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English Roses Miniature Roses Hybrid Teas and Floribundas Polyanthas Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals and Chinas Species roses Rugosas Various shrub roses Albas Centifolias Damasks Gallicas Moss Roses Unidentified Roses


Last Updated:April 21, 1999

Welcome to my rose garden! Why don't you come on in and take a tour? You can take a close look at many individual varieties or walk about the yard.

There are over 420 rose bushes in my backyard in Jefferson County, Colorado, covering about 200 varieties. Most of these roses are planted in one of two gardens - the old rose garden and the center rose garden.

The Old Rose garden consists of mostly Old Garden roses, species roses, shrubs and anything else that would get too big to plant in the center garden with Hybrid Teas and miniatures. The rule of thumb with this garden is that if a rose requires any maintenance other than a small percentage of old wood removed, then it gets shovel pruned.

Felicite Parmentier
Click on picture to see six by five inch image.

The Once Blooming European Roses:
Albas Centifolias Damasks Gallicas Mosses



Unknown red shrub
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The Other Roses in the Old Rose Garden:
Bourbons, Shrubs and Species

The center rose garden is a circular rose garden planted primarily with Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and miniature roses. One third of it is also planted with English Roses. When viewing the pictures of the roses, please keep in mind that these roses have to endure a zone 4 winter, and therefore will not be as tall as those found in warmer climates.

Center Rose Garden
Click on picture to see seven by five inch image.

The Center Rose Garden

I have collected on theses pages quite a few pictures from my gardens. To try and reduce loading times for those interested in just looking at certain ones, the roses are first broken down into three categories under the three pictures above. Under these categories the roses are further broken down into various types, each with their own link. Under these links are postage stamp sized pictures of the individual roses (over 70 total). The postage stamp pictures are links to larger images and (usually) a description of how the particular variety grows for me. More pictures will be added as I get around to processing them. As of May 29th new pictures showing hips and colorful fall foliage have been added.

If you would prefer to go straight to the large images and descriptions of the roses, then jump straight to my list of roses.

Although still somewhat in progress, I've put together a "walking tour" of the rose gardens in my backyard. These are pictures of large sections of the rose gardens as viewed by someone who would be walking around my yard in late June, early July. I hope others will do something similar since I love to tour other people's rose gardens and I am sure most of you are better at keeping the weeds at bay than I am. If you are in Colorado, and would like to see a great number and variety of roses, I highly recommend going to the public rose gardens at the Jefferson County Jail.

If you think you might like blue roses...

Pictures of the Longmont Memorial Rose Garden, a public rose garden in Longmont, Colorado. These were taken in July, 1995.

Pictures and descriptions of rose foliage and hips in the fall. These pictures were taken in October and November 1995.

A good pruning document:
The Trepidation of Pruning by Linda Campbell

How I acquired most of my roses:
Rooting Roses Using Softwood Cuttings

Another good softwood propagation recipe:
Cathy Beyer's Method for Rooting Rose Cuttings

Here are a couple of pictures of my younger daughter in 1994:
Emily Rose Netter by an unknown pink rose.
Emily Rose Netter in front of Felicite Parmentier.

And here are some of my older daughter, Genevieve Ann:
In 1993, by the graveyard alba.
In 1995, in front of center rose garden.

A great view of the center rose garden. View only if you are not offended by totally random mixing of colors in rose beds.

Some rose recipes.

If you can, would you please help me identify some unknown roses?

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