What a great surprise! I'd love to see pictures. Lisa

This just seems to be the year for it, Jackie. Take your blessing as they come ;)

My Park's Yellow Tea Scented China (in commerce-it's known this definitely isn't the real one) had a total of 8 blooms this Fall. Being the not-PYTSC, it's a once-bloomer...except for this year, lol.

And as if just being able to grow BP isn't enough to make me jealous, yours has to go and rebloom.

OT: how the heck anyone could have ever mistaken the rose in commerce as PYTSC for the real thing, I'll never understand. It doesn't look right, it doesn't bloom right and doesn't even look like a CHINA rose, lol.

Thank you, jacqueline! They are lovely. I remember someone else, (or maybe it was you), posting pictures of her in the past, and loving those blooms. Not a rose I'm likely to ever grow, so I'll just have to enjoy yours. I'm crazy about that soft pinky-peachy color! So romantic. Lisa

Those are magnificent! How unusual that it's reblooming.

I love them!

Steven

Thank you. They are beautiful.

Yup. BP still gets my vote as the most beautiful rose ever grown. Now if someone could stick THAT rose on a hardy plant, lol.

Jackie, that is gorgeous.

Great! That can happen with 'once blooming' mature roses of oriental origin when the stars are properly aligned. It seems that most of them are just a teeny bit recurring.

Many plants respond like this after severe summer drought stress if they get plentiful water (and maybe some nitrogen) during fall at the right time.

Has anybody noticed FDY reblooming?

We take a bike ride three times a week which goes past the huge old FDY which I have posted pics of before. I look at it each time we pass it, and it is not re-blooming, although it does appear to be putting out some new growth. I will keep an eye on it and let everyone know if it puts out any blooms.

Interesting what you said about drought, Nik. This past Spring was the best Spring bloom in my garden I can remember, and the recurrent roses bloomed more in the Summer, and are blooming more right now than they usually do. Last Winter was the first time we got a reasonable amount of rain in FOUR years of drought. So, perhaps it is because of several years of drought stress (we irrigated, of course, but it is not the same thing - the roses can tell).

Jackie

MANY plants are confused and flowering out of season. Kippy just posted to the Rare Fruit pages on Face Book about one of her apricot trees flowering now. Others have followed with their posts about their fruit trees flowering now, also. My Fortuniana has flowered almost consistently since summer 2015, with just a few week's rest. It's back at it. Banksiae lutescens has scattered bloom several times this summer. All four Minutifolia types have scattered bloom all year. Primula, Xanthina and several of my Hugonis hybrids have, also. IXL and Dr. Huey, both virus indexed plants, have also scattered flowers this summer after stopping as they normally do. Spineless Roxburghii just threw a flower week before last. Basye's Amphidiploid 86-3, the Banksiae X Laevigata hybrid, has also thrown flowers off and on this summer. Basye's Legacy, traditionally spring into summer flowering, is finishing its third flush for this year. The Banksiaes and Fortunianas CalTrans planted out on the freeway embankments have also continued flowering all summer. Part of it is the usual climate confusion of their "thinking" it's still "spring". Part is the changing weather. We haven't received any rain here, yet.