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Today’s Rose of the Day is Scented Garden, or Jardin Parfumée. I haven’t been able to find much info on this rose. I can say that it’s beautiful, blooms a lot, and seems healthy so far. It *may* have been bred at the Ichikawa Rose Garden in Japan.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Sweet Mademoiselle. This hybrid tea rose was bred by Alain Meilland in France and is incredibly vigorous, healthy and beautiful. Bonus-it’s fragrant, too!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Gruss An Aachen, a rose thought to be the very first floribunda rose. Bred by Wilhelm Hinner in Germany around 1909, this rose is healthy, blooms in huge flushes, and has beautiful, mildly fragrant blooms. The colors change depending on the season.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Northanger Abbey, a florist’s rose bred by Jan Spek Rozen in the Netherlands. The blooms are almost too perfect, do well in a vase, and have a very light fragrance. It had a little blackspot but is healthy overall.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Johann Strauss. This gorgeous floribunda was bred by Alain Meilland in France. It’s blooming right now and every time I walk by I end up having to stop and stare.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Carding Mill, an English style shrub rose bred by David Austin in the UK. This rose is usually plagued with blackspot this time of year, but maybe it’s maturing enough to not be as afflicted. In any case, the flowers make it worth keeping!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Autumn Rouge. This very fragrant shrub rose is new to my garden this year, and was bred by Hiroshi Ogawa in Japan. So far, it’s had good disease resistance and has been blooming nearly constantly. The flowers are just gorgeous!

It makes me so happy to hear that! :)

Today’s Rose of the Day is Leonardo DaVinci. This shrub rose was bred by Meilland in France and has long, flexible canes that can be trained around an obelisk or trellis. It has a light fragrance and is very healthy overall.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Gruaud Larose, a hybrid tea bred by Michel Adam in France. This rose has a nice upright growth habit and very healthy glossy leaves, that make a perfect backdrop for the blush/white blooms. The fragrance is especially nice.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Top Cream, a hybrid tea bred by Meilland in France. It’s healthy, fragrant, and grows into a tall shrub. It’s a really nice landscape rose. I’m not sure about vase life, but I really do like the flowers on the shrub.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Our Anniversary, bred by Brad Jalbert in Canada. This smaller floribunda rose has beautiful deep red flowers on dark green healthy foliage. It’s hardy down to zone 5, and the flowers are fragrant.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Celestial Night, a floribunda rose bred by Christian Bédard in the US. This rose grows in a very upright form with lots of branching. It has a lovely citrusy fragrance and blooms abundantly and often.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Rosenfaszination, a floribunda rose bred by Kordes in Germany. This rose has gorgeous pale mauvey-white blooms, with darker mauve coloring on the outermost petals in cooler weather. It’s got healthy leaves and a mild, fruity fragrance.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Loves Me, Loves Me Not. This gorgeous hybrid tea rose was bred by Meilland in France. I planted this rose from a tiny band just this past spring. I can tell you for sure, it’s vigorous, healthy, and the flowers are plentiful, huge and fragrant, and last for days.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Rio Samba, a hybrid tea bred in the US by William Warriner. The flowers are color-changers, starting out bright yellow and then turning orange, then pink. This rose blooms often and is very healthy in summer, but can struggle in winter. It loves lots of sun!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Faith Whittlesey. This Gigantea hybrid rose has substantial flowers that hold well. It’s disease resistant, and though it doesn’t love my zone 7b winters, it recovers well in spring and doesn’t mind the hot summer at all. It’s a really nice rose.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Stainless Steel, a hybrid tea bred in the US by Tom Carruth. This lovely light lavender rose has a strong fragrance, and a nice upright growth habit. It’s a sizable shrub when mature, but mine is still young.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Doniazade. Information about this rose is hard to find, but it seems to be either a sport or offspring of Sheherazad (bred by Takunori Kimura). It’s got a strong fragrance, few thorns, great disease resistance and is very compact.

I’m not sure who bred Floating Moon. Some sites say it’s a sport of Sheherazad, bred by Takunori Kimura in Japan. Others say it’s an offspring of Sheherazad.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Floating Moon.
Floating Moon has excellent disease resistance, blooms in large flushes, is mostly thornless, and is fragrant. It’s beautiful and repeats quickly. The blooms are the same shape as Sheherazade, but a different color.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Summer Romance. This floribunda rose was bred by Tim Kordes in Germany. It has huge, petal-packed fragrant blooms with a respectable vase life. It’s healthy and maybe a little *too* vigorous.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Ebb Tide. This floribunda rose was bred by Tom Carruth in the US, and has a nice fragrance and relatively few thorns.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Edith’s Darling, bred by Christian Bédard in the US. This mini-flora rose has small, fragrant yellow-apricot flowers on a smallish shrub. It gets some blackspot in my garden, but I like the flowers, so it stays. :)

Or, it can be *grown* as a tallish shrub.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Rise Up Amberness. This shrub rose was bred by Christopher Warner in the UK. It can be grown as a smaller climber against a pillar, or it can be brown as a tallish shrub. It’s very healthy and the blooms are pretty.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Bee Heaven, bred by Gareth Fryer in the UK. This floribunda rose is very healthy, and the blooms have a nice fragrance. It lives up to its name for sure, too!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Delaney Sisters. This fragrant grandiflora rose was bred by JB Williams in the US and has beautiful ruffled flowers and healthy, shiny leaves.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Power Puff Pink, a smaller floribunda bred by James Sproul in the US. It’s a very nice rose, with brilliant flowers and good disease resistance.

Tending my garden.