BRONZE SUNSET

'COTTON CANDY' (my name for a J&P test rose that never got marketed)

EXCITING florist rose

GEISHA

GIRLS NIGHT OUT

LOUISE ESTES looking paler than usual

MARVELLE

MEMORIAL DAY

POP WARNER

PRIMA DONNA

REMEMBER ME

OP SEEDLING X BROADWAY

SOLITUDE

SWEET UNIQUE

TABLE MOUNTAIN

VAVOOM

WHITE LICORICE - not exactly very white!

WHITE LIGHTNIN'

WHITE MAJESTY

How come your Prima Donna is of such a different color than the pix on HelpMeFind (red - purple)?? I love your PD, what's the color when the folowers are fully open? Where did you get the plant? How old is it? Thanks.

Rosybunny, PRIMA DONNA is the florist version, not the one you were looking at. There are 5 roses on HMF called PRIMA DONNA. Mine is the last one with the codename "Lexannod." I got it many yrs ago from Carltons before they closed up. They were a florist company that also sold some stentlings and maidens of their various varieties they carried. Alot of us here will remember them. Many of us wish they were still around. If you want this rose, you'll have to find some stems at a florist & try to root them. It's a beautiful rose, but it unfortunately tends to get a lot of thrips, and I don't have time to spray. Oh, and the color doesn't fade that much, unless you leave the blooms on the bush for weeks, like I sometimes tend to do! Then it will fade to white or a greenish cream, like a lot of the lighter colored florist roses do.

Carol, that striped seedling is about 3 yrs old I think? It's weird because when it first blooms, the stripes are often not there. They show up under the subsequent bloomings and seem to get more evident each time. The mother plant (BROADWAY) is located right next to a bed of all striped roses, so it must've gotten some pollen from one (or more) of them. Last yrs blooms had more petals. It's kind of a weird rose. Not sure how it will do if I can get it in the ground.

Lovely show.