La Marne

Lady Ann Kidwell

I love this shape!

Tournament of Roses and the gardens

Looking west

You can see how healthy and full the antiques are now. So many of these had at least a few flowers and a number of them were having a good fall show.

I will put up some pictures on the gallery of individual flowers

Here is Jasper who I liked very much in spring and still think is very cute.

Thank you so much for sharing your day with us and providing these bright and lovely photos. I was happy to see Colette looking so good. I've been growing mine for a year and have been very pleased. My gardening friend who toured the Huntington last February, when not as much was going on, will also be happy with your news about the roses. Diane

Looks great, Kitty! I am jealous you have such an immaculate rose garden so close to you! It makes me antsy with excitement for the Farmers' Branch 'Celebration of Roses' event in a few weeks!

Josh

Hello night owls! It's fun to see roses you don't have at home. Also, there is a wonderful sculptor restoring the branch shaped supports. He is so talented and is putting all his skill and time into these to make them look like interesting old branches full of texture and detail. It's nice that they are having these restored by an artist because the supports he has completed/ is working on now are really beautiful to look at.

Thank you Kitty! Celine is so pretty! Do you know much about the care of the roses at the Huntington? Do they spray? Organic fertilize?
Everything looks "fresh".
Susan

No, I don't know a thing about the care of the roses there. They must be removing spent flowers all the time and adding mulch through the year. This is all I can see from my visits there in 2013

Here is one of my favorites from the climber arches. High Society with some amazing clusters of huge beautiful bright flowers.

This is as close as my camera would do of this wonderful rose The dark pink is really stunning and rich. My camera is showing it too light and warm.

Nice to see! Thanks for sharing.

H

The garden looks great. Thanks for sharing the photos. I was there the 22nd and didn't even make it to the rose garden. Enthralled instead by the Lotus pods.

Beautiful!

Beautiful-thanks!

A banner showing the new look for the entrance.

Nice tour, Kitty!

Tom Carruth gave a presentation on this at the Orange County Rose Society last week. He's the new curator of the rose garden at Huntington sinced his retirement from Weeks (about a year and a half). Some of the changes looked fantastic. The garden is no-spray and all organic.

Fantastic tour Kitty! Thanks for sharing! :-)

kittymoonbeam I love your tour of that rose garden in CA. Dark pink bloom is my favorite color, and Jasper and High Society are amazing!! Collette has such a deep vibrant color.