Some more random roses

 Mostly from work. Plus Abraham Darby from my garden. I don't know what the names of the roses are.

Another look at Heritage

 In June I made a post about Heritage. It is still in the first year in my yard and I am still evaluating it. Usually I find that the first blooms of the year are better than later blooms. For my Heritage bush I don't think that is the case. The one today had a light scent and to me it looked a little fuller than the first flush. I think that this rose is starting to grow on me 

Unknown moss rose

 Moss roses are part of the Old Garden Roses general umbrella. They fall into the European side of the Old Garden Roses versus the China side. The original moss roses were a mutation from the centifolia and damask roses that caused a mossy growth on the buds and pedicels. Often the moss has a distinct scent to it.

I am not sure where I came across this moss, I don't know the name. The more I come across this picture the more I grow to like the look. If more mosses were like this, I might be more tempted to seek them out.

Don't judge a book...or rose... By its cover...or early blooms

 Just like a cover to a book doesn't always say how good or bad it is going to be, the first bloom of a young rose isn't always going to be the same as when the plant gets older. This William Morris is a young plant, and I am not expecting the future blooms to look the same. (Though it would be cool)

Before it fully opened.

Fully open. 

Purple roses

Some of the purple roses that I have come across in the nearly 30 years of growing roses.

 

100 roses for 100th post part 3

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100 roses for 100th post part 2

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Monsieur Tillier. First Tea rose that I grew. Have grown it now in three different gardens, two different states.

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