They are all so beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing your pictures! I'm looking forward to hearing how they all winter for you :)

Thanks Joey,

There are a few with quite a large number of buds on them. Calico Gal, Winnipeg Parks and Parade Day come to mind so we will have to see if they get to bloom or get frozen.

I love a bowl of flowers like that !! Neil Diamond as own-root shrank smaller and smaller after each winter ... it's the dryness of my zone 5 winter that kills roots. I killed it this spring since it's too tiny to bloom (the size of a marigold). I gave away my snow blower a long time ago. Last winter I shoveled snow ONLY ONCE for the entire winter. This summer is drier than normal and yesterday my 18-year old corkscrew willow cracked into half due to strong wind. Got a $900 estimate to remove that tree. If the rose park grew Austin roses earlier, I would had fallen in love with fragrant roses earlier and NOT planting these big trees.

Knock-outs are so boring and their monopoly squelches out the vast variety of wonderful roses that people miss out. If local stores had sold a vast variety of fragrant roses, I would had bought such instead of trees.

Beautiful photos! Love the picture of The Fairy, looks great and like a bloom machine. The picture of them in the bowl is soothing, really nice color combinations.

Sorry to see them end but they are lovely!

Lovely .. especially The Fairy in that vase!!

What a lovely arrangement of blooms!! Your Golden Wings bloom really stands out as extra beautiful!!

Awesome

Love your dish of roses! What a great idea. You certainly won’t let them go to waste! I cut lots of roses this morning when a dry hot wind kicked up. The ones I didn’t get to were shriveled up when I got home from work.

Just Charming! Especially love the vase as it really sets off the fairy.

Thanks all for the comments!

Stephanie, we had the hot dry winds here last night. I'm glad I got the blooms inside. Red air days have been prevalent recently and look to be conntinuing since the hot dry air and high winds have been fanning the flames. Smells like a campfire outside.

Smells like a campfire outside...well that's pretty awful. Is your house safe?

Yes, we are safe, well out of the foothills and into the plains. However I was surprised to see people in the local neighborhoods discussing evacuation plans when the new Boulder fires popped up over the weekend. They are 35 miles away and with the high winds they worried they could get this far but I think it is highly unlikely. There is a break of open space without homes and trees at the edges of Boulder County.

Lots of people evacuated from the foothill areas Fort Collins to Boulder. Many of the properties have horses so the local rural properties are offering to house them since the fairgrounds and humane societies are full. Also we are getting alot of wildlife. Someone posted a mama bobcat and her kittens on our local trail which is really unusual. Especially for them to be out in the open and someone taking pictures of them.

The fires have been awful here, too. Literally 1/3 of the mountain west of me burned up. 180k acres. Decades of forest mismanagement are mostly to blame imo.

We are having this discussion on nextdoor right now. Everyone agrees that it is multi faceted. None of the language below is mine. All was posted with permission to share. I know this isn't rose related but our roses can't do well in the extreme heat and dryness we have all seen lately so I thought I'd share it.

You have:

· The lack of controlled burning/prescribed fire is directly responsible for the huge build-ups of flammable fuels.

· The end of maintaining fire breaks (roads) in forested areas leaves firefighters with inadequate access.

· The end of logging and good timber management as we used to know it is directly responsible for forests that are now tinderboxes.

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The Brazilian Amazon forest was on fire in 2019. It is again. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/09/amazon-fires-brazil-rainforest

The Australian Outback was on fire in 2019. It burned over 12 million acres, which is bigger than the state of Maryland. Link: https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-map-examine-scale-massive-australia-wildfires/story?id=68102703

These countries *do not* have the same policies or laws.

For the land management hypothesis to be supported,each of these countries would have to simultaneously had terrible land management policies that led to historically massive wildfires at the same time in very different places on the planet.

The land management hypothesis seems to not fit the data.

Now, there is a hypothesis that would explain what is occurring – and it is one that scientists posited in the 1950s (or 1896 if you want to give the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius credit) and predicted many of the events we see today.

In the last 150+ years, humans have released more Carbon Dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) than at any point in human history. We release Carbon Dioxide from burning things like oil, coal, and natural gas (which is dead organic matter that has Carbon as its core element). Link: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Carbon dioxide traps heat quite efficiently in comparison to things like nitrogen and oxygen, which make up the majority of the gases of our atmosphere.

The extra Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere traps more heat.

Increased heat means our planet has more volatile *climate-driven* events.

One such volatile event is drought. Drought causes forests and other plants to dry out. These dried out plants become fuel for wildfires. The more fuel means more extensive and more extreme wildfires.

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There is a solution. We need to decrease our use of Carbon-based energy sources.

mmmm - I'm glad you and your house/garden are safe. Thankfully people are thinking about livestock too. People are being generous with their space. :)

Very true...and with COVID, we've proved that we can reduce a lot of our energy use. We just have to have government buy-in.

L Clark - are you safe?

mmmm12 having been involved in land management responsibilities and careers for all of my adult life, in multiple countries, I can attest to the fact that there are actually terrible land management policies in place all over the world, and I'm surprised that there aren't more places going up in flames as a result. Any time you have people making decisions about how the land is allowed to be used from a distance, without the benefit of living in and experiencing the actual area, it is a recipe for disaster. It is heartbreaking for ranchers and farmers who have invested their lives and their health into maintaining the land and passing it down for the next generation (some places have been maintained beautifully for over a hundred years!) to have a yuppie in a suit come out and tell them that a computer model says they have to stop doing this that and the other, and then watch the land literally wither up and dry out and then go up in flames as a result because the computer model didn't take into account the data of certain weather patterns or the types of plants and trees that are native to the area or the soil type. I don't believe that the problem is that humans aren't doing enough, rather that the lives and livelihoods of millions of people and billions of animals are being used as an experiment to prove a hypothesis with not enough research of concrete facts behind it. I absolutely agree that we need to be doing more for conservation and that it is our collective responsibility as humans to manage resources wisely, and I have huge respect for anyone who wants to make that happen. I just have a differing perspective on how to make that happen. Hope that wasn't too distracting from the rose topic!

Joey, all input is welcome. I also wondered first about posting this on a rose forum but then I realized that most if not all of us in the west and maybe south are having trouble with the really high temperatures and drought so these issues do affect roses growing. I am very impressed with our local nextdoor community for discussing all sides of the issue.

I'm safe, yeah. I live in Laramie, which is not close to the trees. My family cabin was in danger, briefly, though. That sucked, but it's the risk you take having a cabin.

I'm not a believer in global warming. No recent weather event (last few decades) is particularly unusual even in very recent history. Climate is constantly changing. How did those dead trees get in northern Canada on the tundra that were exposed from recently melting ice? Take burn acreage, this year, which is supposedly bad, but is about a tenth of the worst years in the 1920s.

Plus nothing the USA does will amount to a hill of bean as far as CO2 is concerned, China is far and away the biggest producer and are on pace to grow CO2 emissions exponentially. Building literally dozens of coal power plants as we speak. India, too. Nothing we can do about it.It's all moot. So considering that, I'd prefer not to see the bird choppers (wind mills) everywhere.

But anyway, we should be good stewards of the land and strive to do our best to care for it! I'm 100% committed to that.

I'm so happy your Rose's did well this season. You've really expanded and everything looks great!

Thanks Vapor!

I think turning that bed into a rose bed has really worked out well. I am learning more about what I like in a rose.

Definitely one where the flowers have staying power. Some of my singles like Golden Wings and the now deceased Playboy have gorgeous flowers that only last a day. This creates more work with deadheading.

Surprisingly the miniatures are good as they do not get Japanese Beetles. But none of mine flowers as much as I'd like.

I love the stripes and more exotic colors but also some of the soft beautiful roses.

Also like the ones with different bloom forms along with the classic rose shape.

Still working on cane hardy but I'm going to try and be more selective on zones which is easier when you can't go to the green house and be seduced by all the pretty flowers.

Mmmmm if you like Winnipeg Parks, I bet you’d love Hope for Humanity. The blossoms last forever

Plus, it's such a gorgeous color! I admire every time I go to HCR. I don't believe it has any fragrance though if that matters.

Yes, no fragrance for Hope for Humanity, sadly.

Winnipeg Parks has a slight fragrance and really attractive foliage to boot. I planted a 5 gal Winnipeg Parks this summer and it's doing well. Just like mmmmmm, I love it!

I've got a little Morden Blush that I got from HCR that I planted this summer. It established well. I'm excited to see what it can do next year!

L Clark - Out of all of my hardy roses that I grew at my other house...Morden Blush is the one I miss the most!!