Abraham Darby	Ungainly plant, not enough flowers, blew fast, weak necks. Poorly sited. Might have done better if pampered. Same colors as Rostock, which is easier to grow and never stops blooming.
Adam	This nice apricot climber is new to my garden, but I cannot help but notice its many similarities to the rose sold as 'Mme. Berard' by Vintage Gardens. Both are thornless, apricot, and tea-scented.
Aloha	This venerable modern pillar rose may be truly wonderful in cold climates, but on the coast, it suffers from two serious faults: constant proliferation and rust 12 months a year. I have a new VID clone that I will give a second try.
Altissimo	A non-starter the first full year in the ground, 'Altissimo' was completely disease free and vigorous until its 5th year, when it suddenly started to get blackspot and revealed RMV . Here's the whole shrub . Big velvety blooms, huge leaves. Pruned. Will be removed.
Angel Face	In spring. This is one of the most beautiful and temperamental of my roses. All 6 plants rusted badly all summer and then produced a stellar fall flush. Grrrr. Gone. It made me look bad long enough.
"Arcadia Louisiana Tea"	I don't know much about this found rose except that the blooms are beautiful. The petal form reminds me of "Tamalpias Homestead Tea."
Archiduc Charles	Lovely colors, but plant, still very young, hasn't been as healthy as most chinas. Still found in pioneer cemeteries in the Gold Country. From Antique Rose Emporium.
Autumn Sunset	A much more tolerable color than Westerland, from which it sported. Nice plant, healthy foliage.
Baby Faurax	Sold by Sequoia as 'Baby Faurax' but thought to be 'Raymond Privat' at Vintage Gardens, where both are grown - - and they are different.
Ballerina	A classic that deserves a little something to grow on. The susceptibility to blackspot must be regional. Here, it's not much. Cute little red hips.
Belinda	A wide, spreading shrub at least 10-12 feet wide the first year. The foliage folds, as if the leaves were closing, from powdery mildew. The flower clusters appear at regular intervals on the canes and fade. Wavy edges. Lots of hips. Probably better trained as a low, wide climber. Canes tip root. Sweet scent in heat, powdery mildew all the time.
Belinda's Dream	Nice sized, quartered or high centered blooms with good scent. Mine were in very large pots until they outgrew them. Cuttings start really easily. Looks best when foliage is fresh. From Antique Rose Emporium.
Belle Portugaise	This rambler is located on the highway leading into Tiburon, California off Hwy 101. There's another huge Belle west of Hwy 101 in Corte Madera behind Marin Joe's. Susan Louise is a seedling or sport. Showing characteristic powdery mildew.
Bishop Darlington	I first admired the Bishop at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, where it forms a nice 8 foot shrub. Will grow 4 feet the first season. Evergreen in my gardens. Blooms aren't impressive individually, but it forms a nice big flowering shrub.
"Blithedale Tea"	Not sure exactly of its identity. It's in front of a stucco home that dates from the 1920's or '30's in Mill Valley. Declining in health these days, so I must muster the courage to knock on the door to ask for cuttings.
Bloomfield Dainty	Showing its typical foliage spot. No longer with me. Needs a home that sprays.
Blueberry Hill	Here's the bush . The spring flush is wonderful. Blueberry Hill has rust every summer and anthracnose. The budded plant has rose mosaic virus, appalling in a newly released patented rose. Mauve roses rarely fail to disappoint.
Bonica	The blooms along don't explain the look of this rose. Low maintenance, not very distinct form, good in landscape. Good spring flush that can be pushed with high nitrogen fertilizer - which also improves rebloom. I've experimented with pruning and find it best less pruned. Great hips.
Bonn	Bonn is gone. Ghastly. It blackspots and the color is close to vermilion. This Kordes shrub was a big rangy grower.
Bridesmaid	No way of knowing if that identification is correct for this mislabeled rose. It has a very generic hybrid tea look. It is slow to build but sturdy on its own roots. The flowers do surprisingly well cut. Tea foliage and scent. Won't grow basals.
Buff Beauty	Stiff, awkward, horizontal grower. This is not a shrub, as it requires support to get off the ground. An odd clone of this rose or perhaps oddly budded. Scent carries on the air. Fall flush really is good. Lovely in the Historic Rose Garden of the Old Sacramento City Cemetery.
Carefree Delight	Now climbing into an albizia. Fast growing to mature size and easy to establish. In its glory in September with the other shrubs, Bonica and Sally Holmes. Here's the whole shrub. Terrific hips. Scary to prune and given the results, no reason to bother except for dead wood.
Careless Love	Best freesia scent in partly opened buds. Growing well on its own roots; from Vintage Gardens Antique Roses
Cécile Brunner	Lots of good foliage. Aphids. Vegetative centers. A soft, sweet scent and continuous flowers. Grown as a hedge between driveways in older Bay Area neighborhoods, about 6' tall, 2-3' wide.
Céline Forestier	Palest yellow center and matching foliage. My plant still young and I'm still waiting on the part that's going to be a nice self-supporting shrub. That capacity is still well-disguised.
Chapeau de Napoleon	Sorry, all I have is a shot of the Chapeau, no blooms!
Central Park	This mounded little Town & Country rose fades from light peach to white instantly. The stamens are not attractive. Blackspot in a garden where it's rare. I'm interviewing replacements, but then Phyllis Bide pitched over, so I'm rethinking the bed.
Charles de Mills	I waited two years for a bloom, but when it came, wow! Who cares if it only blooms once a year. Reportedly won't bloom in warmer zones, but my garden is far enough north. Suckers out of any tiny hole in a pot, leaving little reminders whereever it resided. Remarkable at the Louis Lens Nursery.
Cheer	Mostly a curiosity. from Vintage Gardens Antique Roses
Chevy Chase	The most perfect crimson, no hint of orange. Lasts well in the vase. Here it is in its second spring, its third spring, and its fourth spring after not such a great idea to peg it. Canes to 16'. No scent.  On its own roots from Petaluma Rose Company. Get it.
Christine Wright	A very healthy and huge rose, classified as a LCl but more like a rambler. This plant looks very different from the rose pictured on HelpMeFind.
Clothilde Soupert	Here's another look. Clothilde Soupert is widely known as a rose that balls. Clothilde rarely balls here-- but she mildews as surely as the sun rises. As reported, her fall flush is quite nice. Best in hot climes.
Compassion	Beautiful blooms with large olive-colored foliage. If you need your roses high centered, this one might work for you. Nice scent. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Comtesse du Cayla	Long, snaky buds; warm pink touched with copper; from Vintage Gardens Antique Roses. Tough to capture the coppery tones with any camera.
Crépuscule	This is a very large rose at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden. Very slow to start. In year 4 finally threw 7-8' canes. Foliage mildewed in young plant but has improved with age, continuous bloom without deadheading. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses
Crimson Glory	Wonderful scent, my favorite along with Francis Dubreuil. Sadly, it is no longer with us. It rusted and refused to grow, so I hastened its demise. I've replaced it with the climber, which is about the right size for a hybrid tea.
Danae	Flowers ain't much, but charming as a background shrub in a soft color that works in any garden. Sets a million hips. Shown successfully pruned. It only took me 5 years to figure out how. Until then, I did nothing but deadhead. Benefits from pruning to prefer fresh, mahogany-wood, remove small twiggy growth and open up the center. Semi-climbing, arching habit.
de la Grifferaie	Spectacular as a standard in the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden. Used as rose standard rootstock, but beautiful in its own right. New to my garden. Reportedly a coarse grower. Stay tuned.
"Deuil de Dr. Reynaud"	This is what a cane looks like in the spring. Worst foliage in the garden: rust, blackspot, you name it. Wonderful scent. The delicate foliage suffers in this windy bayside garden. Looks identical to Mme. Isaac Pereire to me. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Distant Drums	Very good myrrh scent. Fades to a greyish mauve that's also nice.The color was disturbing at first, but no more. I've found a lilly that blends well. Trophy shot. My rose shows orange in the buds.
Dortmund	Closeup. Own root from Petaluma Rose Company. Spectacular hips. The wingspan is more than 8'high x 9' wide. Capably armed with prickles. Best flush exactly the same day every year: 28 May, lasts 2 weeks. Only scattered rebloom. Finally showed RMV in year 5 right next to another virused rose. Being replaced by VID plant.
Dr. Brownell	Excellent foliage, subtle coloring in my cool climate.
Dr. Debat	Wow. Bloom color quite variable, like a Pernetiana, only with leaves. An early 'Peace' offspring, purportedly crossed with the venerable hybrid perpetual, 'Mrs. John Laing.' Don't belive it for a moment. This rose screams TEA. Lovely informal look. Strong tea scent. A hybrid tea for those of us who can't or don't. Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
E. Veyrat Hermanos	Oh my. Beautiful, with many faces, but balls badly in spring. Petals like tissue paper. Pale then. Great foliage.  Fall color very different. Probably needs a warm, different climate. A strong grower. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Eden Rose	If you're looking for Eden Climber, check 'Pierre de Ronsard.' A middle-aged hybrid tea by Meilland, 1950, another descendant of 'Peace.' Wonderful at the Gardens of the Rose, St. Albans (full shrub shot there) and terrific in the vase. Big blooms . This is another HT for those of us who don't spray. Generic and no scent but clean and floriferous. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
English Garden	Easiest, most floriferous Austin in my coastal garden. Good repeat, fairly disease resistant. Nice compact plant, tea scent. Civilized and unrated. Excellent for arrangements.
Escapade	Almost lilac-colored in cool spring and fall. Was disappointing in my garden until I realized it wasn't being watered all summer. Upright vase-like growth with flowers on the top. I've seen it 6 feet tall but mine is only about 4 1/2'. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Eugene de Beauharnais	Can be wonderful in a pot, even if the flowers shatter within a day. Best purple in cool late March. Flowers continuously in different shades. Odd growth habit to decode for deadheading. Rust and blackspot. Don't prune, ever: just headhead. And if it is diseased, give it away to someone in a hot climate.
Eugene Furst	New to my garden, but did produce this lovely. Hybrid perpetuals can be excellent in the garden. It's a matter of trial and error to find those that like your climate. Pierre Lauwers of Belgium strongly recommends afternoon shade. These were the original exhibition roses, potted, pampered, forced, and budded. Most have excellent scent. Rust is often the problem here. Experiment.
Excellenz von Schubert	Will grow to good size in 4 years. A graceful shrub 6-7'wide with wonderful musk scent and few offensive prickles. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses. At 2 1/2 yrs, a tower of mauve, tho can blue. Grown as a shrub, don't shorten the canes, if possible, to permit natural fountain shape. Pruned. Only scattered bloom after spring flush. Powdery mildew. See also Ralph Moore's 'Vineyard Song.'
Flower Girl	Puts on a nice spring flush on a plant with good foliage. Young plant now building to 5' height. Rebloom in distinct flushes if you don't deadhead. Many small red hips. Shows signs of petal blight on the coast. Good shrub rose in a bank with others.
Flutterbye	Tall shrub with wonderful, dark green foliage. A bit bright. Excellent stamens.
Fortune's Double Yellow	Nothing is more beautiful in bloom. Here's another shot of the magnificent shrub at Vintage Gardens. This is another rose thought to be Fortune's Double Yellow that was collected. Notice the hand-painted blooms, smaller foliage, soft yellow blooms, and fewer petals than the Vintage plant. Vicious prickles. See article at American Rose Society web site.
Fourth of July	Not subtle. Very healthy foliage, vigorous grower, vicious prickles, many hips that should be deadheaded. Easy to train, even as a first year. Respectable climber by second spring. 'Shadow Dancer' is superior in many ways - not as jarring, blooms more, but smaller. Own root from Weeks via Longs Drugs.
Francesca	About the worst foliage of any hybrid musk I grow, tho in fairness, it hasn't been in the ground long.
Francis Dubreuil	Pretty healthy, tho mine suffers from botrytis. Wonderful scent that reminds me of dark chocolate. Could be the 1932 Kordes hybrid tea, 'Barcelona.' Same plant grows inAustralia. Good in the vase, though not long lasting. A stout, healthy plant now about 6' wide, 4' high in the ground. Pruned hard and it recovered just fine to same size following season. Stylized (it ain't that good).
Gabrielle Noyelle	One of only a few mosses in my garden. These very hardy roses suffer in California's long growing season. They may be disease-free in cold climates with short seasons, but not in my coastal garden.
Gartendirektor Otto Linne	On its own roots from Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma. An early shrub that looks like a polyantha. Has soft rose scent, produces huge panicles that are 12 - 15" long and really clothes itself in blooms during flushes. 3 x 3 here, but others say it throws 6 foot canes!
Gem of the Prairies	The rose sold as this old hybrid setigera grows more like a large shrub than a rambler, with easily bent, thin canes. It suckers readily, now taking an area about 5 x 5' and suckering extensively. Blooms late. Foliage less perfect than most hybrid setigeras. Identification in doubt.
Général Galliéni	Shows off the copper coloring of teas better than any other Tea, with wonderful scent, but, in all candor, not the greatest rose in my garden. Mine has never produced a bloom as nice as the one linked here. Found all over Australia in old gardens. We need a better clone!
Général Schablikine	Hard to capture the copper colored hints in the coloring of this rose. Ages darker, no two blooms alike. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
"Glendora," "Portland From Glendora"	Much beloved found rose collected by Fred Boutin. In trade as 'Joasine Hanet,' or 'Amanda Patenotte,' identifications that are not universally accepted but that allow exhibitors to show it. Delightful scent from lots of blooms and resinous buds; quite rangy until established, tho always clothed with foliage top to bottom. Shown pruned. Wonderful in California, tho can rust in a bad rust year. Vicious prickles.
Gloriana	I first saw this Chris Warner climbing miniature in the Gardens of the Rose at St. Albans. The gorgeous dark green foliage sets the standard for hybridizers. Produces 6-7' canes. Can't wait for the first big flush. From Heirloom Roses.
Gloire de Dijon	This is the rose in commerce. I don't know whether it is or it isn't the real thing, but it certainly isn't a strong grower. I thought the parent of so many distinguished teas would be...a better rose. Growing backwards.
Gloire des Rosomanes	Remarkable old rose bred by Vibert. Scented buds and foliage. Used as a rootstock and frequently found in historic sites. Healthy and vigorous, it grows like a bourbon.... but with leaves. Reminds me of hollyhocks.
Golden Celebration	Wonderful scent, Nice amber color. Spring flush rather good, altho gets blackspot. Sets a million hips. Excellent bloom form, nice in the vase. Might need spraying in my climate. Climbs. Repeat only fair.
Golden Buddha	Another wonderful new hybrid bracteata, this time bred by Paul Barden based on the work of Ralph Moore. Good leathery foliage. Unlike some early hybrids, the blooms all open easily. Wonderfully fragrant. Still a small plant.
Granada	Your standard hybrid tea, only a bit better. Big wavy-edged leaves, decent scent, fast repeat, lots of powdery mildew. Grow it with a bag over its head, if necessary. Best if all blooms in the flush are cut at one time and brought in the house. Will last at least a week in the vase. Available virus indexed from Vintage Gardens.
"Grandmother's Hat," a.k.a. "Barbara Worl" and "Northside Pink" of the Mare Island Rose Rescue. Some think this is 'Cornet' as seen at Sangerhausen, while others think it is ' Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford' as grown at la Roseraie de l'Häy-les-Roses	The quintessential California hybrid perpetual (or bourbon), with nice scent and almost constant bloom. If it is the same as "Northside Pink," and I think it is, then it has as many faces as days of the year. Can be very light, can be really fancy and overblown in cool spring, can have few petals or many. Both blackspot in the damp spring but refoliate. Gradually forms a beautiful plant. Excellent on its own roots but can be stiff and awkward budded. Stamens and filaments are reminiscent of those of Gloire des Rosomanes with same resinous scented buds. Clearly is not Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford at de l'Häy, whose foliage is very different.
Grüss an Aachen	I don't really know what all the fuss is about. It blooms alot. It has no noticeable scent. It's a mannerly plant. It is not Irene Watts.
Grüss An Teplitz	Sweetly scented, this rose had nodding flowers of the deepest rose red on a very upright semi-climber. Most never make it above 5 feet. The weak necks remind me of chinas, the scent of bourbons. I collected this rose as "Nicasio Red," from the rose linked above. Lousy foliage as a small plant, much better on the large plant I collected from. The mother plant has since been cut to 2 feet and probably won't survive the deer attack.
Happenstance	Fabulous stamens that persist after petal drop. The flowers fold up at night; seems to do better in the heat. Reminds me of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Time. One of the best companion plants. Don't shorten the canes for best shape. Resents pruning and transplanting. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.
Hermosa	Non-stop bloomer. Good health in difficult conditions. Remind you of Gruss An Teplitz? Me too. Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Hero	The spring flush on this floppy shrub. Will not climb-prune like a floribunda. Rusts many years after the summer flush if not watered a lot. Poor cut flower but wonderful scent. Put it in the back and fuhgetaboudit.
Honorine de Brabant	Requires careful pruning because it has a tencency to have too much foliage relative to the amoung of bloom. Reduced to two canes, better proporation of blooms to foliage --which is probably why pegging is recommended. The foliage is similar to Mme. Pierre Oger's and Variegata di Bologna's apple green. Vigorous... no, huge. Finally learned how to: top at 5 feet and leave all laterals, shorten to about 15 inches. That balances the vigor to bloom production. Removing all laterals only produced more basals, as did shortening basals.
Hudson	Happily, sold.
Iceberg	Best as a young plant, even in a pot. 7 feet tall. Not one to produce many basals. I think 3 or 4 is the max. Excellent on its own roots. One of the all time greats: flowers every 3 weeks, sets few hips, laughs at disease - gets some mildew, some blackspot and still laughs. Youo've got better roses? Show me. Pruned.
Illusion	All I have is a crummy shot unworthy of the rose, with way too many pixels to boot. Fabulous shiny foliage, good repeat, vicious prickles, easy to train as a small climber. I planted two roses in the same space, Illusion and a noisette. Shame on me.
International Herald Tribune	An interesting little Harkness rose with Rosa californica in its background. Blooms a lot, some blackspot on the coast, none only a few miles inland. Excellent companion in the garden that blooms all winter. Great companion plant.
Jacques Amyot	Interesting tea noisette with very healthy foliage, untroubled by powdery mildew. Very floriferous as a tiny plant. From Vintage Gardens.
Jacques Cartier	Or is it Marchesa Boccela? I won't be the one to resolve that identification quandary. Decent foliage, reasonable size, nice scent.
JACtan a.k.a . Butterscotch	Very floriferous coffee colored climber with plentiful healthy foliage. Blooms are in the range of dijon mustard, aging cream. May require disbudding to get it to grow up instead of blooming all the time.
"JoAn's Pink Perpetual"	A rose found in the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado and named for a volunteer, Jo An Cullen. Excellent fall flush, nice scent. From High Country Roses.
Joasine Hanet	The rose found as "Portland From Glendora," now thought to be a damask perpetual or a hybrid perpetual, depending on who you ask.
Joseph's Coat	Always the first to flower, even before he has leaves! Here's more typical summer coloration. VID plants are available from Vintage Gardens. I'm rather sick of this rose and its coloring, which clash with everything else in the garden.
Just Joey	Rather floriferous, nice scent. Supposed to be pruned very sparingly. From David Austin Roses.
Kaleidoscope	Never without bloom, Kaleidoscope simply didn't like the growing conditions in my garden. It was never free of blackspot its first year. It has moved on to greener pastures.
Köenigen van Danemark	Once bloomer, in June. If you're a sucker for the quartered form, this is for you. My first plant was a poorly budded mess; nonetheless, a lovely, healthy scented rose. Greyish foliage. I pruned it like a floribunda. Oops. It worked, but it should actually be about 5 feet tall. I have an own root plant growing as a replacement.
Ladies In Waiting	A little shrub rose in the most difficult of colors: apricot. The foliage is quite good and reminds me of another little shrub, Newport. I have high hopes the polyantha, Sunshine, to out-perform the Ladies. Still waiting.
Lady Ann Kidwell	Flowers nod. Unique. Mine won't grow. Ralph Moore has one budded as a 4 foot standard that might be 10 feet tall. Mine's pitiful.
Lady Hillingdon	Shot during the "Golden Hour," partial solar eclipse 10 June 2002. Delicious tea scent, wonderful informal look, nice slowly growing plant that can reach 7 feet in time. Blooms nod. Thanks to Tom Liggett.
Lamarque	Constant bloom even in a young plant that wants to grow very large. Foliage susceptible to powdery mildew on the coast. Much more floriferous than Colonial White, in commerce as 'Sombreuil.' From Antique Rose Emporium.
La Reine	Not really my rose, but rather on loan. This particular plant was collected in the Mare Island Rose Rescue and grown out at Vintage Gardens. Fair foliage, wonderful bloom, might be better if sprayed. Common found rose in California, tho bloom is quite changeable.
Lavender Dream	This shrub is a very accommodating landscape rose. Scattered flowering in the fall . Slowly builds in size. First spring. 5 x 7 at 3 years. Best if deadheaded a couple of times a season. Wonderful dark green foliage. Enormous sprays.
Lavender Lassie	Sadly, not lavender. the two- year old shrub flanked by Sally Holmes. This large rose has terrific scent - you can smell this rose from 4 yards. A vicious spiny monster to deadhead. Poor repeat after spring flush. Suffered badly from anthracnose. I murdered it, but it is regrowing from root divisions. On its own roots from Petaluma Rose Company.
Layla	Layla, a thoroughbred mare, now lives happily in southern California.
Léonie Lamesch	My plant is still young. It was very hard to get going own root, but it will grow out well now that it's got some size. Nice foliage that reminds me of Clytemnestra, hanging. Very unusual coloring. Grows pretty large for a polyantha and has scent.
Le Vésuve	A huge shrub with almost 100 years old. My quest for the identification of the rose I collected as "Grand Avenue Giant" is recounted here. Mature foliage is easily twice as large as foliage on an immature plant. Individual blooms of great beauty, tea scent.
Loetta Liggett	This is a sport of 'Duet.' Grew very slowly on its own roots, but very floriferous, if only 12 inches tall. Now gone.
Long John Silver	Great rambler, as in enormous. Good foliage. Terrifyingly long (20'), lax canes that make nice curlicues. Flowers are the whitest white. Scent is myrrh - to the point of surfeit if 4 or 5 are collected in a single vase. Scattered repeat. Produces nicely shaped blooms.
Lorraine Lee	Hybrid giganteas, and especially Clark hybrid gigs, are close to cult roses. I searched long and hard and finally collected lots of wood from a large 8 x 8 plant. Many cuttings struck. A deeply saturated pink, wonderful scent, large, clean foliage and a semi-climbing habit. Working on the climbing Lorraine Lee now.
Magenta	A difficult rose to keep healthy where I've sited it, too close to a viburnum. The shrub in the ground about 4 months, and it's never looked as good again; won't grow for me; from Vintage Gardens Antique Roses where it is beautifully grown.
Mme. Berkeley	Excellent Tea - in my climate, maybe the best. Blooms aren't huge but very floriferous. The color is much more blush as the flowers open. Another. Good foliage, more pale in spring. Pruned only after 5 years, with stellar results.
Mme. Cornélissen	A whole page of it. The gardenia-like shape is typical. Blush quickly bleaches to white. This rose is prolific and pretty healthy, though subject to powdery mildew. Scent is top drawer tho subtle, best warmed in the house. A stout V-shaped shrub about 5 feet tall. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Mme. de Tartas	Excellent foliage, lovely blooms. Lighter in warmer weather. Maybe not the real Madame according to Vintage Gardens, but a lovely rose nonetheless with excellent tea scent. Repeat isn't the greatest among the teas.
Mme. Driout	Need one more challenge in life? Suffers from powdery mildew, rust and blackspot. I finally planted my budded plant deep enough to develop its own roots and then dug it up and gave it away. The necks are weak, so the flowers nod. Cuttings start easily from hardwood. I'm trying it own root and see no difference. Needs hot and needs to go away.
Mme. Ernst Calvat	Wonderful scent and decent repeat. Worst foliage on the lot, and that's quite a distinction. Gleefully shoveled into oblivion. Two and a half years and roots that would fit in a 1 gallon pot.
Mme. Isaac Pereire	Difficult rose with plenty of foliage problems. But, oh, the beauty of the blooms combined with the heavenly scent! Blooms a lot, rusts even more. Bears a shocking resemblance to 'Deuil de Dr. Reynaud.'
Mme. Jean Dupuy	A beauty that might need more heat than my coastal garden can supply. A few miles inland, the plants are growing well. I notice many similarities to the rose in commerce as 'Souvenir de Victor Hugo,' including bloom size and color, the color of the aged bloom, foliage, and almost complete lack of prickles.
"Mme. Lambard"	A very photogenic rose, sometimes with the hard to capture copper tones of Mons. Tillier, sometimes very light. This ID is questioned but the beauty of this rose is not. Might be the same as "Sawyer Plot Tea." Get it under any name. Outstanding foliage, lots of bloom. from Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Mme. Maurin Maybe	I probably fumbled the label on this rose. I know I meant to buy Mme. Maurin, but that isn't what the label says..... Anyway, it plasters itself with bloom and also plasters itself with a bit of powdery mildew on the coast.
Mme. Pierre Oger	Finally is growing. Except for Sophie's Perpetual, the cleanest bourbon in my garden. In cool weather, fabulous opalescent white centers. Blackspot, only a little rust.
Mlle de Sombreuil	Sold elsewhere as "La Biche" and sold as 'Mlle de Sombreuil' by Vintage Gardens Antique Roses. A beauty, lots of substance, nice dark green foliage. Wonderful fall flush. Best white tea for me.
Mlle Franziska Krüger	I wish this rose were more healthy in my garden. It suffers terribly from powdery mildew, which then affects not only the foliage but also the blooms. It needs to shape up. Vegetative centers galore. Beautiful at Vintage Gardens.
Maigold	Lovely colors during a long spring flush that lasts a couple of month. Olive foliage. Smells like linseed oil. Vicious prickles
Maman Cochet	Among the finest teas, opening well even on the foggy coast, with lots of petals. Excellent foliage and rebloom. Easy to start cuttings. Buy it. I collected my plant from the garden of a San Francisco house built in 1908 as "Melanie's Cochet". See comparison of Cochet blooms.
Marchesa Boccella	A very popular rose, but not yet the finest in my garden. From Vintage Gardens.
Marie d'Orleans	Typical blooms are quilled. In heat, they darken to the copper shades, but in cool weather on the coast, they are mostly light pinks, sometimes cupped rather than quilled. Not tall.
Marjorie Fair	Love this rose. Great in a pot as a young plant. The following year. Flowers well with only part sun, flowers are long lasting. Complements rose red perfectly but doesn't repeat much. Has outgrown the pot.
Midnight Blue	Not great in my garden, though it is a very unusual color in the late, cool fall. For some odd reason, perhaps hereditary, roses derived from Rosa californica get blackspot in my California garden.
" Miss Atwood"	One of the Bermuda mystery teas. Sweet, informal bloom with peachy coloring, excellent repeat and good foliage. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Monsieur Tillier	A great rose! Here's another shot. There is an unmistakeable but hard to describe "brick" shading with copper overtones - all the colors of Mutabilis at once. Sometimes with mauve shading, sometimes pale apricot. The shrub is upright, vase-like and vicously armed.
Moonlight	Closeup. A perfect background shrub. Mine had a layered appearance until I pruned it into a pillar. Oops. The plant's natural habit is with a layered shape and must be tied to be a pillar. Wait for new growth to deadhead. Good scent. Interesting stamens.
Moonsprite	Another shot; finally grew so far backwards that it disappeared. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Mutabilis	Interesting colors. Scraggly when young.
Newport	Nice in a pot. This annoying little rose demands hard pruning every year and then grows back great.
Niles Cochet	From Liggett's Rose Nursery, mine were very slow starters. Each flower fosters a herd of earwigs, but when you get a good one, it's a swooner. Usually the flowers nod, foliage perfect. Found in the gardens of older homes where it reaches 12 ft. in height.
Nevada	The flowers are very small and delicate, the shrub wild and species-looking. Sets huge quantities of hips. Two year old plant seen here being bullied by a California poppy. Requires pruning to be happy.
"Northside Pink"	This rose (shown as grown in part shade) is very similar to "Grandmother's Hat" - probably the same and just an excellent example: more petals, better foliage, more floriferous, more of an arching habit. The color in full sun is a lighter pink. Good scent. Found during the Mare Island Rose Rescue on June 3, 2000.
"Old Gay Hill"	This found rose is a prolific bloomer on a twiggy plant. Thought to be the old China, 'Fabvier.'
Old Master	This is the 1974 Mc Gredy hand-painted rose, and what a beauty it is. A tiny own root from Michael's Premier Roses, both of which are now gone.
Old Port	Looks good for the spring flush, which is a little late, but suffers from rust in the summer.
Orbit	My former mount, a warmblood mare, Orbit, having a bad hair day.
Out of Yesteryear	A remarkable hybrid bracteatas from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery. Refuses to tolerate a pot. Fabulous foliage unsprayed and amazing flushes all season even in cool foggy Mill Valley. Can ball in damp weather because of thin petals. Site it carefully.
Outta The Blue	Remarkable dark green, quilted foliage that is completely disease free. Dark fuchsia color with light yellow center and reverse when first open. Ages to mauve with white reverse. Excellent scent. Continuous flowers. Stiff upright growth.
Parade	A vigorous and bright climber but not perfect foliage for a coastal California climate.
Painted Moon	I first saw 'Painted Moon' in England, as pictured in the images here. I have since bought two own root plants that are still very small. The new blooms are warm pink and creamy buff. As they age, the pink turns to crimson, the buff to white. Excellent with Joseph's Coat, Parade, Marjorie Fair.
Peace	Sadly, this famous rose hated Mill Valley, me or both. It rusted badly after each flush, requiring me to strip all the leaves. It no longer lives here. My hat is off to those who can grow it.
Peach Blossom	I can't recommend it: it's gone. Unattractive plant, canes sunburn, not enough foliage.The sprays are very open in summer. Mega prickles, flowers often but not many at a time. Might be better own root, but it's at the end of a long long list....
Penny Lane	I saw this beauty at the Gardens of the Rose, St. Albans, England. A New Dawn seedling, with a slightly warmer blush pink, Penny Lane climbs. From Heirloom Roses.
Perle d'Or	Similar to Cécile Brunner except a nice apricot. Tested by Texas A & M as one of the top 10 Earth Friendly roses in 2002, this is an easy care rose found in old gardens. Will grow to 6 x 6 feet with age. Get it.
Phyllis Bide	One of the greats. Phyllis in her second spring climbing her support; in her third spring, smothering her support; and in her fourth year. Felled by a wind storm. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses. Pruned.
"Pink Koster"	The shrub and another; my best performer with huge panicles in summer. I grow 5 in a row. The exact identity of these roses is unknown. Could be "Margo's Sister," could be another of the many sports. Terrific in the landscape.
Pierre de Ronsard	Many petals, form softball-sized flowers that are decent as filler in flower arrangements. Balls in the early spring but produces enough buds to produce a nice flush in mid-May. Ants love it. Rust! August flush and another in October. Huge job to clean up. Pruned. Can't wait for the patent to expire and get the plant virus-cleaned.
Plaisanterie	My first rose by Louis Lens. In a pot, even a 15 gal., it won't produce mature foliage. Small blooms, about 2 inches or less, that age to pink. 6 ft. canes, perfect evergreen foliage. From Heirloom Roses.
"Pleasant Hill Cemetery"	As promised, a wonderful flexible climber that I grow as a shrub but hope to train into a palm tree shape. Roots so easily that a 24 inch stem stuck in the ground in January produced a 24 inch plant with 24 inch new basals that bloomed in June. Needs full sun on the coast or will mildew. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
"Pure Mystery"	An rose from Amity Heritage Roses whose correct name is unknown.
Ralph's Creeper	Awesome flush from a great little groundcover rose. It is bright and showy from a distance. "Creepy" requires hard pruning every other year to get rid of damaged canes. Give it at least a 6 x 6 spot (I didn't). Spiny little devil. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.
Raymond Privat	Doubts persist whether this is Raymond Privat or Baby Faurax. Whatever it is, it makes the ideal small companion in the garden, with good foliage and repeat. Use it like a perennial.
Renae	Very clean foliage that reminds me of miniature peach leaves (without the peach leaf curl). Perfect pink buds, sweet scent. Very lax growth.
Red Wand	This miniature climber by Ralph Moore is an unusual color red. In cool weather, it is quite lovely deep rose red. But there is a strange faded red shade as well.
Rosa bracteata alba odorata , syn. Alba Odorata	Collected in South Carolina near the battleground under the study name "Musgrove Mill," this early exotic hybrid bears unmistakable field markings of bracteata hybrids: bracts at the base of blooms. Bears a sweet scent and vicious prickles. Is found in pioneer cemeteries in the Gold Country.
Rosa californica	Grows roadside, on the edges of fields throughout Sonoma County. Easily collected by digging a sucker or by sowing seed. Blooms well into the fall. No disease on the dark green foliage. Hips variable in shape, locally somewhat flagon-shaped. Bloom color also varies. Many prickles at the base, fewer higher up but still formidable.
Rosa laevigata	Grown as a hedge in a California vineyard. Unmistakable buds, shiny foliage and 3-leaflet leaves. Vicious prickles. Cuttings strike easily and take off. Evergreen in both Marin and Sonoma Counties. Disease free.
Rosarium Uetersen	I got my plants from Liggett's Rose Nursery (budded) and from Petaluma Rose Company (own root). Won't climb. Color is difficult in the garden, wonderfully cheery in the vase.
Rose de Rescht	Wonderful scent, good in a pot. Spots after each flush and recovers quickly.
Rose Du Roi	Some rosarians think this isn't the real thing. Certainly the Redouté image on HelpMeFind bears little resemblance. This is a lovely, clean, compact plant in its own right. Tiny green button eye, resinous scented foliage. I have both plants, the reversion and the rose in commerce. They look the same to me!
Rose Gardener	Rose gardener who also skis.
Rosemary Harkness	Excellent scent. Color veers alarmingly close to coral but stop just short. Foliage only fair.
Rostock	Blows quickly, each a beauty. A cross of a hybrid musk and a Pernetiana, best apricot rose I grow. As much grace as many Austins with a lot more foliage. Flowers are a lovely complicated buff, apricot and pink. Will probably be a 6 x 6. Prune lightly: this was too hard. First year it got blackspot. Now the peduncles mildew instead. Collage. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Route 66	One of the series of Tom Carruth roses that bring the deep purple shades to modern repeat blooming roses with good disease resistance. Most of them suffer some leaf spot in my coastal climate.
Royal Sunset	Very Slow to grow as a young own root, but so beautiful, it's worth the wait. Some one else's mature plant. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Safrano	A miserable young rose, mildewing badly, now much better. Buds appear out of nowhere for almost constant flowering. The bush is twiggy and thin, but the individual flowers have some quality I can't resist. Blooms blow in a day. Beauty can be so fleeting. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.
Salet	One of only two mosses in my garden, the other being Gabrielle Privat. Salet is trouble-free, decent foliage, good rebloom. The other is not. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Sally Holmes	Lovely cool weather coloring. A most vigorous rose that can produce 1000's blooms in a flush, essential in my landscape. A pair in the ground 13 months, their second spring, their third spring and fourth. Stout rose, angular by the end of the season with waving 9' canes. Shown pruned here and here to produce a ball. Lots of work to deadhead. Rebloom not great with mature plants if not fertilized (duh, Cass).
Sea Foam	Nice little rose but won't repeat well unless deadheaded religiously. Does blackspot. Sets hips daily. Pink in cool weather. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
September Morn	Lots of problems - foliage, bloom. Looks like a hybrid perpetual with hybrid tea foliage. Vigorous.
Shadow Dancer	Awesome foliage, nice fresh scent, excellent repeat, always in bloom once it starts (late), much better than its parent, Dortmund, very mannerly. A wonderful striper. A Ralph Moore wonder sold by Weeks own root.
Silver Moon	This is the first flower on a cutting that I took in July of 2000 from a plant that grows on Highway 1 in Mill Valley. Such a vicous, thorny beast that I let it die.
Snowbird	Excellent hybrid tea for those of us who think we can't grow hybrid teas. Floriferous, healthy and willing to grow on its own roots. Will become a very large plant over time. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Sombreuil	A wonderful disease-free climber with good scent and good repeat. I have two, one budded on Manetti and one own root. Slow to establish on its own roots but a much better grower with longer basals.
Sophie's Perpetual	In cooler weather, the color is a bluer fuchsia color streaked with white. Wonderful scent. Terrific in a pot as a young plant, perfect foliage, flowers darken with age and last 8 days if not disturbed. Top 10 disease resistant roses in my garden. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot	A vigorous climbing tea with blooms that point toward the ground. Repeat has been sporadic in the young plant. Large tea-like foliage. From Antique Rose Emporium and Amity Heritage Roses.
Sparrieshoop	Not the best in my garden, though it was grown in inhospitable conditions. The most enormous, angular, spiny shrub, lacking in grace. Didn't repeat well. Gone.
Sunsprite	The shrub. Everyone loves this rose, though at times I find the yellow hard to blend in a garden landscape. Carefree, disease-free and relliable.
Sunshine Sally	Don't be fooled by the size. This is a climbing miniature that can be grown as a shrub. Here as a young plant in a pot. Another creation of Ralph Moore. I'm told it is heat loving. Now in the ground and growing as a nice large shrub. A little blackspot in spring, but then, it's yellow.
Susan Louise	Languid, drooping flowers on a handsome (shown at 4 yrs old) with nice camellia-like foliage. New growth is paprika-colored. Here's another showing the distinctive buds that excel in arrangements. Seedling of Belle Portugaise, expected to be 8 x 10'. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Sydonie	Excellent foliage (tho it proved it can rust in 2005) and rebloom. This is a real winner, even if it isn't the real thing. Fabulous fall flush. Produced nice blooms every month all season. See pruned the wrong way here: not hard enough. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
"Tam Glow," probably Jaune Desprez	This beautiful climber is growing in a 1 foot wide strip of soil that it shares with a utility meter. Beautiful nodding blooms with about 80 petals, soft noisette scent, nice apple green foliage. Possibly 'Jaune Desprez' (Desprez á Fleures Jaune). Here is my web page with detailed descriptions for identification.
Tamora	An okay rose in a pot. I have yet to find an Austin that is really stellar on the California coast, with more perfect conditions for growing powdery mildew than roses. Foliage never perfect.
The Fairy	A nice clean rose, uncomplaining, good foliage. Holds its own against larger competing shrubs. Always the last to bloom in my garden, it produces an impressive flush. Flowers fade to white with brown stamens, not beautiful.
Thor	A fine cut rose - 5 to 6 inch blooms. A cane bearing the clusters of very large flowers that are full of substance. Scent is a faint old rose and raspberry. Leaves are shiny, rounded. The laterals are stubby. From the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden through Liggett's Rose Nursery. Spring flush, scattered blooms later.
Variegata di Bologna	Delicious scent, stripes are very mauve in cooler weather. No repeat in my garden. I expect 8 - 10' canes.
Vineyard Song	The blooms look so much like those of Excellenz von Schubert that they are almost indistinguishable. The canes and prickles are different, and Excellenz von Schubert is quite a bit larger. Both suffer from powdery mildew.
Westerland	Variable color. A spray and several of them. Vigorous and scented. The flowers blow quickly but will scent an entire room for a day.  If the color is difficult in the garden, the cut flowers are easy on the eyes. Probably happiest as a 12 ft. tall climber. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.
White Maman Cochet	Exquisite. A large growing tea with open architecture. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
William Allen Richardson	Healthy, though slow to start like the other tea noisettes in my garden; wonderful yolky buff color; repeat is improving with age. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.
William R. Smith	New in my garden, so I know very little, except that this rose really lives up to to the name 'Blush Maman Cochet' in terms of bloom form. I wish the foliage were more like that of Maman.
Yesterday	Lots of powdery mildew. Great for the spring flush.
Yolande d'Aragon	Rust. Good in the spring before that.