@CraighB Craig... you'll wish you didn't ask..lol… here are some pics from this summer... roses everywhere... I'm not a good gardener, I know nothing about fruit and veg, and cannot tell one weed from another... I'm a rosarian, that's all.. so yeah.. roses!.. climbers, shrub roses, old fashioned, Austin, and floribunda.. I don't do hybrid tea roses usually... hope you like some of these...
Yes, it's a cottage-y garden style... I've never been to the Midlands, but David Austin Roses are over that way and I keep meaning to take a couple of days out and go over there, but it's a long journey for me.. one can see so much on the internet these days, I feel I've seen it without going.. Beales roses is a lot closer and they have nice gardens too...
Not at all @Marlorena im very happy to see them It's a stunning garden and you can definately tell you know your roses! They all look so healthy and are flowering well.
@CraighB … Craig thanks so much... I don't spray roses either, not ever, for any reason, it's really not beneficial but it does require a different attitude from the rose grower..
My favourite DA is without question 'Kew Gardens'... it's my favourite plant of any kind actually... it's more than a rose, it's a magnificent shrub, but most people who buy roses today, hybrid teas usually, wouldn't think of it as a rose... it doesn't have those huge blooms people like... ... hybrid teas are what most of us start out with, then some of us move on to shrub roses, the old fashioned...the Bourbons, the Hybrid Perpetuals, Damasks...Gallicas and Albas... Hybrid Musks…. David Austins are a modern day take on a mix of these roses..
... and it then becomes a different world out there.... and you leave the hybrid tea rose behind... most advice given on these forums when a question is asked about roses, tends to default to advice appropriate for hybrid teas..
'Kew Gardens'... thornless ... 8 x 8 or larger... it will even ramble a bit.. flowers from mid May to...Dec/January even.. an Austin with Hybrid Musk origins...
...for something more typical 'rosy'.. 'The Ancient Mariner' produces huge scented blooms to pick every day... of course there are many more Austins like this one...
...other favourites would be, for different reasons 'Lady Of Shalott'... 'Scepter'd Isle'.. 'The Herbalist'... 'Royal Jubilee'... 'The Poet's Wife'... all great shrub roses for our gardens, always in bloom.. and mix with perennials and grasses of all kinds...
The only plants I do not like to grow with roses are those with large rubbery leaves, like Hostas… they just seem to be at total odds... although I've seen them at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, a famous house with rose gardens, but not to my taste that...
@Marlorena, oh, your roses are absolutely magnificent!!
I'm taking screen shots with your recommendations about rose varieties and will see if I can find them in my local garden centre. They have just delivered a whole lot of bare root roses (even though they are set in pots I guess for better presentation in the shop), but they are not rooted. I bought one and I could tell that the rose didn't grow in that pot, but was only put there recently.
Oh thanks so much, I'm glad you liked my roses... anyone who grows these types will have their own favourites and there are so many to choose from now... ..another I'm enjoying very much is..
'James L. Austin'... this autumn the scent, which is medium not strong, has been like walking through a flowering meadow, full of subtle fragrances... I'm not sure what I mean by that exactly, but the blooms are gorgeous in any case..
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Craig... you'll wish you didn't ask..lol… here are some pics from this summer... roses everywhere... I'm not a good gardener, I know nothing about fruit and veg, and cannot tell one weed from another... I'm a rosarian, that's all.. so yeah.. roses!.. climbers, shrub roses, old fashioned, Austin, and floribunda.. I don't do hybrid tea roses usually... hope you like some of these...
What is your favourite DA rose?
My favourite DA is without question 'Kew Gardens'... it's my favourite plant of any kind actually... it's more than a rose, it's a magnificent shrub, but most people who buy roses today, hybrid teas usually, wouldn't think of it as a rose... it doesn't have those huge blooms people like...
... hybrid teas are what most of us start out with, then some of us move on to shrub roses, the old fashioned...the Bourbons, the Hybrid Perpetuals, Damasks...Gallicas and Albas... Hybrid Musks…. David Austins are a modern day take on a mix of these roses..
... and it then becomes a different world out there.... and you leave the hybrid tea rose behind... most advice given on these forums when a question is asked about roses, tends to default to advice appropriate for hybrid teas..
'Kew Gardens'... thornless ... 8 x 8 or larger... it will even ramble a bit.. flowers from mid May to...Dec/January even.. an Austin with Hybrid Musk origins...
...other favourites would be, for different reasons 'Lady Of Shalott'... 'Scepter'd Isle'.. 'The Herbalist'... 'Royal Jubilee'... 'The Poet's Wife'... all great shrub roses for our gardens, always in bloom.. and mix with perennials and grasses of all kinds...
The only plants I do not like to grow with roses are those with large rubbery leaves, like Hostas… they just seem to be at total odds... although I've seen them at Castle Howard in Yorkshire, a famous house with rose gardens, but not to my taste that...
@Marlorena, oh, your roses are absolutely magnificent!!
I'm taking screen shots with your recommendations about rose varieties and will see if I can find them in my local garden centre. They have just delivered a whole lot of bare root roses (even though they are set in pots I guess for better presentation in the shop), but they are not rooted. I bought one and I could tell that the rose didn't grow in that pot, but was only put there recently.
Thank you for the beautiful pictures
..another I'm enjoying very much is..
'James L. Austin'... this autumn the scent, which is medium not strong, has been like walking through a flowering meadow, full of subtle fragrances... I'm not sure what I mean by that exactly, but the blooms are gorgeous in any case..