There is no last rose of summer any more. There might be a last rose of late winter at some point, I suppose, but this is, these days, a late summer or autumn flower. If not a winter one.
Certainly here it is, November tomorrow, and my garden is full of roses.
An unidentified miniature patio rose growing in the kids' garden. 
Rosa 'Perpetually Yours'
A budding Rosa 'Dublin Bay'
Lots of buds on my container-grown Rosa 'Wildeve'
I just can't make my mind up if I like it.
I love that my garden is full of roses: who couldn't like that? But they look all wrong among the autumn leaves somehow.
And can you imagine having roses on the table for Christmas dinner?
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Wonderful photos, and I have to agree that it seems somewhat wrong that they'e still around...
I have a few roses flowering too, I stopped dead-heading them a good while ago now to allow them to go into dormancy but it doesn't seem to have made a difference!
I love your blooms!
thank you, and I also stopped dead-heading my roses back in about August but they've carried on regardless.
Which of course begs the question - if we didn't dead head them at all, would they still flower for months on end?
hmm... I feel an experiment coming on...
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