Tabby - The Colorado Rose Society should be having their annual Rose walk through a few cemeteries soon... mainly the .. Fairmont? cemetery on Quebec & Alameda.

Yup, usually Fairmount and Riverside.

Just a quicky right now. Aphid control in the making:

Future aphid controllers, unite!
And what is a gorgeous bloom?

They look like they're uniting alright!

The rose is Winsome.
I have to rely on natural controls - just got another bee hive in my yard so can't spray toxic stuff.

I am so behind in my photo processing, but here's some more. There's the inevitable cottonwood fluff.

Salute - mini, Nymphenburg, Little Linda - micro mini


Kathryn Morley - English rose, Alba Suaveolens. Stanwell Perpetual


Madame Plantier, Singles Better - mini, Sea Foam - one of the easiest roses I grow

your roses are so pretty.. how old are they? I am slowly waiting for mine to start to mature and look as good.. only my minibed is looking decent IMO.

I got a bunch of minis when Nor'East had their fire sale a few years ago, but most of the minis and all the other roses were planted between 1987 and 1995 or 1996 (I lose track). About 40 or so were moved from my previous house.

I need to take more whole bush photos, but there are still so many that need the winter kill removed. I'm always so behind.

Tabby - wow. I missed out on the Firesale.. I only got a couple from NorEast the year previous and then when I went back the following year that's when I found out they were no longer selling to the public. And removing winterkill is boring & sucks & can be painful.

It's more painful that keeping bees. Really!

This year we're also removing a LOT of live rose canes in order to free roses being eaten by their neighbors. Some of my roses sucker horribly and it's been a few years since we did this thinning down.

Some more:
Rene d'Anjou again, Red Ace - an older smaller mini, Queen City - mini


Paul Neyron - HUGE smelly blooms! old unknown micro mini, Kristin - mini


Jeannie Williams - mini, Hippolyte, Hot Tamale


Unknown deep purplish red repeat blooming extremely fragrant HP from a graveyard.

Some more. The English roses are starting to really bloom. They do extremely well for me if they are on their own roots. Not so much when grafted.
Windrush, Wenlock, Variegata di Bologna:


Pink Leda, Othello, Nearly Wild


Kathryn Morley again, Intrigue, Henry Martin - moss

All these shots are gorgeous Tabby! I love the looks of Othello and Kathryn Morley.
Don't forget to add them to the database!

Oh my, but you have me drooling! Intrigue just went on my list of wants!