rose at last

beautiful sunny colour:))))

my second favourite colour, next to red - proper rose red, not pink! and just as well i took the pic yesterday, the floewr's gone this morning, not shrivelled up, compltely and totally gone. and no other buds, sigh ...

great pic !
I love pink roses , actually I love all colors
the only ones I hate is variegated ones!

My very favourite are the deep red, what I call "velvet" roses - then most other colours. I'm not too sure about pink (never taken much to anything pink after being forced into it as a kid because "pink is for girls"). The variagated ones are spectacular! but often scent is sacrificed for looks, and I'd prefer a rose of any colour with scent than the flashies one without

Right! I often choose for the smell!
For me it's the same I never wear pink, and don't like pink things, but for roses and flowers I love pink shades!
If you like red roses you must try (if you don't have yet) Papa
Meilland, it's very red, very velvet and very very scented!

Given my vision, unless a shrub is a mass of roses (and I don't have room for a shrub that size) I'm likely not to see an isolated bloom - I only spotted this one five minutes before I took the picture!

I'm checking out roses, looking mainly at miniature ones (some of which are listed at growing up to 7 feet - some "miniateure"!) I've not found it possible to phrase the search to indicate that the whole plant is to be miniature, not just have tiny flowers.

lol you'd be amazed at how much contempt I can get into the word "pink"!! to me that IS a four-letter word!

I love the yellow ones too!

yellow is vibrant in this rose...very lush looking...

I must start looking up TLC instructuins: it only ever blooms one at a time. I've been wary of pruning, cos it's hard to put it back if you take off toomuch! but think I should take the plunge.

i have no idea you can help teach me as you go along....

lolok, that would be the blind leading the blind, she said, waving her white stick!!! I've got a few books on roses, and there's plenty of online advice, most of which I don't understand. durr!

:-))) will not do us much harm in this case :-))) as long as we mined the thorns :-)))))

lol indeed. As I'e probably said already, I'm slightly paranoid about pruning, in case I overdo it and harm the plant. I've been working on the principle that the less I do, the less risk of damage - "benign neglect". But it's not good for plants or children to have no discipline at all, they just run wild. So I'll cut the roses back, trying a different method on each, so I can see which works best, if I can remember what I did to which.

:-)))