Mlle. Franziska Krueger is behind bars these days

Wild Edric's blooms are much smaller in the summer

Baronne Henriette de Snoy

Le Vesuve's undercarriage is sadly bare

Duchesse de Brabant

Aunt Margy's Rose

Still lovely roses, you always have a good selection to show, and I do like the Le Vesuve picture with the house in the background... I hope you will have plenty more to show us in September...

Keep your photos coming please, Ingrid. I agree the blues in your porcelain are beautiful too. I think the bare undercarriages look just fine. The roses look wonderful. You are a great inspiration to me.

I so appreciate your kind comments. I think that's one of the main reasons I post pictures here because it keeps me from giving up on the garden, which lately seems tempting. More than half of it is not fit to be seen, and of course I don't show those areas, but they're very much on view for me. I'm so hoping for a rainy fall and winter so that the rabbits will have other food to eat and my plants will have a chance to recover.

The house in the background is the site of our future garage if we can ever get around to getting rid of the stored furniture and other junk and have a garage door put it. We've been planning to do that for, oh, the last eight years or so....

Beautiful roses and I love your antiques too.

They are blooming well better than mine, trust me :)

It is great to see those blooms and Fall is just round the corner but I am sure the coldness will set in later.

Ingrid your wish of Fall is just round the corner... lol

Hang in there a little longer.

Jin

Thank you, Jin, you're a sweetie. I hate to say it but October is often hot and it used to be the month when there was the greatest danger of wildfires, but of course that's now been changed to around 10 months out of the year. I am eagerly looking forward to November, though, and it really isn't that far away.

You haven't been growing roses that long, Jin, and that may be one reason you aren't seeing as much bloom, although I suppose Florida at this time of the year may not be much fun for roses or people. I have a feeling you're going to have a lovely spring flush though.

I so wish Sherry could come back and give more insights about Florida rose gardening too. She is a great writer. I hope she is still gardening.

Ingrid, I will never tire of your pictures. Especially Souvenir de la Malmaison - she is beautiful and this is the closest I'll probably get to the real thing. So please keep them coming.

I SO agree with everyone else, Ingrid! Please do keep them coming. You may feel like you’re showing the same things over and over, but WE certainly don’t feel that way. Each new bloom is new to us, and your photos are some of the most looked forward to on this forum. That’s the way I feel and I’m sure I'm not the only one. We love seeing what changes the weather and seasons bring to your roses and landscape. It makes me feel like I “know” your garden, and how it’s doing year round. I especially enjoy seeing pictures of the places I’ve seen during our visit.

That Baronne Henriette de Snoy gets me every time! What a wonderful color. Each bloom is special and I love seeing them. Aunt Margy’s Rose is such a delightful cutie! I remember seeing her up against the NE side of the house and she was so tall and slender. I enjoy seeing her delicate mauve/pink little blooms. We have such similar taste, that it’s easy to love all your roses. That Potter and Moore is so pretty that I feel sad when I think of my cutting not making it. I really thought I had it gone successfully and then it declined after I removed the top. I think it was probably just a little too late in the year, and the warm and dry air was just too much for it when I removed the top. Another time perhaps, not that I would know where to plant it. Lol. I’d make room for a special rose like that, though. If my Duchess de Brabant doesn’t shape up there’s going to be an open spot there. Yours doesn’t even look like the same rose I have, with her lush green foliage! Mine is again full of curled leaves and ugliness. Our last heatwave must have been too much for her. She started looking bad a week or two after the heatwave, and isn’t really improving. I really wish I planted her in some afternoon shade, as you did.

Your indoor picture is lovely, too. Your whole home is so beautifully decorated. I wish I had your touch with interior design. You know just how to display everything to it’s best advantage, without making it look cluttered.

Everything looks great, Ingrid. I hope you’ll post more. We all love them. Lisa

Sheila, you're so right, Sherry's absence is a great loss. She would have been a fount of knowledge for Florida gardeners, but I also feel her absence keenly. I can still recall her garden vividly after all this time, but it's her lively personality and writing style that I miss the most.

Mary, thank you so much. I can't quite recall why SdlM didn't or wouldn't do well for you. I can't imagine any part of so. CA where this rose wouldn't do well except for what used to be Jeri's cool and foggy ocean-side climate. I have a feeling that even Jeri might be able to grow this rose now.

Lisa, your kind and generous praise touches me more than you can know. When we come to visit I'll be happy to bring several cuttings of Potter and Moore if you think you'd have a place for this rose. With the many roses you now have I can see that there would be a problem finding room for it. What a pity about your Duchesse de Brabant. It's especially puzzling since it's blooming its head off while the leaves are sulking. You're right, though, that afternoon shade would probably solve the problem, but that commodity is hard to come by with so many roses jostling for those coveted spots in our climate.

Your tableau is stunning! What a peaceful retreat. Please don't be shy to post these pics and even old ones. You grow and have grown so many unusual roses. For instance, one never hears White Meidiland mentioned, but I got a bagged one at Menard's and really like it so it's nice to see how it does in your conditions. Also, DdB!!!! My rooted cutting burst into bloom last week after putting into a larger pot and looked just like you pics which were my original inspiration. What a gorgeous and fragrant rose. You've kept me wanting Potter and Moore and Aunt Margy's rose as well and now I'm furiously looking up Wild dric for planting on my stone wall. I just wish I knew if they would be hardy for me. It's funny how you consider the shady spots coveted ground and I consider the sunny spots prime real estate!

Have you considered Stachys as a companion plant? How does lavender do there? I only suggest them because they both love the sun in my yard and thrive on neglect! Nothing much seems to bother them either.

vaporvac, I'm so glad your Duchesse de Brabant is doing well! One never knows how a rose will do in a very different environment, but I imagine it must appreciate the rain you have in much greater abundance. I'm afraid Wild Edric may be just about impossible to find; I haven't seen it offered anywhere for some years. Potter and Moore is now also really hard to come by. It's a rose that does really well in my hot and dry conditions which is why I'm so glad to have it, but I don't imagine that's so much of an issue with you. I just looked and Rogue Valley Roses seems to have Aunt Margy's Rose in stock. It's not exactly cheap and is a band size, so I don't know how that would work for you.

I did have Stachys in the past but probably overwatered it. Thank you for reminding me, that looks like a plant that the bunnies would not find palatable.

I think I got Aunt Margy's Rose from Burlington FYI.