Last year I bought four new rose bushes. I thought you might like to see how they did in their first year. I bought the roses in a sale at the end of the summer and kept the tags. I knew I would forget what they were called otherwise!
The first one is the Scorpio Rose. It is a real scarlet rose, very romantic. The bush was healthy and survived our cold, wet winter very well.
You can see it in the next picture, but don’t take notice of the colour of it. I used my smallest camera and red always comes out orangey red when I use it to photograph. As you can see there are plenty of blooms to such a small bush.
You can see the true colour of the Scorpio rose much better in the next picture, which I took with a better camera.
Now for the next one, which is called My Mum. The picture shows a multi-layered rose with two colours:
This is what it looks like this week. The bush is tiny and needed quite a bit of nurturing, but given we had a very poor early summer, I’ll forgive it because the rose itself is beautiful. It’s quite small but very pretty. This is one of three roses on the bush.
They are all different and they all hang down as if they are ashamed and don’t want to show their pretty faces.
The next picture shows the darker one in more detail:
The next rose bush is called Golden Memories and it has been a surprise. It has grown fast and has lots of roses on it but …
…they shatter very quickly. It could be all the rain we’ve had. I’m not sure. Certainly is prolific though.
The last of the four bushes is called Apricot Abundance and it definitely doesn’t like the rain.
The roses are still in bud (see top of picture). They haven’t even come out yet. When they do I shall be there with the camera.
I hope you enjoyed sharing the development with me today. I’m always curious to see if the plants and seeds I buy turn out like they are supposed to, as on the packet. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.
I’ll leave you with the best one, which this year is the Scorpio Rose.
Oma 
They are indeed lovely, as all roses are. I think the Scorpio Rose is the prettiest, but the ones with the hanging heads are also very nice! Thanks for showing me your pretty garden roses, Star!
Gorgeous roses! Pretty colours. Where I live, we have a cold wet, rainy summer and mine are doing exactly the same things.. so I say, we blame it on the weather!
Yes, you could be right there. I think this is the wettest weather I’ve known in summer here in England. 2007 was wet too but I wasn’t in England that year. Since this is year 1 for my new roses, I shall just have to wait till next year to see what happens.
Love the colours and the variety. Your roses are better than mine. Mine seem to have wilted in the wet weather. Mind you, I feel the same :O)
Yes, hasn’t it been just awful this year! Everywhere you look it’s soggy. Today it’s even cold, in July!
Great roses!