Jeri, Alice is just soooo precious, is she a beloved Tea rose?

Lux.

Lux -- I gather that Vintage Gardens imported her from France as a late Nabonnand Tea Rose, 'Alice Hamilton.'

The consensus seems to be that she is "Not-Alice-Hamilton." but I'd bet money she's SOMETHING from the Nabonnand stable, and likely a Tea. The foliage says that, to me.

Personally, I just call her 'Alice Hamilton', because it's easier to say THAT, than it would be to constantly type "Not-Alice-Hamilton".

But, whatever you want to call her, she is disease-free here, vigorous, and repeats like clockwork, so she gets my thumbs up.

whatever her name, she grows beautifully in your garden! thanks for posting!

I love the soft coloring and there don't seem to be many thorns. What a beauty. This is blessed weather we are having. My roses are having some gorgeous colors as well. The winds come but it's not too rough. Temps are in the 60s 70s. I got some exquisite clotilde soupert blooms. They don't like the warmer Temps later in the year. Last year I almost got a perfect flush in that parkway planting of 7 CS roses. The first to open in the clusters were huge and perfect , the remaining buds were so fat and promising.....I was thinking this was the year.... then the wind came and spoiled all the rest! The weather turned from overcast onshore flow with sprinkles to rough dry inland desert winds. Poof, it was over.

It's my mission to try for it anyway. One of these years the stars will align........fussy little unicorns they are. The plants bloom and bloom all year though so I get the good flowers when the weather cooperates.

Jeri, it looks like Alice is a generous bloomer and the flowers are not fussy about opening. I bet the weather is bringing on the size and color so enjoy every flower!

Reminds me of Old Blush, but the flowers seem more shapely to my eye.

Belle Gallica -- Yes. I thought the same thing.

The blooms are a bit larger than those of 'OB,' but the main difference it the foliage. 'OB' mildews here, 'Alice Hamilton' does not. Foliage is perfect.

@jerijen it would be interesting to grow "OB" beside Alice right now to see if they perform differently. "OB" did mildew badly for you, back when you had my climate. Now, you have my old climate and that was too hot and dry to foster mildew, unless induced by water stress.

I don't know. Might. But I do know that 'Mme. Lambard' still mildews here . . . Not as much, maybe, but it still mildews a bit. So does "The China From Adina" though admittedly, not as much. And I think there's a good possibility that CFA is an OP seedling of OB.

Or, a sport. There appears to be a number of those.

Or a sport.

You know, so many of those old Chinas were shared around in the migration west . . .

My Grandfather's stepmother was the lover of roses there, and she, Mintice, was born on a Mississippi plantation. I suspect her family might well have brought plants West with them, as so many did.