How about sharing some pics of our favorite roses, your own or whatever!

MarkD

MarkD

Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
I mostly just grow climbers now but my intro to gardening started with digging holes for my wife to plant her roses. Since then I’ve taken over the entire garden and segregated her tea roses into one ghetto bed.

This is my wife Lia standing in front of her Joseph’s Coat rose while holding a yellow rose probably taken in the late 80’s or early 90’s. I’ll post some more later from my computer but please add the ones you like too. This thread was inspired by a vividly red rose that @Widow of Vietnam Vet posted yesterday.

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We don't have any now. We use to a long time ago. So I will add to the "whatever" category. :)

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Paco Dennis said:
We don't have any now. We use to a long time ago. So I will add to the "whatever" category. :)

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That would fit equally well in an art thread but am happy to see it here. Thanks.

Not being the world's most organized person, I've lost track of the names of some of the roses I grow. This pink one has one of the nicest and strongest scent of any I grow.

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In the spirit of also contributing something in the "whatever" category this is a photo of a weaving my wife made based on the last photo.

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My favorite flower is the rose and my two favorites are the American Beauty:

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and the Sterling Silver:

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Unfortunately, neither of those are supposed to grow well around here, too hot and dry, I guess.

A co-worker also loved the Sterling Silver rose and her husband would have to special order it way in advance from a florist to get a bunch for her birthdays, etc.
 
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That purple one is pretty nice. Do you happen to know the name?

I prefer roses I can use in the garden among other plants though I haven't bought a new one in quite some time. In the island bed I give the most water to out back I have the big pink phormium 'Guardsman which has provided a backdrop for a number of roses, but currently only 'Marilyn Monroe'

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and 'Hot Cocoa' which is very hard to photograph to capture its unusual color

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Those flowers are beautiful @MarkD and excellent photography...stunning!
I think lavender roses have the strongest most pleasant scent.
Next time you see a lavender rose smell it
 
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When the pandemic began, in May 2020 that kept me sheltering in place within my home county where I discovered photographing roses outdoors at our large San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. Since then have also worked the garden the following 3 years and built a good body of work that is all focus stack blended for full frame detail. The above is a 100% pixels 1200x1200 pixels crop from one single rose shot. The below is a downsized for web image of wet roses up against blue sky with the original 5100x3500 pixels.

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Below is a 100% pixels crop from the above shot rose at frame left showing the level of detail from focus stacking at my sharpest F5.6 aperture on a 56mm prime lens.

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When the pandemic began, in May 2020 that kept me sheltering in place within my home country where I discovered photographing roses outdoors at our large San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. Since then have also worked the garden the following 3 years and built a good body of work that is all focus stack blended for full frame detail. The above is a 100% pixels 1200x1200 pixels crop from one single rose shot. The below is a downsized for web image of wet roses up against blue sky with the original 5100x3500 pixels.

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Below is a 100% pixels crop from the above shot rose at frame left showing the level of detail from focus stacking at my sharpest F5.6 aperture on a 56mm prime lens.

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I visited that garden a long while back but what is really noteworthy is your ability to work with the image. Pretty cool.
 
I've been focus stacking all my subjects since 2015 manually using Zerene Stacker. That above image only used 6 shots while many of my subjects are 20 to 50 shots. Main issue with focus stacking outdoor close-ups is any even slight breeze causing plant movement makes blending impossible due to misregistration if more than slight. Thus only shoot early mornings on days forecasts show periods of breezes 3mph and less.
 
Gary O' said:
My wife's favorite flower is the yellow rose

When we bought a place in town, we noticed the adjacent lot had a huge rose bush
yellow
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we bought the lot

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I've been attracted to a number of yellow roses but I like how saturated the color is in this one. That is one way I've never acquired a plant myself but I think it makes a great story. I have a few roses that have some yellow but these are the ones that are just yellow.

I used to hav the English rose 'Graham Thomas' growing one one side of an archway and the single pink fading to white Sally Holmes growing on the other along with a climbing pelargonium called 'Platinum'.

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The yellow blooms of Graham Thomas were very doubled, just stuffed with petals. I ended up removing it because it needed more heat than we get to look its best and it was just too crowded.

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I used to have a book of Roses by Botanica with a picture of a rose called 'Especially For You' on the cover which I thought had a wonderful form and pretty saturated color for a yellow. I got a bare root shipped from Canada and grew it in front of the small deck I built in our northeast corner looking over the creek below and the park.

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Later the Marmalade Bush grew up beside it and I liked the combo.

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Here is a lucky close up of it.

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I think of memory as an increasingly rare gift myself so I never want to expect it from anyone else.
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My first job was working for a prize winning rose grower.
He won many awards in Portland OR (the City of Roses)

I wish I could remember his name

I don't want to pollute this beautiful thread with that story, but if you wish to read it, here it is;

(about half way down the page called First Jobs)

Vivid Memories of Childhood and Beyond
 
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Gary O' said:
My first job was working for a prize winning rose grower.
He won many awards in Portland OR (the City of Roses)

I wish I could remember his name

I don't want to pollute this beautiful thread with that story, but if you wish to read it, here it is;

(about half way down the page called First Jobs)

Vivid Memories of Childhood and Beyond
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Thanks for that. A different time then with so much more freedom for kids to wander. I had it too.

I also had jobs as soon as I could find and get them. First babysitting which may seem surprising but I had five younger siblings so they knew I was battle tested. Then a paper route, bagging groceries at a military commissary, weekend graveyard shift at a Dunkin' Donuts, washing dishes at a restaurant and when we moved back to the west coast, doing side jobs with my contractor uncles before clerking at Safeway beginning in the summer before my junior year of high school. That gig lasted seven years and drew me away from college for a while as the money was decent back then, comparatively. Sure is hard to find work young but also gratifying for the independence.
 
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