mmmm12,

Are you hardening the roses off before planting? High Country Roses has them in a greenhouse, so they need to be gradually introduced to full sun. I start them with a couple of hours of morning sun for a few days, increase it to half day sun, then plant them out when they've handled at least a half day of full sun without drooping or burning. The O'Toole's roses are already hardened off. In this heat, you can try shading them (lawn chair) for a few days.

They'll recover, you just wait until year 3!

Some of my favorites for repeat bloom are Morden Centennial, Morden Sunset and Austin Mary. Light of Day has been a good bloomer here. I love Abraham Darby, but more for the scent than repeat bloom.

Barb

Barb, Thanks!

I thought I was hardening them off by leaving them outdoors but I don't think I moved them into full sun enough. I put them in our courtyard under a tree and then moved them into a more filtered sun area with only morning and evening direct sun but not heat of the day. I was worried the roots would cook in the pots. I do have lawn chairs on a few of the more hard hit ones.

The Chuckles have been in the ground a few weeks and seem to have problems when we get a lot of dry wind. I increased the amount of water going to them so hopefully that will also help. But maybe I am drowning them? Who knows.

I will research each of the roses you mentioned and really appreciate the suggestions.

Mordon Sunset was on my short list of potential adds but is out of stock from High Country Roses right now. Probably for the best that I test the bed for a year to make sure roses do well there. Do you have full bush pictures of your Morden Sunset and how big does it get here? Also how old is it?

Right now I planted one Pretty Pink Lady and 2 Sally Holmes. The 2 Sally Holmes are on the back side and the Pretty Pink Lady is on the front. There is a ton of square footage in the middle. I also don't have a good layout yet because I did not clear it completely so have to work around a few things.

No idea what this rose it. I inherited it. But it is pretty and the hail and I haven't killed it yet!

I was thinking too much sun for your young roses, too.

I've got a few roses but they were all here when we moved in so I have no idea what varieties they are. We moved a lot of them around when we landscaped, and most of them adjusted well to the move.

Alyssa, wow that is a gorgeous rose!

Thanks, mmmm12! He really enjoyed our wet spring this year - normally has two or three flowers, but this summer has 7 so far!

I'm very happy with how the Iceberg (O'Tools), Pretty Lady Rose (High Country Roses) and the Robusta (Rogue Valley Roses) are doing.

The Sally Holmes (High Country Roses) is a split vote. One doing well, one middling, and one barely survived.

All 4 Chuckles roses barely made it. They are just sending a few leaves above the ground. Not sure if those are going to survive.

The Gourmet Popcorn looks OK but I would rather have put in another Iceberg.

Interestingly enough the roses on the east side of the house seem to do the best.