I don't have that many roses blooming right now, but my yard if full of promise after 7 straight days of rain. My pond area looks like a jungle now! And, even on of the roses I thought I had lost is blooming! I hadn't literally seen it alive since mid June.. and now it has a big beautiful (if faded) blossom on it! Yay! The weeds are outrageous.. some of them are already over a foot tall, and they weren't there this time last week! So I know what I'm doing this Sunday

Anyways, I was able to snap only 2 plants that had decent blooms on them after I went through & deadheaded EVERYONE. Took over an hour!

English Perfume - back yard pond area (NEW! Roses Unlimited 2011)


Double Feature - back yard pond area (NEW! Burlington Roses, 2011)

And Dolly Parton, after 3 years, is finally living up to her name.

Some more blooms .. took these a few days ago but I lost my camera!!

Baby Fairux (sp?) front yard minibed (2010, Burlington Roses)


English Perfume (beautiful beautiful!!) - backyard, pond area (2011 RU)


Julia Child - front yard (2010 Home Depot)


Kordes Brilliant - side yard (2010 Palatine)


Magic Carosel - front yard minibed (2011 Burlington Roses)


Melody Parfumee - front yard (2010 Paulino Gardens)


Scentimental - front yard (2009, Home Depot)


Solar Flash - back yard (2011, Palatine)


Sterling Silver - back yard pond area (2010 Home Depot)


Summer Holiday - back yard (very washed out pictures) (2010 eBay - seller from England)


Typhoon Freelander - back yard (2011 Palatine)


White Licorice - back yard (2011 Garden Valley Ranch) (excuse the mess!)


Yankee Doodle - front yard (2010 Home Depot)

Isn't English Perfume magical? I love that rose! All of your roses look so healthy, Toni, as usual.

Zuzu - LOL, when they're growing!!! I've been worried about possibly developing blackspot with all the rain and humidity (over 30% this past 2 weeks), but only Austrian Copper has any BS on it, and that one develops blackspot even when there's snow on the ground!

My "Double Feature" was actually Double Delight, so Burling sent me a new Double Feature. got it yesterday & planted it.. and now it's raining. Yay for monsoon!

Yay! I love those rains that come right after I plant something.

You will love Double Feature to pieces. It's one of my favorite roses and I was really worried that it would never be available again when Sequoia Nursery shut its doors. I'm so glad Burling rescued so many of that nursery's roses.

Isn't Austrian Copper the rose that passed black spot on to all the others? I think black spot didn't exist before Austrian Copper.

Well, AC is pretty far away from everyone else.. about 7-8' from the closest rose (Heirloom). But I just planted my baby Moje Hamarberg about 4' from it.. should I move Moje Hamarberg?

I don't know that it spreads that readily from bush to bush. I just remember reading that black spot started with Austrian Copper, although I don't remember how reliable the source was.

30% doesn't count as humidity around here!

If I plant my new roses will it make it rain?

I love your Magic Carosel - perfect!

30% humidity is high for you??? Wow. It rarely gets below 50% here.

It has been 90-100% here. Temperatures have been over 100 also. It is not usually this hot, but typically this humid in July.

Your roses and rose foliage look fantastic! I especially like English Perfume. Is it fragrant?

Andi - English Perfume smells like heaven. It's wonderful. Our average humidity here is between 10-20%.. usually around 16% is normal. Below 10% it's extremely dry. We're high desert plains here.

It's realy humid here to day like breathing water the clouds are dark I think it might rain I hope Its been so dry all the plants are strained form the heat I can't water enough God water is the best any ways
Gloria

I have been watering twice daily. Luckily, I am not charged by the gallon for water usage. I finally have some tomatoes growing this year, I am not going to lose them now!!!

My roses are sending up new canes and blooming. They don't mind the heat as long as they get enough water.

WOW its raining I would love for this to last all night !! a soft slow rain

Can I have some too, please?

well that diden't last to long but we got a lot of rain went from soft to down pore in a flash lightning and thunder too
Gloria

Gloria - if you're looking to give away the rain, I'll take some too..I'll even share with PPal! We could definitely use it..

we needed it too alls I have now is a ditch full of muddy water