Taken from helpmefind.com:

White, near white or white blend Polyantha.
Registration name: Yvonne Rabier
Bred by Eugène Turbat & Compagnie (France, 1910).
Polyantha.
White, light yellow undertones. Moderate fragrance. Medium, double (17-25 petals), in large clusters bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.
Short. Dense foliage.
Height of 1′ to 3′ (30 to 90 cm). Width of up to 2′ (up to 60 cm).

From finegardening.com:

Polyanthas are celebrated for their profuse clusters of flowers that are produced in waves from late spring or early summer until fall. They are compact and disease-resistant, making them ideal for borders or hedges, and for growing en masse as a groundcover.

What I like best about this type of rose is its resistant to many common problems like blackspot, mildew and rust. Plus the stems are almost tornless.

Polyantha Rose – Yvonne Rabier originally appeared on Laman Hati on May 10, 2012.

This is another unidentified rose I have in my garden. The rose gang call it Romantika. It has a distinct character of double color on the petals. The inside color is like peach red while the outer petals are yellow.

This is how it looks like when it has bloomed.

I think it belongs to the family of hybrid tea rose.

Mawar Romantika originally appeared on Laman Hati on May 3, 2012.

Not sure what is the type of this rose, but I suspect it is hybrid and not floribunda. I said this because I have noticed that every time it blooms, there’s only one single flower on the stem.

The local rose lovers call it chili red. So far since I bought it in February, it has been blooming twice. These two flowers shown in the picture are the last one I pruned today. Hope there will be more blooms soon.

Chili Red Rose originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 30, 2012.

Those ladies in FB rose group that I joined told me that this is Queen of Sweden. As I am still new to rose gardening, I researched around about the one David Austin bred in 2004.

From gardenersworld.com:

Plant type : Deciduous shrub

Flower colour : Pink, Salmon

Feature: Scented flowers

Hardiness : Hardy

Named to celebrate 350 years of friendship between England and Sweden, following the signing of a treaty in 1654, this shrub is uncharacteristic of English roses in that it has a particularly upright habit, making it ideal for formal planting or hedging. The flowers are soft pink and at their early stages are tinted with apricot. They have a delicate, myrrh fragrance and have have been bred for disease-resistant qualities. Introduced at the RHS Chelsea Flower show 2004 by David Austin Roses.

I am going to read more about how to care for deciduous rose shrub as initially I thought it’s a climbers. Will update once I have more useful info to share.

Rose Queen of Sweden originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 25, 2012.

I’m not sure whether what I have here is really a floribunda Shocking Blue. The canes of the rose plant I got have so many thorns but other characteristics like color and fragrance are quite the same as the Shocking Blue described on helpmefind.com:

Mauve or mauve blend Floribunda.

Registration name: KORblue

Exhibition name: Shocking Blue ®

Bred by Reimer Kordes (Germany, 1985).

Floribunda, Florists Rose.

Mauve or purple blend. Strong fragrance. up to 28 petals. Average diameter 3.5″. Large, full (26-40 petals), high-centered, open bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.

Thornless (or almost), upright, well-branched. Large, leathery foliage.

Height of 30″ to 4′ (75 to 120 cm). Width of up to 2′ (up to 60 cm).

For those who would like to know what is floribunda type:

Floribunda roses are dense bush roses that produce multiple blooms on each stem, but the blooms are often smaller than the hybrid varieties. These roses grow 2 to 3 feet tall and bloom with clusters of flowers throughout the summer.

Read more: Varieties of Purple Roses | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_8464817_varieties-purple-roses.html#ixzz1shHWswFR

More info about floribunda here : http://scvrs.homestead.com/FabFloribundas.html

This is some tips taken from allaboutrosegardening.com:

Although they are free-flowering, and the bush is vigorous,they are slow to repeat blooms if they are not deadheaded.

Light pruning and removing spent flowers will keep this rosebush producing new flowers all season. Cool conditions seem to bring out the best flowers for both size and color.

I just got my Shocking Blue for about a month now and really hope it will last long in the garden.

Rose Shocking Blue originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 22, 2012.

I have started my rose garden early this year and used the Honeybee organic fertilizer, produced by a local rose lover. Since I would like to test the effectiveness of the fertilizer (they call it rosecare) I sprayed it on my cananga plant as well.

Check out the big blooms and the deep yellow color of the flowers. You can always compare with other pictures I shared of the Ylang Ylang plant previously.

The Rosecare fertilizer is also a combination of organic pesticide, insecticide and insect repellant, so I noticed there’s hardly any problem with the mealybugs since I started to spray it on weekly basis.

Now every time I go out to my small garden, I get to enjoy the heavy fragrance of Kenanga. What a bliss!

More On Kenanga/Ylang Ylang originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 17, 2012.

Well from the first 9 pots, now I have 28 altogether. From the first 9 pots, 2 are dead..heh!

The latest 18 pots were bought in conjunction with my birthday month. After repotting them in terracotta pots (they came either in plastic pot or polybag), some of them continue to bloom since they already have buds when I bought them.

Every day I made it a point to go out and check all the new blooms. They really made my day. Of course I do the leaves picking as roses are very prone to get black spots especially when it’s raining daily.

This one is called chili red. It’s not the ID known by rose lovers worldwide but at least it’s a name to identify which is which.

I will write about those that I know their name like Queen of Sweden and Yvonne Rabier once they have flowers.

Few Blooming Roses In My Garden originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 10, 2012.

Info taken from pma.com.au:

A new and particularly attractive form of Plectranthus that does not spread like other members of the family, but rather forms a neat low shrub with an upright, erect habit.

Numerous spikes of lavender coloured flowers begin to appear from late summer through autumn complimenting the ornamental foliage of deep green leaves with dark wine purple coloured undersides, typical of many of the plectranthus species.

Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’ is a wonderful solution to shady areas in the garden as well as making an ideal container or basket specimen for sheltered patios or entertainment areas.

P. ‘Mona Lavender’ originates from South Africa and was, in fact, bred at the famous Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Capetown.

Care instruction:

Choose a shaded to semi-shade location with a moist but well drained soil. A light pruning after flowering will help to maintain a neat shape and encourage denser growth of foliage.

Once the plant is done with the current flowering phase, I plan to prune and propagate into a few smaller pots.

Plectranthus Mona Lavender originally appeared on Laman Hati on April 3, 2012.

For now with the limited space in my front yard, I can only afford to place about 10 rose plants in pots. That’s the only spot where they can get 6-7 hours of full sun daily. I do imagine having a large rose garden in the future. By that time I could plant some on the ground and let the climbers grow up the pergola.

I am also thinking of paving some of the spot with stones, to make it like a small patio where I can sit and enjoy the blooming fragrance of the roses. I would love to have my patio paved with antique cobble or weathered stone.

Oh, if you have access to the leftover of paving stone (after house renovation or driveway make over), please don’t throw them away. Those paving stones are also great for border for your rose garden plot. The natural paving stone is also great to represent the earth energy element in Feng Shui design.

Paving Your Rose Garden? originally appeared on Laman Hati on March 24, 2012.

Finally after a long delay, I have spent some time to spruce up my small garden. It was a great thing to see some improvement made to the abandoned plants and the small space in the yard. I repotted some plants, moved some to the ground instead of being in pots for years. I uprooted the wedelia and planted grass.

The cempaka putih (michelia alba) which has grown almost 6 feet in the pot has been moved and planted outside of the gate.

I also added roses into my collection. Not sure whether they will grow well with me, just wait and see how I can handle them..hehe!

The Blooming Flowers In February originally appeared on Laman Hati on February 20, 2012.