I don't know why, maybe someone here has seen this? A lot of my roses are blooming.. squished? roses. The blooms are actually oblong! They look squished & are ugly. This has been a crappy year for my roses. You'll have to excuse all of the spent blooms. It's too late in the season to deadhead anything. I stop deadheading in Sept so the roses can get ready for their winter's sleep.

Blue Bayou & Brandy


Clare de Lune


Harlequin & Hawkeye Belle


Judy Garland


Koko Loko, Kordes Perfecta, Lavender Simplicity


Mardi Gras. This is my version of Old Faithful


Magenta


Molineux, Oklahoma, and a Pink NoID


Princess de Monaco


Rhapsody in Blue, Scentimental, & Silver Star


Solar Flash (showing some odd "black" in it's petals.. couldn't get a good shot)


Strike it Rich, Sunsprite, White Licorice (you can really see the squished bloom on Strike it Rich)

Your roses look quite lovely to me! I don't know why a few are oddly shaped but that doesn't ruin their appeal. I wish my roses looked half as good!

Golden Princess & Mardi Gras again. :)

That I why I quit growing HTs. They open lopsided. Daylilies open crooked if it's too cool, I wonder if your cool nights are causing this?
All your pics look better than my roses. Your White Licorice in particular is beautiful.

Those are great blooms Skiekitty. I happy that we still have blooms. It's been a great September. Here's what's in bloom here (roses).
Morden Centennial

John Cabot


John Davis


Sunny Daze


Quadra


Amber Queen


Trumpeter


Climbing Pinata


Be-Bop


Hot Coco


New Zealand


Martin Forbisher


Jens Munk


Linda Campbell


Joanne


Purple Pavement


Champlain

Oops! didn't realize that the system puts all the photos in the entire thread as a flip show. Hope you don't mind that I added photos to your thread.

Joanne - for that beautiful of a hijack, you're ALWAYS welcome to add your pix to my thread! That way I have something to strive for!

From this morning.. some fuzzy pix.

Vista & Vineyard Song


Clare de Lune & Scentimental


Lavender Dream & Europeana (couldn't get a clear shot due to the color)


Pandemonium & Orchid Masterpiece


Purple Splash & Harlequin


Wild Blue Yonder & Solar Flash (you can see the "blackening" on the petals)


Memorial Day (looks like crap, but the only one to bloom true-to-color this year) & Rhapsody in Blue & Hawkeye Belle


English Perfume


Playboy (bad shots)


Ebb Tide & Heirloom


Blue Bayou


Parfum Melodee & Purple Heart

Very pretty fuzzy or not. Your Rhapsody looks similar to my Burgundy Iceburg. Love the unique colour

That Rhapsody isn't showing the high tint of blue that the one I had from RU had (I lost that one when I transplanted it last fall).

But more from this morning:

Cinco de Mayo & Singin' the Blues


Charisma & English Perfume


ChaChing! (looks really weird.. what is wrong w/these blooms? All of the blooms are doing this) & Summer Holiday


Memorial Day & Silver Star


Hawkeye Belle & Oshun


Wild Blue Yonder & Orchid Masterpiece


Shockwave & Duftsrausch


Betty Boop & Blue Girl


Judy Garland & Parfum Melodee

Zuzu, would it be possible to re-title this thread so that it more accurately reflects the contents?

I think that these are competent and accurate photos of roses blooming in Toni's garden (and Joanna's, too), and that many of these photos depict very desirable roses. Even where we might judge the rose itself to have flaws, those flaws are typical of the roses they depict and helpful in making judgments about those cultivars. I would suggest 'candid' vs 'posed' in speaking about the state we find a rose to be in when we photograph it. There is also a state in which a rose is gussied up by removal of petals and so on and then photographed in artificial conditions. This we might call a 'glam shot.' Perhaps this thread is better titled September Rose Candids.

Good idea, Steve.

Much better title!

you listening, Toni? You grow beautiful roses and you should be proud of them.
I love the photos, especially when you show more than just the blossom. I've bought many roses based upon your photos of your roses!

I was looking all over for my ugly thread.. I guess "Candid" does sound more PC than Ugly.

Just a few pictures this morning. I am getting a "new" camera (used) this weekend, so hopefully I can take some pretty pictures as these pictures are HORRIBLE. I took like 20 shots & only like 5 are somewhat decent. My lense was all filthy.. everything came out blurry. But I did pick one heck of a bouquet for my office.. the last one for the year.

Hawkeye Belle (I highly recommend this rose) & Strike It Rich & Harlequin


Sundowner (this was a body bag from 2 years ago)


And my bouquet


My Koko Loko is really a deep brown. That's the brown rose in the middle of the first photo. My bouquet has Koko Loko, Scentimental, Tuscan Sun, Parfume Melodee, Sunny Delight, Sundowner, White Licorice, Lavender Simplicity, Oranges & lemons, Hawkeye Belle, Blue Bayou, Magenta, Mardi Gras, We Salute You, & English Perfume (I think that's all of them)

Very impressive!

Beautiful

Love the bouquets