The roses around Fullerton certainly enjoyed the rainy winter we've had, and are blooming beautifully. This one is "Gertrude Jekyll", an Austin English rose named after the famous gardener. (It is pronounced "JEE-k'll".)
This rose has a beautiful old-rose shape, a vivid clear-pink color when the blooms are new, usually fading and softening a bit, and an utterly breath-taking scent. I have had few problems with it, other than keeping its robustness under control -- there's a reason its nickname is "Galloping Gertie"!
It has a slight repeat in the autumn, here in Fullerton.
I have this growing on a trellis attached to the side of the house along our narrow driveway, growing to one side of the trellis so that the canes can be laid along the length of the horizontal bars, on the same principle as self-pegging, thus increasing the bloom. This is not perhaps the best spot for a rosebush, as we can't get in and out of the car next to it for the exuberant thorns, but it seems very happy in this usually-difficult spot.
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