Well, I don't have too many roses opening up just yet, but I have lots of fat swollen buds, so here's a start with only a few (more to be added next week undoubtedly).

Sonya


Ring of Fire


Ruby Ruby


No ID Pink EDIT - After some poking around, I found that it had a Kordes tag, so I went to their website (http://www.gartenrosen.de/kord...) and figure that this is "Hot Kiss"


(and some non-roses)

Concorde Grape Spiderwort (Tradescantia) (Love this thing, so dependable, good to zone 4 at least, not fussy about light/water/soil)


James McFarlane Lilac

Some more blooms from Fri/Sat. If you see white on the photos, it's from my neighbors' damned cottonwood trees.. they're blooming & leaving a mess EVERYWHERE.

White NoID mini (Kordes rose of some kind)


Winter Magic


Heinrich Karsch


Vista


The mini rose flowerbed


Purple Heart (blossom's sitting inside of a Magic Carpet spirea)


Heirloom


Singin' the Blues

Everything looks healthy and anxious to please you. Worth waiting for!

Angel Face


Angel Face with Blue Girl


Blue Girl


An Apricot mini NoID (it's not a Kordes.. any suggestions as to who/what? Grows about 12-18" tall, blooms about 2", no scent, not very thorny at all)


Austrian Copper with it's last blossoms going on.


Betty Boop


Betty Boop with Ruby Ruby


Ruby Ruby


Escapade


Charisma


Camayeux (from Melva 2 years ago!)


Perfume Tiger (this is rated only to zone 7 and this is year 2 for all my Perfume Tigers)


Sonja (sonya?) including an odd double


Summer Sunshine.. a 3 year old plant who's been horribly neglected by me..


Vista (mini)


Now my pond area


Sterling Silver with a "Magic Candle" delphinium in the pond area (the white on the pond is the cotton from the damned cottonwoods next door,.... they had clogged up my pump and had to drain out the entire pond area from the cottonwood sludge!!)


This is a Stainless Steel. Guess it's grafted on a Dr. Huey, huh.


Singin' the Blues

Better pictures of Camaxieu



Charisma from the West side of my house (not the teeny puny one in front) it's hard to get the orange w/o it blurring!


My first Sterling Silver blossomed.


Singin' the Blues is gorgeous.


Sunny Delite has the fattest buds!!


Lastly, Outta the Blue. Wow. But it's so LEGGY!!! Help!!

From this morning in the front yard...

Another Perfume Tiger is opening. All 4 survived the winter, and they're supposed to be a zone 7 rose.


Golden Masterpiece is showing up everyone.


Sunsprite is so happy!

One of my Intrigue's is opening finally. This is one of the most smelliest roses I have.


I really do like Betty Boop. I wasn't sure if I was going to, but I do.


BlueGirl.. *sigh* I love this one. I really do.


In my "mini bed", everything's really starting to bloom. Too bad most of them are NoIDs!


Bee's Knees is so cute! Too bad it is buried by an agastache who's grown like MAD this year!!


And finally, Rhapsody in Blue. Not 100% true to color.. I could NOT get the blue depth last night. I got to it too late & the sun was too low. But this is pretty darned close!

Awesome collection, Toni!
Those Perfume Tigers are gorgeous. Where did you get them?
Did you mulch them heavily, or does the snow do that for you?

Cindi - Every rose is under at least 2-4" of mulch, some are under 6". They have to be to survive the winters here. I got 4 Perfume Tigers from Home Depot last year and every one survived, considering that they're supposed to be zone 7 roses. But most of my roses are zone 7s. That's why the tons & tons of mulch. I'll put up with the centipedes if my roses survive.

The tree grinding company dumped several truck loads of mulch at our place this year so hopefully this winter I'll get busy mulching before it gets too cold. Last winter was the coldest in 50 years and I lost fewer roses than the past 3 years, so part of it has to do with the age of the rose, I think. I didn't mulch and we didn't have snow. Maybe I killed off all the weaklings in prior years and now I just have tough ones?

Cindi - I found that to be the case with me too! LOL! The weak ones don't survive and the strong do. For instance, my Oranges & Lemons, JFK, & Mardi Gras are my original roses from '08 (when I started to plant roses). They've survived 3 winters, 2 w/o a lot of mulch & 1 w/o any mulch. George Burns, from the same time period, didn't. So I guess he got weeded out as being a weak rose. I put Judy Garland in his spot and have been very happy! She survived! But I also like having the 5 hundred tons of mulch as keeps down the weeds (mostly) too.

I wish tree-trimming companies would do that here.. I'd still have to pay for mulch AND delivery from them.