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I snapped this picture this morning. I was so happy to see this many blooms on this one. I moved in this house last summer and this bush was all over the place and looked horrible. I did some major pruning last year and it really paid off.

It is just loaded with blooms! does it have a smell as well?

Yes! Last night I was in my backyard and could smell them. The rose bushes are in the front of my house.

Oooh how i envy u... i usually spend so much buying roses... n my roses r almost always 'not well'...crinkled leaves... dark/black buds... deformed fowers.. i know i need to sray BUT i have such an aversion to poisons n pesticides... i want da birds n da butterflies n their caterpillars to b safe...da ladybugs n da praying mantis to b healthy... but i hate n m heartbroken when i look at da condition of my rose plants...!! Rosepetal recommended spraying epsom salt...but have not been abl to get it from da local shops o pharmacies!!! Sighh...

Oooh how i envy u... i usually spend so much buying roses... n my roses r almost always 'not well'...crinkled leaves... dark/black buds... deformed fowers.. i know i need to sray BUT i have such an aversion to poisons n pesticides... i want da birds n da butterflies n their caterpillars to b safe...da ladybugs n da praying mantis to b healthy... but i hate n m heartbroken when i look at da condition of my rose plants...!! Rosepetal recommended spraying epsom salt...but have not been abl to get it from da local shops o pharmacies!!! Sighh...

Possible you could spray a compost tea? That you can make yourself so you don't have to depend on the store?

What a gorgeous rose Bush!...and so frangrant too!...I'm enjoying the fragrance from my lilacs at the moment...only have one rose bush...in the front of my home...and it's a Fairy rose Bush..gets tiny pink flowers...

I'm jealous, here in Minnesota I am about a day or two away from my first rose.

Your's look gorgeous!!

Jorgie

My one rose we planted last year. It`s a carefree and it is living up to it`s name. It is polluted with blooms. We bought another one this year. White with red around the edges. Just beautiful. It had 3 blooms on when we planted it, but they are gone now. But I noticed that it has more buds. I`m so happy.

Talk about weird!!
I have a Queen Elizabeth rose that has very nice "PINK" roses except for a long branch that was uncovered all winter. It has RED roses.

Can anyway explain that?

Jorgie

Squirrel, I have a yellow Carefree, covered in buds and flowers.
Jorgie, I don't know, but how neat !

That is weird, Jorgie!!! Do you have a pix? Love to see that one. Sue

Jorgie, the Queen Elizabeth was probably grafted on to a wild rose and the wild rose is growing. They say you should cut the wild rose off or it will take over and kill the rose that was grafted.

Wild roses are aggressive but do not bloom good.

A neighbor who is a hoticulturist says that this isn't that uncommon. First time I've seen it.

Jorgie

The red part of your rose has "gone wild." It is growing from below the graft.

I think it's awesome !
Someday I hope to plant my dwarf lemon and dwarf orange trees in the same hole so it'll look like one tree growing two different fruits.