JMC- Blue satin is the most beautiful true blue ROS flower I have ever seen. The foilage is darker green than Lavender Chiffon, looks tropical, and it grows a little faster also. It is a single, sterile flower. I loved it sooo much I also ordered a Violet satin and the flowers on that were incredible! Brandon, I bought both of them through a licensed nursery that always sells on Ebay. THey are a nursery though, and sell proven winners of soooo many plants. They were both healthy and I didn't pay over 9.99 for them. They grew quite nicely also. Do a search on Ebay under Rose of Sharon Blue satin and you will find them. They are propular. GOod Luck!

I think you've got a variety of Rosa multiflora. The scent is wonderful. Check Blooms in clusters. Check Apple green foliage. Check More leaves per compound leaf than almost any other rose. Check Deeply fringed stipules at the base of the leaf. Check. Double check, if the anthers turn brown before the petals start to fade. There is a variation on multiflora out there that is much shorter and well behaved. It's a natural variation. I had it in the garden and got rig of it, thinking I could get some that was down by the ferry landing. Only the Fisheries and Wildlife folks bulldozed it to increase a parking area. (Roses ARE wildlife, too.) If the next growth it puts out (almost before the blooms are over) is really vigorous, you have the barn eater multiflora which needs to be sited carefully in home yards. (Great photos, and it's good to see you posting.) Ann

Probably Dr. Huey. It is probably the rootstock of a previous grafted rose, where everything from the graft up died and the rootstock took over. Very common all over California. Dr. Huey is a once bloomer -- that is, once it blooms in the spring, it is done for the year until next spring. Kathy

Looks like sawfly larvae (rose slug) damage... See this thread: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3952756/whats-wrong-with-my-roses?n=2