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Gemini® looks like a work of art with graceful brushstrokes across each petal. No other continual blooming rose produces such constantly perfect and beautiful, massive, 5 1/2" blooms. She has a lovely blend of cream and coral flowers on long cutting stems. Perfect if your a Gemini!

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The Duchesse De Nemours Peony is garden royalty! The bulbs produce a double, globe-shaped creamy-white flower that has a tint of yellow at the petal's base.

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Vancouver's 8" blue-violet flowers have long petals that are gently cupped and frosted with white. Each plant pumps out dozens of blooms and will keep your garden and flower vases filled with color from summer to frost. This dinner plate, dahalia, will fill up a boquet in a hurry.

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Named to commemorate an exceptional woman, Mom’s Special Dinner Plate Dahlia is a gorgeous double bloom splashed with vibrant lilac purple stripes. This bold flower grows up to 8 inches wide, with mid-summer blooms that add crisp, clean color to a flower garden or bouquet.

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This variety pairs peach-pink standards with ruffled, plum and mauve falls. A tracery of peach around the edges of the falls brings the colors together. Crimped edges on the petals give them a fringed look. Florentine Silk is a garden treasure!

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Summer Carnival Apple Blossom Hollyhock seeds create a mix of semi- to fully-double blooms in the sweetest shades of pink and cream. Carnival season is beginning its time for some summertime fun!

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Ivana Komanickâ shares her photo of her historic rose this morning. Tolstoj was bred in 1936 by a Czech breeder Jan Böhm, it is a setigera hybrid. It is a climbing rose with big and very fragrant blooms. Available in Czech Republic.

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Vista Point" features port wine standards with faint chrome lemon peppering at the base, liver brown style arms with light chrome yellow wings, and white falls with a chrome lemon patch, port wine haft, mid-line, and edge. The beards are white with layered rust tan and purple tips.

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Rainbow Loveliness' is a clump-forming hybrid pink dianthus. Masses of heavily fringed, very fragrant, single flowers cover the foliage mound in spring in a mixture of colors ranging from white to pink to rose to carmine to lilac with some bicolored and with some having contrasting eyes or rings.

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The peonies had to be rescued from the garden as they fell too heavy with the all day rain. They 5+ generations old and have moved with every home with many branches of the family. We love the history they carry with them. We are all better together!

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Wollerton Hall, fragrant climber, its strong, warm myrrh fragrance has intense hints of citrus. The buds have attractive flashes of red, open to beautifully rounded, chalice-shaped blooms of pale apricot, eventually paling to cream. Named for one of the most beautiful private gardens in the country.

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The Mill on the Floss" is a mid-pink English shrub rose named after George Eliot's 1860 novel. Bred by David Austin and introduced in 2018, it's known for its large, cupped blooms that fade from pink to lilac and have a sweet, fruity fragrance.

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Ferdinand Picard of the best striped heirloom roses. Intense contrasting color combination of candy pink, overlaid with stripes of rich deep crimson aging to purple. Wonderfully fragrant blooms are globular shaped and produced on a strong repeat blooming upright bush. Photo by Carol Roberts.

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Peonies are popular cut flowers and garden plants, and can thrive for over a century. Appearance: Peonies come in shades of red, pink, purple, yellow, white, and cream, and can grow to be 2–4 ft tall.

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“How to stop an overflowing toilet” should not have a 30 second commercial before it on YouTube.

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Peonies are flowering plants known for their large, showy blooms and rich texture. They are native to Asia, Europe, and Western North America, and are China's national flower.

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Gentle Hermione David Austin By Vicki Yeates Wales The perfectly formed, shallow cups are pure light pink, paling to soft blush on the outer petals. There is a strong, warm myrrh fragrance.

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For the third year in a row, we have had this perennial bloom in our yard. We didn't plant it! Our garden seems to be a safe space. We haven't got our roses fenced in yet... Hopefully this week.

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Gitts Perfection,' is no overstatement. Perfect 10” Dinnerplate blossoms are shades of tender pink that pale to a creamy white center. They’re lovely and impressive in the garden and in vases, where they blend beautifully with a wide variety of other colors. The photo is from the grower.

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From KieraFleur this dainty boquet.

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The petals have mesmerizing pastel, apricot and champagne tones which makes the whole a very warm blend, which eventually fades to a undiminished warm cream-yellow colour. 'Heather' displays excellent hybrid vigour and does not reach very high (70-75 cm). Photographed by Bernie Miller

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The Peaches and Cream dahlia is a decorative-form flower with a vintage look and a soft color palette of peach, pink, and white. Introduced in 1993, it's known for its unique petals that gracefully curl back when fully open. Now I'm thinking about dessert!

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This near-black amoena’s ‘star’, are the powerful, brooding falls. Expansive and rolling, they are broad at the haft and exude a real force. Even the beards are subdued. The white standards are subtly flooded with a purple and gold projection. Better Together is perfection photography by grower.

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With charming open-faced blooms in shades of pink that range from near-white to magenta, the California Wildrose (Rosa californica), a native rose species, adds beauty to any garden or landscape.

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'Rainbow’, introduced in 1889 by John H. Sievers is California’s oldest surviving cultivated rose. Photo: Darrell Schramm Thoughts are with California Much like this rose, we are reminded of the resilience and beauty that prevails with the citizens of California.

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California Dreamin’™ features 28-35, cream petals with pink edges. She has a strong, citrus fragrance wafting from her 5”, high-centered blooms. This medium, bushy rose may be grown in containers, beds, or borders. You can expect this beauty to repeatedly bloom throughout the season. Grower photo.

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