Which blooms were you most anxious to see, or that which you continue to wait for?

Lynn

Fields of the Wood just opened up a week or so ago and I am taken with how pretty of a red it is.

Archduke Joseph is busy making new canes, I think that is going to be a big rose.

Yellow Sweetheart has a bud and I am looking forward to it too.

'Blanc de Vibert'
'DLFED 3'
'Duchesse d'Angouleme (aka 'Wax Rose')
"Grandmother's Hat"
'Mme de Sevigne'
'Paul Neyron'
'Reine des Violettes'
'Rose du Roi -- original'
"Sombreuil" (the climber)
'Tuscany Superb'
'Yolande d'Aragon'

But there are still a few more from last year I have yet to "meet" -- but it should happen soon:

'Baltimore Belle'
'Bleu Magenta'
'Ferdinand Pichard'
'Indigo'
'Orfeo'
'R. fedtschenkoana'

And then a few came this year as well. Of those, I got to "meet" 'Crimson Glory' because it had an open flower (and an unopened bud) right in the box. Its reputation for fragrance is certainly well-founded. The others I'm still waiting to "meet" are:

'Big Ben'
'Carolyn Supinger'
'Happy Child'
'Heart's Desire'
'Mister Lincoln'
'Red Masterpiece'
'Velvet Fragrance'
'Vineyard Song'

All this aside, thinking back to Winter, I'd have to say the short list of those I was most looking forward to seeing was:

'Nouveau Monde' -- I imagined it full of small, fragrant, pink blooms all across the railing of the back deck, and that's what it's doing now

'Souvenir de Victor Landeau' -- the full flush on all its self-pegged canes was awesome

'Orfeo' -- I can't wait to see red roses going up the hacked Callery pear, and while I don't think it will have a "flush" this year, I do see a few buds on it now

'Georg Arends' -- it's about to bloom now, and the blooms are such a beautiful, clear, solid pink, the scent so distinctive and strong, and the form like a big cabbage HP with rolled-back corners on the petals like a Tea

And any of my pot-pet red HTs. Though to be fair, being a new gardener who endured a horrible Winter, I was elated at the first green leaves of Spring.

:-)

~Christopher

I planted a Rubens for her last year that has grown well and hasn't shown any disease, but it still has yet to bloom. I'm anxious to see that.

I'm anxious to see her band of Buff Beauty bloom. That is a gorgeous rose. Her band of Belle Epoque has yet to bloom also. I'll be interested to see that as well.

After a plant that was supposed to be Gilbert Nabonnand has very likely turned out to be General Gallieni, I am anxious to see the first blooms out of every new rose that comes. I forgot that she ordered Queen of Sweden recently as a band. I'm very excited to see that. It was a stunner the few times I've seen it in person.

Jay

Mlle de Sombreuil, a band I received last October which is already in its second flush of bloom this year and which I'm beginning to be very fond of.