Mlle. Cecille Brunner' has small blooms, not cabbagy but they are very fragrant and re-bloom is good and it is quite healthy and easy to grow. see photos on helpmefind.com It can be kept to c. 3-4 feet tall in a pot. This is the original form of the plant, not the large Spray or climbing form. It is a Poly-Tea that does well in a pot, in my experience and I've grown dozens of roses from 14 different classees in pots when I rented. hortico.com sells it most years. Lux.

Good Morning, Everyone! Thank you all for the "welcome back". I missed each and every one of you. Stormy here today on this Good Friday. Dark and a bit chilly out. Good weather for gardens though. Glad for the rain though. We've had high temps and high, dry winds this past week and wildfires every day. Nothing close to here, but close enough that I could smell the smoke. My dogs erupted in chorus with every firetruck that passed by over on the highway.(hehehe). I took pictures of the gardens on the 31st. Glad I did, as the hot, dry winds dried out all the pretty yellow Jonquils later that day. Blasted hot winds ruined them before our Easter Sunday family picnic and egg hunt. They were magnificent in chorus with the yellow forsythias, white Bridle's Wreath, and Redbud trees now in full bloom all over the garden. My beloved Jane Magnolia is breathtakingly beautiful this year and smells so wonderful. I planted out some Orange Perfection Phlox yesterday. Tried them last year, but they didn't make it. This rain may ensure these do. I dug around in the bin at the store until I found one, just one package with moist peat inside. Holding it up to to sunlight, I could just make out something possibly alive in that dark green plastic bag. Makes me mad to pay five bucks for dead rootstock. They are not the best looking root stocks I ever saw, but think they will make it. I only need one to survive to establish a nice clump this year for next year's blooms. I also planted a package of purple Liatris and a package of Freesia bulbs for summer blooms. I love the smell of Freesia. Yummy. All the Peonies are up and beginning to make tiny flower buds. Hopefully the red ones and deep magenta ones will bloom this year too. If they do, it will be their first time. Some deer came into the yard this winter and ate the top branches off the one surviving River birch sapling, but it is recovering nicely now. I caged it with a tomato cage and for now they are leaving it alone. They are "camped" up on the hill, hiding in wait for my juicy, delicious roses to start blooming, no doubt. :[ I've been taking the dogs for walks up there every morning and hopefully their pee and poop will make them think twice about coming any closer to the back yard. My English Shepherd could easily take down a whitetail deer. DH said this weekend he would finish stretching field fence around on the inside of the existing barbed wire fencing to keep out critters. That won't keep deer out, but it will keep our dogs in, so we can let them run loose on the property. That will be great. They need the exercise and I need them to do their job protecting the place. They love it, too. Hopefully the raccoons & coyotes will take the hint. Keep Out! Anyhow, so far so good. Gotta go check on my chicks. They poopy up their water really fast and will be ready for breakfast. :) Talk to you guys later. ~Annie

Very charming "mounds" of flowers, Renee. I noticed that Jean has a particular style of having very circular "hills?" of color. Thanks for sharing :)

Hi petaloid, thanks for your help. I've talked with my friend and gotten some more information. The original part of the house was an old farmstead built sometime between 1900 and 1910 she thinks it may have been planted by the original owners but she isn't sure. Here's some more info she gave me on the rose. blooms in the spring and again in the fall 3 feet high and wide sends up suckers about 2 feet from the original all the time 2 inch blooms in clusters and singles nice fragrance VERY thorny She's going to take some more pictures for me too. I'll post them as soon as I get them. I've emailed her all your suggestions with a link to HMF so she can take a look and see if any of them look right to her. I've just been working with this one picture too and didn't find anything but there are so many to look at. I don't think it's a rugosa because she says the leaves are fairly smooth and since it reblooms that rules out a galica too. I was looking at species roses but the ones I looked at were singles and this has a good petal count. Thanks again for all your help.