Portland Rose Garden part 1

Mostly modern roses. However for it being mid July I will take them. I am going to break down the trip into several parts, so stay tuned. This is at the Portland Rose Garden near the zoo, to clarify.

My tea roses

Some of the tea roses that are either in my yard in the Willamette valley in Oregon; or ones that I have grown in the past, but no longer. I didn't label some of them because I can't remember which one is which picture, and sometimes they look really different than normal. Some I have had for 15 years, and been transplanted several times, and some are less than a year in my yard.

Niles Cochet

Sorocco House Lavender

Hubner Plot

Oneto Home Saffron

Bon Silene

Sorocco House Lavender

Safrano

Smith's Parish, had but no longer.

Mrs. B. R. Cant

Licorice Tea

Won Fang Yon

Mme. Jean Dupuy, had but no longer.

Licorice Tea

Monsieur Tillier

Monsieur Tillier

Revisit: Sorocco House Lavender

I already talked about this rose before, but the older the plant gets the more fascinating it gets. I bought the rose at the Sacramento City Cemetery Open Garden rose sale in 2018. Sorocco House Lavender is a found rose, meaning that the identity is lost.
Most of the blooms last year were similar to these:

A few in the fall and early this spring were like this:

Lately they have been more like this:

I find it amazing how different the roses can be from one rose bush. Is it any wonder that a solid identification may never happen? It is believed to be very similar to Mme. Lombard, if not the same, but the only way to know a hundred percent would be genetic testing.