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'Celestial Night,'<i> </i>bred by Christian Bédard for Weeks Roses is a floribunda that blooms in a profusion of plum purple with raspberry reverse. It is the 2023 ARS ' Choice Award winner.
'The Fairy' is a short, 2- to 3-foot compact polyantha. When grown as a tree rose, its wealth of pompom sprays are elevated to great effect.
Shrub rose, 'Lady of the Dawn,' before her annual refreshing pruning for the new year.
‘Lady of Shalott’ shown grown in a terracotta pot has fragrant chalice-shaped rich salmon-pink blooms. In the background is ‘Boscobel,’ another David Austin rose growing in a container.
'Cardinal de Richelieu' is a tall, nearly thornless, fragrant Gallica rose with mauve blooms.<span class="rte rte-comment"          data--id="00000169-b65f-d577-abfb-b7df37250000"          data--label=" Martha Lynch"          data-time="08/26/2022 12:08:49 PM"          data-replies=""> Home & Garden 9-3-22 Rita Perwich roses</span>
‘The Alexandra Rose’ has a single bloom, with 4 to 8 petals.<span class="rte rte-comment"          data--id="00000169-b65f-d577-abfb-b7df37250000"          data--label=" Martha Lynch"          data-time="02/4/2022 9:17:16 PM"          data-replies=""> Feb 2022 Rose terminology</span>
'<i>Marilyn Monroe' and her show-stopping blooms likely benefit from some name recognition.</i>
‘Fourth of July,’ a disease-resistant climbing rose with wonderful clusters of large, striped brilliant blooms and a fresh apple fragrance
A bare-root rose propagated on multiflora rootstock.
Master Rosarian Sue Streeper teaches how to prune a hybrid tea rose at the Balboa Park pruning workshop.
Queen of Elegance is a lavender-pink old-fashioned Carruth floribunda rose with strong fragrance.
Rhapsody in Blue is a repeat flowering, disease resistant shrub rose that is fragrant. It blooms in clusters and has semi-double purple flowers with golden stamens. The bees love this rose.
Deformed and discolored blooms indicate a chilli thrips infestation. The rose in the foreground is Marilyn Monroe. <br/>