD LIFE. If I have room next yr I might just have to order it! It's beautiful!!!

Munstead Wood. Growing and blooming in 100+ temps. Flowers only last a couple of days, but that is more than most of my roses.

Nice pic of MW, noseometer. Yes, my MW also keeps on putting out at least a couple blooms, no matter how hot it gets. And mine is in full sun all day! MW is quite simply an outstanding rose, isn't it.

Kate

Thanks Kate! I was very hesitant to get MW since I didn't really like the photos of it (color looks muddy to me, and the dark purple outer petals contrasting with lighter inner petals didn't appeal to me) , but kept hearing what a great rose it is and how it tolerates heat. In my heat it is a much brighter color, and it is amazing how it just keeps growing and blooming, at least so far in its first year. Lovely fragrance, and very thorny. So far my most impressive new rose (comparing against Pure Perfume, Abraham Darby, Evelyn, Sonia Rykiel, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Fabulous!, Jude the Obscure, Ann's Beautiful Daughter, Guy de Maupassant, First Crush, which are all new for me this year).

I have a lot of new roses this year. Now that some have been planted for about a month or two, it's starting to show what has vigor so far.

Burgundy iceberg has a lot of blooms & buds right now.

Beautiful blooms! Hope my Benjamin Britten starts to grow & bloom like yours!