Carol .. Thanks for the complement about 'Pinstripe'. My camera doesn't have the automatic focus feature, so that's part of my learning curve. 'Pinstripe' is a solid rose in my garden.
I can't compare the performance my 'Tiffany' to yours because you are growing your roses in containers and mine are in the ground.
No matter what you do, if you are trying to grow a rose that wants to be big in a container, you will, by default, be restricting the plants natural root growth. It can't be helped. That means you will never get the full potential of the rose, so it makes sense that you would have fewer blooms than I do on my plants.
From your photos, I can see that you do an excellent job of growing the roses and since I have fought glacier slurry / till myself, I can understand why you have to grow your roses in containers.
Container gardening in my high summer temps is a nightmare for me, but I still had to start all of my roses in containers to grow up a solid root mass before I put them into the ground to give them a better start in my lousy soil.
Now, that I am beginning to understand my camera, I'll try and take a photo of both of my roses. In a few weeks, the light will be better for photos. Right now, it's too intense ... even in the morning and evening hours. I am trying to find a way to compensate for that ...
