L Clark, Gorgeous! Such a pretty color and a very healthy looking rose. I'm stunned that this is your first one on June 18th! Is this normal for your area?

I'm not stunned. My blooms were at least two-three weeks late this year. Depends on your latitude (I'm north of Colorado and to the west), and what freak weather surprises nature has in store for certain areas.

That's a gorgeous, healthy rose, L Clark. More power to you. Diane

Yea, I would say this is fairly normal - for a rose outside the greenhouse. Early- mid June is about when I get my first ones. This year, my outside in ground roses are still about a week away or more. We had two bouts of record cold or near record cold in April and one on Memorial day where it got to 19 degrees here. It was fairly devastating to some plants including my Winnipeg Parks ! It got hammered and looks like heck. Wondering if I should hack it back to like six inches and see what happens.

Hacking WP back would be fine I bet. You'd get a great flush in 6 weeks with healthy foliage.

Can you post a picture of Winnipeg Parks before I give an opinion? How old is it?

Yay!! Blooms AND your plants look really healthy

Here is the Winnipeg Parks in the middle, with a stupid John Cabot that refuses to bloom in the background.

It used to have huge glossy leaves, now most are stunted, deformed and yellow. unsightly

That happened to a lot of my roses too (the discolored ugly leaves) after the snow we got in late May. Some of them that are more vigorous have grown back new foliage and look fine again, some (looking at you, Reine Victoria) still have horrendous looking leaves because they didn't recover quickly. I didn't cut Reine Victoria back because it was so small and not vigorous, and it definitely looks worse than my others. And still has barely grown new foliage, even though it had its spring flush (a paltry one though). I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd cut it back.

L. Clark, I'm trying to see what you are seeing in the picture but your Winnipeg Parks looks like mine. I don't see the stunted deformed and yellow. The reddish ones are new growth. There is a little bit of yellow center and left of center but I tend to leave that. Leaves don't seem to have turned grey and died. I had some of the center of my bush turn grey where the snow sat on them too long during the late May snow storm. I didn't cut those out because it was the leaves and not the canes. The only things I took out were new growth canes that had broken off from the weight of the snow.

Unless something looks obviously dead I would leave it. Just cutting back to new growth on the dead cane from last year. Keep reassessing but if it were me I wouldn't do much to it right now.

This is my Winnipeg Parks, post late May snow storm for comparison. I can see some curled leaves and such (especially on the new growth - that may be normal). That hole in the top is where I took the broken canes out.

I agree, the bush looks too good to cut back. You could just remove the naughty bits.

Morden blush was the second, and first outside

All My Loving finally lookong good.

I cover this with a styrofoam cone all winter

Wow!! All My Loving is gorgeous!

Then you’ve got John Cabot. Not very pretty. At least it actually bloomed this year.

Anyone know what rose this is? An old lady gave it to me and now I grow it. I’m positive it is widely commercially available.

@Kristine LeGault 8a pnw yeah! All My Loving is my favorite rose. The blooms are baseball sized- or maybe a little larger.

All My Loving is gorgeous! And such big blooms!

Makes me sad I planted my AML in such poor spots when I had her and she died. She was a striking colour

L Clark, I wish you had said that it is basically a dud lol. Now it looks like another one that I better have.

I just looked up All My Loving and as incredible as the color is, it could end up being a giant bush for me. Whew! I am saved from purchasing another rose that I have absolutely no room for.

Why not just prune it back hard each year

You are not helping, Clark

Ohhhh, now I also want 'All My Loving' as well !! :)