Fabulous pictures! I think I might upload some pictures too, even though they are nowhere near your garden's magnificence!

Stunning!

Your plants are gorgeous of course but I am super impressed with your fabulous hard scape

Chrysler Imperial (grafted, virused and 50+ years old)

Pretty Lady Rose and Iceberg surrounding

Felicitie et Perpetue

Cecile Brunner and Nahema

Cecile Brunner, Nahema and Souvenir du Docteur Jamain

Violette

Veilchenblau and Lavender Crush

Beautiful indeed!

Extremely beautiful :)

Jin

Dark Desire in two different areas and cut.

Sally Holmes, Mitsouko, Peace, PJPII, All American Magic and Penelope too.

Black Baccara and White Pearl in Red Dragon’s Mouth

More to come in a bit...

Cori Ann, they look wonderful, you are amazing! Love Iceberg and Falstaff together, Archduke Charles, Pretty Lady and Nahema are especially lovely. It is all very beautiful.

Chantal Merieux, Jesse Hildreth, Miss All American Beauty, Grande Dame, Archiduchess Elizabeth and Peggy Martin

Peach Swirl, Raspberry Cream Twirl and Princess Charlene de Monaco

Thank you all. You all helped me make this. :-)

Still more photos coming...

Sombreuil, Nahema and La Rose de Molinard

On this side of the fence there’s also a few other roses in the photo, WWII Memorial, Old Town Novato, Neptune, Love Song, a few others

Yves Piaget and Peppermint Parfait

Stainless Steel, “Mimi Eden” (which is supposed to be named Mini Eden, but isn’t), Yves Piaget again, Cafe Ole, Florence Delattre and others

Let’s go outside the fence and come back here in a bit. More photos...

Florentina, Castro Breen Red Climber (Bloomfield Courage) and Seven Sisters (not blooming)

Climbing Pinkie

Ok back inside... more photos in a bit. Taking a coffee break. ;-)

Back inside the gate of the backyard.

Koko Loco, Coffee Country, Barbra Streisand, Paradise, others on the fence already mentioned...

Iceberg arches

Dames de Chenonceau and Memorial Day

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Dark Desire Heathcliff, Don Juan and Henri Martin

Falstaff, Young Lycidas, Melody Parfumee, Don Juan and Henri Martin again

Hubner Plot (possibly Rubens)

Madamoiselle Franziska Kruger

Homere

Madame Anisette, Summer Romance and First Crush

I may have missed a few varieties, but that is pretty much all the different roses, even if it isn’t every bush. Enjoy!

A wonderful tour, beautiful and full of grace... I do like your red and white combination, the pink rambler along the fence with the river stones nearby, and your iceberg arches which are just out of this world.... those are my favourites, if primus inter pares.. and not to leave out the structures and training required...

You deserve a vacation with all the great work you've put into your garden, and the results you've achieved in such a short time... and it's only going to get better!

I'm almost afraid to think what it's going to look like next year Cori Ann... your husband must be very proud too...

Glad you like it Marlorena. The pink one along the fence in the photos is Peggy Martin, a thornless delight to train. Believe it or not, working/playing in the garden *is* my vacation. When I go away, not having it to play In makes me sad! It’s my zen.

Hoping these photos bring some spring/summer joy to those with other weather patterns currently. :-)

Wow, Cori Ann! I know you’re going to hear this many times, but it’s really true. You’ve done SO many amazing things and your roses are just incredible! It must be a wonderful feeling to look at it all and know you created it. I just love everything from your arches, trellises/structures, the wonderful combination of OGR’s and Moderns, your magnificent hardscaping, and all your companion plants. Magazine worthy, for sure! Lisa

Glorious, Cori Ann!, but between you and Sheila, I'm going to go down the garden and eat worms!

Cori Ann!! I am speechless, simply WOW:D Stunning and you have picked the bestest roses. Thank you for the pictures!

It’s really amazing what you’ve done, I remember when you were in the planning stage and now everything is filled out.

Those iceberg arches!!!! I’m in love!!!!

Cori,

Thanks for all the photos, I love your beautiful garden, it's amazing!! So many beautiful roses, I specially like the red and white combination, and the lavender crush.

It does make me feel better in such rainy cold days. :-)

Thanks !

Daisy

I love your whole rose garden!! I really love the colors of your little area with Koko Loco, Coffee Country, Barbra Streisand, Paradise, etc. Distant drums might look pretty with them too.

I also love your Peach Swirl, Raspberry Cream Twirl, & PCdM combo...it looks like a dessert bar..so yummy!

Magnificent, Cori Ann. Thank you for this amazing tour. Love you Iceberg, Felicite et Perpetue, all of your beautiful red Austins, and everything else but, my goodness, look at that Peggy Martin. I seem to recall that you only recently got Peggy Martin and what an abundance of blooms! How old is it?

Thanks Vesfl. This is Peggy Martin’s second spring here. :-)

spectacular cori Ann!

Definitely more beauty than I can comment on... what a work of art!

cori if I could die of jealousy I think I would. Your garden is my dream come true. One day (if I ever leave Florida haha)

wow, beautiful. what a work of art/love!

You really were inspired to plant Falstaff with Iceberg!!! They both accentuate the other. I still think that if you want to make some money that you should advertise for people to use your yard for pictures. What a stunning environment you have!!! Swoon to the moon and back!!

Carol

Now see, THIS is a testament to the potential beauty of roses at their finest within their environment, complete with perfect companions of the perennial (and canine) kinds. I agree with SoFl that I'm tempted to die of jealousy, since this celebration of profuse color and grace is what I aspire to in my yard and I don't believe it's possible in my zone. Frankly, I suspect the obviously elegant planning and execution of your interplay of roses and the hardscape and environment is also beyond my personality, being a plopper at heart. I'd settle for rose chaos, but in the meantime I'll enjoy your photos as inspiration.

They say that a person's dreams should exceed their grasp, and you've given us all lovely dreams of rose splendor even if we won't get there. I'd settle for ANY roses that exceed my grasp at 5' 9" in my zone (smile), but so far only Quadra and Sunrise Sunset make me get out the ladder for pruning. Here's to pleasant rose dreams!

Cynthia

Holly cow! That is unreal!! For a second a though the roses above were pictures from a David Austin’Rose catalogue. I recently bought 85 rose bushes. I wish I could redo my rose order again after seen your garden.

I’m glad you all enjoyed the photos, especially those in colder zones where the roses are just starting to wake up from a long winter. Us rose addicts need photos to get us through when our own roses aren’t blooming! I will be looking for all of your photos soon, once summer high temps force the roses all into dormancy or hell-fire here. ;-)

Janaina I actually don’t have many Austin roses. I found I really like Delbard and Kordes roses instead and they seem to do better here.

Nippstress I have seen your “plop” method become complete magic when all your tulips and other bulbs come up in early spring.

;-)

Glorious!

Thanks HalloBlondie. I haven’t counted them all up. Let’s just say lots. :-)

If I had to guess I would say somewhere around 300? Maybe 50-60 more if you count all the carpet roses? I know I have 89 different types if you even count the young ones and the carpet roses. I have 2 of many since I like symmetry. I think I have somewhere between 15-20 Icebergs on the property.

All in all, I think I have too many to count. :-)

Cori Ann, I am in awe. The garden you have created is simply stunning. The perfect balance between formal and cottage-y. I love it!!

We share a liking for Iceberg - my small garden has 5. I don’t have the climber, though, and enjoy seeing yours.

Jo

Several times I have looked at your glorious garden, and I still can't pick my favorites. Picking favorites is human nature, of course. But I do have memories of certain of your abundant blooms and their combinations that have really penetrated my old brain fog. I remember Peggy Martin on the fence, Iceberg on the arches, and Climbing Pinkie on the umbrella trellis. So, in those cases, the structures are an important part of both displaying the roses and preserving my memories. But in other cases, it was the combination of roses that was outstanding, like Falstaff and Iceberg, or the wall of "desserts". And how the special roses worked together was what made them so memorable. Sometimes the outstanding singular nature of a rose came through strongly to me like the huge size of the Yves Piaget blooms. or the blazing color of Chrysler Imperial, not to mention the age of the grafted CIs. Such an enduring rose that one is. So putting all these together, plus the roses' wonderful companions, has made many special lasting rose memories for me. Thanks for the memories, Cori Ann. Diane

Oh Diane, thank you! We have become such good friends here, sending each other seeds and being virtual and actual gardening pen pals.

Sharing photos is the closest we can come to actually having our rose friends over when there are states (and countries, and oceans) between us. I wish I could have you all over for coffee, or a glass of wine, and a stroll through the garden. We will have to drink coffee (or wine) and thumb through photos instead, writing each other little letters for all in our rose community to also see and comment on, which is absolutely wonderful for creating memories. Hugs to you all! :-)

Wow! Cori Ann,

I hope you are not tired yet of getting praised for the wonderful job you have done in your garden. Your roses look happy, and your garden in general evokes a sense of peace and happiness that nourishes the soul. The colors are vibrant and yet relaxing to the eye. Your passion for gardening and your enormous amount of talent comes through in every detail. I hope my garden some day looks 1/4 as wonderful as yours does.