Souvenir de la Malmaison

Lady Hillingdon

Bride's Dream, as you can see when you compare the size of the flower with the hand, this bloom was humongous. Unfortunately, I could only detect a very light almost faint fragrance.

Bride's Dream, side view

Mme. Alfred Carriere

Secret

Frederic Mistral, very fragrant rose. The bush was large, very well folliated and had a nice shape for an HT. I grow this rose myself and would highly recommend it, when there is a chance that it would do well for you in your climate. The pink flowers are very pretty in my opinion and the fragrance is heavenly!

Thanks for looking!

Christina

Masha

iris gal, the rose garden is not exactly close by, in fact it is 25 - 45 minutes away depending on the traffic, but well worth the ride! I am glad that you like Frederic Mistral it is my favorite rose in my own garden in the moment.

pelicanhead, I was very lucky, the person, who established this garden showed it to me together with another rose enthusiast! For you and all others that are interested, the address of the garden is:

Magee Historical House and Garden
Magee Park
258 Beech Street
Carlsbad, CA

The Garden is established and maintained by the members of the California Coastal Rose Society, if you want to find out more about it go to there website and click under "gardens".

pelicanhead, you have to go there, I am sure you will enjoy it!

Marina, I am glad you like my way to take photos. You picked exactly my favorite roses from this threat. Looks like we have the same pink taste ;-)!

Harol, it is really a pleasure for me to share these rose photos on the Rose Gallery.

Masha, Souvenir de la Malmaison is hard to beat for its beauty, isn't it? Can't wait until my baby band is giving me the first flower!

Christina

Krista, I know our climate is different from yours but Madame Alfred Carriere is absolutely humongous at Magee Garden. I'd say it's well over 15 feet tall, probably about 10 feet wide and at the very least 20 feet long. Hopefully for you it will stay much smaller because I know you'll really enjoy the lovely fragrance.

Ingrid

Ingrid, I glad that you like my pictures. I hope your freshly bought SdlM is producing these incredible beautiful flowers, that this rose is known for, for you soon.

Christina

I'm looking for a rose to be about 6-7 feet in the spot I have in mind... I would need MAC to be about half its warm zone size, will think on it...

At 6:15 p.m we have a "rosaholics" meeting where we discuss the problems we are having or other timely issues -- the next one (Oct 20) is prepping for the winter ssason (which - yes -- we do, even in California). That's the early topic.

Then at the "main meeting" which goes from 7 pm to 8:30 we have a speaker. At the October 20 meeting that will be Clair Martin, Curator of Rose and Perennial Gardens at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The illustrated talk is entitled "A Summer of English Rose Gardens" and, as mentioned, it will be given in Heritage Hall, 2650 Garfield Street, at 7:00 pm on Tuesday October 20th. Mr. Martin has written four books: English Roses for Southern California, The Book of Outdoor Gardening, 100 English Roses for the American Garden and 100 Old Roses for the American Garden.
Come one, come all.

Then in November, (Tuesday Nov. 17th at 5 pm -- special time this meeting only), we have our main fund raiser for the year which attracts a huge crowd. It's our annual rare rose auction where we sell roses that are not in commerce (at all, anywhere) for which CCRS has become justifiably famous. You need to come to that also.

Also, CCRS can always use help with the Magee Rose Garden maintenance tasks. We maintain that garden in exchange for free rent on our meeting place. That maintenance happens on occasional Saturday mornings, for about an hour each time. The next one is Nov. 7 at 9:00 am -- just show up with a pair of clippers in tow. The guy who runs the show (Bob) always brings home-baked goodies for the crew as an incentive to get folks to show up.

Anyway, come on by -- better late than never!

Kathy

wesley butterflies, thanks for your compliment regarding my photos, I am happy that you like them.

Kathy, thanks for adding all the information about the CCRS to my post. I am planning to come to the next meeting on Tuesday, the 20th and would love to meet you there in person.

pelicanhead, if you join the next meeting of the CCRS I would like to personally get to know you there, too.

aimeekitty, Secret looked especially pretty on that day. I guess the cooler weather that we were having the days before I took the photo had a positive effect on the coloration of that rose and on many others, too.

Christina

Carlyn