Very beautiful, I can just imagine the wonderful fragrances!

Love the color on that Aimable Rouge-so dramatic!

Beautiful! Not familiar with a couple that I will have to look up and drool some more!

Gorgeous, Tess. I love the naturalistic look.

Beautifully photographed roses in a lovely setting. The colors are so rich and vibrant.

Ditto oursteelers on the Aimable Rouge! I've never even heard of that one. What an Eden you've created with the backdrop of trees. Truly perfection.

I had to enlarge the first picture twice already because it's such a beautiful scene with the large trees and the golden fruit hanging down over the roses. How lovely to see these old roses which are not often grown, and certainly rarely in southern California. I love the fragile, fluttering petals of Jenny Duval and York and Lancaster. All of these roses have an enchanting old world quality that I don't see in my teas and other more modern roses.

I'm rather lost for words, it's all so beautiful, Tessiess - and what superb photography! My goodness! Like Ingrid and Jin I'm loving seeing examples from these older classes, that don't always bloom satisfactorily in climates like ours with long hot summers.

I have wondered why we rarely see photos of them here but wasn't sure if it was because not many people grow them, or that those people who do, don't post on this forum for some reason. I know Melissa in Italy grows them of course, but sadly we rarely get to see them, except through her descriptions.

Paul Ricault was blooming in Paris in early June 2014 at La Roseraie du Val-de-Marne (L'Hay-les-Roses). It was a standout there. In HMF it looks like Gregg Lowery says this rose is really Paul Perras. So another mixup ID. I think the one Tessiess pictures is the one in Paris. The real one per Gregg is darker and redder and to me looks less distinctive. I bet the lack of this Paul being popular is the mainly Spring blooming feature. It is so gorgeous. I think High Country Roses has it.

More pictures.;)

Directeur Alphand, a Eurodesert import, hybrid perpetual

R. polyantha grandiflora, quite a weird thing, vigorous climber, big flowers, beware the hooked thorns!, very fragrant with a scent I've never smelled before anywhere (including all the many species I sniffed at Eurodesert), it's very, very sweet with something else I can best describe as grated carrots of all things, very attractive and colorful stamens that incurve

Omi Oswald (Eurodesert import), Rose de Rescht, and R. canina 'Laxa'. Omi Oswald and R. canina 'Laxa' are very drought tolerant. Also some of the spent flowers of Little White Pet which does not self clean. Intersection of multiple roses!

Ceanothus cyaneus

R. arnoldiana 'khirghisia' from Eurodesert

Polly Sunshine

Pomegranate flowers

Compactilla, from Eurodesert

This must be heaven to come home to everyday. CA may have its issues, but growing roses doesn't seem to be one of them. The last picture belongs in a magazine.

Tessie, can you even imagine how much happiness these pictures give? Whatever else is happening in the world, this beauty does exist and you've shared it with us. Thank you for the best part of my day.

Gertrude Jekyll, Austin

Happy Child, Austin. The little white flowers are clover I use to enrich the soil with nitrogen to feed my roses. I use various other nitrogen-fixing plants in my garden to try to make my roses self-sufficient.

Jenny Duval, gallica, and friend. This is yet another! Jenny Duval sucker that has popped up in the middle of other roses. She's quite the colonizer.

Yellow clover with Salvia apiana

Pentstemon spectabilis with lots of other wildflowers in the background, most of them are California natives. I wanted a wild flower meadow in my front yard and it is certainly wild looking! The light pink low growing rose next to the bird bath is Souvenir de la Malmaison from Rogue Valley Roses. It's in a fair amount of shade so it doesn't get very big.

The climbing rose in the crepe myttle tree is supposed to be Baty's Pink Pillar (from the Antique Rose Emporium) but it doesn't look like pictures of that rose. It looks very much like SDLM but without scent and climbs into multiple trees up to around 30 feet! It is sharing the crepe myrtle with a California morning glory (pink flowers, not really visible these pics) and virgin's bower (white flowers, not blooming yet).

Marchesa Boccella from Antique Rose Emporium

Someone asked earlier about not seeing photos of some of these old roses, especially in Southern California. The secret with these old garden roses, the once bloomers, in this area is not to feed them. If I fertilize them (with a chemical fertilizer, such as a timed release one for instance), they will not bloom. At all. I suspect the reason has to do with something we have too much of in our water (my local botanic garden experts warned of this toxicity (boron) in our water) and if it is then given again to these roses, they can't handle it and shut down. I don't know for sure it is the boron, but fertilizing is a bloom killer on these ogrs. Happened last year to many of my old garden roses as I was very, very ill in 2017 and used a timed release fertilizer spring 2017. I knew better but I felt too weak to carry around watering cans of fish emulsion. Most of my once bloomers had not a single flower in 2018, including the very reliable Felicite Parmentier. When they'd been bursting with flowers every year prior (unless fertilized--lesson learned). Back to normal this year. If I feed at all (and I usually give nothing) I use very diluted fish emulsion. I haven't gotten around to that this year--too much work!

What an incredibly lovely home and garden you have! Thank you for sharing with us mortals! :) Such gorgeous old roses. I especially love the shots of Cecile Brunner.

Tessiess, I'm with everyone above. Your roses almost render me speechless! I so look forward to your photos every year. Your garden is both a collector's paradise and paradise itself. It's like the miracle of life itself has taken root around your house. Your Paul Ricault, Aimable Rouge and Felicite Parmentier are the kind of beautiful that makes one yearn and poetically die from longing! Side note: Would you consider sending me your front door? It's as charming as your roses! :-) Carol

Thank you all for the encouraging words. The garden gives me peace and happiness after years of illness, pain, and loss of some beloved pets. The garden is my outlet, and I'm finally feeling well enough to do some much-needed work in it. The front door I painted myself using stencils I bought online. I eyeballed where I placed them--hadn't a clue what I was doing, and was very, very lucky. I asked the company if I could do this outside (their examples were all on inside walls and such. They hadn't seen it done, but liked the results. I also did my garage door and the (whatever that board is up next to the roof). I use those stencils now to decorate some of my flower pots.

Thank you for these gorgeous photos, Tessiess. We really live for this beauty and sensitivity. You are a treasure.