Thank you, @Marlorena. Yes, it was very late to start but did catch up quite fast. My conservatory turns into a greenhouse over the winter as I have around 30 varieties of pelargonium to overwinter.
@Jemula love both your Rose de Rescht and Bright as a Button - could you get two more different pink roses?! William Shakespeare is still available in Europe if anyone is interested... TuincentumLottum seem to have lots of DA discontinued roses...
@pitter-patter - hope you weren’t put off by Harlow Carr being on my hit list - I just found it too thorny and in my climate it is a very insipid unremarkable rose, but not so in the UK. Love it as a standard!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Yes, it's nice to have completely different types of roses isn't it. @pitter-patter - I've never been drawn to Harlow Carr when I've seen it in other gardens, but your standard looks superb.
A couple of interesting pics for you Marlorena! These were taken at Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland a couple of days ago. The rose (unnamed unfortunately) was growing the other side of this wall and had been beautifully trained up and over to wires on this side.
@Lizzie27 … nice photos Lizzie, that's what I call ingenuity, and showing that roses don't always have to be trained horizontally for best effect... ..the late Geoff Hamilton's garden I believe..
@Nollie ... hot enough for you Nollie? I hear you might get something like 46C in Spain..? I'm expecting 30C tomorrow, but it's a poor summer so far here..
Roses can fry in that kind of heat... from what I gather these DA roses are heat proof up to about 45C...
..reports from California..
'Mary Magdalene'
'Evelyn'
'Princess Alexandra of Kent'
from Islamabad, Pakistan in 45C/115F heat.. all have done well...
'St Swithun'... 'Jubilee Celebration'..'The Dark Lady'..'The Prince'..
and 'Crown Princess Margareta'...
oh.. and non DA.. 'Burgundy Iceberg' !..
..some of those are only available in Europe..DA no longer stock them in England..
Hi @Marlorena, I have rigged up shade around some of my more exposed roses. It was 42 in the shade yesterday evening and about the same now, it tends to be at its hottest at around 6pm, so I am confined to a darkened house at the moment- just opened the door to check the thermometer and the wall of heat that hit me was horrendous. June is usually warm and pleasant, but this is sheer hell!!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
PS looking some of those up now Marlorena! I am officially USDA zone 8a but its more like 9. On DA’s American website, recommended roses for ‘hot and humid’ climates as hot as zone 11 include Jubilee Celebration, Lichfield Angel, Vanessa Bell and Charles Darwin. I nearly choked on my lunch when I read Charles Darwin - it simply hates the heat here, the blooms ball in the heat and refuse to open, the edges go all crispy!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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@pitter-patter - hope you weren’t put off by Harlow Carr being on my hit list - I just found it too thorny and in my climate it is a very insipid unremarkable rose, but not so in the UK. Love it as a standard!
A couple of interesting pics for you Marlorena! These were taken at Barnsdale Gardens in Rutland a couple of days ago. The rose (unnamed unfortunately) was growing the other side of this wall and had been beautifully trained up and over to wires on this side.
I’ve been looking again at Harlow Carr this evening and a certain flower looks like it has a pink pearl inside. So beautiful!
@Lizzie27 … nice photos Lizzie, that's what I call ingenuity, and showing that roses don't always have to be trained horizontally for best effect...
..the late Geoff Hamilton's garden I believe..