I love that Higgy Bear.
Yes, that is Passionate Kisses up there.
I just love Marriotta. What a perfect rose!
I just posted these photos in another place to illustrate Murphy's Law, but I'll post them here too now that you've posted your Flower Girl standard. A garden club was scheduled to come tour my garden on the 19th. All of the roses were behaving beautifully, blooming like crazy, especially the Flower Girl standard. On the 17th we had one of those freak California rainfalls that continues for about 24 hours. The combination of the relentless rain and the plethora of blooms at the top of the tree rose snapped the tree in half on the morning of the 18th, the day before the tour. It was a 60-inch standard, which no one sells anymore, and it was the centerpiece of a big rose bed in front of my house. Here's the top half of the tree, standing in a bucket of water.
