IMAGES OF Members Roses 2025

I’m thrilled with mine too @Mrs Hillard , it’s really lovely!

 

This rose has already been shown on this thread by Busy Lizzie in France, but for UK readers, who may want to try an old fashioned rose, then it must be recommended as a first choice. Suitable for a pot for a year or two, wonderfully fragrant as much as any rose out there, and continues to bloom into autumn.. individual blooms are small but exquisite..
When your 'Gertrude Jekyll' is just a thorny bush with no flowers, this one will still be churning them out..
'Rose de Rescht'...

 

This is the second of my roses to flower. Strawberry Hill is a beautiful shade of pink but no fragrance as yet. Plenty of buds to come, and it is climbing well. My other roses are now showing buds but none are ready to flower.

 

I love my Rose de Rescht, @Mrs Hillard. She is a nicely shaped bush too.

 

Rose - The Garland on my pergola - 3 plants.
The display only lasts about 10 days but bright orange hips persist through winter.
It has a strong scent of tangerines.



They've not reached the back of the pergola yet, but on the way.
My potted blueberries are just in front and they're laden this year

 

Just outside our front door

 

Vanessa Bell.

 

Gabriel Oak.

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Absolutely Fabulous, living up to its name, I love how each stem has a little bouquet on the end.



Little White Pet bought to commemorate our little Westie.



You’re Beautiful with the blooms that last weeks not days, it’s been in flower for about 3 weeks and I’ve not deadheaded a single flower yet!

 

They are lovely @CatDouch and I don't have any of them! Maybe I need to make a new rose bed.

 

More photos of Vanessa Bell as other buds open up. I'm impressed with this rose so far, the petals have a luminosity which almost makes them too bright to photograph.

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I would strongly recommend You’re Beautiful @Busy-Lizzie I’m always amazed at the length of time each flower blooms for, also it never gets blackspot and has really glossy foliage.
I think it’s a really tough rose as I’ve moved it 3 times, once in the middle of summer and it carried on flowering! It’s not in an ideal position now as it’s very crowded with other plants but it still flowers away. Apparently it was Rose of the Year 2013 and I can see why.

 

A few months ago I bought two bareroot Silas Marner and one of them is in full bloom. Roses take roughly 3 years to reach their full potential and the very first flowers are supposed to be underwhelming...but I am already in love. Beautiful blooms, perfect pink colour, nice foliage, great fragrance..


It has the potential to be my no.2 favourite rose - after The Pilgrim, which I think is a just magical. However, photographs don't do it justice I think and it's not at its peak yet anyway.

Bring Me Sunshine is my third favourite rose.



And my fourth would be Penelope Lively. The strong pink really stands out against the dark foliage, the fragrance is nice & strong and I think it's the most disease resistant of my roses.



The Country Parson


Scepter'd Isle:



Emily Bronte:



Bathsheeba (objectively an excellent performer, subjectively my least favourite of my roses):


And here is one of my two Lady of Shalott.

 

Lovely shape on Sceptred Isle @CostasK ! How is its scent please?

 

Only just opening the flowers on my Rose we have growing up an Obelisk at the side of our bungalow . The scent is soft and delicate no idea what it’s called anyone might know here please? My OH does cuttings of our few roses we have and they will need potting on soon.