This has been a bad year for my roses.. so dry & hot. But here's some last minute blooms. I doubt I'll get any real more of a flush between now & a first frost.

Mardi Gras


Bees Knees


Melodie Parfumee


Sunny Delite


RedGold


Harliquin (too heavy to hold itself up from the rain last night)


Purple Splash


Dick Clark


Help with ID'ing this rose? NO idea on who it is and it's too late to really dig it up to find the tag.


Now some of Cliff's roses that have come in the past month:

Cinnamon Twist


Outta the Blue


Shocking Blue


And some NoIDs.. they're buried too deep for me to find the tag.. I'll find them in the spring. Or I can just wait until they bloom as I have all my invoices. I have 5 others that are too freshly put in to be putting out leaves yet.


This is why I think this is my last parade - you can see just how cold this front was in some of the pictures. The far right picture in the 2nd row shows the clouds below the mountain tops.

Toni, Great blooms for end of season. Your thread had prompted me to take the camera out to the garden and check who was worthy of a photo shoot. Our days have become significantly shorter and we a due for a killing frost any day now. Here's my Last Parade.

Hardy Climbers:
John Davis



Marie Victorin




John Cabot




Hardy Shrubs:
Linda Campbell




Winnipeg Parks




Martin Frobisher




Pink Grootendorst




Floribunda
Hot Coco




Intrigue (edit to say photo appeared at the bottom of the thread)


Hybrid Tea
Ingrid Bergman





Miniatures
Gourmet Popcorn




Other Miniatures, including mini climbers

I was bad. I cut some blooms this morning. I was burying 2 more roses I got from Cliff yesterday (Pandemonium http://www.helpmefind.com/gard... and Duftrausch http://www.helpmefind.com/rose...) and I saw lots of gorgeousness. Because it's been cooler than normal (mid 60s) and it rained a LOT, got lots and lots of new buds. I so desperately want to deadhead for 1 more flush, but I saw too many geese heading south yesterday so I know it's getting too close to frost. So I limited myself to just a few blooms this morning for work.

California Dreamin' (Pink/White), Scentimental (red/white striped), Sunny Delite (yellow), Mardi Gras (orange), Melodie Parfumee (deep mauve) Koko Loko (light lavender tan/mauve), and that mystery pinkish English rose as shown above:

I can't see the mystery pinkish English one in the bouquet, Toni, but the photo of it above is certainly intriguing. I love roses with a million petals.

How sad that the season's almost over for you and Joanne and your wonderful roses.

Joanne, that Pink Grootendorst is just beautiful.

The last picture of the bouquet shows a teeny nibble of it under Sunny Delite. But this is my view of my bouquet this morning.

Some pictures from this morning (added what I could to the database.. couldn't add Brilliant Veranda or Shockwave)

Blue Bayou


Brilliant Veranda


Outta the Blue


Shockwave


Solitude

Was uberbad & made myself another bouquet for work.

From upper left clockwise to the right: Mardi Gras, Koko Loko, Montezuma, Sunny Delite, NoID, California Dreamin', Solitude, Hawkeye Belle. Melody Parfumee is off camera to the left.


From lower left clockwise: Sunny Delite, California Dreamin', NoID, Melody Parfume, Solitude, Koko Loko, Mardi Gras (mostly off camera), & Montezuma

The roses won't mind; they want to make you happy! And who could not be delighted in the presence of by such a lovely collection? I bet it made the work day shorter than usual.

PPal - I just don't want the roses to be putting out new growth.. we're going to get a frost very soon and I don't want them putting any more energy than necessary putting out new roses. Too bad I don't have a switch to flip to let them know, HEY, IT'S WINTER TIME!! :(

and they just keep blooming.. now when I don't WANT Them to.. first hard freeze is threatening on the 14th when it's supposed to get down to 22degs that night. Sounds about right.

So here's some more purdies. Didn't have my camera, so used my phone.

California Dreamin' (these pictures don't really appreciate the size of these flowers.. the open one is a good 6" across!)


Blue Girl


Cha-Ching!


Claire de Lune (this I got from Cliff a few weeks ago!)


Ebb Tide


Fragrant Plum


Lagerfeld


Melody Parfumee (w/a bee!)


Perfume Tiger


Summer Sunshine


And a NoID .. any suggestions? help? I don't want to have to wait until next year to dig him up!!

Did you ever order Versigny? Or could it be Abraham Darby? There are so many possibilities.

It's not an ordered rose.. it's a rose from HD, Lowes, or maybe (but I doubt it) Cliff. But, here's the kicker: I wouldn't have ordered/bought this rose because I'm not one for apricot roses, so it's gotta be a screwed up one rose.

wait

Just thought of something

Remember when I bought that ... oh... dammit.. SHREVEPORT! That's the rose that I bought as Shreveport!! I remember Sue telling me specifically that that wasn't Shreveport. I remember looking it up before I bought it to see what I was buying as it was labeled Shreveport and the few buds on there was that soft pink that turns into this monstrosity. I still like it, but that's what I bought it as!! Had to jar the ol' noggin for a minute or two. That's why it didn't have a tag when I dug down.. those particular roses didn't have tags on them specifically, just on the buckets. That was in the same batch that I got the three Orchid Masterpieces (2 for me, 1 for Zuzu).

A rose I got from Cliff (EuroDesert) in his sell-off on around August 20th has blossomed!

Presenting a crappy picture of Distant Drums!!

Couple of more pics from a few roses up front.

Tuscan Sun (note the lack of petals now)


Paradise


Dolly Parton


And some decent pictures of California Dreamin' (I put my iPhone next to the one open bloom for size comparison). I know that California Dreamin' isn't supposed to have much of a scent, but she smells GOOD. Not strong, but very nice.

Why on earth does everyone want to bloom NOW???? We're getting ready for our first frost this weekend!!

Blue Bayou


Fragrant Plum with a couple of interesting insects.. some kind of beetle & a creepy looking spider


Hawkeye Belle


Honey Sweet (got this from my last RU order)


Judy Garland


Koko Loko


Mardi Gras (Old Faithful)


Oranges & Lemons


Paradise (this is a great shot of the true colors I think)


Silver Cloud (not blooming yet, but has been in the ground for less than 2 months.. this is one I got from Cliff around the 1st of Sept & you can see a rose bud on it!)


Tuscan Sun


Solitude (should put this in the "Upside Down" thread)

Maybe the roses know more than the weathermen...

PPal - No, this what happens every fall. I get a huge flush because of the cooler nights and not as stiffling days.. and then we get 2' of snow.

Something wicked this way comes....

The wind is horrendous. The petals have been violently ripped off the roses. Broken tree branches lay on the ground. The grey clouds have popped over the mountains and look laden with some kind of moisture.

I took a few pictures of the blooms yesterday, but I wish I had taken more. This probably is the end for this year.

Amy Grant:

I took these pictures on my way in to work both a couple of days ago and this morning. The 2nd set you can definitely see the coldfront flying in.




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Really? Is that what a cold front looks like? We don't get any visible warning - usually just a sudden shift of the wind to the north accompanied by a 20 degree drop in temperature.
Still being optimistic: maybe it's just a cool front.