A Rose in my neighbor's garden...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Two different views...

[elleng]

1. Beautiful!

I can almost smell them!

Sorry the squirrels killed mine last year. After too many attempts to deter them, I gave up, and have none this year.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I wish you could smell them, my dear elleng!

It is full bodied, deeply fragrant and amazing!

I can smell it through my mask.

Thank you for your lovely comments!

[Skittles]

2. "Abner! Abner! That weird woman is in the garden again!"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. LOL! I'm leaving, really I am!

[Heartstrings]

3. Lovely CaliforniaPeggy!

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My ex/late husband knew I loved roses, so early in our marriage he planted 6 rose bushes, 2 pink, 2 red and 2 yellow (my favorite)....his reasoning was then he could always afford to give me roses (as they aren’t cheap) albeit only during the warm Wisconsin summer months. In retrospect, he had his faults, (no husband is perfect but he was always faithful) but made up for those faults by surprising me many, many times over.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I'm glad my photos reminded you of this happy memory, my dear Heartstrings...

He must have been quite a guy.

[Heartstrings]

9. He gave me 2 beautiful children, who gave me 2 beautiful grandchildren...

And, despite his faults, we concentrate on the good. Doesn’t do anyone any good to dwell on the past....

Yes, your photo brightened my day. Thank you!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. ...

[2naSalit]

4. That's a really pretty rose.

Thanks for the pictures.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thank you so much, my dear 2naSalit!

I appreciate your kind words. I only wish you could smell it.

So deeply wonderful and fragrant!

[2naSalit]

11. I was going to ask...

My great aunt had some roses that looked like that. orangish on the inside and deep red on the outer pedals and it had such a heavenly fragrance that I could never forget.

It makes the picture all the more real!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. How wonderful! I haven't gotten near such a fragrant rose in AGES!

Thank you for telling me about your great aunt.

[radical noodle]

13. I can almost feel the velvety texture of the petals

It reminds me of a rose bush my mother had when I was a kid, and it was so soft... I would steal a petal and rub it on my face.

Thank you for sharing this lovely photo.

[wendyb-NC]

14. Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

[7wo7rees]

15. Lovely, just lovely!! Thank you for sharing. n/t

[MFM008]

16. Must be

A Lincoln rose.
My mom had a bush of them.
Amazingly fragrant.

[Soph0571]

17. Lovely

[Talitha]

18. Thank you for sharing these pictures Peggy, how lovely!!

And please express our compliments to your neighbor!

This is the deep color I imagined the 'Mrs Miniver Rose' to be in the B&W 1942 movie 'Mrs. Miniver'.