I grow 6 of Paul Barden's roses. Unconditional Love, Treasure Trail, Jeri Jennings, Golden Buddha, Siren's Keep, and Dragon's Blood. Unconditional Love, Treasure Trail and Jeri Jennings are my favorite of the group. Unconditional Love is a mini moss with a cupped old fashion bloom form, it is always in bloom and always healthy. Mine is 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Treasure Trail is also a moss and I would say it grows like a floribunda. Very unique flowers of pink and yellow with old fashion form and a button eye. Always healthy and two feet tall and three feet wide. Jeri Jennings is a beautiful Hybrid Musk with buttery yellow blooms, wonderful fragrance and a nice spreading habit. Mine is grown in partial shade and has been very healthy. Some report dealing with black spot on this rose but this has been very minor for me. It is 4 feet tall by six feet wide. Golden Buddha is a Hybrid Bracteata with intensely pumpkin colored blooms in my garden. It is always in bloom, almost to a fault. In my garden the plant is only about a foot and a half tall and two feet wide. I wish it would get bigger and then produce the blooms it does. It may be because this past summer was the hottest on record in Oklahoma and Golden Buddha had a hard time with the heat. Spring and Fall it shined in this its second year in my garden. Last year was the first for Siren's Keep and Dragon's Blood in my garden so I will wait to review them until after the coming season. They are both off to a good start though. I have pictures of all but Dragon's Blood in my blog which I will link to below. Here is a link that might be useful: Red Dirt Roses

"If my reward for that kindness is to have to deal with unscrupulous creeps who feel entitled to do as they please with my work, then something needs to change." But, it really is the bad percentage that we often react to, isn't it. I'm sure you've had a ton of profiteers stealing your work, but are they really the majority of people using your work? (and by using, I mean, visiting your site, reading your site, looking at your photos.) I would guess the majority, were people who -didn't- take your stuff, and just really enjoy your website. (How many hits does your site get and how many instances of copyright violation are there?) I can totally see how you'd get tired and frustrated from having to protect your copyright. Your site was one of the first that I found when I was looking for more information on Old Roses. (Google quite likes you as I'm sure you know.) And it's your choice. So please don't think I'm blaming you. But something doesn't necessarily "need to change". It has to change for you because that's where you're personal line of "enough is enough" is, but it's a choice. All the emails I've gotten over the years, and the friends I've made from being online and the unusual opportunities,... those to me outweigh my personal profiteers. Everyone has to make their own choices as to where that "worth it" line is. Like I said before, I have friends (who are artists) who don't post their work online for these reasons. campanula - I think if someone owns the copyright to something, it should not be stolen, according to the legal rules of copyright (whatever that is in each instance). I don't think that it's related to how famous or even how talented the owner of the copyright is. I don't really understand why we even have to argue the worth or how "professional" something is. If you create a work of art, you own the copyright. Even if it is hideous or amateurish. on the notion of taking photos of people's private gardens without permission. I must admit that over the past few months, when I drive by a house with a particularly beautiful garden, I stop and quickly take a photo. I've been saving these photos in a private folder on my computer. At one point, I'd thought about posting a thread sharing the photos so that other people could admire or be inspired by them, but then, I was also worried that perhaps by chance, one of the garden owners might see the thread and somehow be annoyed that I'd posted a photo of their garden without permission. So I haven't, and probably wont.

I'm just sitting here looking at all the roses that I truthfully have been wanting some for a while, some just lately, but I had no idea, maybe just didn't pay attention, or something, that they were Paul Barden Roses! Dolly's forever rose, Pams Choice. I've just started looking into the tree climbers and was looking at Treasure Trail! I love those Gallica's too! I was disappointed in some of there blooms, a couple, I got none, a couple, I got a couple, and the hybrids bloomed really well. We had a mild winter...hopefully this winter will be back to normal. Atleast that's the only thing I could think of..the mild winter!

I should show photos that depict its lack of vigor too. Great for dry heat, no crisping... but maybe not good for other areas. No new little canes yet. I really should be pinching off buds as instructed, I just got too busy. One got some black spot and defoliated, which isn't a problem ever here so if you're in a black spot area it's probably not so good. The others all have a little black spot too. This one gets the most sun and heat... it's the happiest. All my broccoli and celery, lettuce and radishes bolted in that bed too. It's hot.