Photo of the Week: Chrysler Imperial Hybrid Tea Rose

A red hybrid tea rose with multiple layers of deep red petals forming a spiral shape. Deep green leaves under the flower on a background of a white wall.

I suspect this beautiful red Chrysler Imperial rose will be our last hybrid tea rose to bloom in our yard in 2025.

The Chrysler Imperial rose has a citrus scent. It’s an heirloom rose which won the American Rose Society’s James Alexander Gamble Rose Fragrance Award in 1966.

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What I Found Interesting: September 24, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Coffee filters providing floodproofing for endangered birds, a successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, and the Seine river in Paris cooling 800 buildings in summer are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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