It looks a lovely colour so I am tempted @Marlorena, but have now run out of space. I may wait to see if all my five roses thrive, but if not, I could always fall into temptation! Is it actually on sale yet, do you know?
If you are barmy, @Lizzie27 I think we all are! The cost of the roses is a pittance compared to what I spend on compost, manure, mulch, MF, feed... not to mention the days of back-breaking labour preparing the beds, then all that time planting, pruning, dead-heading, clearing up fallen/diseased leaves...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..yes Lizzie, several vendors have it including Beales and Style roses... I'm thinking of getting one for a pot... I expect to see it in garden centres too...
Just read the gardening bit in Saturday's Daily Telegraph. An article on bare root plants recommends the following roses for good foliage, good repeat flowering ones for small gardens:- Koko Loco Cinco de Mayo Summer Song Hot Chocolate Dame Judi Dench Just Joey
Does anybody grow any of these and if so, what do you think of them?
A nice sunny day here, finally. I finished rose planting for now, still waiting for 2 roses from Beales. I also wanted to do some bulb pots but I still have annuals (mostly lobelias) looking reasonably good and they are blocking the pots which I need for the bulbs. Maybe later this week or next week.
I also decided I want to change completely one border in my front garden, next to a wall (90cm in its lowest place, 150cm in its highest, there's a slope), bins and a concrete driveway. I have perennials and grasses there and only one rose but it needs more height and greenery and some bigger higher interest shrub... simply said it needs more roses... which means that I am going to order from Louis Lens in the end... Marlorena's bad influence is to blame
@Lizzie27 I have Just Joey, it blackspots here. Not a disaster but not good. It has the most typical hybrid tea growth habit, really just several sticks with blooms on top, it's not leafy. But it has a really pleasant fruity fragrance, I would say orange and grapefruit but with added sweetness, it isn't too citrusy or lemony, I like the fragrance a lot. The blooms are quite nice and informal but get easily damaged by wind or rain. I will check my photos.
I take photos to document what's happening in my garden, I use them as growing notes. The photos show both good and bad.
This was 'Just Joey' when we moved in, in July last year. Leafy, healthy, a lot of spent blooms.
In October 2018, still with leaves and buds.
2019 blooms, pretty. It flowers in small clusters.
The same two blooms from distance. It got really tall this year but narrow.
At the moment, it's defoliated and has been for some time. Either the previous owner was better at caring for it or it was worse year for blackspot this year. But most roses have problems with blackspot here, I wouldn't say it's worse or better than average.
Most probably, I will get rid of it because I don't like its growth habit. I inherited three of them, one was binned, one is in a 15l pot where I tried to kill it not watering it once during summer (it's still alive and with leaves, looking better than the one in the ground) and the one in the photos is the last one, staying for now, but not a forever keeper.
I have Hot Chocolate from the Telegraph's list, had it at least 5 years I would have thought and it does have ok foliage, mid green leaves, occasional black spot, I don't think it defoliates. From mid-summer. It doesn't normally flop, I didn't cut as low as I usually do, maybe that is why. The beginning of Nov, little bit of blackspot.
They aren't year round, but I like the foliage on my roses William Lobb and an Alba called Celestial. I'll see if I have photos.
I haven't got a good pic of Celestial but I really like it's grey-green look (eye of the beholder) but here is William Lobb.
Thanks @edhelka and @Victoria Sponge, I like both those colours. It's interesting to read of actual habits in different locations. We have really bad blackspot here, despite it being very windy a lot of the time. I've given up spraying, just take off affected leaves as much as I can.
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… that's not too bad then @Mr. Vine Eye … just prune it out as you intend..
Is it actually on sale yet, do you know?
Koko Loco
Cinco de Mayo
Summer Song
Hot Chocolate
Dame Judi Dench
Just Joey
Does anybody grow any of these and if so, what do you think of them?
From mid-summer. It doesn't normally flop, I didn't cut as low as I usually do, maybe that is why.
The beginning of Nov, little bit of blackspot.
They aren't year round, but I like the foliage on my roses William Lobb and an Alba called Celestial. I'll see if I have photos.
I haven't got a good pic of Celestial but I really like it's grey-green look (eye of the beholder) but here is William Lobb.