@Eglantyne Ena can be Astonishing. Mine are strongest on the day the bud opens and then can fade off quickly. Some years there is zero any scent. (No idea why, possibly a very dry spring). This year overwhelmingly strong. Glorious. Even the closed buds smell.
I had a rose that didn't flower for years. One day, within its hearing , I mentioned that I was going to dig it out. A few weeks later, there was an incredibly strong rose scent coming from that corner of the garden. I investigated and found a rose the size of a small cabbage. We had reached an understanding.
..nice buds and early blooms... London is a favoured climate..
I like to show the not so good as well as the glamour shots, so here's something I feel strongly about... ...you often read advice that says don't feed your roses after June because it produces soft growth in autumn that will be damaged by frosts... ...if you see that tell them it's a load of bunkum... it's decades old advice probably left over from the 19th C. when we grew more tender roses here.. besides it's largely irrelevant in November... ...the problem time for our roses is mid Spring, either severe late frosts, you don't want anything worse than -5C.. or as today 60mph gusts of wind roaring all day long.... ...this can result in huge damage to tender growth on roses.. canes get broken off, buds get destroyed, and if like me you grow a rose or two that only produces 1 flush of blooms in June, then they can all be ripped off in severe gales, if exposed...
..just a couple of examples of losses today...I've lost much more than these, most are in the recycle bin, but just to show..
That's so sad, @Marlorena, how awful ... Storm Hannah must have really hit you hard. You're not too far from me, but so far we've not had too much wind ... fingers crossed ...
@Janie B .. thanks Janie,.. all is not lost I hope..
...just a few general points in case anyone is interested... David Austins bare root season ends this week, so still time to order a few.. I think the sale offer is finished though... they must keep their roses in cold storage to offer this late..
I shall be starting my own thread shortly from my garden, a kind of a blog I suppose... so I hope you will look in on mine from time to time and see what I have... as I will continue to do so here of course, but may not comment much.. I take so many photos that it wouldn't be right to put them all here.. and I just want to encourage lurkers and those new to roses to perhaps try one or two.. I'm certainly not fishing for compliments, my garden is nothing special apart from roses... but I shall also show companion plants I like, bugs and disease pressures... all part of the game..
… and finally, if you want to meet GW Presenter Nick Bailey... and come on ladies, don't we all have a crush?.. then consider joining the Historic Roses Group, £15 p.a. twice yearly publications through the post.. as Nick will be guest speaker at the AGM in October in Birmingham... you would need a more than passing interest in old fashioned roses to make it worthwhile though... my membership has lapsed.. so hmmm.. maybe I should rejoin..
We had Nick Bailey here on the island as a guest of the Plant Heritage Group, he gave an excellent talk and inevitably had a new book to sell at the end of his talk.
Regarding the David Austin bareroot roses which will be available for only a few more days. I ordered a rambler from them a couple of months ago, and received what I was told was a cold stored rose with two darkened stems which I was concerned about, but planted it anyway. I sent them some pictures to show the state of the plant on the day I received and planted. Three weeks later I was pleased to see that the rose was settling into the flower bed although disappointed to see that the two dark marked stems had not produced as many shoots as one of the healthier stems. I contacted David Austin and they have promised to send a new plant this week. I cannot fault their after sales contact and I hope the new plant will take to our garden. Has anyone else had this cold store problem with a rose. If I had bought the rose from a shop I would not have chosen one with dark marks on the stems.
I look forward to your thread. It can be a bit intimidating seeing all those perfect shots of perfect plants. But I suspect many of us give the subjects a tweak or choose their best side before taking the picture😉 I had a long-running thread where people could post some of the less photogenic parts of their garden. It was a real hoot sometimes. But it ran its course and fizzled out eventually. Now you've got to think of a memorable name for it or people like me will lose track of it!
..some rose canker on that... it's good they're sending you another one.. that's the kind of service I'm familiar with, however your rose is perfectly alright though.. canker is only serious if it goes all the way around the cane, if it's only on one side, I don't bother about it.. ...with your rose what I would do there is, with the right cane I would prune that back to underneath the canker just above the new shoot coming out.. ...with the cane in the middle, I would prune that back again to below the canker and just above the very lowest shoot... I can see there's one at the top of that cane but I would lose that one... this won't hurt your rose and encourage more vigour and remove those unsightly cankerous bits..
...I've not had a problem with roses kept in storage, they do take a while to acclimatise and catch up, that's all..
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We had reached an understanding.
I like to show the not so good as well as the glamour shots, so here's something I feel strongly about...
...you often read advice that says don't feed your roses after June because it produces soft growth in autumn that will be damaged by frosts...
...if you see that tell them it's a load of bunkum... it's decades old advice probably left over from the 19th C. when we grew more tender roses here.. besides it's largely irrelevant in November...
...the problem time for our roses is mid Spring, either severe late frosts, you don't want anything worse than -5C.. or as today 60mph gusts of wind roaring all day long....
...this can result in huge damage to tender growth on roses.. canes get broken off, buds get destroyed, and if like me you grow a rose or two that only produces 1 flush of blooms in June, then they can all be ripped off in severe gales, if exposed...
..just a couple of examples of losses today...I've lost much more than these, most are in the recycle bin, but just to show..
..and how I have to put temporary stakes in..
It is a robust rose to survive my mum
...just a few general points in case anyone is interested...
David Austins bare root season ends this week, so still time to order a few.. I think the sale offer is finished though... they must keep their roses in cold storage to offer this late..
I shall be starting my own thread shortly from my garden, a kind of a blog I suppose... so I hope you will look in on mine from time to time and see what I have... as I will continue to do so here of course, but may not comment much.. I take so many photos that it wouldn't be right to put them all here.. and I just want to encourage lurkers and those new to roses to perhaps try one or two.. I'm certainly not fishing for compliments, my garden is nothing special apart from roses... but I shall also show companion plants I like, bugs and disease pressures... all part of the game..
… and finally, if you want to meet GW Presenter Nick Bailey... and come on ladies, don't we all have a crush?.. then consider joining the Historic Roses Group, £15 p.a. twice yearly publications through the post.. as Nick will be guest speaker at the AGM in October in Birmingham... you would need a more than passing interest in old fashioned roses to make it worthwhile though... my membership has lapsed.. so hmmm.. maybe I should rejoin..
I had a long-running thread where people could post some of the less photogenic parts of their garden. It was a real hoot sometimes. But it ran its course and fizzled out eventually.
Now you've got to think of a memorable name for it or people like me will lose track of it!
...with your rose what I would do there is, with the right cane I would prune that back to underneath the canker just above the new shoot coming out..
...with the cane in the middle, I would prune that back again to below the canker and just above the very lowest shoot... I can see there's one at the top of that cane but I would lose that one... this won't hurt your rose and encourage more vigour and remove those unsightly cankerous bits..
...I've not had a problem with roses kept in storage, they do take a while to acclimatise and catch up, that's all..