First bloom for our Queen of Sweden hedge is just coming out - hopefully we will get a nice display soon! This "hedge" went in as 7 container grown plants last June, so this is their second season, or first full season. They've come on a lot:
Lady of the Lake had one bloom a few weeks ago, now plenty more are coming on. Hopefully this will cover most of this trellis in a year or two, but it is not doing much climbing at the moment. These blooms start pink but you almost pure white quite quickly:
Welcoming from a distance but cross my threshold and you’re gonna get spiked - if it is that one @B3 it’s nowhere near as evil as Gertrude Jekyll! Does it get to no more than 6ft, have pronounced reddish-purple new growth and a yellowish centre to the bloom with prominent stamens? If not, it’s some other kind of evil.
Burgundy Ice is amazing @Gartener, are both blooms the same rose, just one faded? You do have a fabulous selection of roses!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
No it reaches for the stars and more orangy scarlet very long but bendable branches older ones more thorn than branch. Stand well back as the prunings fall to earth !
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Lady of the Lake had one bloom a few weeks ago, now plenty more are coming on. Hopefully this will cover most of this trellis in a year or two, but it is not doing much climbing at the moment. These blooms start pink but you almost pure white quite quickly:
Burgundy Ice is amazing @Gartener, are both blooms the same rose, just one faded? You do have a fabulous selection of roses!
@Nollie your Mme Hardy bloom is exquisite.. all that it should be.. I would just leave them in those pots until autumn...
A somewhat odd coloured Claire austin
Queen of sweden
My favourite of the smaller austins Desdemona