@Marlorena wow ur buds are very close to opening, I’m jealous although another few weeks and I’ll be getting close to that stage. It’s good waiting and looking forward to the flowers but nothing better then when they actually arrive!!
I can't remember a year when the Forsythia is still out... as it is near me.. and the roses are wanting to bloom... I've had little rain in East Anglia since the drought last May... I would normally get around 22 inches rain a year, I doubt I've had half that amount..
I’m looking forward to seeing all your Mme. Isaac Pereires in bloom, I’ve got my eye on that one for the next bare root season, be nice to see the real colour in a real garden, sometimes I find the colours in the catalogues somewhat exaggerated!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Well here's mine and I would be grateful if anyone can identify it. It has white flowers with yellow stamens and I think it may be a carpet rose called "Noaschnee" but I'm not 100% on that.
@Achtung Please show your rose when it's in full bloom and larger.. it isn't possible to i.d that at this stage... however I will say that the foliage does not look like 'White Flower Carpet' ['Noaschnee'] … yours is heavily maroon edged, rounded and heavily veined... which is not what I'm seeing on 'WFC'... however as your rose ages it can take on a different look and lose some of that..
Look forward to seeing more of your rose in due course...
I’ve never been a lover of roses in the past - only in flower, but I’m really warming to them and now have complete rose envy looking at all the photos! I have DA Claire Austin, but it hasn’t performed very well- droopy heads and the flowers fall apart so quickly! I haven’t got very good soil for roses- slightly alkaline chalky clay and the garden can be quite exposed. This will be it’s 3rd year so will have to see. I’d love Mme Alfred C, I sniffed the flowers last year and was hooked, but I’m not sure if it will cope here?
Your Claire Austin should improve this year, I would be surprised if it doesn't, although it's not a rose I grow... Your soil is not a problem, I have planted roses in much worse conditions than that, and 'MAC' is such a vigorous rose, it will make demands on the rootstock that will force it to search out every available nook and cranny in your soil... remember, nearly all our roses are grafted, so we get 2 roses in one... the rootstock commonly known as 'laxa'.. not only puts down deep anchor roots, but sends out a running root on larger roses, that will run through your soil a few inches underneath the surface and venture many feet away from the plant.. it takes a few years to achieve, then it becomes independent of much help from you...
Patience is a virtue with rose growing... and they do not like to be rushed..
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I've had little rain in East Anglia since the drought last May... I would normally get around 22 inches rain a year, I doubt I've had half that amount..
Look forward to seeing more of your rose in due course...
Your soil is not a problem, I have planted roses in much worse conditions than that, and 'MAC' is such a vigorous rose, it will make demands on the rootstock that will force it to search out every available nook and cranny in your soil... remember, nearly all our roses are grafted, so we get 2 roses in one... the rootstock commonly known as 'laxa'.. not only puts down deep anchor roots, but sends out a running root on larger roses, that will run through your soil a few inches underneath the surface and venture many feet away from the plant.. it takes a few years to achieve, then it becomes independent of much help from you...
Patience is a virtue with rose growing... and they do not like to be rushed..