I can't answer your question but your ring is really pretty.

I just got one from ARE as a replacement for pink rosette. The plant is much larger, will post when I get a

@mmmm12 god bless you, sir or madam!

@rekha I will keep an eye out! The rose is safe either way, I just want to call it the right name.

I think it looks like her. Mine is a few years old, and I’m not sure if it has any blooms right now. I’ll look tomorrow, and also see if I have any older pictures to show you for comparison. I kept mine potted for the first couple years in more shade than I have her planted out in now. I much preferred the more pink she displayed when I had her potted in mostly shade, so I’m considering moving her to a shadier spot. Yours does look enough like mine to make me suspect yours is correctly labeled, though. Lisa.

I think it's correct, too. I have more than one and sometimes one will present white while another has the pink center! Is it fragrant with soft petals? Does it ever have a button eye? Stunning ring also! :-)

Thanks folks! It is in a lot of sun, and recovering from a thripstastic summer, but yes, it's really nicely fragrant and does get the occasional button eye. It'll probably spend another year or so in a pot so I'll move it around and see if it likes it better with more shade.

I also got Marie Daly, Marie Pavie and Aunt Margy's Rose and I am so proud of how they've reacted to the onslaught of chilli thrips and unicorn caterpillars and who even knows what else - all almost completely defoliated at one time or another but are fluffing up quite nicely the past couple of weeks. Which is good because I'll probably only have room for polys once my teas start their "leap" year!

I love your beautiful ring! I can't answer your question, I'm afraid, but just want to say that I'm thrilled you have Aunt Margy's rose. Very few people have this much undervalued rose which I've loved for the last ten years in my garden. To me it looks like an antique European rose in miniature, with a lovely scent to match. I also have Marie Pavie and it's another very rewarding rose. The polyanthas certainly do have their place in the garden.

Aunt Margy's rose is the superstar of that crop of polyanthas for sure! Fragrant from the first blossom, really nice lavender color you don't run into very often outside of HTs, perfect little pompoms. It's the fastest grower too, and I think I remember you saying she wants to climb for you? I will indulge whatever she wants. It's a good thing I'm liking the polys because I'm running out of room for teas and climbers! She's got at least a dozen buds right now, I'll take some glamour shots when they open.

(Unless they're chilli thripped. It's the worst surprise ever, "AHA you thought you had flowers but you just have sadness!")

And thanks to everyone for indulging my thirsty ring photo. :)

Thank you for finding those, Lisa, and if there are baby photos on this forum somewhere I bet I can find them - I spend a LOT of time searching these archives! I think it's her, I just thought from photos that she was more cupped than the fluffy, almost spherical pompoms I have, and of course they're smaller, but duh, the plant is tiny. I might start seeing some pink now that we're (fingers crossed) below 90F for a few months, and I certainly hope that curly foliage up there is the last of that nonsense for awhile.

I think so. Mine was a tiny band when I got her. Mine doesn't have blooms right now but here is her new growth. Mine is in mostly shade and desolately needs some fertilizer.

I found a few of my first blooms from both my plant from ARE and a couple of cuttings. Click for more detail.

So pretty! Thank you. Mine are decidedly rounder, as you can see from the "profile" shot up there - they've never opened that flat. I guess that could just be a baby rose figuring itself out. I haven't had any balling, or maybe I have and mistook it for thrips damage. And I wouldn't expect any pink for another few weeks, our "fall" is 70s-80sF so certainly not what most would call "cool" temps.

Whatever it is, I am rather attached to it. It's been such a trooper through this awful summer I plan on spoiling it rotten.

I had difficulty identifying them myself due to its flatness as the one from ARE was much rounder. I had actually lost the tags to these . They are all round now. These were all pictures of the first blooms on cuttings or new plants.

Just a bud now

Will post when its open more

FYI, this rose roots really easily. Even with my lousy record last year, I was able to get two going.

Earlier this year, blooms were creamy with almost no pink, this is from yesterday. I just planted from ARE in October, very pleased so far.

I just love this rose! Don't you find the sent addictive! I took some more cuttings of my climbing version for a forum member and am just keeping my fingers crossed that they make it over the winter.

Beautiful! I love it when she has that pink look. Mine has some very pink buds right now, but they look like they didn’t appreciate our recent giant rain storm. I’m afraid they won’t open nicely. Lisa

Mine is a baby, but I did go on all fours and stick my nose in. Fragrance is faint, but hoping it will improve as the plant grows.

Vaporvac, do you think the climbing version will do well in just morning Sun? I am looking for something for the north side of the house which is also the front. I am in love with the form of the rose!

I do think that it will be good in the situation you described in your other post. It's a sweetheart of a rose. I'll post some more pics when I'm home. Maybe in a collage since I have so many of them. I went crazy taking pictures of it last year cuz it was so gorgeous. This year the deer got it so not so many pictures. :-(

Lisa, that's what mine looks like as well after a big rain this weekend, and we've got another 2 inches or so tomorrow so I'm thinking this flush might be a bust. And she worked so hard on them! Poor lil overachiever.

At least I think that's what they look like. It's cold when I leave in the mornings (cold = 50sF, don't judge my thin southern blood) and dark when I get home, plus rainy windy chilly weekends, so I haven't had a good look at any of my roses in weeks!

Is yours under the eaves.?

"Mine has some very pink buds right now, but they look like they didn’t appreciate our recent giant rain storm. "

AHHH, now I recognize her from these pictures! Yes, she balls in the rain, and in the damp, and in the cold, and under the eaves, and in morning shade even if she gets sun the other eight to ten hours of the day. In fact she seems to ball any chance she gets.

Do I sound bitter? Really, I don't mean to be, but I have her in a highly visible, prime spot and she balls. Did I mention a lot? Sigh.

If anybody in TN want's a very healthily vigorous 3-4 year old bare root plant this winter--and has a nice ALL sunny spot for her--just let me know. I just can't take the heart break much longer...