Roses-2010

[Gail]

Some of mine -

Rosa x alba 'Alba Maxima'
R. 'Baron Girod de l'Ain'
Rosa x centiflora 'Cristata' (Chapeau de Napoleon)
'Dusky Maiden'
R. gallica 'Versicolor' (Rosa Mundi) Rosa Mundi is a sport with a tendency to revert as seen in the flowers at the back of the image.
‘Heritage’
‘Madame Hardy’
'Paul's Himalayan Musk'
'Teasing Georgia'

[Ragged Robin]

You have such wonderful roses in your garden, Gail.....in mine only a handful but this is my complete favourite to look forward to each year in flower and in bud.

Margaret Merrill AGM  M White with pink shading, very fragrant

[Gail]

You have such wonderful roses in your garden, Gail.....in mine only a handful but this is my complete favourite to look forward to each year in flower and in bud.

Margaret Merrill AGM  M White with pink shading, very fragrant

I have Margaret Merrill here and agree it is lovely & beautifully scented, however here unfortunately it is a martyr to blackspot.

[Ragged Robin]

What a shame Gail, so far no blackspot on mine....the other one I spied in your latest posting that I love which my Mother grew is Madame Hardy with the green 'eye' - so far I haven't found it around here.

[Ragged Robin]

Gail, I have been looking for a rose for semi shade (corner, over a fence) and see that you Dusky Maiden could fit the criteria    floribunda in wildish area would be good and I love the single open bloom and colour, repeat flowering, fragrant too it seems.  Is this rose prone to mildew and does it hold the flower for a reasonable time?  Your photo shows it off beautifully.

[David Nicholson]

I think Devon is the capital of the blackspot world

[Gail]

Gail, I have been looking for a rose for semi shade (corner, over a fence) and see that you Dusky Maiden could fit the criteria    floribunda in wildish area would be good and I love the single open bloom and colour, repeat flowering, fragrant too it seems.  Is this rose prone to mildew and does it hold the flower for a reasonable time?  Your photo shows it off beautifully.

My plant is growing in a fairly shady spot - overcrowded by other shrubs and trees.  Still flowers okay and I've never seen mildew on it but I have to say it's not the best for fragrance, only a very light scent.  I could try and root some cuttings if you're interested?

[maggiepie]

Some of my favourites from this year.
Unfortunately, after one glorious week of my OGRs in full bloom we had a lot of rain which turned them into a soggy mess.

Scepter'd Isle
Sharifa Asma
Topaz Jewel
Ambridge Rose
Tuscany Superb
Charles de Mills
Belle Isis
Ispahan
Mme Hardy
Félicité Parmentier

[Lesley Cox]

What fantastic scent all through this thread. It almost has me swooning.
Oh no, it's a little bit of wintersweet. 

I saw 'Margaret Merill' yesterday in a local garden centre, bare-rooted in a plastic bag. I'll go back today and rescue her.

[arillady]

Maggiepie some lovely oldies and newies there. Iceberg is always such a good flower - if loose - here but when I visited the St Marys Rose Garden in 2002 the whole patch had blooms which were soggy brown mush. I had never seen it look so awful.
Not a rose in sight here at the moment - but in our repository in town I can see a few blooms bravely blooming when I pick up the mail.
In Western Australia they are probably picking buckets full of Tea roses even now.
There are some lovely green shades in the garden though.

[maggiepie]

Pat, before I left Australia, I was living in the Hunter Valley in NSW. I had a climbing iceberg that was never without flowers, was an amazing plant.
I really miss tea roses, Lady Hillingdon especially.
I can truthfully say that I have never seen as many flowers on a rosebush as this year on my ( still baby) gallicas and albas, it is probably a good thing they only flower once.

[Lvandelft]

Lovely roses all!

In June, when I visited a small, very interesting nursery in Austria I saw this beautiful white climber in a Pinus tree. The gardener could not tell the name; therefore I hope there is somebody among the specialists here who can tell me?

[Regelian]

Luit,

that could be 'Bobbie James', a massive multiflora hybrid or most likely Kiftsgate, a filipes hybrid.  Was it fragrant, as Kiftsgate is not particularly.

[Lvandelft]

Thanks Jamie! I see Bobby James is not as single as the plant I saw.
It's just that I found out at the Kiftsgate Court site that it is flowering there in July and I saw the plant in mid June in Austria.
But the weather this year shows more different flowering times than normally.
I did send a mail to my friend with the question about smelling. When we were there it was pouring down and I was happy to make pictures from under the umbrella. Not the kind of weather where you would smell much

[Gail]

Seagull, Sir Cedric Morris and Wedding Day are similar (although the latter develops a creamy tint as the flowers develop).  And there are various wild species.....

You may want a try at the search facility on Peter Beales Roses site;
http://www.classicroses.co.uk/productindex.php?prodfinderformroseColour=whitecream&prodfinderformroseGroup=rambler&prodfinderformroseBloomType=single&type=rose&recsperpage=10&pagenum=1