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Actually, the plant is rather large, but the flowers are small, cute and perfectly-formed. It's Alba Rose "Chloris!"

...one of the few roses to not break my heart this June. She grew a lot, put out a ton of buds, and the bugs won't touch her.

She has a candy-sweet fragrance. I wish it could stop raining so damn much so I could go out and enjoy it!

Madame Hardy got hit bad by the bugs this year. She had all but 8 of her buds destroyed by rose slugs. Or aphids. Or both. I'm so pissed! Madame Hardy is one of my favorite OGRs. Look at that flower! She's like a diamond...

I'm seriously thinking of planting another one in the new bed far away from this one. It seems that all the roses we plant in our backyard bottom-of-the-hill bed are subject to horrible caterpillar damage. I still don't think I can bring myself to use systemic pesticides. We have too much wildlife in our yard. Also, cancer.

James Mason got totally ruined this year. Crap! I think we're going to have to wait a few years and dig up one of his suckers to replant in a better location.

Still, we have a few roses in that bed that the bugs won't touch. Like Chloris, Madame Plantier, Charles de Mills, Duc de Guiche and Duchesse de Montebello. What is the deal?

Some people call him the king of the antique roses. I got this rose as a small plant last summer, and expected to not see a bloom for several years.

Well, I guess that CdM likes it here, because he put out four fat buds this season. The first one opened today in the pouring rain...=_= I don't think it's unfurled all the way, but isn't it beautiful? Not much of a fragrance, though...

The first CdM plant I got as an undersized band in 2012 died after a month. I'm glad I decided to give him another chance. I hear he can be invasive, but I wouldn't mind him taking over the yard!

Actually, Griff's Red isn't the only rose in our garden that has drastically increased its petal count this year. Charlotte, Paul Ricault and Gallicandy look very different. Even though they don't take as long to mature as peonies, I guess you really have to have faith and wait for your roses to become fabulous! Griff's Red took three whole years to become beautiful, and we got him as a good-sized gallon in 2012.

I think that Felicite Parmentier is going to bloom soon. I am fascinated. She was so inert last year that I never thought she'd grow up to be a good girl.

Paul Barden Hybrid Gallica Rose "Rook" didn't bloom at all last year, but this spring it's treating us to five perfect flowers. In spite of being a modern Gallica, I think it could be a quintessential example of its class. At least, it has better disease resistance and performs better in rain than the old Gallicas. It also has a nice, tidy habit, unlike Belle de Crecy, which is splat on the ground right now.

I wonder if Rook looks a lot like the moss rose "Capitaine John Ingram?" Mine isn't going to bloom this year, so I have no way of knowing for sure.

Last year, Winchester Cathedral produced exactly one flower. It's putting out its first flush ever this week, and in spite of the fact that it's not one of the most popular Austin roses, I think it's quite adorable. Maybe it's plain, but it's perfect for people like me who love the white OGRs and are crying into their pillows at night because Madame Hardy is being ravaged by insects. I hope that AUScat does well in our yard, because it's filling a hole in my heart right now. Poor Madame Hardy. I think she's taking a hail of bullets for Siren's Keep this year. All the insects that ruined SK last year are pig-piling on Madame...

I'm considering planting another Madame Hardy in a completely different location, but I wonder if I have room.

All the other roses have their problems, but Quietness really is perfect in every way. She's healthy, prolific, rain-tolerant and even has a fragrance this year. As a garden plant, she's worth her weight in gold. I heard that she can get diseases on the West Coast or something, but here in CT, the blackspot/powdery mildew/rose slug capital of the world, she fully lives up to her hype. I am very grateful for this rose. I am grateful that none of our current roses are as crappy as Moondance.

I think the copper sulfate might have worked on Siren's Keep. Evelyn #1 still has a few spots, but frankly we have roses with waaay worse disease resistance than Evelyn. Like Heirloom. And poor lovely Prairie Star. And Rose de Rescht. The list could go on...

Quite a few of our roses are starting to bloom right now, but I can't stop mooning over Marianne. Yes, it's Marianne again!

This fabulous bloom is from Marianne #2, which is blooming a lot more than #1 this year. I think that she smells best in hot weather, when the myrrh notes fade and the peach scent remains. I think that she smells the most like David Austin Rose "Tamora," even though I don't think they have any common ancestors. Or do they?

I love Marianne. Since I only use insecticidal soap for bug control, her leaves have been munched on a bit, but she's still blooming her heart out. Now that we have a new garden bed, I keep joking that it'd be a good place for Marianne #3...I know I'm being self-indulgent. But I can dream, can't I?

Every year I make the mistake of underestimating Polareis, our only rugosa rose. Once again she takes the prize as the first rose to bloom in our garden. Her flowers are beautiful and smell wonderful, but somehow I always ignore her in favor of the Austins/Buck roses/OGRs. Maybe that's because right now, with her monstrously spiky canes and lettuce-like foliage she makes a really odd, wild-looking plant. Of all the roses in our yard, she's the closest to becoming a real shrub.

Lots of blooms on deck, but the weather's been lousy; Belle de Crecy, Charlotte, Winter Sunset, Darcey Bussell and Marianne are all trying to open their flowers, but there hasn't been enough sun. I guess that Polareis doesn't care!

For the past two years we've been watching this little clematis sprout in our front border garden mature to the point where it could actually produce flowers. Since it popped up in the same spot as our dear departed Lemon Chiffon, we assumed that it was an old clematis that got whacked by an idiot struggling to grow back. But lo and behold, it is no such thing!

I have no idea what this clematis is. It's growing close to Gillian Blades, but it has a completely different shape and color. I thought that it might be a spawn of Gillian and Haku Ookan, but now that I study it closely it has dark pink veins in the center like Will Goodwin. So maybe Gillian Blades and Will Goodwin had a baby? Is it really uncommon to have your clematis mate without your intervention?

::whistles::

I am so exhausted right now, because I just planted the giant Carding Mill in the bed in front of our new white fence. My arms aren't working right. I don't even know if my brain is working right.

We were lucky enough to receive this once-blooming Gallica rose with buds! Pretty cute flowers, huh?

The last wave of roses for 2014 arrived this week. They include:

Paul Barden Gallica Rose "Ellen Tofflemire":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.35256.1

Gallica Rose "Ipsilante":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.1913

Alba Rose "Celestial":

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1034.1

David Austin English Rose "Crocus Rose":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.33733.1

David Austin English Rose "Young Lycidas":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.47530

David Austin English Rose "Queen of Sweden":

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.38219

David Austin English Rose "Lady of Shalott":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.60917

Bourbon Rose "Mystic Beauty":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.36912

Climbing Rose "Rosarium Uetersen":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.5462

Rosarium Uetersen came to us huge!

Hanging off a potted band. If Evelyn had better disease resistance she'd be the queen of the Austin roses, in my opinion.

I got a box of 5 roses from RVR yesterday. All the bands were big, healthy and lightly peppered with bright red aphids. The newcomers include:

Alba Rose "Blanche de Belgique":

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.723

With three whole flower buds!

Gallica Rose "Belle Isis":

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.620

With at least 4 flower buds!

The real Hybrid Musk Rose "Aptos" (the one we have is an unregistered seedling):

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.1558.1

With many little flower buds!

David Austin English Rose "Constance Spry":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.41146.2

No flower buds...

Another "Capitaine John Ingram":

http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.955.2

Because our current specimen got nearly obliterated by falling snow over the winter. It's very much alive but is now the shortest Capitaine John Ingram, ever.

Quietness of Many Petals., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

Well, Quietness here has been in the ground since June 2012 and is looking good. We just ended up having to sink Lady Emma Hamilton and Princess Alexandra of Kent. I had been planning on keeping both of those roses are potted plants, but AUSbrother got waaaay too big in her first year, and I thought that since AUSmerchant has been having problems with powdery mildew she'd be better off in the ground in an airy location. So she's been planted near Duc de Guiche #1 and Heritage. Lady Emma Hamilton has been planted in front of Alchymist, and near Darcey Bussell. I do like orange and deep red/purple roses planted together. They make me think of peach melba!

Next roses to go in the ground are Wildeve and Reine des Violettes. That's right...our puny little Hybrid Perpetual has finally decided to fill out her pot. And Wildeve has been looking so damn chlorotic for the entire season that I'd have to think he'd do better in the ground. I have my fingers crossed.

I repotted Julia Child this evening. She is looking fly in her new green 5 gallon pot!

I miss my Old Garden Roses big time. They bloomed their hearts out before the beetles and blackspot reared their ugly heads in my garden. Poor Evelyn has almost completely defoliated from BS in spite of my spraying. Rose de Rescht has it too. I think they caught it from Cupcake. Damn you, Cupcake!

I can't believe that Enchanted Autumn hasn't produced a single flower so far this year. What the hell, man? It was such a good rose last year.

Quietness, Simon Estes, Margo Koster and Julia Child are all good kids this year, though. Prairie Star was doing fine until the beetles got to her, LOL...Honeysweet has also been a reliable bloomer. Darcey Bussell has turned out to be a great grower and bloomer, but Lady Emma Hamilton needs to go to beauty school. Her flowers have not been pretty at all in our extreme heat.

Heritage #2 turned out to be Ambridge Rose after all. Both Mariannes 1 and 2 have grown like beasts and are now the same size in spite of one being one year older than the other. I guess she wins the apricot rose death match, after all! Our little six-inch Alchymist has also shot up a huge vertical cane and will need to go in the ground this year, after all. So it hasn't all been bad. It's just been mostly ugly. Damn beetles are ruining everything. They trashed Prairie Sunrise's latest flush, boo hoo!

Reine des Violettes is looking much better, but her canes are so delicate that I fear planting her this year.

Scepter'd Twins., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

I think that Scepter'd Isle is probably a rose that needs a few years in the ground before it can show its stuff. The flowers are sweet en masse, aren't they? They remind me of Hybrid Musk Rose "Bouquet Parfait," a rose of which I am very fond but hardly ever photograph because I can never seem to capture its delicate watercolor shading and overall cuteness.

Big Evelyns., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

If only she didn't have blackspot...

I have Evelyn growing behind my garage, so I feel like she's my little secret. Maybe a rose like this would be a good showpiece for the front yard, but she probably wouldn't do as well without all that acidic gutter water flowing into her bed.

Home-grown Tamora., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

When I got this rose in May she came with three little beaten-up buds that miraculously opened up into three decent-looking, great-smelling flowers.

Here is our first home-grown Tamora blossom. Compared to the earlier flowers it's big and luminous. Tamora hadn't bloomed in so long that I had almost forgotten about her...not any more!

Oh, the glories..., a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

I'm having one of those moments when you walk outside and see your rose looking just as perfect as it did in all those photos you admired. Chapeau de Napoleon might only bloom once a year, but he is so worth it!

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Welcome to The City of Desire.

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Entries tagged with roses

Cute Little Alba Rose.

Oh, Madame...

Charles de Mills.

The Revenge of Griff's Red!

Rook's Coming Out Party.

A Sleeper Hit?

Queen of the Garden.

A Force of Nature.

Second Year Winner.

Hey there, mystery vine...

First Belle Isis.

More Arrivals.

Big fat Evelyn.

The First Wave Has Arrived.

Putting them in the ground.

Despondent Rose Gardener.

Little Pink Rose.

What a performer!

I'm different!

Making it all worth it.