Rose garden, Retiro, Madrid

wonderful
Happy new week:)

"That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet"...

Hi Andy I do love roses and your picture...glorious light and definition!
You may have noticed I love Shakespeare, too... :-)

WOWWWWWWWWW Magnificent, Andy !!!!!! **********************

HELLO ANDY! what a fantastic photo! , catching the light on the leaves and pedals of the rose is very dominate and makes for a lovely shot. greetings, Sarah YS

Annemarie,
Adele, I wouldn't have guessed :o)
Marie-claire, I like WOOOOOOW!
Sarah,
Many thanks to you all!
Best wishes, andy

Wonderful,fresh colours, Andy ! Lightens the day !

Beautiful rose Andy! Love it very much!

Greetz, Christien.

Ulrich,
Chris,
Thank you both!

Wonderfully rich colours and beautifully sharp image. Great shot Andy.

All the best, Doug

Doug,
Martine,
Thank you and best wishes, Andy

Photo et rose superbes. Cordia;lement. Nicole.

Many thanks, Nicole! Best wishes, Andy

tres joli andy !!

Sometimes it´s possible to smell things, we look at..if we do this intensively Andy ;)
First I thought it was your mothers gardenflower!

There are similarities, Tanja, thank you! But these professional gardeners use insecticides, fungicides etc, which my mother would never do! The leaves here are spotless. You can see the difference with my mothers roses.

Certainly a cracking shot Andy and another YS to your collection from me

Best wishes ... Steve

Fantastic beautiful , Andy !
I just saw, you have deleted your profile in Flickr ? You are not endured,Lol
I'm kidding ;-)

Hi Nina.
You surprise me greatly! I have never had a Flickr account. Not ever!!!
But, anyway, very many thanks for your praise!!
Best wishes, Andy

Dominique,
Tanja,
Claudia,
Steve,
Alan,
and Nina.
Thank you all.
Best wishes, Andy

Absolument magnifique +++++

Very many thanks, Malik.

One perfect pink rose! Excellent photo, Andy! Love it:)

Beautiful !!

Sasi,
John,
Pam.
Pleased you all like it!
Thank you and best wishes, Andy

Beautiful rose picture; like the lovely pink colour.
Congrats on Explore.

Thank you Jaap, but how do you know it's on Explore? I can't find it there!!
Best wishes, Andy

Go to your 'News' page; sceroll down and you will find 'Explore: current popular photos'.
Your picture is even on the first page.

Thank you Jaap. I see it there now but it wasn't there this morning, but then there are server problems with ghosting of text, missing avatars, blank photos, etc. So that might explain it!

bella

A perfect rose!

Berny,
Jenny,
Mario,
Gudrun.
Very many thanks!

Eine wunderschöne Rose....
nährt die Sehnsucht nach dem Sommer, Andy, YS!
Freundliche Grüße
Erich

Thank you Erich!!

Snow and more snow here. No roses or any other flowers.

Beautiful shot, Andy.

Très Admirable...

une belle variété !

Erich,
Ron, Same here - this is a photo from last summer.
Danielle,
Sylvain.
Thank you all!

Very beautiful this rose

Thanks, Andy, for stopping by.

Have a great day.

Wonderful close up and lovely colour Andy

Beautiful. Cracking image Andy!

Roland,
Roger,
Luciano,
Keith.
Pleased you all like this rose shot.
Thank you and best wishes, Andy

How did you know the name, Andy? Did you ask your Mum? ;-)

Admired in Explore

Ha ha, Amelia.
Sorry, but this is a longish story.
It begins in my garden in Harrow-on-the Hill in the 80s. I bought the flat there partly because of its fabulous garden. I knew precious little about gardening at that time and had never really taken much of an interest in my Mum's various gardens, except that I knew that I liked them of course!
Anyway, apart from vines, apricots that looked like nectarines, tayberries, loganberries, figs (3-4 varieties) etc, there was also a terrific climbing rose with the most incredibly coloured flower and with darker green leaves than usual.
Well, I decided the garden needed maintaining so I went on a crash course in gardening via books from the library and frequent phone calls to my Mum.
I suddenly discovered a passion for gardening - it was obviously in the genes anyway!
I visited my mum one day and took her some of the roses. She had never seen them before and immediately painted them (she is a good artist too). I still have that quickly done 'off the cuff' painting and it is how I later knew the name of the rose! It is in Cornwall otherwise I would photo it and post it here! My Mum was impressed with the dark green leaves. She always understood them to mean that the variety was a very old one.
Anyway, I had to move from that flat too suddenly for my liking and so was unable to take a cutting. I also wasn't into photography at that time.
I forgot all about it until in 2010, when living in Cornwall, I saw the same rose in a garden in Portreath. I was then encouraged to do some online research but still couldn't put a name to the rose, I also tried to obtain a cutting but there was never a reply when I rang the doorbell.
Again I forgot about it until I moved to Madrid and there, in the Retiro Park rose garden, I saw it again, and with a name tag! And this is what you see here!
So that is how I know the name, Amelia!
:o)
Best wishes, Andy

I've never had such a long reply to a simple question, Andy. A label is always the best way to recognise a rose. ;-)

Yes. Sorry about that, I got carried away. But it was at least 25 years between seeing the rose for the time and eventually discovering its name quite by chance here in Madrid!

Very nice close-up

@ngelique,
Majka,
Ernest,
Thank you and best wishes, Andy

superbe rose

Many thanks, Kama!

Thank you, Zombie!

Très belle image Andy

Many thanks, Josiane.

Many thanks, Els!

Beautiful Rose Andy.... All my Roses are scented. Have a Blue Moon rose it's heaven !!!

Thank you, Marj. This one has a lovely scent too.
Best wishes, Andy

Thank you Nadia!!!

we smell it !

:o) Many thanks, Marie-france. Have a good weekend!

Truly provocative, a kind of photographic solicitation.... I succumb ;)

Terrific comment, Eric!!
Thank you and many thanks too for your visit!
Best wishes, Andy

Thank you once more, David!

Thank you, Evan!!

Many thanks, Pierre!

A beautiful rose...

Many thanks, Udo!

Gorgeous rose capture!

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Many thanks, William!

What a gorgeous rose! Your composition is perfect too. I love the details and the rich deep colors. Those leaves are amazing! I read the story of how you came to learn about the name of this rose, what a fine tale, thank you for sharing it! I wonder if you ever got a picture of your mom's hastily painted rose? I would love to see it!

I never did, Janet and of course I should have done! I don't know when I'll next be in Cornwall but I'll try to remember!

Andy, that's a gorgeous photo, and of course, a gorgeous rose. It's kind of the Marilyn Monroe of roses, I think!

Seen in Pictures for Pam.

I think you're right, Diane! it's a rather voluptuous rose!

Beautiful !