Did some dead-heading last night, took some pictures of what I had left.
Koko Loco, Rose Marie Viaud (yes, I know she's a single-time bloomer, but this is a "second" flush?)
Ketchup & Mustard (holds up VERY well in this heat for a day or so..) and HoneySweet (I
this rose!)
Did some counting, I think I lost about 40 or so roses.. starting to dig up the dead now. I know I lost Silverado (cries), Golden Glow (or something like that), Duftrausch (massive Cliff rose.. the root system was HUGE!!), both Sunny Delites (what is it with the yellows? I don't have hardly ANY yellows left!). However, as I was digging through the mulch to see if the plant was TRULY dead or not, was finding white (sunlight-starved) canes, so uncovered them mostly (not 100% so they hopefully won't get scorched) and let them go. I broke a couple of roses all the way to the graft just by touching them.. it's weird that the canes are *that* fragile! One of them, I don't know who (I was digging around hoping to find the tag but the tag's faded 100%) broke away all the way down, which totally SUCKS. Beautiful rose, I think it's Perfume Delight, but it's much more of a raspberry color than a pink. I know it's not Fragrant Cloud... smells VERY spicy. BTW, what does "damask" supposed to smell like?
