Talking of early season abnormalities, as we were earlier, this bloom of LD Braithwaite is 3cm diameter, instead of the usual 12cm, and is growing directly out of a leaf axil, with no stem:
Oh and some of my garlic is fasciating!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
This should have arrived first, vase of roses rom my daughter's garden that she gave me for French Mother's Day on Sunday.
A Shropshire Lad
Lady of Shallott
The Pilgrim
Phyllis Bide
Teasing Georgia
We went to my daughter near Poitiers or lunch on Sunday. She has 94 roses, mostly shrubs and climbers. Garden was looking stunning but guess which idiot forgot her camera! Daughter says she'll send some photos.
Here are some of my roses. I may have sent some earlier but they are more out now.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
My Lady Emma Hamiltons really have to go. Don’t like the weird, insipid colour, it’s totally off for my ‘Oranges and Lemons’ border. I want a trio of good strong yellow roses instead and will rely on perennials for my orange hit. Criteria:
Ideally around 60cm high, but could stretch to 90cm Repeat Flowering Disease resistant - much more important than scent Tough, must be able to take full sun and the foliage not wither in the heat
So far I have shortlisted..
Korresia* 60x60cm (looks ideal, but not sure about disease resistance) Flower Power Gold 45x45cm (‘excellent’ DR, a bit small, but maybe bigger here) Ambassador Nogami 120cm (love the single flowers, maybe too big, but not sure of its habit?)
If anyone has any insights into the above or can suggest any more I would be grateful.
* @Marlorena recommended this originally for this border, but it was out of stock so I went for Julia Child instead (so would like something different to JC, lovely as she is).
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I love my Lady Emma. Nice compact shape, attractive red young growth, gorgeous, not insipid flowers, out of this world scent. It's the perfume David Austin's put in their hand cream and body lotion. She's in full sun in a pot on the terrace, so can't be that she doesn't like sun. Her only fault is that she isn't keen on heavy rain, tends to ball.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie if my Lady Ems looked like that I would be well pleased! I agree the form and foliage are lovely (scent passes me by) but my blooms are very insipid - a pale, sickly, cold apricot colour with pronounced yellow centre and pink and blue mottling/ streaks. Its like a car crash in an ice cream shop. The evening light warms it up a bit, then it looks kind of ok, but for but for most of the day it’s just horrible.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Oh and some of my garlic is fasciating!
Here are some of my roses.
Pink Cloud
This should have arrived first, vase of roses rom my daughter's garden that she gave me for French Mother's Day on Sunday.
A Shropshire Lad
Lady of Shallott
The Pilgrim
Phyllis Bide
Teasing Georgia
We went to my daughter near Poitiers or lunch on Sunday. She has 94 roses, mostly shrubs and climbers. Garden was looking stunning but guess which idiot forgot her camera! Daughter says she'll send some photos.
Here are some of my roses. I may have sent some earlier but they are more out now.
There are 3 roses in this pot which is very big. Gertrude Jekyll, Ponderosa and Kimono.
Malvern Hills
Cecile Brunner is now fully out
Fantin-Latour. She forms a very lax shrub.
My Lady Emma Hamiltons really have to go. Don’t like the weird, insipid colour, it’s totally off for my ‘Oranges and Lemons’ border. I want a trio of good strong yellow roses instead and will rely on perennials for my orange hit. Criteria:
Ideally around 60cm high, but could stretch to 90cm
Repeat Flowering
Disease resistant - much more important than scent
Tough, must be able to take full sun and the foliage not wither in the heat
So far I have shortlisted..
Korresia* 60x60cm (looks ideal, but not sure about disease resistance)
Flower Power Gold 45x45cm (‘excellent’ DR, a bit small, but maybe bigger here)
Ambassador Nogami 120cm (love the single flowers, maybe too big, but not sure of its habit?)
If anyone has any insights into the above or can suggest any more I would be grateful.
* @Marlorena recommended this originally for this border, but it was out of stock so I went for Julia Child instead (so would like something different to JC, lovely as she is).
I love my Lady Emma. Nice compact shape, attractive red young growth, gorgeous, not insipid flowers, out of this world scent. It's the perfume David Austin's put in their hand cream and body lotion. She's in full sun in a pot on the terrace, so can't be that she doesn't like sun. Her only fault is that she isn't keen on heavy rain, tends to ball.