Hi Marlorena, thanks re Kew Gardens, mine is fairly small just now (yr 2) but I am hoping it will eventually scramble up. Keeping it within reach and deadheading it per cluster rather than individually is good advice!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I don't want to interrupt the other rose thread, but I've noticed a mention of Geranium 'Rozanne' with roses... I thought I would show a couple of examples here from my own experience... it's a plant that is fine in the first year... from then on, depending on your rose, you might have problems... nowadays I grow it in pots which are root pruned each year.. simple job to do..
...these photos are several years old now.. but the pink rose is 'Mutabilis', which grows into a very large shrub.. here it's about 4 foot tall and Rozanne in the first season has climbed through and near the top of the rose... not too bad at this point, in August of that year..
...in the following year, the rose - barely visible, now 5 foot tall, is being smothered by the Geranium... which looks nice, but I'm not seeing much rose there, and that is one big shrub rose.. care should be taken which rose one pairs this plant with I think.. even bigger shrub roses can be swamped by it..
...the following year it just grew even bigger and I took it out in a bit of a rage if I'm honest..
Munstead Wood looks like it may be the first followed by Scepter’d Isle. Sexy Rexy only just beginning to form buds.
Coming in here to this and the other rose thread and seeing all the beautiful blooms from everyone makes the wait a wee bit easier and maybe when they do bloom the rain will have stopped ! 😁
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..thank you !.. I'm still waiting for lots of roses to bloom..
'Blush Noisette'...
first flower on 'Octavia Hill'... [Harkness floribunda]
first flower on 'Bathsheba'... wind sheared somewhat..
Helianthemum 'Wisley Primrose'
'Ben Ledi'
'Lawrenson's Pink'
Halimium [forgot name]
'Sandling form'
with Hebe 'Avalanche'
Hebe 'Porlock'
...these photos are several years old now.. but the pink rose is 'Mutabilis', which grows into a very large shrub.. here it's about 4 foot tall and Rozanne in the first season has climbed through and near the top of the rose... not too bad at this point, in August of that year..
...in the following year, the rose - barely visible, now 5 foot tall, is being smothered by the Geranium... which looks nice, but I'm not seeing much rose there, and that is one big shrub rose.. care should be taken which rose one pairs this plant with I think.. even bigger shrub roses can be swamped by it..
...the following year it just grew even bigger and I took it out in a bit of a rage if I'm honest..
..mine is just coming out …
'Cornelia' today.. these hybrid musk roses are essentials for cottagey type gardens..
'Felicia' again...
my road frontage is difficult to photograph... this is just a section..
Munstead Wood looks like it may be the first followed by Scepter’d Isle. Sexy Rexy only just beginning to form buds.
Coming in here to this and the other rose thread and seeing all the beautiful blooms from everyone makes the wait a wee bit easier and maybe when they do bloom the rain will have stopped ! 😁