Bustopher, Yes, I don't understand why 'Fr. Hugo' isn't more popular. I can't wait until it's a few years older and becomes a giant arching shrub. It has a very nice scent as well, soapy, sweet, and spicy. The scent of this rose is one of the few that REALLY wafts across the garden for me. 'Fr. Hugo' and my lilacs were blooming at the same time this year, and the scent of 6 large lilacs can be overpowering at times, but I could actually pick out the scent of 'Fr. Hugo' from among the lilacs. The combination of both scents is heavenly. Thanks for your comments. Audrey, Thanks for your kind comments. 8^)) lovemysheltie, Thank you :) Campanula, I was surprised to see that r. Primula and Fr. hugo are so similar. Blue Flax is one of my favorites! I googled pictures of Dieramas, it looks lovely, I will have to find out if I will be able to grow it here. Thanks :) rosymominzone9, aimeekitty, hoovb, Holleygarden, Thank you for your kind comments. :) Carla, So good to hear from you. I hope all is well with you and your garden. Thanks :) thorn grower, Thank you and yes, 'John Cabot' keeps me very busy. :) Ingrid, Yes, a feast will soon be upon me and you will get pics. :) Then the deadheading begins... (o_O) hahaha! Kevin, Yes, 'Fr. Hugo' is the 1st to bloom here, about 2-3 weeks before anything else. He's a once bloomer, has a good scent... fresh and sweet. He starts out as an ugly plant but will be a great bush one day. LOL, All my weeds are in my lawn. I refuse to have a lawn service come and spray around my garden, so that's the price I pay. My planting beds are pristine, but my lawn is legendary for it's Dandelions. I do some spraying for them occasionally in the garden area and consistently in the front yard. They are only here a couple of weeks and then the lawn looks like a golf course again. :) Here is a link to 'Fr, Hugo' on Help Me Find: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.16807.5 Zephy, mendocino rose, Thanks for you kind comments. :) annabeth, I'm sure you've found out by now that 'Fr. Hugo' is a once bloomer... but don't let that stop you from getting him. He is strongly scented, and so delicately beautiful you will not be disappointed that you gave him a spot in your garden. I'll be posting some follow up pics soon that will include 'Quadra', who is 3 or 4 years old. :)

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my small garden - it warms my heart that you like it too. I posted the Pics in 2 threads so they would load faster. The weather is very warm here (90F) ... and I really enjoy the early mornings and the afternoons different places in my garden. I truly take time to smell the roses and enjoy my garden this year. The fragrances of all the roses is outstanding and all I had dreamt roses could offer ... and is healing. (True Ingrid - I have had some adversity in life) - but it has made me more sensitive and stronger - and I live well. Many times I have wished that I lived in warmer climate - and I always imagined that - California - would be close to heaven for roses - but I realize now the PROS of growing roses here (good clayish soil, good rainfall and it is very few days in a year that the temps are above 90F and the sun so strong that the roses FRY. And roses do not grow very big here (Frost and less sun intensity limits their size - it means I can grow many more roses - even if I have just smaller areas to garden - In California I would have to choose ... So my illusion of how easy it is to grow roses in California is gone ... It is hard to find anything as lush green and beautiful as here - on these wonderful summer days - where I regain my strength and get a new sense of purpose and direction - now that my garden has peaked. Also do not have as many garden design jobs lately - but some hard maintaince jobs. And creative writing is a skill I am working on. At least I make half sense in my native language ...LOL. I am so blessed to be able to grow all these roses and grow most of them well - each of them are so interesting and so different and the colours of OGRs do not clash - I have however tried to plant more dark "Red" Austins and HPs even modern shrub roses like Burgundy Ice and they slowly blend in well among the Old Garden Roses - in a year or 2 they will make more of an impact. I all ways have one of my 3 roses benches ready for friends dropping by and they are owerwhelmed by my garden too - one friend said today - but it is almost too much! I said NO - - just wait until next year - I take out some roses and plant some more perennials (later and long -flowering Hardy geraniums) and Dark Leaved Perennials and some smaller ornamental grasses. He shook his head ... And the whole neighbourhood is smitten by my roses and are working on arches and want advice to create the same effects - and I will help them - because I will be able to enjoy these roses too - in a few years. Just saw the weather forecast - we are in for so very warm summerdays - I will take picures of roses in mine and others gardens the next days. This might truly be the best season ever ... next year it might rain and the roses turn into ugly brown mush ... like we heard it did for some forum members Celeste (last year) and Thorngrower. But we all try to make the best of what we have and hope for the best weather when our garden peaks. May all of you enjoy the summer and this season too ...

Delicious looking leaf lettuce. I pulled mine as it was getting bitter. Petunias do so well for you. That lavender double is quite striking. I was surprised to find some self seeded in my garden. The rabbits or deer ate the tops of some of my mahagony midget coreopsis but the others are blooming nicely. Next year I might plant some in a container like you did. Last year I got no blooms because of the critters.

Lovely pictures, I adore your terraces. Looks like everything is in ready mode as far as the roses. Won't be long for you. I love Hansa but don't grow it yet. Carla