I went out yesterday with the camera to see how the rose blooms had done after four or five days of drizzle, cold and rain. Not many of the roses are blooming, but these I thought had done really well and still looked good. More rain is forecast so I'll check again later. Clair Matin Heritage Marie Pavie Portland from Glendora Lauren Madame Alfred Carriere Excellenz von Schubert (I agree about this rose, Diane) Polareis Duplex Verde Cornelia Till Uhlenspiegel, a hybrid rubiginosa In worst shape was the floribunda, Blue for You. A little bedraggled was Baptiste La Faye, but not really too bad. Faith Whittlesey was in pretty good shape, as was Wasagaming. Overall, these roses seem to be good for my mild climate, wet gardening area. I hope the GH does well for you, Diane. Keep us posted! Gean Clair Matin after four or five days of rain Cornelia Marie Pavie This post was edited by harborrose on Thu, May 30, 13 at 21:06

Heritage, Pretty Jessica, Lady of Shallot, Wollerton Old Hall, and Jude the Obscure are my Austin's that are doing well (growing, blooming and disease resistant although WOH and Jude do get a little BS in my no spray garden) in partial shade although I am sure they would bloom more with more sun. I do think the blooms of these paler of these roses might fry in summer if they actually had more sun. I am also going to get Teasing Georgia for its supposed shade tolerance and did consider Grace for the same reason. I have heard on this forum that Olivia Rose and Ambridge rose do well in part shade.

Hiya everyone! I had the best time yesterday playin in the dirt and planning my garden ideas :) :) :) I promise I'll get that list of wants up here.. I just haven't had the time! My son who has been in and out of the hospital constantly the past 4 years (all during high school) and he has had to be on homebound/tutoring has decided to go to prom tonight. I had 3 days notice lol But we got him a tux and since he doesn't drive yet I guess I'll be driving him back n forth to it tonight down in Atlanta. (ATL traffic....eek!) And today I was w/ my mom up at the hospital to get her another CT scan. She's battling some nasty cancer right now. AND then my other son has a skateboard competition Saturday, and my daughter has her first soccer game on Saturday and there's an arts/crafts festival I wanna go to, and my mom needs us to come over and work in her yard a bit since she can't get out to do it.. then I also gotta go to my brother's house to plant a pink dogwood we bought them. (memorial for the baby they just lost in utero. :( .... ) sooooo my next few days are gonna be SERIOUSLY jampacked! But I'll jump on when I get a lil time and will get that list up for ya hopefully by Sun eve at the latest! :) Hugs to all and HAPPY FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! woohoooo ~Wendy/Sassy

Ooh, vaporvac - Clotilde Soupert is gorgeous!!! I love the last pic, especially with the pink centres. I will see if she's available here - it's a bit frustrating as there are often roses I hear you all talk about but which aren't available for me, especially in Perth - as I need to get it from the local rose nursery which grafts on Fortuniana so I'm stuck with what they offer. I have to confess, I'm not keen on pale/white roses - I like them to have a "solid" colour. ;-) (unless the white is very "solid" - like a strong ivory or snowy white)... if I'm making sense? But otherwise, it just looks sort of washed out - or in the very bright Aussie sunshine, I find that the flowers reflect light terribly and just look like white blurs in the garden. Like so far, I'm not very impressed with Evelyn because she seems like such a pale, wishy-washy "non-colour". Perhaps I'm being unfair as she hasn't rebloomed like the other Austins (after Reine Victoria, she's the next LEAST performing rose so far) - so maybe I haven't seen any decent flowers from her yet and I'm judging too early. I also wonder if white blooms wouldn't stand out much against the white wall? I was actually thinking I'd really like a climbing rose with darker blooms - like dark pink - the only problem is finding one that would be shade tolerant! Here's another picture of the wall. As you can see, I don't have a lot of space to play with and if I fan Nahema out, I don't know if I'll have space for another climbing rose! It would have to go farther to the left, on the wall just behind Lady of Shalott ( the bush with the GIANT octopus arm - LOL!), next to the window - and I'm not sure there is enough space in the bed. It's very narrow. But I suppose I could move LOS to somewhere else - I was planning to anyway. Also, I had 3 hollyhocks growing at the back, behind LOS and POAK, along the wall (they're still there - I've just cut their tall stalks down) - so if I put a climbing rose in, I'd have to sacrifice some hollyhock space for next year - and I do love my hollyhocks... Argh! Wish I had a wider / deeper bed!! :-) ~ HY