The recent rainfall has brought out hybrid tea roses out in a big way. I have cut approximately three dozen blooms in the last ten days and there are more buds left to open. Here’s a sample of what’s blooming this week:
Unknown Hybrid Tea – Any Ideas?
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About Chris VanCleave - America's Favorite Rose Gardener
Christopher R. VanCleave – America’s Favorite Rose Gardener
Nicknamed "The Redneck Rosarian”, Chris VanCleave is passionate about gardening and growing roses. He is an active member of the Birmingham chapter of the American Rose Society, serving two terms as President. In 2007, he created the Rose Chat Podcast which has reached over a half a million listeners with news and information on growing on growing the world’s most beloved flower, the rose.
He was a contributor to the 2015 Southern Living Gardening Book, has appeared on P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home television show and was featured in the June 2015 issue of Southern Living Magazine. Locally, Chris serves as Chairman of the Helena Alabama Beautification Board where he has spearheaded efforts to create a sustainable landscape in one of the top one hundred places to live in the United States.
His writing is seen at About.com and on his popular website; RedneckRosarian.com, where he chronicles his gardening adventures and explores an intrinsic mix of life, faith and gardening.
An agent of change with over 20 years’ experience in process innovation, Mr. VanCleave is leading the charge to reinvigorate horticultural societies and helping them to reach their full potential in the social media age.
The Redneck Rosarian 
I love roses, can’t get enough of them! Your moonstone is gorgeous 🙂
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Thank you so much! Moonstone is a favorite of ours also!
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I was under the impression. That roses don’t like a lot of water. Am I wrong? Or does it vary by the USDA zones? I was always told to water only if it hasn’t rained in awhile. Guess its incorrect!
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We have been without rain for weeks and have been hand watering our garden. No matter how much we water from the spigot, it pales in comparison to what falls from the sky. Roses need at least 1″ of water per week. Our rule is, if it rains that week, we don’t hand water. If not, out comes the bucket! Thanks for stopping by…..
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Those roses look yummy with all those water droplets!
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Your roses are fabulous! ‘Louise Estes’ looks like a Queen in any show!
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Thank you. Louise has been a creeper in my garden, but this year she is taking off!
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Your roses are beautiful and you have captured them perfectly. I have always had a love for roses are yours are lovely! Happy GBBD !
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Thank you so much. Glad u stopped by !
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Gorgeous, gorgeous! Moonstone, especially, looks gorgeous with those drops on water on her petals.
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Moonstone is a great rose. We have three shrubs and they are in almost always in bloom. Great for arrangements and for exhibition at rose shows….. 🙂
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I suppose moonstone looks great during a full moon….
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Only when waxing crescent… HA!
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Your pictures are gorgeous! So nice to bring flowers indoors for bouquets. I wonder if your unknown rose is Sedona? I have it, and it looks very similar. Mine has a fruity fragrance (at times!).
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We love to bring in blooms for the house and to share with others. I too have noticed that our roses have varying fragrances depending on growing conditions. I have had some roses with no scent at all the first year, then boom! second year a great smell!
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Oh my Oh my! What a beautiful garden and all those fragrant roses… The saddest thing of leaving Italy, was leaving my garden of over + 200 roses,my favourite ‘black beauty’…I have that ‘dream’ garden again some day! Love all of your blooms. Yx
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Thank you so much for your kind remarks. I know it must have been very difficult to leave behind such a lovely bloom filled garden. The good thing is, you can indeed plant another garden……
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My favourite today is the Ronald Reagan. It’s beautiful.
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I too love Mr. Reagan. This is a new rose in my garden and these are the first nice blooms we have seen… Thanks!
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What a beautiful suite of roses, I like the color in the unknown most. Unfortunately with our heat and salt wind it would be impossible for me to grow those.
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That unknown roses was marked as a “Ronald Reagan” and I was quite surprised to see it bloom otherwise. It has produced such beautiful blooms that we love it anyway…
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I adore Moonstone! What a gorgeous rose. And so many blooms? I am jealous but I don’t work as hard as you do!! Beautiful blooms! And thanks for your kind comment on my post about my courtyard roses! 🙂
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Moonstone is one of my all time favorites. Such an all around beautiful rose on the bush and in bouquets. I break my work in the garden down into an hour here and there so to me it doesn’t seem like too much. I so much enjoy my time in the garden among the blooms.
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Hi Chris, i just got this from Bob Martin and thought you would like to get a copy.
Horizon Roses 2012 is now available as an ebook on Kindle and other popular electronic formats. The Kindle version is available at Amazon.com and is available for download at this link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YK556W . The Smashwords edition is available at Smashwords.com in all popular electronic formats and is available for download at this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/215399 . Both versions sell at $7.99, which is less than the print edition previously cost. Further information on the issue is at http://www.roseshow.com.
Elena
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Wow! Thanks. I already have a copy from smashwords but would love a copy for my kindle. Thanks for the tip! Well worth the $$$
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I never thought I’d say these words…’Ronald Reagan’ is gorgeous!
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I love it!
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they truly are beautiful
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Your roses are gorgeous, especially Moonstone! I, too, am loving all this rain, but so are the weeds! I hear the temps are predicted to be a bit lower this week. I am looking forward to that!
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I know, I spent two hours yesterday between showers pulling weeds! Am very grateful for the cooler temps. Our air went out Thurs night…. Hope to have a new one installed by Tues!
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