Oh, boy -- here we are at Ralph Moore's Persian line. If Pickering offers these again this season, I'm going to buy lots of them to put between other roses. They're quite short and will serve as nice ground cover plants to retard weeds while not competing with the taller roses.

This is Persian Autumn.

This is Persian Flame. It has a sort of beige reverse. You can see a tiny corner of it in this photo. I had better photos of the reverse, but they didn't capture the true main color. This is a truly vibrant little rose.

Persian Sunset is fancier, with many more petals.

Here's a shot showing the many color variations the Persian Sunset bloom goes through in its lifetime.

I also have Persian Peach, which hasn't bloomed yet, and Persian Light, which you've seen in my earlier threads. I'll post one of those photos here to refresh your memory. I really love this line of roses.

This is Pink Gruss an Aachen. It's usually more pink. A lot of my pink roses are veering toward white this year. I'm blaming it on the long rainy season. It washed the color right out of my roses.

Pink Pillar is the most amazing little climber. Most of the blooms look like this -- i.e., no pink in them whatsoever.

Once in a while, however, it does produce a pink bloom.

Pink-a-Boo:

Playboy:

Pleasure:

Portlandia is a rose I wanted as soon as I saw it in the Heirloom catalogue, but not enough to order it from Heirloom. Luckily, I later found Roseland, now sadly lost to us mail-order customers, and was able to buy a beautiful 3-foot plant for the same price Heirloom would have charged me for a toothpick-sized rose.

The Portlandia bloom darkens and is almost completely cerise just before shattering.

Postillion:

Prairie Sunrise starts out like this:

And it opens up into this:

Princesse de Monaco:

Promise:

Prospero:

Purple Tiger: