Loving everyone’s beautiful roses this thread is so informative.
My first rose of the season! David Austin Roald Dahl planted last year, so far seems to have avoided blackspot. Smells divine but now I think I need to be buying them in groups of 3 for impact?! Starts getting pricey then.
Generous Gardener (Austin) planted 2 years ago on a north east wall. Always late to bloom I guess due to direction it faces? Would like some advice if the way I have trained it looks ok? Please ignore the hosepipe!
My wonderful and previously identified by @Marlorena ‘aloha’ Rose. This was here when I moved in and is the most super healthy rose, beautiful bright pink flowers and wonderful scent... just about to bloom I would definitely recommend this one for a short climber!
@Gartener Holy crow, your EH is very encouraging. I have just bought two. I'd love half of what you have in four years. Great colour. Is it in a very sunny spot? Do you feed it often? I have never managed to grow a rose in that way.
@Marlorena these are the buds of what might be a Niphetos (Historical Rose Soc diagnosis). Beautiful harlequin stripe, though it opens to be the most delicate cream. I think that in all probability it is not Niphetos as it's too tough and thriving with no help from me at all. I inherited it eight years ago with the house.
@Fire... please show me again when the blooms open, also I'd like to see the thorn distribution on a whole cane if you could, and also how tall is this plant? I can't remember if you said before... Niphetos doesn't normally have that amount of pink in the bud, but it will be good to see the open blooms on this... Tea roses are quite distinct..
@Newgardeninggirl ..your Aloha is looking great... I should recommend this rose more often but people today want Austins, but this one is every bit as good, and of course they use it in their breeding... very upright and healthy rose.. great for narrow spaces ..
As for your Generous Gardener... what I would advise there is try not to let those main framework canes which you are training horizontally along wires, drop below the horizontal line,.. the bottom one has done so... climbing roses work best if the sap is rising, not falling... ramblers it's different, they don't care.. so try to train them a little more diagonally or just upwards from the wires ..just so long as they're not going vertically that's the main thing... I'm talking about the main canes here, not the laterals which arise from them, they will go upwards in any case, and are fairly stiff.. you've got a big one going up on the left there, that will need tying in to a wire shortly, but be careful it doesn't snap off.. ...on my rose I've allowed a stem to dip and what has happened is that this stem has lost vigour...
@Marlorena, I have trained it along a trellis which is only about six ft tall, so have pruned it to fit. When I moved it everything was very overgrown but the roses were never much more than six foot. Sparse growth, not a lot of dense buds.
I have found three pics from a few years ago. I'll post thorns another time. It's not greatly thorny at all. It's a very demure plant all together. Not sulky nor longing for world domination. THE most gorgeous scent. The colour of very good, home made vanilla ice cream.
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My first rose of the season! David Austin Roald Dahl planted last year, so far seems to have avoided blackspot. Smells divine but now I think I need to be buying them in groups of 3 for impact?! Starts getting pricey then.
Holy crow, your EH is very encouraging. I have just bought two. I'd love half of what you have in four years. Great colour. Is it in a very sunny spot? Do you feed it often? I have never managed to grow a rose in that way.
As for your Generous Gardener... what I would advise there is try not to let those main framework canes which you are training horizontally along wires, drop below the horizontal line,.. the bottom one has done so... climbing roses work best if the sap is rising, not falling... ramblers it's different, they don't care.. so try to train them a little more diagonally or just upwards from the wires ..just so long as they're not going vertically that's the main thing... I'm talking about the main canes here, not the laterals which arise from them, they will go upwards in any case, and are fairly stiff.. you've got a big one going up on the left there, that will need tying in to a wire shortly, but be careful it doesn't snap off..
...on my rose I've allowed a stem to dip and what has happened is that this stem has lost vigour...
Roald Dahl looks nice ..