My Rambling Rosie is flowering too, the flowers are a little smaller than I thought but a nice bright cherry sort of red. I think it will be a nice rose🙂
At least these small roses shouldn't be buffeted by the wind and rain - well I don't think they will be. I find that some of the large, blousy roses are hopeless in the rougher weather.
Yes, you're right GD, my Hot Chocolate rose is almost touching the ground with wind and rain. When I went to shake the water out half the heads fell off...
I have mixed feelings about Scepter'd Isle. It's a beautiful rose, very girly (which doesn't go with the name), and a good, vigorous and healthy plant. Also, a nice fragrance which surprised me because I expected it to be similar to Gentle Hermione (described as myrrh) but while Hermione is like a rose mixed with mint/eucalyptus to me, Scepter is pure liquorice.
I show what I don't like in photos. The petals of this rose are so delicate. The flowers start as deeply cupped, almost globular, lovely.
But they never open more to reveal stamens and in only a day or two, they go like this.
Day or two really isn't much. And if they do this in fairly normal weather (not too wet or humid), I can be sure it's going to be only worse.
Minerva also has these delicate petals and has a similar problem but thanks to its silvery purple colour it's not that visible.
On the other hand, I am completely in love with Scarborough Fair, it's been the star of my garden for the last two weeks. It's nicely shaped and good looking even in its first year, healthy, flowering over the whole bush, almost self-deadheading (the petals fall off nicely) and it looks good in both rainy and windy weather.
Oh you have Bordure Camaieu, @edhelka . That flower is glowing, how are you finding the plant?
I ask as I lost my bare root plant planted last autumn. Its foliage got hit by several frosts and then the stems died back. Peter Beales kindly credited me as I said I didn't want a replacement.
@Victoria Sponge It's too soon to tell. It's a bare root plant planted this April. It arrived with roots almost dry and I haven't checked it when it arrived and let it go fully dry. It looked bad for some time but it's getting better now and growing nicely.
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Malvern Hills mixing in with my mini meadow flowers
I ask as I lost my bare root plant planted last autumn. Its foliage got hit by several frosts and then the stems died back. Peter Beales kindly credited me as I said I didn't want a replacement.