Malvern Hills is definitely vigorous! Its doubled, maybe tripled, in size in a month.
Ghislaine looking very leafy now too. Quite a lot of buds.
I'm really pleasantly surprised with the roses as they're all first year and I wasn't expecting much this summer.
The only roses that haven't got buds on yet are Queen Elizabeth, The Generous Gardener and Mortimer Sackler - although Sackler was one of the last ones planted in January and also took the longest to start growing. I was concerned it might be dead for a while!
@Fire, no, but it has definitely declined with age. I used to hate having to walk through department stores because the smell in the perfume dept was so overpoweringly sickly but it doesn’t seem so bad now. I still can’t stand synthetic air fresheners. I have only grown roses the last couple of years, so I can’t really compare as I can’t remember if I used to be able to smell them or not!
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@B3 ..what a lovely seedling rose.. great foliage.. I wish I had room for one here..
Malvern Hills is definitely vigorous! Its doubled, maybe tripled, in size in a month.
Ghislaine looking very leafy now too. Quite a lot of buds.
I'm really pleasantly surprised with the roses as they're all first year and I wasn't expecting much this summer.
The only roses that haven't got buds on yet are Queen Elizabeth, The Generous Gardener and Mortimer Sackler - although Sackler was one of the last ones planted in January and also took the longest to start growing. I was concerned it might be dead for a while!
It's growing strongly now though.
Wild Rover - still being a colour chameleon:
LD Braithwaite - lurking behind Salvia Nemerosa Caradonna:
Lady Emma Hamilton - still sulking but maybe thinking about blooming: