Put your nose in a rose!

This is a nice cluster of Cookies and Cream Rose. It was a Home Depot special for $7 several years ago. We trimmed a peach tree back so it received more sun this spring. The result is very impressive.

This is the full display of Cookies and Creme rose above.

This is Rosa Sugar Moon. It has the classic sweet fragrance you expect from a rose.

Rosa Easy Going is a prolific bloomer.

Virginia rose is a native wild shrub rose in our region, growing 2 to 6 feet high, with many spreading branches, and extremely thorny stems. The flowers are quite irregular and come in waves. It doesn't produce onesy-twosy. It just gushes all at once.

The large and bold Rosa Oktoberfest is always a sight to see.

A tight cluster of Pink Double Knockout rose. It was hit by the voles so it's slowly making a comeback.

A group of Rosa Easy Living living easy in the garden.

Another group of Rosa Easy Living blooms.

This is a unknown variety at the end stage of its lifespan.

This is the same unknown rose above. Its a beautiful bloom in both stages.

For some reason I missed the usual glow in the dark photos of Rosa Mardi Gras. I have to catch the fall blooming cycle.

Rosa Ebb Tide is very fragrant but small. It always puts out a nice cluster of roses but the plant is less that two feet tall. The flowers are actually darker than this image suggests but I can never figure out how to photograph it properly.

Rosa Sunny Knockout is recovering nicely from being munched by voles.