@Nollie Your two Ladies are looking fab! Mine are also currently blooming and Lady M Especially smell absolutely divine!
And Roald Dhal looking very healthy and totally ‘floriferous’.
On on another note I noticed that a couple of my roses, namely Munstead Wood and Claire Austin have developed a sort of shrivelled rusty edge to their leaves:
Does anyone have any idea what might be happening? It doesn’t look like the fungal rust disease. I thought it could be one of two things:
1. Overfertilising - because I know I sort of have overdone it, with the use of David Austin granular feed, Rose tonic AND seaweed fertiliser. I have been scaling back though, before @Marlorena rolls her eye on me.
2. These two particular roses are placed on a more exposed windy area of my roof terrace, I wonder if they have just been desiccated by the dry wind??
To finish off, my sceptre’d isle and desdemona should be blooming by the end of this month. 😊
That Mrs Oakley Fisher looks great Richard Hodson, what a lot of flowers, hope mine will look like that. The colour seems like it will fit in nicely with my existing planting.
Looking fabulous @celcius_kkw, amazing quantity of blooms, all that overfeeding can’t have done too much harm. I particularly like the Raspberry Cocktail
My LofS does need good support, I know DA says it’s suitable for pots, but it must take some pruning to keep it that way, so be interested to see how yours gets on...
Your crispy leaves do look like sun/windburn but I am sure M will confirm or deny...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Mrs Oakley Fisher was a rose that Christopher Lloyd liked, about the only one, he wasn't known as a rose lover... lovely spring foliage on that rose... thanks Richard for posting..
...I'm pleased to see your Los doing well again for you @Nollie ... it's a shame you don't care much for the other one... I like big butch roses so LoS is the one for me...
@celcius_kkw ...Adrian... up where you are you're going to get issues with foliage like that...a minor issue, I would just pick them off... likely wind burn although one usually sees more dessication.. fertilizer burn is caused by inorganic high nitrogen feed in too high a dose, which gets to the roots too quickly... the same thing that causes grass to go brown when a dog pees on it.. manure on the stems or granular fertilizers are the usual cause.... DA feed is high in nitrogen... but I wouldn't have expected you to be using that at this time... but I know what you're like !...lol.. ...your pots are looking great.. Roald Dahl is a winner... I'm pleased I recommended this rose to a member earlier.. so I hope it's doing well for him too...
@celcius_kkw My roses in the front garden often look similar, they are in a wind tunnel there, poor things. Usually, when young foliage gets damaged by winds, it then grows deformed. Crispy edges on mature foliage are less common but happen to me too.
I just prefer a strong, unmuddied colour, @Marlorena. When LEH looks like this photo I would gladly rip it out, but OH loves it, even when it has measles. I have been told in no uncertain terms to keep my 🐾 off it...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie I shall keep you posted regarding how my Lady S do next year. To be honest so far it’s been really self sufficient in terms of support, I did have three extra large stems growing at one point that I removed wrongly thinking they were suckers, but even those were seemingly supporting their own weight.
Also I’m kind of with you on blooms unmuddied colours.. but over time I have learned to appreciate imperfections in my roses, it’s like a whole life cycle on display 😊
@edhelka Are your plants growing well in those windy spots? Apart from the bit of windburn in the leaves? Mine seem to still flower etc but I feel a bit sorry about the foliage..
@Marlorena The idea of picture of a rose with a background of snow sounds amazing don’t you think?! Don’t think I’ve ever seen one like that ha!
By the way I just spotted my royal William bud peeking through..
@celcius_kkw I live in a windy location close to the coast, so I don't have much choice and even roses in the much more sheltered back garden sometimes get wind-damaged. I just live with knowing they won't be exhibition worth plants. Sometimes I think about replacing them with something else but they usually look good enough in summer.
There is also a slope and I have very free draining sandy/stony soil. Not best for roses. My strategy is to have a lot of different plants and there is always something looking good.
This was in mid-July. There is (from the left): Minerva - sheltered by a huge lavender, unknown pink, Gentle Hermione - not doing well, I think I'll move her to a pot to give her her last chance, and another unknown pink. Minerva is planted by me, others came with the house.
@edhelka I read an article by Michael Marriott somewhere saying the Kew Garden is ideal for coastal windy areas. I might give that a go myself next year.
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On on another note I noticed that a couple of my roses, namely Munstead Wood and Claire Austin have developed a sort of shrivelled rusty edge to their leaves:
1. Overfertilising - because I know I sort of have overdone it, with the use of David Austin granular feed, Rose tonic AND seaweed fertiliser. I have been scaling back though, before @Marlorena rolls her eye on me.
2. These two particular roses are placed on a more exposed windy area of my roof terrace, I wonder if they have just been desiccated by the dry wind??
To finish off, my sceptre’d isle and desdemona should be blooming by the end of this month. 😊
My LofS does need good support, I know DA says it’s suitable for pots, but it must take some pruning to keep it that way, so be interested to see how yours gets on...
Your crispy leaves do look like sun/windburn but I am sure M will confirm or deny...
...I'm pleased to see your Los doing well again for you @Nollie ... it's a shame you don't care much for the other one... I like big butch roses so LoS is the one for me...
@celcius_kkw ...Adrian... up where you are you're going to get issues with foliage like that...a minor issue, I would just pick them off... likely wind burn although one usually sees more dessication.. fertilizer burn is caused by inorganic high nitrogen feed in too high a dose, which gets to the roots too quickly... the same thing that causes grass to go brown when a dog pees on it.. manure on the stems or granular fertilizers are the usual cause.... DA feed is high in nitrogen... but I wouldn't have expected you to be using that at this time... but I know what you're like !...lol..
...your pots are looking great.. Roald Dahl is a winner... I'm pleased I recommended this rose to a member earlier.. so I hope it's doing well for him too...
Also I’m kind of with you on blooms unmuddied colours.. but over time I have learned to appreciate imperfections in my roses, it’s like a whole life cycle on display 😊
@edhelka Are your plants growing well in those windy spots? Apart from the bit of windburn in the leaves? Mine seem to still flower etc but I feel a bit sorry about the foliage..
@Marlorena The idea of picture of a rose with a background of snow sounds amazing don’t you think?! Don’t think I’ve ever seen one like that ha!
By the way I just spotted my royal William bud peeking through..