Similar story for me, Daniel (apart from your age!). I inherited a couple of hybrid tea roses with my new house, which summed up everything I knew and hated about roses, stiff, ungainly things on long stems with a huge knobbly base, blooms that discoloured and browned quickly. In early summer 2017, my local garden centre got in a small selection of David Austin roses (an experiment that didn’t last) and I bought an RD Braithwaite for my OH who likes a red rose. It was a revelation! I am so fond of this rose because it stands up to my heat really well and blooms prolifically, but more importantly, introduced me to a whole new world of roses I knew nothing about.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Exactly I feel with roses u have to learn a lot about them to know which type u prefer. That’s why visiting rose gardens or rose garden centres can help so u can see what they look like fully grown.
straight away with roses I was interested in David Austin roses as I seen them in garden centres and shows and loved them but I haven’t really tried hybrid teas or floribundas although I might trial a couple.
im still learning a lot about them tho so my favourite type might change yet!
If you like modern hybrid tea roses... then this one would probably be in the top ten roses for outstanding scent... in a pot on the patio, it would impress your guests..
I love their arches and obelisks but they are so expensive I expect beyond the reach of most people.. If in the Norfolk area, Mannington Gardens, up towards the coast, is well worth a visit.. very out of the way, a large estate.. it was planted originally with roses from Beales..
As a rose newbie, I have troubles to understand the difference in the growth habit between the main classes and also how it changes (or not) depending on pruning. I have HT which is upright and stiff (as I would expect it to be) but reasonably branched and with more flowers to each stem, not just one. My English roses are either struggling (so not at all bushy and not looking like in catalogues) or trying for world dominance (and again, not looking as in catalogues). My Princess Alexandra of Kent is bushy but it sends high upright canes, higher than the bush, with several flowers each (totally different from photos I've seen of this rose, which are mostly one big bloom per stem, often nodding... my is upright and a cluster of four to five blooms).
Floribundas are also confusing. I wouldn't call Joie de Vivre cluster flowering. But it is bushy. On the other hand, I have a rose (no id), which is less bushy, with mostly upright but weak stems and huge clusters of flowers, which push the stems down.
I hope I will get more experience and understanding of how they want to grow this year.
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straight away with roses I was interested in David Austin roses as I seen them in garden centres and shows and loved them but I haven’t really tried hybrid teas or floribundas although I might trial a couple.
im still learning a lot about them tho so my favourite type might change yet!
'Harlow Carr'.. [Austin - English..2004]
'Magenta'... [Kordes..floribunda 1954]
'Munstead Wood'.. [Austin..English..2007]
''Irene Watts''.. [Kluis..floribunda 1929]
more in a mo...
'Jacques Cartier' [Damask Perpetual/Portland... 1868]
'The Lady Gardener'.. [Austin - English..2013]
'Forever Royal'... floribunda.. [Cowlishaw UK.. 2001]
'Sweet Child of Mine'...modern shrub.. [Tantau Germany..2009]
'Chartreuse de Parme'...
If in the Norfolk area, Mannington Gardens, up towards the coast, is well worth a visit.. very out of the way, a large estate.. it was planted originally with roses from Beales..
My English roses are either struggling (so not at all bushy and not looking like in catalogues) or trying for world dominance (and again, not looking as in catalogues). My Princess Alexandra of Kent is bushy but it sends high upright canes, higher than the bush, with several flowers each (totally different from photos I've seen of this rose, which are mostly one big bloom per stem, often nodding... my is upright and a cluster of four to five blooms).