I know from past years that I won't be able to keep up with this because literally hundreds more are starting to bloom each week, but here are most of the roses that started blooming in the first week of May.
The bloom on the left is About Face, a very tall grandiflora with huge flowers. They get so heavy that some, like this one, hang upside down. The bloom on the right is Abracadabra, the Warriner hybrid tea, not the striped Kordes one.
Alchymist is a once-blooming climber. I usually avoid once-bloomers because space is in short supply in my garden, but I would always make an exception for this one.
All a Twitter, on the left, is one of the new minis I bought from Edmunds' this year. Ambiance, on the right, is a new mini I just bought at Lowe's.
Here are just a few of the different-looking blooms on my Aloha climber (the Kordes one, in contrast to the Boerner one, which hasn't started blooming yet):
Amy Vanderbilt, on the left, is a floribunda, and Antique Caramel, on the right, is a hybrid tea with an interesting color scheme: sometimes it's yellow, sometimes it's cream-colored, and sometimes it has a dash of pink.
Harlekin is a gorgeous climber. (Edited to correct this name from Antike to Harlekin)
Apricot Nectar, on the left, is a floribunda, and Autumn Sunset, on the right, is a shrub or climber. I grow one as a climber and one as a shrub.
That's all the A's, so I'll move on to a new post.
