Exquisite as usual. As you like to see the cold climate once bloomers you'll never grow, I adore seeing what to me are Hothouse Beauties.

Isn't it great, vaporvac, that on this forum both of our wishes can be fulfilled? I do think the once-bloomers by far have a more magnificent fragrance, and I do miss that.

Ha Ha. I lust after the cold climate ones. It's so unfair. Cold climate people can enjoy the pictures of our teas, noisettes, and chinas but we can't smell their damasks, gallicas, and HPs.

Beautiful, Ingrid! Please keep the pictures coming.

So pretty. Just lovely!

I enjoy seeing your mature teas, Ingrid, as I planted teas last summer and am now experiencing the frustration of watching them sit there and do nothing.

Sheila, I'll keep the pictures coming if you will. I'm wondering how your teas are progressing or all your roses, for that matter.

Rosylady, I expect you may have to wait for warmer, less rainy weather for them to feel more at home. I hope they'll take off for you during the summer. My roses would adore having some of your rain, or anyone else's; they're not picky.

Beautiful roses, Ingrid. And I love that dramatic boulder-capped outcropping behind Souvenir de la Malmaison.

I was going to say, wow, I like Aunt Margy's rose! But then I realized I was looking at Baronne Henriette de Snoy

Sooo lovely!

Thank you so much for enjoying my roses. As I've mentioned before, not many people notice them and even fewer really "see" them. I don't really mind that because I grow them mostly for my own delight, but at the same time sharing them with you here is such a privilege.

Carol, your prose is poetry, a never-ending delight.

I love the pinks! The mix of purple and pinks is lovely.

So many blooms... Rosette Delizy is a beautiful shrub.

So glad you like it Krista. The beautiful pink roses in your garden are always one of the highlights I look forward to every year.

Thank you, Ingrid, for the kind words.

Wow. The roses are such a striking contrast to the rest of your landscape. I especially like your boulders.

Baronne Henriette de Snoy is such a pretty confection.

Ooh. Oh Ingrid! Despite your heat and dryness, your blooms and garden always seem to look lovely. You just have such a knack for capturing their beauty, for my heart cries a little when I imagine your gardens as described versus what I see. You do great work with it. Thank you for sharing!

My fave, I suppose, was the full and blowsy Baronne Henriette de Snoy.

Steven

Baronne Henriette de Snoy is also fast becoming one of my favorites, especially since this is only her second spring. I like the fact that the branches are strong enough to support the large blooms, with none of that gazing at the dirt beneath them that some otherwise very lovely roses are fond of doing.

Beautiful, Ingrid, and--you may hate me for saying this--I love the look of a dry atmosphere at your place. Love it. It's rained or threatened to rain here every day this month.

Melissa is right. It is something out of a Western/Italian movie, Ingrid. Your property is gorgeous. It is hard to see plants suffer though and that is why it is good you got irrigation.

Very pretty as ever, Ingrid, despite all your difficulties. Your sea statice puts mine to shame, as do your roses.

I know you don't care for the colour of Mrs BR Cant, and I can't remember if you turfed her. I bought one, intending to put it at the bottom of the garden, in a somewhat shady spot, but instead she has pride of place in the ex vegetable garden. Her scent is wonderful to my nose. I stop for a sniff several times a day. Actually I stop and drink it in. I didn't care for the colour in Spring, but like it now (Autumn), and the form of the blooms is lovely - full and cupped. And she sure is vigorous. Perhaps you could find an out of sight spot for her.

I rang the nursery to add BdS to my order, but they'd sold out, darn it, so I settled for Rubens. Yours is lovely.

Ingrid, I love your landscape and your roses look so lovely and beautiful.

Baronne Henriette de Snoy , Aunts Margy, SDLM, Rosette Delizy, Mdm Lambard are all on my list.

I saw international Herald Tribune. It is a very pretty rose. Mr.Manners was telling me about the name and I cannot remember if it has scent or not.

I wish I can get all the roses in the world and let it grow to it's fullest limits but such a wishful thinking on my behalf...lol

I love your landscape..a total 100 per cent Californian landscape. I missed those hills and you got it on top of a hill.. absolutely beautiful. Both, Melissa and Shiela is right about your landscape. I agree with them.

But all 3 of you, Sheila, Melissa and Ingrid has your landscape with your nature , natural beauty showing in your background :)

Jin

You're all so kind and sweet, and what a support your comments are! Melissa, I hear you, because constant rain can be so dreary, but how I would love to be dreary for just a week or two. Trish, I do have Mrs. B.R. Cant since it was sent instead of the rose I really wanted. I've resigned myself to keeping her since she is healthy and grows well, but my nose, which is able to smell only a very few teas, detects no scent at all from the Mrs. If she were fragrant to me that would help me to like her better.

Jin, I just ran out to smell IHT for you and it does indeed have a nice fragrance. Nothing so strong it would know your socks off but definitely detectable, and probably even more so in your more humid climate. It's a lovely rose and I'm glad to have it in my garden again. Jeri "enabled" me and now I don't want to be without it.