Roses in the morning

My best rose photos, especially during the hot Summer months, are taken in the morning.  Blooms are beginning to open, but the day's heat hasn't sapped them of their youth.  Below are some striking examples of bloom clusters from four of my rose seedlings, obtained from open pollination of their parent rose: 'Queen Elizabeth'.  The progeny of this parent rose are likely to bear roses in clusters, as 'Queen Elizabeth', the first of the Grandiflora class, is heavily indebted to the Floribunda roses.  For additional photos of select bloom clusters, see my post of July 5, 2014 titled "Royal roses".

Photo taken:  June 27,  2015

Photo taken:  June 26,  2015

Photo taken:  June 9,  2015

Photo taken:  June 12,  2015

Update of September 4,  2015:   The pretty roses just keep coming.  Below are blooms from four more of my unnamed seedlings from the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose.  Considering that their open pollination beginnings were very likely the result of SELF pollination, the implication is that there must be much diversity in the gene pool of the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose, which is quite true (and you don't have to go very far back in its ancestry).  These eight rose photos (4 above + 4 below) are testimony to that diversity.

Photo taken:  June 28,  2015

Photo taken:  July 3,  2015

Photo taken:  July 5,  2015

Photo taken:  September 3,  2015