I foster kittens and everytime I scroll to find rose pictures get distracted by kitten pictures. 🙃

Earth Angel doesn’t start to blush until the temps warm up. Here she was early in the season.

Darlows Enigma is probably my only ”true” white rose.

Lion’s Fairytale produces these huge creamy blooms.

Popcorn Drift never stops

Polar express at the tail end of the season. It really blooms well in the fall and has some of the best late season foliage (meaning it still had foliage).

Darlow’s Enigma is such a great rose. The problem is that every time I tell a non rose addict how great it is they look at it and say ”Oh, I like roses that look like roses” 🙄

And I’m often surprised we don’t hear more about Polar Express. It really is a good rose, at least here in PNW. Healthy, fragrant, nice blooms

Mine has been thriving in a pot for several years and it’s like a Timex - takes a licking and keeps on ticking (aging myself here!).

These threads remind me that I am woefully behind in taking pictures... so many faves of mine I don't have pictures of!

White Lightnin'

Maria Shriver

French Lace (white-ish)

Full Sail. Not a generous bloomer - and I was warned - but when it does, hoo-whee. The scent is to die for.

Moonstone. Virtually white.

Bolero. New last year. Still in pot. Not much bloom from it so far …?

My real white is definitely Blanc Double de Coubert.

And Darlow's Enigma

Marie Pavies always look good.

In front yard taking morning sun.

In backyard in high shade.

Lovely Lyda.

Lion's Fairy Tale, open with apricot center.

Snowbird, first year in the ground.

Out of Yesteryear, very creamy.

Madame Alfred Carrière, a truly house eater.

Francis Meilland, a confusing white. LOL.

My goodness...the whites may be my favorite of the colored series that you put up, Oursteelers!!! Yet, I don't like white roses...lol...or do I? Holy Hannah these roses are out of this world!! I nominate your Boule d’Neige as the rose picture that most looks like its name. :) :)

Mmmmm - That is fabulous and fun news that one of your Calico Gal pictures is going to be in an article in a Rose Society magazine!!! Please show us when you find it. :) :) Good job!!

Out of Yesteryear is new to me. I would like to know more about it! Size, fragrance, health? Did you get it feom Burlington? Does it fade to white? How much shade is yours in?

Ashmitterwoch ..whitish , greyish, tannish

Blush Noisette

Iceberg

Lindee...little dime sized blooms

Winchester Cathedral

Moonlight

Moonlight with the white foxgloves is my favorite! I try to have only white foxgloves in one area but the bees have other priorities and I always end up with a mix. Even pulling a lot of off colored ones doesn’t help. Probably if Inpulled every single one that isn’t pure white it would solve the problem but I just can’t bring myself to do that

Oursteelers, you must have them reseeding a lot in the PNW. They reseed here only a little. I like the different colors anyway but I guess white is my favorite too.

Oh yeah, they’re everywhere! I wanted just white ones in one area and just the peach ones in another but Mother Nature has different plans

'Mme. Alfred Carriere'. When the petals fall on this one, it's like it has snowed under that pepper tree:

Holy moley, Catspa!!!! I am astounded by the amount of blooms and the size of the bush!!!!

Catspa that is lovely

@rosecanadian That tea-noisettes can get large in this climate is something of an understatement -- a 'Jaune Desprez' just down the path from Mme Al and climbing up a bay tree is nearly as large. I regretfully removed a 'Reve d'Or' growing along the stretch of fence seen in the photo because it became impossible to contain it to the fence and keep it from attacking the neighbor from whose yard I took this photo. The unnamed climbing China with small pink flowers that is on the fence in this photo is far more mannerly!

I think this might be my favorite category. My favorite is the Moonlight/white foxglove combo. Now I need to figure out how to get the white roses and white foxgloves together.

Thanks, Karen. I have been surprised that foxgloves can take as much sun as they do. I ordered seeds of Excelsior mix foxgloves from Swallowtail seeds. Started them indoors in late Jan. or early Feb one year. , grew the little plants on during the summer, and planted med. size plants in the ground in late summer and fall. They got established in winter and then exploded into growth in spring and bloomed. One or two plants made it to the following spring and bloomed again but most did not. ( they're biennials) I started more seeds last Jan. and last summer planted them out, so I'm looking forward to them this spring. I got some reseeding but not much.

Anyway Swallowtail has a variety of foxglove seeds, some of them all white. I like their selection and the quantity of seeds they send.

That is a spectacular Mme. Alfred plant, Catspa. I wish I could see your whole garden. I have two Mme. Alfred plants...one was grafted and it has declined after being great for a long time. The own root one started life very small, remained kind of small for a good while, then surpassed the grafted one. In my climate MAC is not nearly as big as yours but it is big enough . Some probably would not want a huge plant and I think in colder zones such as mine, zone 7a, it won't get as big.

This is the base of my own root one. It went way up in an apple tree as well.

My grafted one

Claire Austin’s blooms are fleeting, but when she blooms, a prettier white is hard to find!

Catspa - with a climber that large, I bet there are lots of birds and other animals that can call it home. :) :)

erasmus - the first picture is so mysteriously beautiful...ensconced among the wonderful blooms (which are probably very fragrant)...but what's through the archway? :) :) WOW!!

Judi - exquisite!!

@rosecanadian Yes! -- my philosophy and goal is for the garden to be a place many animals call home. Though only 1/3 of an acre (but adjacent to a larger property of 7 acres that has lots of oak trees), I work very hard at NOT keeping it too tidy and letting leaf litter and masses of shrubs (which tea-noisettes all-too-well provide) be useful forage and habitat for everything from birds to lizards to foxes and, once or twice, a mountain lion. This time of year, especially, there are a ton of wintering birds. Quite a contrast to the suburban mow-and-blow (virtual) deserts that surround us that are so abnormally silent and still.

@erasmus_gw, here's a link to photos of my garden on HMF: Catspa's Garden. I see the most recent are now 5 years old, and I should add some updated ones this year, but still more or less the same look, overall.

Catspa, your garden is very, very beautiful...it would be a perfect habitat for me! I think of my garden as a habitat too, not least a habitat for me. Your cats look very much at home there. I love the different shades of green and blue / grey/ green, and the big trees and rocks and pond. Not to mention the roses.

catspa - I totally share your garden philosophy - our 1/3rd acre is not adjacent to anything other than more houses and busy streets (although there is a hill which has lots of trees on it whose bases is about 2 blocks away). We have zillions of birds, and we mark the seasons when specific seasonal ones show up every year. Also an occasional hawk, and in the evening you can hear owls. Also zillions of squirrels, who build elaborate multi-story nests way up in the tall trees. Every Spring the teenagers emerge from the nests, and chase each other all over the garden, and come down the big tree trunks to stare at our cat when she is outside, getting closer and closer to her. Of course if she moves, up the tree they go.

We are visited by raccoons, opossums (saw one just 2 days ago), skunks and their babies, one deer who likes to hide in our mini forest, and has her fawn(s) here or nearby in the Spring, As to insects - I have counted at least 10 different types of bees, along with the honeybees. Lots of butterflies, etc.

I love them all, especially the ones many people think of as "pests".

Jackie

Catspa, I love your philosophy and garden which I share.

oursteelers, my Out of Yesteryear is from Burling. It has a light scent and fades to creamy white especially in hot days. It kept about 2.5'-3' for the first two years and finally shot a 4' long stem last year. This poor thing was blocked from the sun by the other faster growing roses near it since it was planted in the middle of the border. I think it would take longer to establish while dealing with shade. Some PM and a little BS but no big deal. Last fall I planted another propagated one in my sidewalk bed. Let's wait and see if it will be happier with more sunlight and possibly less water. ^_^

Catspa and Erasmus, your gardens are a dream!! Thank you for sharing them!

Catspa - A mountain lion?!!!! Yikes!!! We get bobcats in our backyard...my dogs can scare one of those away...I'd be too scared to let my dogs out if there were mountain lions here. :) But I really admire your attitude towards animals in your yard. There are too many mow-and-blow yards here too. I always leave leaf litter, etc for the insects. :) :)

Jackie - yes, love your attitude! :) :)

Thank you, Melissa. I have a good bit of humility about my garden because while it can please me in spring it often gets away from me in summer. For some reason my weeds don't seem like wonderful natural additions to my landscape. I am not a very regimented or orderly or manicured gardener but I do think not letting weeds take over looks best in my garden.

There are still plants enough that I want there that create a place to be for animals or myself or others. I dislike trees sprouting up wherever they can. They are hard to remove once they get a hold. I dislike morning glories because they're so vigorous and self seed so wildlyl. But I like the flowers on them. I dislike smilax rotundifolia. So my garden really could use some help when it comes to weeding. I used to be able to keep up with it better.

I love being in our neighborhood as far as having no home owner association telling me what I can or can't plant. My neighborhood is a humble little neighborhood that suits me well and mostly seems safe. We have lots of wildlife but thankfully no deer. Deer are within a half mile but never have had any here.

@erasmus_gw, one of the few good things about our bone-dry summers (generally from the first of May until at least mid-October, sometimes December like this year) is that the weeds cease to sprout and thrive and don't do much during the dry months, except right where there's irrigation, so it's not as hard to keep up with here as it was when I gardened in Massachusetts. The oak and privet seedlings are indeed among the worst.

@rosecanadian, as it happens, a mountain lion was seen on several cameras moseying along .on the street a block south of ours night-before-last and it's not uncommon. With the general ban on hunting lions (except for when livestock is being killed), and an overabundance of deer due to there being less deer hunting, the lion population is way up around the SF Bay Area. In fact, a young-ish lion once spent an entire day in my back yard, unbeknownst to me until the evening, when I went to look for my cats who, unaccountably, I hadn't seen all day. He was laying under a bush in the "chaparral" I've planted on the hillside at the back of the garden. Only then I realized that the ruckus I had heard around 6 a.m. that morning had been him going over the gate to get into the yard. I had spent at least a few hours working sometimes within 15 or 20' of him without knowing he was there (but the cats of course knew!). After consultation with Fish and Wildlife, he was left to leave of his own accord overnight, which he did -- was spotted around 3 a.m. headed toward the open space at the other end of town. I would worry, too, if I had dogs, but the cats just steered clear :-).

Catspa - no way!!!! You were that close to a mountain lion for hours!!! I'm SO glad that nothing happened to you. Whew!

Vaporvac - what a beautiful yard...what's the big pink plant?

Privet...ugh. Mountain lions...yikes!

Carol, it looks like whose strikes again! I wrote all about the phrases but it did not print. I didn't have enough problems so I have to borrow some from Diane With disappearing posts. Anyway, that is my friend's houses garden I planned. Before we tied up the large pink rose which is Peggy martin and arranged everything. That will be 2022. He was sick last year so it was a disaster and no pictures from last year. Hopefully it will get together this year and some lovely pictures will be coming. I posted pictures of this garden prior to some of the other color posts. Since I don't have many of my own Anymore. Who takes my words which are written correctly when I look at them and changes the spellings of what I've written when it prints.

Vaporvac, what happened to your roses?

Nothing to my roses but my phone was hacked and I lost all my pictures from 20 years.

Bummer about the phone but glad the roses are ok.

I'd rather have the pics and voicemails and s. I could have replaced the Roses😥

That is absolutely horrible, Vapor.

Another favorite by John Bagnasco: Tooth Fairy

Vaporvac - As I was reading your post, I thought "whose strikes again??" and then I realized that Houzz strikes again. lol Ahhh...Peggy Martin...what a stunner!! WOWZA!!!! Tooth Fairy is magical!!! What a rose!!! Oh, I'm so sorry that you lost all of your pics. Hopefully, they weren't also family pics.

I wonder if there is a way to retrieve your pics, like from " the cloud". Tooth Fairy is pretty. I like the name.

Everything was taken. All my pictures were on my phone And voicemails from my dad and other important people and documents Also lost all contacts for the phone unless they were written down in a little telephone book Old school. Or I have the memorized. That is only a very few.. My phone was returned to factory settings so everything erased. Then my And 2 step verification For Gmail was hijacked and changed to another number so I could not access it. Therefore I lost access to the cloud from G. mail. Google google not help you retrieve anything by the It was a tragedy I think most people have a hard time understanding. Besides the general of having 2 protect all of your accounts as they did break into my discover account but that was it. They tried my bank accounts was unsuccessful. Discover is fabulous and the situation by the way.

Anne Diane, Is your text underlined? When that happens to me and I press enter it all erases. I have to make sure to tap it and get rid of the underline. Hope that makes sense and not sure if that's your problem.

Sorry to read that vap. You definitely lost something irreplaceable.

AUCKLAND METRO

CLOUDS OF GLORY

DOVE

GLAMIS CASTLE

ICE CREAM aka MEMOIRE

IVORY GRAND

JOSE CARRERAS

OPULENCE

SHIRLEY'S BOUQUET

TINEKE

Beth, it is so great seeing how you rebounded from the fire!

Beth my two favorites of yours are Glamis Castle and Dove. Dove especially seems to have a particularly interesting silvery cast to the center.

Beautiful whites, Beth!! My faves are Dove, Ivory Grand and Tinke!! And wow...there's a dance of love happening there. :) :)

Seafoam

Bubble Bath

Pavie Marie Marie

Marie

My phone eats my words so I have to toggle between the two platforms. Click to see clearly.

I just love white roses surrounded by greenery

Oh, my!!! Sooooo many blooms...I love white roses that bloom a ton like yours!!