Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!

Very beautiful, every one of them. Is the Ispahan what is sometimes called a cabbage rose? It's wonderful.

You have lots of roses. Can't decide which is my favorite, they are all
so beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful!! They're like potato chips,i can't pick just one!!
Kathi

I would call it a cabbage rose, but don't know if "experts" would. :)

I "rescued' it from an abandoned farm - I just dug two starts from the HUGE bush along the road front. From those two little cuttings, it has grown into nearly as big of a bush as the parent. I keep that first one in a big bush clump, but the one in these photos I trained up a post next to a power pole and then let it cascade over how it wished this spring. I keep taken "slips" and spreading it around the property. It is not bothered by insects, drought or the electric company workers who climbed up the pole to do repairs on the pole and lines. :)

I love this rose above all others. I wish you could smell her fragrance. It is totally unique and so strong. The whole yard and up into the meadow is filled with her heavy Myrrh fragrance. You almost feel as if you are walking through some ancient Middle Eastern garden. Oh, my!

Eduarda helped me identify her, bless er heart. She has them in her garden in Portugal. You can imagine my delight in finally getting her identified. What a class act rose.
I discovered that Antique Rose Emporium sells them. They are listed in their catalogue with their "Old Garden Roses" as a Hybrid Tea, once blooming, Fragrant Medium Pink. No other description about her is given there. That is a pathetic description! Hmph!

:)

Your roses are beautiful! I love Belinda's Dream and the New Dawn.

Ignore the time stamps on those images. My camera went whack-o last month and hasn't been accurate since. I tired to remove the time stamp, but the next time I used it, there it was again. Grrrr.

if it say 'sorry photo heavy'--I'M SO THERE! awesome photos...thanks for posting.

Hard to pick a favorite although I love Ispahan too and Chicago Peace. Thanks for sharing.

dahli,

You are so cute. I laughed out loud when I read your post. I am still laughing!

This is the Pink Flowering Almond (or is it Flowering Pink Almond?). Anyway, it blooms in early spring. You can see it is planted at the base of Rosa, Ispahan. Some years they bloom together, but not this year.

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The color is washed out in this photo due to the funky spring lighting, I suppose. It is a lovely "baby girl's" pink like the pink you can see in the center.
It was just beginning to bloom when I snapped this picture. No fragrance but a beautiful little shrub. It is illegal to grow and/or sell in some states, for some reason. Glad it isn't here! It spreads by expanding in size, but never grows more than three feet tall.

So gorgeous Annie! I think these might be my favorite photos you have every posted of the garden!! That pink rose and peony combo is out of this world!!!

I love Midas Touch. My friend had a HUGE huge specimen by her front door for about 10 years. I took several cuttings, that were non-grafted and gave them away, the one I kept for myself I had labeled incorrectly :(
They painted my friends house two years ago and cut the darned rose right off below the graft!!! So sad.

I also love flowering almond. It can take the worst possible location and bloom and multiply like a trooper. We've got one in solid red clay beside the driveway between the road and sidewalk. It's a thankless location and every Easter it blooms it's head off!! The mother of mine is unusual and grows more like sticks to 4' tall. Mine is lax and grows 8" tall?!!

I will be needing to get Belinda's Dream!

Thank you everyone.

I have really been working on improving my soil the past three years and that has made a big difference, I believe. Good soil - good plants.

Good rainfall, this year too.
Belinda's Dream looks like a big, fat pink Snowflake. And she smells divine. Has a good strong fragrance. She likes full sun, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

That 5-inch bloom is on a plant that is only two feet tall. I rooted it last spring. I just stuck a broken off branch in the ground, and no kidding, she rooted in about three weeks and began blooming within a month. Poor little plant was bent over double with those big blooms. She bloomed all summer last year. This year, her blooms are even bigger. I totally love Belinda's Dream. In front of her is a rose cutting I got from plantmaven. I think it is Rosa, Heritage, although I can't be certain. She is only 18 inches tall and has bloomed twice already this year. She bloomed last year too, but much smaller blooms on an 8 inch plant. She has a strong, lovely old rose fragrance and sweet baby pink color.

I just cannot get enough roses! It is my new freak!
If I keep on like this, I will have to change my home name from Iowa Hills Herb Farm to Rose Hill Cottage!

Thanks again everyone. I'll be sure to tell my rose-girls how much you all love them.

~Annie

Annie, I loved the pictures of your roses.. You have some real beauties.

I have Belinda's Dream from Chamblees and it doesn't look like yours at all and it isn't very fragrant. Makes me wonder. I will post a picture for you to take a look at.

I thought I lost it over winter but it finally came back but is pretty short so far.

You have made me want Ispahan. I love the very fragrant ones.

Me and the Japanese Beetles thank you all!

absolutely beautiful!! I feel like I can smell them through the screen :) I HAVE to add more roses, that's for sure!! Thanks for the inspiration!

~Andrea

Ispahan really is amazingly beautiful

Beautiful!! If you just took a close-up of the Ispahan, you'd (at least I'd) think it was another peony. I'm still afraid to grow roses; but this has got me interested...hmmmm

Ispahan does look like a peony. Just wonderful.
Renee

Annie,
I posted a reply to your reply on my post of my garden not sure if you saw it or not.

Your gardens are very pretty and your roses so healthy and lush looking! I love that New Dawn, always wanted to try her but wasn't sure how she would do here and that Ispahan wow,love the color and it looks fantastic with those peony! :O)

My spring flush was great but now the thripes something I have had before but never too bad is becoming a huge problem this year and the leafhoppers are doing a number too. :O(
~Meghan

Oh, Betty Boop is so pretty. I love your garden. The other favorite of mine was the Knockout roses.

Wow, you have some really wonderful roses and peonies.

FlowerLady