If you don't already have it, I strongly recommend 'Scepter'd Isle', Lizzie.... you won't be disappointed, and it's easily kept to 4 foot.. no staking required...
This is 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'.. after heavy rain..some buds can ball in wet weather but I never found it a problem here... scented quartered blooms in the old fashioned style... always in flower..[Bourbon, 1843]…
..some modern roses have dreadful names,.. like 'Ketchup 'n Mustard'.. or 'Yabba Dabba Doo'... ...this spreading white rose with a lovely aniseed or myrrh scent is 'Sweet Child Of Mine'... hmmm... named after a Guns n Roses song I think..[I'm sorry I don't really know who they are]…
..this gorgeously coloured rose is 'Gloire de Ducher' [hybrid perpetual 1889]
..some blooms can be massive... nice scent if you stick your nose right in there... ..turns reddish later in the season too.... tall, needs pegging or training a bit.. a sumptuous beauty...
I'm quite taken with the Sceptered Isle but the Souvenir de la Malmaison is also rather beautiful, so many choices. I think that as it's going to be quite close to the new Royal Jubilee rose I've just ordered, it ought to have a peachy/apricoty colouring to blend in as I'm not a fan of clashing colours together.
Very informative thread, I've taken copious notes. Any opinions on the Kordes rose 'Westerland' (advertised as fragant, long-flowering, healthy, which incidentally is apricoty, @Lizzie27)?
Thanks very much, I'm glad you're finding it of interest... maybe next Spring I'll go through my roses with a new thread, in case anyone wants to talk these things.. I have some roses that are new to the market, so it will be good to see how they get on..
If you like hybrid tea roses, then here are a couple I can recommend... one from people I know who rave about it, the other from personal experience..
'Rachel'... this is a shrubby hybrid tea, with pink/apricot blooms, very floriferous rose and has become hugely popular in some parts of the world, albeit under a different name... named after the BBC GW presenter Rachel de Thame.. available too as a standard rose, which I think would look great..
'Chartreuse de Parme'.. I've probably mentioned this before... there are many highly scented roses out there, everyone has their favourites.. old rosarians claim 'Mme. Isaac Pereire' an old Bourbon rose prone to disease, to be the most scented... not far behind will be this one.. a couple in pots on the patio will wow your guests.. healthy, and needs no spraying..
Thank you so much.. I'm delighted you got 'Scepter'd Isle'.. I had bloom still today but I've just pruned all my roses for the winter.. I don't have time in Spring and it's a job I enjoy doing in November before I shut up shop for the winter.... I prefer a neat and tidy winter garden as I'm gale prone here and it wouldn't look good otherwise...
I'll just finish my roses for the year by highlighting two of my very favourite shrub roses, that all rosarians who love these roses will have in their collections... they are known as Hybrid Musks, bred by Rev. Pemberton, who lived at a place called Havering-atte-Bower in Essex.. his home is now a hospice and the national collection of his roses is still maintained there, and was shown by Nick Bailey on GW a year or two ago...
The top 4 would be 'Cornelia'.. 'Felicia'...'Buff Beauty'.. and 'Penelope'... in my current garden I have the first two... let me show some photos of these shortly...
'Cornelia'... a virtually thornless rose, and so easy to manage and maintain because of this.... it can be grown free standing where it grows wider than tall, about 4-5 foot by as much as 10 feet wide...it can be grown on an arch as it will throw up a 10 foot cane to train over.. or kept as a compact shrub 4 x 6 foot... it's one of my first roses to bloom in early May and one of the last to finish in November... still flowering right now.. It has a musky scent that wafts nearby.. it needs no spraying, no watering.. you don't even have to prune much, and would probably thrive without feeding... really, what could be simpler?...
..here trained rambler style on 3 foot high railings.. with foxgloves and hesperis.. for an informal look...
..depending on the weather, the flowers can be pink or apricot...
'Felicia'... this deliciously scented rose is one you'll find in most of the large gardens, like Sissinghurst… that's where I first saw it.. another virtually thorn free rose that will grow freestanding, wider than tall, around 5 foot tall by as much as 8 foot across... needs full sun, and room to spread... like the one above, in flower from May to November... and makes a fantastic show from mid June..
..a real cottage garden rose... grow with foxgloves.. Delphiniums or Verbena bonariensis..
I hope you'll be getting some roses this winter.. I'm expecting a delivery shortly, I think I have another 4 coming.. best wishes for now...
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This is 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'.. after heavy rain..some buds can ball in wet weather but I never found it a problem here... scented quartered blooms in the old fashioned style... always in flower..[Bourbon, 1843]…
..some modern roses have dreadful names,.. like 'Ketchup 'n Mustard'.. or 'Yabba Dabba Doo'...
...this spreading white rose with a lovely aniseed or myrrh scent is 'Sweet Child Of Mine'... hmmm... named after a Guns n Roses song I think..[I'm sorry I don't really know who they are]…
..this gorgeously coloured rose is 'Gloire de Ducher' [hybrid perpetual 1889]
..some blooms can be massive... nice scent if you stick your nose right in there...
..turns reddish later in the season too.... tall, needs pegging or training a bit.. a sumptuous beauty...
If you like hybrid tea roses, then here are a couple I can recommend... one from people I know who rave about it, the other from personal experience..
'Rachel'... this is a shrubby hybrid tea, with pink/apricot blooms, very floriferous rose and has become hugely popular in some parts of the world, albeit under a different name... named after the BBC GW presenter Rachel de Thame.. available too as a standard rose, which I think would look great..
'Chartreuse de Parme'.. I've probably mentioned this before... there are many highly scented roses out there, everyone has their favourites.. old rosarians claim 'Mme. Isaac Pereire' an old Bourbon rose prone to disease, to be the most scented... not far behind will be this one.. a couple in pots on the patio will wow your guests.. healthy, and needs no spraying..
Loving the look of Marlorena's garden, so romantic with all the roses. Have put Munstead wood on my list as a possible future purchase
I'll just finish my roses for the year by highlighting two of my very favourite shrub roses, that all rosarians who love these roses will have in their collections... they are known as Hybrid Musks, bred by Rev. Pemberton, who lived at a place called Havering-atte-Bower in Essex.. his home is now a hospice and the national collection of his roses is still maintained there, and was shown by Nick Bailey on GW a year or two ago...
The top 4 would be 'Cornelia'.. 'Felicia'...'Buff Beauty'.. and 'Penelope'... in my current garden I have the first two... let me show some photos of these shortly...
It has a musky scent that wafts nearby.. it needs no spraying, no watering.. you don't even have to prune much, and would probably thrive without feeding... really, what could be simpler?...
..here trained rambler style on 3 foot high railings.. with foxgloves and hesperis.. for an informal look...
..depending on the weather, the flowers can be pink or apricot...
..a real cottage garden rose... grow with foxgloves.. Delphiniums or Verbena bonariensis..
I hope you'll be getting some roses this winter.. I'm expecting a delivery shortly, I think I have another 4 coming.. best wishes for now...