Lovely. It's such fun to look at your photos, Zuzu, because you have so many roses that caught my eye when I was buying large format rose photo books in the late eighties and early nineties. Roses that seem to have just about fallen off the map. Butterscotch and Cocktail are two of them. Helen Hayes, Grand Siecle and Johnny Walker are others. And there are a lot of ones introduced since then that I've been tempted by: Janet, Leander & Grace. And a few that have failed in my garden like Mons. Tillier.
There are also delightful surprises: roses with the same name but in a different class. There's a pink floribunda also named Geisha, and there's a yellow hybrid tea also named Madame Curie. So I had to do a couple double-takes as I looked at the photos above. And read the captions carefully.
Sue, your photos are lovely, too. Is there a special lighting technique you use to get the foliage to photograph so dark? It really makes the roses pop.
