Is anyone's Carding Mill doing this? I cropped the first photo, but the one directly above is straight out of the camera with no adjustments. I've never seen Carding Mill so orange, and the actual color is even more orange than pictured. Carding Mill has been blooming well this season, and the flush right before this new color shift gave us some of the most heartstoppingly beautiful blooms I've seen ever, on any rose. But colorwise -- whacky! We have lots of pictures of roses on Humpty Dumpty House Facebook, including buds, blooms, spent blooms, leaves, and whole shrub. We also have detailed evaluations in our "Rose Report Card" posts that you can find by scrolling back. If you visit please give us a page "like". This simple act can help us get our gardens back open to the public after my long hospitalization due to an injury -- thanks! Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse jannike

angela - yeah, i have no idea what's with my roses and the image on david austin's website. my photos are a very accurate representation of what i see in person though. my blooms are somewhat pinkish on the outer petals, but transition towards that deep peachy orange color inside. the photo on the austin website seems to have a subdued orange cast to the entire image that makes me wonder ever since i ordered that rose. so i'm not surprised that mine came out looking different. i don't know if it's just blooming differently this year, but mine have really only come close in color to the DA image when the floor has almost completely aged and lost most of it's color. it then becomes this dusty pink-peach color uniformly. i'll see if i can dig up some of the photos of the more aged blooms. i was planning on making a post of different austins as their blooms age anyway - to show the color and bloom shape changes.

Thank you! I was not sure that I would get any blooms but the extended cool weather had helped the bushes to get ahead start before the midges appeared. I hardly had any blooms last fall because the tips were all damaged. I really missed them. So glad to have nice blooms.

I love Carding Mill because I feel have several rose bushes in one.. It often opens dark orange and then turns pink but in the heat it'll skip the dark orange and open a ligh apricot and then go almost pinkish white. I planted one at my daughter's in TX and hers opens a clear light yellow and then turns pink. The flowers last for many days. The fragrance is good and it is pretty generous with blooms. My Alnwick is less forthcoming with blooms but when they bloom they are breathtaking: Carding Mill: The Alnwick Rose Even as it was losing petals I found it charming: I bought both grafted and they bloomed at once. Anne :)