Alba Rose Felicite Parmentier's First Day.

Such a pretty little flower. Maybe I'm not familiar with the rose, but doesn't it look a little underbaked in the center? I guess it could be because of the weather. I wonder if she'll fluff up later?

Anyway, she's a nice, shade-tolerant rose with no diseases. I planted her in 2012 as a tiny band and she's grown a lot since then. Too bad she's currently surrounded by poison ivy...

The Big Boy.

Chapeau de Napoleon. He didn't increase much from last year, being a wacky moss rose/centifolia with a seriously ugly habit, but his flowers are a lot bigger this year. I love his mossed tricorn buds and squishy blooms. I really thought he was going to ball this one, but it opened just fine!

Polonaise is Perfect.

My new cheap-ass camera does a little better with the reds than the previous one, but I still can't seem to capture the perfect beauty of Griffith Buck Rose "Polonaise."

We've had her since the spring of 2012, and she's never looked better this year, probably because all the bugs that trashed her buds last year went after Madame Hardy. ::sobs::

She has a remarkable lack of fragrance, though. Great for allergy sufferers!

Pololololo.....

This is probably the best picture of Polonaise I've ever taken. I've set it as my desktop wallpaper. ::snickers::

I tend to ignore this rose because it's not an OGR and doesn't have David Austin's name attached to it, but it's one of the best we grow.