@Mr. Vine Eye I'm so glad you are liking it, and of course they only get better with age..
That red rose is rather nice too... not one I know..
I think it might be one I end up replacing - it's in a pot on the patio - I got it along with Amber Queen and Arthur Bell in a 3 for £10 offer at the garden centre in December.
Picked it because I didn't have a red and it had a RHS AGM symbol on the label. But I think this was false as I can't find it on the RHS website.
Its foliage isn't particularly interesting and there's very little scent.
@Lizzie27 Lizzie, I'm having a hard time believing that your Royal Jubilee is what it's supposed to be... I'm thinking you've been sent the wrong rose there... I've never seen it that colour or shape.. and the foliage doesn't look right either...
@Mr. Vine Eye I've been checking up on Remembrance... it does have an AGM, from 2001.. the name was chosen by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission who wanted a red rose, similar to the Flanders poppy...
..a short floribunda, with no disease issues... just lacks scent and perhaps some character to it... so perhaps not one for the longer term as you say...
@Lizzie27 ... it's just occurred to me... I know what you've got there... as I said it isn't Royal Jubilee... what you have is 'Silver Jubilee'.. a hybrid tea rose... I grew it years ago, and knew I had seen it before... it's actually a great rose in its own right... but not what you expected or paid for I imagine...
We are now in OH's cottage in Norfolk. Here are some of the roses. They had been very battered by heavy rain.
Ghislane de Féligond in a pot waiting to be planted. Bought her in Peter Beales Classic Roses, with Penelope. The gardens there are looking wonderful, Rose Festival this weekend.
New Dawn
Penelope
Kew Rambler
New Dawn, should be next to the other one. Malvern Hills is behind but is nearly over and got very rain battered.
This bit all needs tidying up, the honeysuckle has a lot of brown in it and is smothering the rose, which has come detached from its wire. It is more apricot than it looks in the photo, has darker buds, smells wonderful and is quite prickly, could be Albertine.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Unknown hybrid tea, huge blooms. It's the first time I've found a rose scent unpleasant. It smells like a freshly cut grass which got partially rotten and peed on by a dog, no sweetness in it, just a grassy scent with an acidic, almost sharp, back note. I asked my husband about it and he said
it was OK - grassy, fresh and citrusy (but he calls all roses citrusy,
last week he called Gentle Hermione citrusy).
Here’s our albertine, with a beautiful friend. Came from a cutting from OH’s father’s garden in south london and now living happily halfway up a mountain.
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I think it might be one I end up replacing - it's in a pot on the patio - I got it along with Amber Queen and Arthur Bell in a 3 for £10 offer at the garden centre in December.
Picked it because I didn't have a red and it had a RHS AGM symbol on the label. But I think this was false as I can't find it on the RHS website.
Its foliage isn't particularly interesting and there's very little scent.
Whereas the other two are keepers I think.
Another two of mine. out today in the sunshine.
Climbing Claire Austin - way above the arbour it was supposed to climb on!
Silver Jubilee - more of an apricot colour in flower than in bud. (Marlorena's just correctly named it! Thanks M)
We are now in OH's cottage in Norfolk. Here are some of the roses. They had been very battered by heavy rain.
Ghislane de Féligond in a pot waiting to be planted. Bought her in Peter Beales Classic Roses, with Penelope. The gardens there are looking wonderful, Rose Festival this weekend.
New Dawn
Penelope
Kew Rambler
New Dawn, should be next to the other one. Malvern Hills is behind but is nearly over and got very rain battered.
This bit all needs tidying up, the honeysuckle has a lot of brown in it and is smothering the rose, which has come detached from its wire. It is more apricot than it looks in the photo, has darker buds, smells wonderful and is quite prickly, could be Albertine.