@Peter straw - Do you have any problems posting photos? 1mb isn't a magic number, but the large the file the long it can take to load. I was suggesting that if people are having problems posting, they could try reducing the file size. I'm not sure how Windows / Android offers file resizing.

@Peter Straw, I upload from my mobile, Android. Size is more than 1 MB each and I have no issues. That's one of the advantages of this forum. I do not need to downsize or host and link etc. The only mystery so far is how to upload, type and upload next pic. The pics all cluster at the bottom. And when I choose from albums I have to do it one by one. If they are still unsorted I can simply click on as many as I want. I do have to refresh to see my post and sometimes a couple of times. Editing only works on the website for me.

Superb roses @Rojas. I think, I need them all 😁.

I just tried to load a large image file and it took three minutes to load. It got there in the end (on a laptop)

Fire... I've just checked the file sizes coming off my phone to my PC and they range from 2.5mb and 3.6mb, which seems rather large and not ideal. I'll have to do some investigating into how I can reduce the file size using Windows own editing suite (Viewer, I think it's called). If I still had Adobe Photoshop all this would be a doddle to do. Ditto with the loading times, but a lot of the time it just times itself out and disappears.

Stunning rose photos coming in today. I especially like:

• @Nollie in Spain Zone9 's Palais Biron, there is something about that colour! & Ventilo.
• @Marlorena in England 's Sophie's Perpetual (and Freddie!).
• @Tack UK 's Obelisk - magnificent training of Malvern Hills.
• @showa_omori 's Gertrude Jekyll - last year mine went fluorescent too, it was magical.
• @Rojas 's Constance Spry - lovely chalice/cupped shape.

@Marlorena in England - forgive the bad photograph, but here is Tulipa Cairo doing it's 'blaze' in full sun, and yes that is one of my Madam Alfred Carrieres on the back wall:

Very nice Peter, I like bright cheery colours... your Mme AC is stupendous.. Everything seems to grow so well in your northern garden.

Rojas, great to see those old Austins.

'Scented Garden'..

'Bienvenue'..

'Pastella'.. rather like a dwarf Eden rose..

'Lilac Bouquet'..

..first bloom on 'Iceberg'.. this spring..

'Lucky' with Aquilegia 'Blue Barlow'..

Thanks all, that black granite worktop does come in handy for rose portraits!

Not everything in the rose garden is a triumph…

I thought I had got rid of them, but the ants seem to be back in my Avalanche Abricot pot, unfortunately. It does seem to be affecting general health and the blooms, which are emerging shrunken and distorted. Drastic action required!

Some others in casualty…

Alister Stella Gray and Blush Noisette - both seem to have stalled in growth and both (like the Teas) hated the recent heavy rain - buds refusing to open, a balling, mouldering mess. I’ve deadheaded ASG but this is BN:

Mme. Isaac Pereire, no problem with vigour and it was reaching an impressive first flush - until the rain did this:

Oh and that beastie is my new rose munching nemesis, the White Spotted Rose Beetle.

One of the pleasant surprises for me this year has been 'Windflower'. Full of vigour and not even a hint of BS. I've had it a number of years now, but I've never seen it so healthy. No blooms as yet but it is full of buds, and it's a bit wispy so needs support.

I thought I will take a few photos in the hot sun - roses drooping in the heat. Only 21 deg C though.

Belle de Jour

Cornelia - first season, purchased after seeing @Marlorena's.

Fully opened Twice in a Blue Moon

First of my herbaceous peonies

Smaller flowers on Susan Williams-Ellis.

Think this is Lili Marlene

An unlabelled HT

Weg der Sinne

Wonderful re-growth on the big red climbers that are rocketing away. Cutting to the ground feels like such a high-risk strategy but looks like it has paid off. Putting on about two inches a day.

Rojas- I saw Evelyn in stock but did not want to double up as I was hoping that my specimen will improve with time.. next day I checked again and it was gone.. now I know who got it.. an impressive specimen indeed.. Is the bloom holding up or has it sloped over?

Heard Bienvenue is strongly scented.

Like the colour on Belle d J, Eustace.

That kinda pruning looks scary, Fire.

Tagging is hopeless in this forum :(

Cornelia

GJ

Both new pink standards starting well

Belle de Jour

Lolabelle

Archiduc

Boule de Neige

Tranquillity

Amazing Day

Rojas congrats on Evelyn. Your photos show off the Austin charm so perfectly!

You really do have the most exquisite blooms @Rojas, can't wait for the full Contance Spry wow moment.

Lovely Lilac Bouquet Marlorena, will watch that one with interest.

I am tempted too Eustace by Cornelia, very pretty indeed. Edit and now yours too WAMS, it's going to be too much!

Great to see those lovely red triffids @Fire zone 8, north London, UK, that is quite a growth rate, hope they behave as you wish now

Not at all great there Nollie, hopefully conditions better now and you don't lose too much but I feel for you

Purples tonight, Heidi Klum and first blooms of Purple Lodge/Palais Biron and Eufemia

Ah, slobber, Amazing Day is soo lovely. And impossible to get after Brexit, sigh.

Love it how 'Belle de Jour' changes from deep buttery yellow to a much more gentler yellow, tinged with orange as the blooms age.

Aaand it's letting me type again.

ElbFee, Amazing Day is perfection, but I haven't a non-wonky second flush. In the heat of summer it is hideous here! But it is lovely, yes, like raspberry ripple. I am most likely to be back in New Zealand at the end of this year and it is one of the roses unavailable there-- and the thought does sadden me. On the other hand, you can get pretty much all the discontinued Austins ever over there. So Kathryn Morley and all of Rojas's other beauties will be mine! *rubs hands* Did you make up your mind what to do with that rare rose you saved but which wasn't behaving itself?

Love your purples, Tack. 😍

PeteS, I also love the colours of that rose. It's almost like a watercolour painting. Henri Delbard has the same effect. Love the look of Marlorena's Scented Garden, too.

@Sarah WAMS - do you have a garden in NZ?

Not yet. Land is freakishly expensive there now but we shall see what's available! I would be content with a shed in a field with no internet, but the teenager may disagree.

We could do with a southern hemisphere contributor as it's difficult to keep a winter thread going. All your roses will be blooming in January, so we shall need warming up.

Yes, @Wams, as I was strongly encouraged by you, I got rid of Micolas Ales. I moved, I think, James L. Austin in that spot and it is already starting to bloom. Yeah, success and identification coming up. I will be vistiting Europa Rosarium Sangerhausen at the end of the month and will say hello to a sibling of Micolas there.

Oh, you are moving and leaving your garden. Out of curiosity, would you be allowed to import your roses, although probably not the most convenient way to start a new garden.

Todays pics:

Souvenir de St. Anne's

Clg. Mrs. Herbert Stevens

Gertrude Jekyll

Rhododendron 'Percy Wiseman'

I normally treat Welsh poppies as weeds but decided to let them grow this year (which means I'll drown in them in a couple of years and any resemblance of a colour scheme will be ruined but whatever... they are pretty)

Lovely pics all..

May be you can take a cutting? try to root one now or after flowering WAMS..

Quite a good collection of old roses there @ElbFee My fist bloom on Yolande is also having a proliferation problem.. but the resin from bud smells awesome..

It was such a joy today.. got early from work and straight away started sniffing roses..

Munstead wood with Nepeta..

Twilight Zone

Julio Iglesias

Louis Odier

Emily Bronte

Scabiosa with Crimson glory in the back ground

new bloom on Gruss an Coburg

Amour de Marie Jo.. another new bareroot this year.. not strong scent yet..

Gertrude J

WAMS, I don't think you would be allowed to leave NZ with plant material

Wow! So many gorgeous roses in flower! I’m still waiting for the most of mine to start blooming…
A few more got their first flower today:
Boscobel, For Your Eyes Only, Elina and Souvenir de St Anne’s (smells delicious!)

@Cooldoc As you can see it on the picture Evelyn came without any support and stem holds the big bloom nicely. It didn't even touched the card board box. Hahaha.. I had similar experience, I have subscribed for the potted roses notification, before I reach it will be sold out. Seems I've managed to nick yours in time ! No basal growth on the other Evelyn so far and I'm giving root drench with Empathy feed. Hopefully thats helps! Love the colours of Julio Iglesias. Twilight Zone is in my wish lis for a long time and that bloom looks really reddish!

@Sarah WAMS (England, Zone 8a). Ahh I envy you a bit as you can get hold of some of the rare old Austins that I'm hunting for! As I've promised earlier, I took Kathryn Morley cuttings for you last autumn and then I came to know about your move! I was sad that I would not be able to get chocolates from you for Kathryn Morley! Just kidding...it was a shocking news. Looks like both cuttings rooted and i'll post the pictures tomorrow. Please try to acquire as many old Austins as possible and share pictures with us!

@Tack UK Constance Spry is nearly there!

Wild Edric - Mostly in Full flush

Cymbeline - Coffee tones

Wellbeing:

Mme Isaac Pereire rose: This rose just doesn't work for me! Got rust badly although I have sprayed multiple times already! The colour looks much faded in person. I should let this go! @Nollie in Spain Zone9 Indeed yours is beautiful and doing much better!

Boscobel:

Crown Princess Margareta:

Eustacia Vye:

Radio Times: Love the scent

Emily Bronte:

I was hunting for a very rare old Austin for a long time and by god's grace I found it. I really wanted one badly but I've ended up with 4! What a blessing :-) I just can't wait to see the blooms. I will post pictures once I know it's a true rose!

@Rojas you have the national collection of DA roses! 👍 Looking forward to seeing your Constance Spry this season. 💕

Lovely pics @Edhelka (North Wales, UK) (Just realised that I missed your post...) @Oliya and that Constance spry is something @Rojas

A few more have started to bloom.

Sidonie.

Reine de Violettes.

Sombreuil

Mme Zoetmans

Rosa cristata is not open yet, but looks as impressive in bud.

..superb array of roses Rojas.. oh gosh and all the others I've only just seen..

'Lavender Lassie' opened today..

'Comtesse Andre d'Oultremont'..

'Loyal Companion'..

'Sophie's Perpetual'..

'Cornelia'..

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'..

So many lovely roses!
Love song opened this week

@rojas

Hi Rojas...how old is your wonderful Constance Spry. I've got one, but it's only in it's 3rd Summer.

I've just got to get these for next year. A wonderful clump of Iris's growing in my local park's garden.

The picture doesn't do them justice really. Stunning fresh greens and blue/purples.

Spectacular roses everyone!

Gloire de Dijon

Lady Hillingdon - quite orange today

@peter straw

I have planted Constance Spry between 2019 to 2020. So this is 4th summer in the garden. Hoping yours will do well this summer.

'Scarborough Fair'..

'Kathleen Harrop'..

''Surpassing Beauty''..

'Dr. O'Donel Brown'.. old HT ..

Superb rose pictures. A veritable feast for the eyes and soul. Thanks for sharing. 😊

Today we visited the Waddesdon Manor. The rose garden there is being redone with fairly new planting, including Penelope Lively and Bring Me Sunshine. Very few roses were flowering. Most of the rose plants were only 1 1/2 - 2 ft high. In a few more years, it would be nice to see the pink and yellow rose garden. Here is the layout plan and a few pictures I took.

This year it looks like everything will bloom within the next week whereas nearly half my roses waited until June in 23

Susan Williams-Ellis and Mountbatten

Marie Pavie will get one pic though is easily overlooked and underappreciated

Recently moved Kew Gardens and Rhapsody in Blue

Open today The Anniversary Rose/Dee-lish

Carmenia, unknown floribunda and Chippendale

New for this season Harlow Carr

And from the front ;)

Amazing Malvern, @Tack UK

Totally gorgeous Tack.. this Standard 'Harlow Carr' will be a showstopper, like PP's..

Eustace.. nice garden visit by the looks of it.. they've made good choices, I've had 6 of the pinks and 8 of the yellows..

Anyone tempted by the latest inevitably pink Austin? I think it's nice in the picture but I'm going to wait it out and see if they release another at Hampton Court.. although I've not heard anything about this as yet.

I am a bit tempted...Are there more pictures and a description somewhere?

@Marlorena DA are only releasing one rose this year. If I am remembering correctly from an answer to someone’s question on facebook. @Tack UK the picture and description that I posted was taken from a link I received from the RHS about Chelsea. The link has since been deleted. I think DA may have complained about the leak of their new release. I’m just guessing.

I am visiting garden friends starting in 8 days for an entire week. Looks like it will be the prime rose bloom week in my garden😥. I am seriously reconsidering my travel route. Sangerhausen or Fee-ville?

Two roses a day apart each. Love how they unfold. Variegata threw out quite long canes and sort of self-pegged. Look at all these buds on the horizontal cane.

The season started with some odd colouring. Looks like the recent warmth, about a week at 25°C, helped. Hugs&Kisses is back to its normal varying strong colours. Its not Mutabilis but survives in my climate. Not pruning helped, too. Jacques also remembers to be a white rose. Reminds me a bit of Leda without the balling, longer lasting flowers and only half the size. A much better choice. My rare-but-not-opening-rose replacement is James. The next Gallica is showing great sepals. An amazing flush almost in full shade.

New to me Prince Camille is said to grow to 180cm. Mine decided to do this at ground level channeling the inner snake. An old rose scent, citrussy. Havanna without much scent but glows a good distance. And the current stars in my garden, iris.

Great roses everyone. My wish list is growing. First wish: win the lottery. Second wish: get a bigger garden. Third and all other wishes: roses and companions. And maybe a helper.

Tack, your roses are incredibly stunning.

I got rid of quite a lot of roses this year, could do with a new one or two. But I can't tell that I am tempted by the new DA... or anything else really. Have I missed some awesome new release in the last year?

My wish list is: staff. 😆

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I find it a bit disturbing that a "ground cover" rose like Flower Carpet can get to ten ft if left unpruned. Surely 'ground cover' and 'carpet' are misnomers?! They are sold as 'super easy', so I bet lots of buyers assume they don't have to worry about pruning.

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I'm wondering if a rose like Champagne Moment might have more colour subtleties in partial shade and sun might bleach it out towards white? Do roses do that? Might are growing pretty much straight white in full sun. Or perhaps in future years they might change colour and darken? Thoughts welcome. Thanks

Wow.. so many pics..

White Jacques Cartier looks like Leda @Elbfee Is it similar to JC in all other aspects? Rebloom and fregrance?

@Tack Now I remember where I saw a similar pic to yours.. in TV at the rose pavilion (DA/ Peter Beales).. they wrap them around obelisks.. but you have done pretty much with just one rose..