A rose or roses you've been in awe of?
I know not everyone is fond of red roses, and there have been times that I have thought they're over rated. But there is something special about a perfectly formed Hybrid Tea red rose, especially if it's fragrant. I don't think neither my iPhone nor my iPad cameras are capable of photographing how truly gorgeous my Firefighter blooms have been recently!
Do you have a rose or roses, red or any other color that you are in awe of?
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towandaaz
6 years agoSara-Ann, Firefighter is gorgeous. I have a red that I'm in awe of that I got at Home Depot last year. The tag just read "Vigorosa."
The blooms are so vivid and packed with petals. It's a shame I don't know what this one is because I love it so much. Not much fragrance, but the plant and blooms make up for that.
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6 years agoQuicksilver
Florentina
Quietness is a perfect pink
Soul sister
Heaven on earth
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6 years ago
Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
6 years agoOh my heavens I just came in from out side and for right now could I please say all of them. They are more than I could have dreamed of. I have too start my own post thou as there are too many too list here. I'll do some reds here. You guys have posted some good ones. I don't really have any good photos to share.
First all around best shrub Kardinal Kolorscape. I think this thing dropped down from heaven it is healthy, full of lots and lots of dark red flowers, They last forever os the bush, they don't fade and drop cleanly eventually. Almost forgot the nice shrubby shape. In this their 3rd year they are really impressive.
Florentina is out of this world beautiful. Mine is starting it's 3rd year. It was moved once so rather like its second year. Not sure yet if it will be a shrub or short pillar rose yet in my zone. Healthy large full deep dark red without fading flowers. That last and last and last.
Sometimes I hate posting a photo like this one for example it make the flower appear orange toned. When it is in fact a deep sultry red with no orange tone.
Heart Song is in my eyes a must have red for all the reasons that I like the two above. This rose is stunning and no matter what my photo shows it is a deep dark rich red.
The last two are Home Run and Miracle On The Hudson. I do these two together as they are very much alike. Equal in health, vigor and flower style. Love them both but give the nod to MOTH as it is a sightly darker red. Way darker in cool weather. It also has 2 extra petals that stick up so the appears fuller and spunky. I'm using the darker spring photo.
I'm soooo pleased with these roses best of all they survive unprotected on their own roots in well below zero weather and come back like blooming fools. Even with rose midge and many other nasty beasties around.
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6 years agoKen Wilkinson
6 years agoSara, thank you for starting this thread. It got me to REALLY thinking about my garden and what I always go to. Several years ago I got a shrub rose just to see what it was really like. I immediately fell under it's spell and have been enchanted by it bloom after bloom.
For me, it's Distant Drums.
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Va Joh(zone8b)
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoSomeone here helped me identify my mystery red rose and it is one of the star performers in my garden. It's called Crimson Bouquet and the flowers literally last 20 days on the stem. I know because I recorded the time it bloomed fully open till the first petal fell to the ground. It never has disease and is rain and heat proof. Here's a couple pics from earlier in the season.
I wish I could capture the real color of these roses though, because while they are very bright, they aren't orange at all just a true deep red.
Here is a red mini called Red Minimo. Super cute!
I absolutely am in love with Sharifa Asma. While I'm sure everyone knows of this rose, it's new to me. I'm just now getting into roses and didn't know how beautiful it was. Another that is simply stunning is Gentle Hermione. The color is hard to describe and I wish I had taken pictures when it first bloomed, but I cut her to the ground and moved her in the backyard and she is just starting to leaf out again. The color is a chartreuse pink and then turns a clear light pink. The buds were perfectly round with no inconsistencies between the blooms. Each and every flower looked the same as the next just some were smaller and some bigger.
Sharifa Asma
I forgot to mention please excuse the white patches on the leaves it's diatomaceous earth not powdery mildew!
towandaaz
6 years agoPatty W. zone 5a Illinois
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
6 years agoI too love the reds and I have a few this year. My favorite is Ingrid Bergman and so far , Out of Rosenheim is a very watermelon red color I hope it darkens up. I just got Dark Desire but it is still just a stick. FLorentina is coming on like gangbusters.
Ingrid Bergman
Smith, I agree wholeheartedly on your appraisal of Savannah it is stunning and continues to please me along with Beverly that's another great pink rose.
Winchester Cathedral is a blooming machine it didn't just have a flush it is just continually putting out beautiful perfect white blooms it's brand-new this spring and I'm telling you it's a Workhorse
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6 years agoSara-Ann Z6B OK
6 years agoThank you so much everyone! So many roses to be in awe of! Both Quietness and Savannah are new to me this year, and I am definitely pleased with what I've seen so far! Some really gorgeous reds too, and Ken, your Distant Drums is truly lovely!
There are many roses I am in awe of at some point. This is Lemon Spice from about three years ago, it was own root and died. I replaced it this year with a grafted one, and while it's had several blooms, they haven't looked nearly this lovely, I'm waiting for that to happen.
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Lynn-in-TX-Z8b- Austin Area/Hill Country
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI have erased posts to this thread three times already because like no other time, after gardening here for 17 years, my yard is entrenched in Summer ugliness. My feeling was that looking at or even posting something pretty from my own yard this season would diminish that "reality"... one I need to understand. I guess I am wallowing in Summer ugly and posting will be another step in working through it. Here goes... I hope
Chicago Peace.. varietal bloom appearance..
Purple Lodge
Eden - a newer addition to my 2-year-old garden. Pretty roses and what a flush for such a small plant. I have seen what it can do based on the Eden images posted by others. I am excited.
Blush Noisette... by far the best rose bush in my garden... Its location = full sun, southern exposure, in front of a block wall. Aphids and spider mites leave it alone... It is the "superstar" among roses in my yard/conditions.
Blue Girl.. healthy leaves and I did not know how much the lavender coloring would strike me as beautiful. I have a lavender bed and grow many of the usual/popular lavender roses, but I like the coloring of B.G. best
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6 years agoLynn-in-TX-Z8b- Austin Area/Hill Country
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mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9
6 years agoDesert, I am with you. My garden is pretty much a fried mess from the summer heat. At least we will only be 102 degrees this week, compared to the 113 we had for a couple of weeks.
I love Laguna and Purple Lodge. So good to hear it does well in the heat. I may have to check that one out. Does it fade in the heat?
The constant star in my garden with the heat has to be two roses; Candice and Peppermint Parfait. Others that are doing well have to be Flamingo Dancer, Lady of Shalott and Midnight Blue. The rest of my roses are in between flushes at the moment.
Lady of Shalott
Candice
Peppermint Parfait
Midnight Blue (not the best picture)
No current picture of Flamingo Dancer but here is an older one
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rosecanadian
6 years agoKristine LeGault 8a pnw
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6 years agonoseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque)
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoOh, Desertgarden, the Summer Uglies are here as well, and I share your pain. That flush of May sweetness has passed. June's miserable trifecta of high heat, blasting wind and unrelieved sun has yet to be buffered by the afternoon thunderstorms of monsoon season. At least we are getting some afternoon clouds now that July has arrived. This year, I've been seeing what the garden will look like without deadheading the perennials, as Piet Oudolf would do. At least that's my excuse. I'm not sure that I like it, but it sure satisfies my lazy bone.
I'm mostly in awe of photos of other people's roses (that Laguna! that Purple Lodge! that Sharifa Asma!), but the topic of this thread is what roses I'm most in awe of that *I have*. Tied for second place are Bishop's Castle and Munstead Wood. Bishop's Castle for vigorous growth and production of vast numbers of fragrant flowers. It gets a second place standing since once the heat arrives, all growth and bloom ceases. Munstead Wood for continuous growth and flower production. It gets a second place standing because flower form turns semi-double and size diminishes greatly, also because unlike other descriptions, it has barely any fragrance in my garden.
But what I am most in "awe" of right now, is Bolero. After years of complaining about this rose, I discovered that my problem with it wasn't the rose, it was simply a faulty watering system. Now that I've corrected it (oh, my aching back), Bolero simply shrugs off 90-100F heat, and continues to grow and bloom, producing flowers of consistent beauty and fragrance on a compact plant. As Hoovb has mentioned, it outperforms any other white rose that I have, including Iceberg. Indeed, it is outperforming almost any other rose that I have, with Marie Pavie being the only competition in terms of production (great in production and fragrance but far down in the "awe" factor in bloom form, color, leaf form and bush). And to think, I was just a hair's breadth from removing all of my Bolero's due to "poor performance." Hopefully there will be more competition next year, once my new roses grow in.
Here it is today, after temps in the upper 90's. It's supposed to be 101F today.
Sara-Ann Z6B OK thanked noseometer...(7A, SZ10, Albuquerque)Lynn-in-TX-Z8b- Austin Area/Hill Country
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoMy Candice seems okay Mustbnuts, but I did not deadhead the last blooms because the timing was so close to July. It looks horrible in that regard. During high heat, the blooms on Purple Lodge do not turn fuschia like Ebb Tide and Twilight Zone, appearing closer to this (first blooms) but more burgundy:
I forgot about Bolero, Noseometer, glad it is doing better for you. I have found it to be stellar in the dry heat. I grow 12 in full sun and they have been in full bloom throughout the heat. Clouds.. what are those... I wish... Las Vegas ties with Phoenix as the sunniest, clear blue skies cities in the nation.
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