Beautiful, gorgeous, divine.....Using various shades of just two colors is inspirational, and the labeling is unobtrusive and so helpful. Even the little vignette of the garden is so pretty. I have nothing to offer that comes even close, and it's naughty of you to set the bar so high. Nevertheless, seeing that picture has enriched my morning incredibly.

Here is mine...in June...

Ingrid, I'm glad you liked it, thanks... and I just know you've got plenty up your sleeve to show us...

Izzy... that's just gorgeous... what a lovely rose is ''BPR''... in fact your whole garden looks a dream...

OK, here's one:

I love this!

Steven

Oh, lovely roses Steven, it's so nice to see an aspect of your garden that I don't think I've seen before.

Jackie, that's a great colour combination, just perfect...

My folder for summer 2016 is woefully small and most of the pictures have already been posted here. I'm not sure whether this one has. It's Aunt Margy's Rose again.

Ingrid, I've not seen this before, thanks for flushing that one out.... dramatic landscape as ever, and your rose looks to have grown a bundle I must say...

Here are my final two - I like the first one because it is so etherial. The second one is my favorite from last summer - sorry you have undoubtedly seen it before.

Jackie

oh yes, I remember the one above, it must be wonderful for anyone walking that path during such times... a quite beautiful garden with such an exuberance in roses... the first one I don't recall seeing before but thanks for sharing these again..

I loved seeing my first Tea roses ever in person. I think Madame Berkeley here.

Marlorena, your Purple OGRs are breathtaking! I am unfamiliar with Gloire de Ducher and looked it up on HMF. I discovered more of your lovely photos on that site. Your caption mentioned that GdD had been healthy in your garden. This is slightly off topic, but could you let me know if GdD is still disease resistant for you and how the rebloom frequency compares with your Reine des Violettes (which is also gorgeous in your vase)? Thank so much! Great thread, by the way. I'm snowed in and enjoying the summer garden shots. :-) Carol

Not a rose, but an image seared into my memory: a gigantic pyrocumulus cloud, miles away, that was produced by the huge Pioneer Fire that raged for months northeast of here. We could see it from our back yard. Diane

Wow, Diane! Formidable. Carol

Good idea, especially considering the arctic blast we're getting. All very lovely and impressive. Here are a few from the garden that I was happy with...

Chris, thank you for sharing your garden. It's beautiful! I'm so sorry that you lost Willie today. Losing furry members of the family is so hard. You have my deepest sympathy. Carol

Malorena - One of the favorite cars that visits a monthly car show my husband sponsors is this Mini Cooper. The owner brought it over from England and we all ooh and aah at its cuteness.

A Pom in her own radio controlled Ferrari attending an Italian car show.

A bouquet for a 90th birthday party in July.

Ann

Ann, what a lovely selection of colourful roses in the vase there, this also brightens my day too. I haven't seen a Mini Cooper in a very long time, if at all actually, and oh, how I love that little dog... thanks so much for showing us these...

Chris, you have a wonderful garden but I'm so sorry to hear of your loss but I think it's great to share memories nonetheless...

Pete, your shed looks good enough to live in... I think it's terribly clever to be able to turn your hands to this sort of thing. Love the autumn colour too on that tree...

Diane, that's dramatic. I think I might have been a little scared at the time, to see something like that... I hope no damage was done to anyone's properties..

Sheila, another of your burgeoning family of Tea roses. I can imagine how excited your were, I would be too...

Carol, thanks for your comments about my roses...and I'm sorry you're snowed in. We may be too in the coming weeks..

You asked about 'Gloire de Ducher'. Well it's only a first year rose for me, so too early to say too much, but it was so healthy until after the first flush around mid summer when it did defoliate with some blackspot, it is prone to this I understand, but recovered from that and I got a couple of later blooms. Not as many as 'RdV' but I think this rose will catch up in time. I don't water roses usually, so I expect that might have been the reason for the defoliation, as it was very dry here for a while... It's the rose I'm probably looking forward to most next Spring...

..in fact, I can't wait, if I'm honest there...

Thank you, Marlorena! I'd love to hear more as GdD matures. Stay warm! Carol

I love that garden shed, Pete! It rivals Jackies fence as most enviable garden structure to drool over.

I dont have many "garden shots" but here's one from just outside the front door that made me happy- It needs a cute kitty tho

All the pictures are beautiful, each in its own way. This has been a wonderful thread. I'm on a short break from my job so can't say much. Chris, your photo of your sweet Willie made my heart ache since I've lost quite a few furry family members lately. The pain lessens but is never quite gone.

Diane, when I saw your photo I actually began to hyperventilate before I got myself back under control. Too many of those experiences and you're never quite the same. Fortunately it's raining now so no fire danger.

So many beautiful memories here. I love all those garden shots.

I like to remember larkspur time--the month of June when the larkspur that re-seed themselves all over my gardens come into bloom again. This is when they were coming to the end of their bloom period--I had just planted the new ground cover roses around the bird bath.

Here's the tail-end of one large bed--at its brightest when the red Eutins are in bloom.

Another favorite time is when the white paniculata hydrangea is in bloom--contrasting wonderfully with the few hybrid teas I grow.

I am missing my gardens. Just grey skies around here. No snow even--I rather enjoy the snow.

Kate

love all of the pics..a summer guest at my birdbath..I NEVER noticed but is there a squirrel in the tree?..see a blurry spot?..wasn't aware of anything but the hawk when I took the pic..

If it is a squirrel, I can understand why its moving so fast- probably spotted the hawk!

Your larkspur are lovely, Kate and they look good with the pink.

Not a garden shot- this was peak sweetpea harvest about a month and a half ago

sadly its time to rip out the vines now, but I have great plans for next year..

oh those sweet peas, they're fabulous. I don't grow them so much now, but when I see what you've got there Curdle...I know I ought to do so..

nicholsworth... great shot of that Hawk. I see a few like that around here but never close enough...

Kate, your gardens are quite wonderful. I don't think I've seen any of those shots before...

Tengo un clima de verano tan caliente que rosas florecen muy poco. Estas fotos son bastante primavera. Espero que te guste.

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Me gustan estas fotos muy en realidad más de lo que puedo decir....

estupendo y muchas gracias.... por favor, muéstranos màs...

Or in other words... oh my, those are gorgeous.. thank you... Please show us some more...

Thank you very much for your kind words.

If you want to see more photos of my profile you can visit two or three ideabooks that I have in my profile.

Good weekend!! :)

Oh and a good weekend to you too, and thank you for alerting us about your profile. I have just looked at that and see so many beautiful roses that you have, that are also familiar to most of us here too. I grow some of those Austin's you have amongst others. I also like your mixed borders with the autumn colours.

Here is a link to make things easier if anyone wants to see your profile

There's some absolutely gorgeous and vibrant photography in this thread. I'm a newbie to growing roses so mine are all very young and not nearly as impressive as those shown here. This is probably my favorite rose shot from the summer (really late spring). A 2nd year Crown Princess Margareta paired with a lone 1st year Rouge Cardinal clematis bloom on the left. There is also another clematis in this shot not currently in bloom. The clems and rose are planted several feet apart on opposite sides of the obelisk, where they meet.

No roses in this shot, but here is my corner of mostly annuals at peak color for the season:

Quite splendid Arlene... thank you for showing us... I also have obelisks, as does member Cori Ann... so I appreciate the way you're growing your rose and clematis together there...

Your annuals are a wonderful concoction of colour and foliage...

Marlorena, ¡¡Gracias!! Estoy en amor con las rosas !! :) Pero mi tiempo no es propicio para las rosas. Rosas David Austin deben elegir las ubicaciones donde están protegidos del sol del mediodía. A pesar de esto, pasan el verano sin floración y hasta el otoño que no producen unas rosas de nuevo.

Me gusta para prolongar el interés del jardín por el crecimiento de arbustos y árboles con coloraciones otoñales.

Espero que entender lo que dice y al mismo tiempo hacer que me entienda. El traductor de Google ya sabe que no da buenos resultados. Pero con certeza lo hemos conseguido !! :)

Hi El Jardin...,

Sí, estamos todos enamorados de las rosas aquí, tal vez demasiado. Hay otros miembros como tú que crecen rosas en caliente sol y tienen los mismos problemas. Para mí, no tengo suficiente sol, y sé que mis rosas quieren más.

También tengo la rosa 'Purple Skyliner' y estaba muy feliz de verlo en su jardín. Mi rosa es joven tambien...

Google translate es nuestro mejor amigo. Tu inglés es muy bueno, cualquiera que sea el método que uses..

[Yes, we are all in love with roses here, maybe too much. There are other members like you that grow roses in hot sun and have the same problems. For me, I do not have enough sun, and I know my roses want more.

I also have the rose 'Purple Skyliner' and I was very happy to see it in your garden. My rose is young too.

Google translate is our very best friend. Your English is very good, whichever method you are using.]

Marlorena. You seem expert in this Forum. That's why I dare to ask. :)

Todavía no sé muy bien cómo funciona este Foro. Abrí un "hilo" (llamado así?) Que le pregunta si cultivas cualquiera de los excursionistas de color rosa que me incluyo en mi orden de rosas desnudas.

No sé si pongo la pregunta en el lugar correcto. Por el momento nadie me ha contestado. Espero que si está mal colocado alguien me dirá y yo movería la pregunta a otro lugar más apropiado.

El Jardín..

Tu hilo en el foro de 'Roses' podría estar mejor colocado aquí. Las rosas que usted lista son rosas antiguas y creo que puede obtener más respuestas. Eso espero. El foro de "Rosas" es más apropiado para las rosas modernas, creo. Es correcto para poner el mismo hilo en ambos foros...

Por cierto, no soy un experto de ninguna manera y me siento halagado de que usted piensa así. Solo crezco unas rosas y las comparto con todo el mundo. Creo que todos hacemos eso aquí.

Hay rosarios expertos en este foro, pero yo no soy uno de ellos, pero me gusta hablar de rosas y un gran placer es verlos en los jardines de los demás. Muchas rosas son para climas cálidos que no puedo crecer bien aquí.

¿Dónde estás en España aproximadamente...

[Your thread on the 'Roses' forum might be better placed here. The roses you list are antique roses and I think you may get more replies. I hope so. The 'Roses' forum is more appropriate for modern roses I think. It is o.k to put the same thread on both forums.
Incidentally, I am not an expert in any way and I am flattered that you think so. I just grow some roses and share with everyone. I think we all do that here. There are expert rosarians on this forum, but I am not one of them, but I do enjoy talking about roses and a great pleasure is seeing them in the gardens of others. Many roses are for warm climates that I cannot grow well here.
Where in Spain are you approximately?]

aah... MADRID!... o.k....

Marlorena, thank you for supplying to link to Madrid's beautiful rose pictures. It would be wonderful if he/she could join us here. Many roses in what is obviously an exquisite garden. Your Spanish, by the way, is superb.

Yes I hope so too Ingrid, although my linguistic abilities are down to Google. It's been a long time since I spoke Spanish...

Very early summer, as the grass isn't fried brown yet.

A lovely summer pic in Utah 8/16

Lots of blooms for cutting in early summer

I don't miss the heat, but I do miss the Dahlias to mix with roses in arrangements. Lisa

Not my garden, but plants growing in my neighbourhood.

Ebenus creticus. A small shrub indigenous to Crete. Grows in profusion nearby.

Other wild flowers nearby.

Back in my garden, a butterfly which likes to be almost colour coordinated.

and a pretty red spider.

Daisy

Nice, Daisy. I love seeing different natives and different gardens in other countries. Plus, I get good ideas from those of you in dry Mediterranean climates. If they do well there, they often do well here.

Trish, I love your sweet peas! I grow them from late fall, until about May. After that, it gets too hot for them. They make such awesome cut flowers, and the scent!!!!! Mine are about a foot long now. Can't wait. Lisa

Hi Lisa, I'm afraid they're not my sweet peas, they're Curdles - who's in Melbourne, I think. I haven't tried growing them for years, but I love them.

Daisy, I did enjoy seeing some of the countryside around you. Thanks. Ages since I've seen photos of your beautiful garden.

Oops! Sorry about that. CURDLE, I love your sweet peas! So many great pics here!

Ingrid, I haven't forgotten about emailing you back. I'm just a bit slow and busy with Christmas prep. I'm such a procrastinator!! Not ready for Christmas. Lisa