Thanks for sharing the pictures of your flowers. They are the best.

I always like how you include the blue flowers in the garden.

That Edmund Rothschild rose is fancy. I have not seen any roses like this one before.

Carol: Your Betty White is the best ever & nice pinkish white. Mine is beige (from too much red-lava-rock !!) The rose park's Betty White is the same color as mine, so I think it's from high pH alkaline clay.

The last yellow perennial is awesome .. that's my 1st time seeing that one, The blue delphiniums glow from a distance ... Zaide has a pretty swirl .. is that a thorny rose?

I like your title Alberta, Canada .. it's inspiring for other rose growers in Canada. B. E. Rothschild has been on my wish-list, how's the scent on that one? Which of those are your best scents? Thanks.

Sam - BEdR is really beautiful. The blooms have such a soft look to them. I am so happy to finally have blooms on this bush. I think I'm really going to love this rose! I love blue flowers. The only ones I seem to be able to grow here are delphiniums.

Straw - This is the first year I've really loved Betty White. It looks even better than it does in the picture. I agree with you on the color - very striking. Beige...hmm...if anyone can get it to white/pink, it's you, Straw!

As to scents - most of my roses come into their scents on/after their 3rd year. So I don't really know how some of the scents will be....but as of right now....I can't decide between

- The McCartney Rose

- Acapella

- Betty White

- Lady Like.

Lady Like is as strong as TMR, except LL's fragrance is really strong perfume - no sweetness to it. TMR's fragrance is pure damask. I think it's strange (because I love damask or sweet fragrances), but I like Lady Like the best. Thinking on it now, I think it's fragrance is stronger than TMR's.

I just love how roses have such different fragrances in their lineage. I have roses that smell of cinammon, raspberry, myrrh, banana candy, lemon, and damask. What other plant will give you all that?? :)

Carol

Carol: I was waiting for this thread for quite some time..... great photos.

I really like your pots. They are all quite big (look like 16 inch pots to me). I also like the way you have placed your pots in the lawn. I also places my pots within the rose beds and biomes but my friends found this idea a bit funny. They thought that pots can only be placed in verandas, porches and along the pathways but not in the lawn and around flower beds. Well.... I thought I did the right things and I am glad to see a similar thing in your photos.

I would wait to see the progress of your bee house. Will these be honey bees?

Really like your Parfume de Grasse. Such a nice shade, how is the fragrance?

Your Betty White, Belinda's Dream. BEdR, Acapella all are beautiful. And McCartney is as majestic as ever.

Please keep posting more pics.

best regards

Heritage

Sam - Love your bee balm and day lily(?). Roses are lovely - but I gasped when I saw Cape Diamond!!! Gorgeous!!! I don't usually like singles - but CD is in another league.

Khalid - that's so nice of you to say you've been waiting for my pics. :) My husband recessed paving blocks (concrete squares) into the grass. I really love the look. Your neighbors have no taste. LOL :) I have ordered Leafcutter bees. So I'm getting tubes that the leafcutter bees will use to lay their eggs. I have lots of rose leaves (they like leaves from roses/lilacs mainly) for them to use for their nests in the tubes. Then in the spring, I'm going to get mason bees. They will use the same bee home (I'll show you a picture when the home is set up), because the mason bees are active in the spring (then die) and the leafcutter bees are active in the summer. So I'll just take the mason tubes out and put leafcutter tubes in. They like different sizes of tubes. I have lots of other bees here - but I have too many plants for them. My yard can support a lot more bees, and since bees are in trouble in the world, I thought I'd help them out. So far, Parfum de Grasse has no fragrance. But that's usual for bareroot roses here. Sometimes my roses don't get their fragrance until the 3rd year.

Carol

Carol: Lady-Like has similar color like B. Rothschild, very pretty. Do you notice any difference between your roses grafted on multiflora and own-root roses? Thanks.

Sam: I like your 2-color lily .. nice colors! Wedgewood rose is among the most beautiful Austin roses. Do you notice any difference between your roses grafted on multiflora and own-root roses? Lady of Shalott (multiflora-parentage) is giving me hell, moved it the THIRD time to a shady spot, since I'm tired of watering it everyday. Gave it some gypsum to prompt growth .. it can't take acid and leaves curled up & plus blackspots.

I tamed Comte de Chambord (grafted on multiflora) but Miss-multiflora herself (Lady of Shalott as own-root) is a pain.

Straw - I think they're all grafted on multiflora. But I really have no idea - I just buy them without asking questions. :)

I'm finding that Parfum de Grasse is opening up quite quickly, even thought it's growing in a lot of shade. But the interesting thing is that I'm not noticing much fragrance yet - except - in the opened roses where the stamens are showing. There I smelled really strong cloves!

Carol

Carol: Parfum de Grasse has some orange tinge, I find that orange and yellow roses can take shade very well. Does The McCartney rose ever open wide to expose the stamens? I'm allergic to open-stamens so I always choose button-hole roses (no stamens) or roses that don't open quickly.

Betty White is my favorite, I don't see exposed stamens in that one. Betty White lasts very long in the vase, and its large leaves can take heat better than tiny leaves like Lady of Shalott.

Yes, I think it does well in the shade - I don't think it would do well in warm climes - I think it would open up too fast. No, I don't think I've ever seen TMR's stamens. This is my second year with it...but I don't think it opens up that much. I can keep an eye on it and tell y ou.

Yes, Betty White is a very special rose!! Gorgeous!!

Carol

May I ask how Zaide does for you? How does it colour compare to Viking Queen? I'm looking for a smaller bush that is similar in colour to VK to place opposite or it. I also like Radio Times, but I've never seen either in person. Thank you.

Zaide is new for me - bareroot this spring. It has its first flowers now which look beautiful and medium sized. It has about 8 roses on it. Which isn't bad.

That's all I can help you with. Anyone else?

Carol

vaporvac: My Radio Times is A WIDE & HUGE bush, needs room. HMF has a few bush-shots of Zaide, much healthier than Radio Times, but Radio Times beat Zaide in perfection of bloom & fantastic damask scent. Both are thorny.

Below is the list of top 115 most healthy roses compiled by New York Botanical Garden. Zaide and Viking Queen are on the list, same with Buck Quietness and Heritage:

http://www.nybg.org/gardens/rose-garden-top-performers-2010.php

Question for everyone: I'm getting tired of thorns, it's actually the dense-prickles that get to me. I don't mind widely-spaced thorns like Sonia Rykiel, Frederic Mistral, or Crown Princess Mag ... it's the dense-prickles that I mind. Which one of your roses have the least thorns or widely spaced thorns? Thanks.

Also what are your best-bush-beauty roses? My vote go to Marie Pavie & Daly as best-bush beauty, same with Perle'd Or & Clouide Soupert & Pat Austin & Tchaikosky & Bolero & Evelyn and anything with glossy & shiny foliage and continuous blooms.

My best bush-beauty rose is Valencia. Evelyn, for me, has not been a great bloomer. Well, at least not this year. We've had a crummy summer.

Carol

Love the wedgewood, samuel. i don't see a source for it, though.

Straw wrote: "Question for everyone: I'm getting tired of thorns, it's actually the dense-prickles that get to me. I don't mind widely-spaced thorns like Sonia Rykiel, Frederic Mistral, or Crown Princess Mag ... it's the dense-prickles that I mind. Which one of your roses have the least thorns or widely spaced thorns? Thanks.

Also what are your best-bush-beauty roses? My vote go to Marie Pavie & Daly as best-bush beauty, same with Perle'd Or & Clouide Soupert & Pat Austin & Tchaikosky & Bolero & Evelyn and anything with glossy & shiny foliage and continuous blooms."

Will get back after inspecting my roses from this angle.

Carol: Zaide looks so pretty. Never saw it growing. Would love to have Chandos Beauty too.... have heard a lot about it delightful fragrance.

best regards

Khalidi - yes, I'm happy with both of these roses!

Carol

Carol: i love your rose collection. How big are your pots? Are you planing of transferring your roses in the ground?

I'm not sure what the dimensions of my pots are. No, the roses stay in the pots or they wouldn't survive here - too cold. I put them in the garage for the winter (well my husband does LOL). Besides we have glacial till in our yard - so it's like planting in a cement container. They would drown in the ground. That's what happened to the one rose I tried to grow in the ground.

Thanks, Anna, for your kind words. :)

Carol