Happy Mother's Day

Ordered some English Roses from Jackson & Perkins =)

Christopher Marlowe English Rose - Unusual colored flowers captivate in front of the border! These lovely English blossoms add enticing perfume to the front of perennial borders. Sweet lemon and tea-rose scent, plus intense orange-red flowers overshot with salmon pink, make this compact rose an enchanting focal point! Rosa Christopher Marlowe /Red,Pink,Salmon,Orange / Blooms 3" / 68 petals / Medium Green foliage / Lemony,Tea Rose fragrance / Full Sun / Shipped as Bareroot / Height: 3 ft

Crown Princess Margareta English Rose - A flowering rambler with a luscious fragrance! Golden orange blossoms redolent with delectable tea-rose scent open freely on arching canes. Offers a bounty of blooms to ramble along a fence! Rosa Crown Princess Margareta /Apricot,Orange /Ovoid,Pointed buds / Blooms 3"-4" / 120 petals / 15" stems / Tea Rose fragrance / Full Sun / Shipped as Bareroot / Height: 6 ft

Abraham Darby English Rose - Soft, peachy-pink cupped flowers literally shimmer in your garden! Very large, deeply cupped blooms in a sublime, soft peachy-pink with a yellow inverse and a refreshing, fruity aroma. Long, arching canes are great for trellises and flower arrangements. Peachy pink-yellow reverse. Rosa Abraham Darby /Pink,Light Yellow,Apricot /Classic buds / Blooms 5" / 70 petals / Dark Green foliage / Strong,Fruity fragrance / Full Sun / Shipped as Bareroot / Zones 5-9 / Height: 5 ft

Janet English Rose - A masterpiece of color! These cupped, peachy-pink blooms are overshot with hints of copper and yellow, boasting a potent tea rose fragrance. Rosa Janet /Dark Pink,Gold,Light Yellow,Multi-Color /Ovoid,Pointed buds / Blooms 3.5"-4" / 75 petals / 18" stems / Medium Green foliage / Strong,Tea Rose fragrance / Full Sun / Shipped as Bareroot / Zones 5-9 / Width: 3ft - 3ft / Height: 4 ft

Bishop's Castle English Rose - Over 80 petals are packed into each flower!! Huge raspberry pink blooms powerfully perfumed with antique rose scent lighten as they open into full, cupped flowers. Attractive rounded plant. Pink /Rounded,Fat buds / Blooms 3"-4" / 80 petals / 12" stems / Dark Green foliage / Tea Rose fragrance / Full Sun / Shipped as Bareroot / Height: 3 ft - 4 ft.

Plus some from David Austin Roses several years ago...

Mary Rose - One of the most widely grown English Roses and it is not difficult to see why. It forms a good bushy shrub, that is particularly winter-hardy and blooms with unusual regularity throughout the summer. The flowers are of attractive, loose-petalled formation and of strong rose pink coloring. A first class garden shrub that mixes well with other plants. The delicious fragrance is of Old Rose character, with a hint of honey and almond blossom. It was named after Henry VIII’s flagship when it was recovered from the Solent after more than four hundred years. 4 ft. x 4 ft.

Winchester Cathedral - A lovely, white version of the beautiful Mary Rose, It has all the virtues of its parent and is similar in every way, except that its flowers are white with occasionally the slightest touch of buff-pink at the centre. The overall effect is excellent, with a mass of flowers held on a bushy shrub, which blooms at regular intervals throughout the season. The fragrance is of Old Rose character with a hint of honey and almond blossom. Named after one of the finest Cathedrals in Britain. 4 ft. x 4 ft.

Eglantyne - One of the most beautiful of the English Roses. The flowers are quite large and of exquisite formation - the petals turning up at the edges to form a shallow saucer filled with small petals. The growth is ideal, being of medium height and bushy, with nice foliage and little disease, making it in every way an excellent garden plant. It is sweetly fragrant - a charming and delicate Old Rose scent. Named after Eglantyne Jebb, the Shropshire woman who founded the ‘Save the Children’ charity fund. Will benefit from summer pruning. 4.5 ft. x 3 ft. or 6 ft. as a climber.

The Ingenious Mr Fairchild - The flowers of ˜The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild™ are in the form of deep cups filled with crisp, upstanding petals. The colour on the inside of the petals is a deep pink touched with lilac; the outside is of a paler shade. Looking at the bloom in more detail, one can see that the edges are an even deeper pink; giving a most delightful fringed effect - particularly in the earlier stages. The growth is ideal with spreading, arching branches building up into a well-rounded, mounding shrub; with its flowers nicely poised. It is very healthy. It has a strong and deliciously fruity rose fragrance, with aspects of raspberry, peach and a hint of mint. All in all, a very beautiful rose and one of our favourites. Named after Thomas Fairchild, a nurseryman of London and Fellow of the Royal Society, who made the first recorded flower hybrid in Europe in 1720. This was a cross between a Sweet William and a carnation, which became known as ‘Fairchild’s mule’. With thanks to Michael Leapman for the name, which was the title of his excellent biography on Thomas Fairchild. May need some summer pruning to keep its shape through to the end of the season. 5 ft. x 3.5 ft.

Iceberg Floribunda Rose - Masses of blossoms, filled with a honey-like scent. A legendary, low-maintenance performer that covers itself in large, pure-white double flowers the entire summer in any climate! A mounding profile and versatile color make this own-root rose an ideal partner for blooms of every hue. Rosa Iceberg /White /Pointed,Long buds / Blooms 3"-4" / 35 petals / 10"-15" stems / Light Green foliage / Strong,Honey fragrance / Full Sun / Height: 3 ft.

And Some already in the yard when we moved in...

Sally Homles - This vigorous and hardy shrub, created from a cross between Ballerina and Ivory Fashion, unfurls fistfuls of enchanting single white flowers from peachy pink buds. The blooms blush a delicate pink as they age. Very disease resistant. Light, sweet fragrance. Rosa Sally Holmes /White /Pointed,Small buds / Blooms 3.5" / 8 petals / Dark Green foliage / Light,Sweet fragrance / Full Sun / Height: 6 ft - 12 ft.

White Simplicity - One of the best ways to light up your landscape, White Simplicity® glows day and night. The satiny blooms reveal a touch of gold in their centers when fully open. Grows 4'-5' H. Rosa White Simplicity /White /Ovoid,Pointed buds / Blooms 3.5"-4" / 20 petals / 5"-10" stems / Light Green foliage / Light,Sweet fragrance / Full Sun / Height: 4 ft - 5 ft.

High Hope - One of the new climbers which have won high praise from the experts. This off spring of Compassion produces abundant clusters of medium sized flowers from the classic H.T shape and a pleasing perfume. The color is sweet scented, true pink blossoms and rare among climbers. It has a repeat flowering period. It is tolerant of less-than-ideal conditions and the glossy foliage is both healthy and attractive. The late season display is impressive. Growth is upright rather than spreading – a good choice for covering an arch or pergola. High Hopes is a stiff, hardy, arching, large flowered climbing rose and double pale pink fragrant. Foliage is dark green and often the flowers are very fragrant. Most varieties grow on long canes that sometimes climb. Canes are often 10 to 12 feet long.

Ceclie Brunner - This rose produces numerous, small, exquisitely formed flowers, like tiny Hybrid Teas. Their color is a pale pink, deepening towards the center. They hold their beauty long after the bud has opened. They are sometimes known, when cut, as ‘Sweetheart Roses’. Despite the daintiness of the flower, this is an extremly vigorous climber which will reach 25 ft. (8 m) in height if grown up a tree; it will then spread through the branches and cover it with festoons of pink flowers. Once flowering only. A most charming and reliable climbing rose, that is free of disease and relatively thornless.