Love the form of the mme. Antoine.... I should plant my tea rose which has been languishing in a shop bought container since autumn!! Bought it specifically for the form of the bloom... your post is a good motivator to plant it.
Also is it true that suckers are never red? It would seriously simplify my life if true! Thanks.
Suckers from rootstock are thin and green with a very different leaf colour... if you see a plum red shoot it's your rose not a sucker.. although there are some exceptions..
I'm hoping my Tea rose will be blooming tomorrow... the nights are still chilly..
..exquisite bloom from 'Mme. Antoine Mari'.. today... this is a wonderful rose..
'The Herbalist'.. always one of my earliest Austins to flower.
I don't grow Photinia Red Robin, ..too big and bulky, so for copper Spring foliage, on neutral soil, I grow Camellia 'Spring Festival'... after the flowers you get this gorgeous foliage which goes with everything out there.. very narrow upright grower, fits in to small spaces...
..thanks so much, glad you like my roses.. like everyone else, just waiting for the season to really get going..
@Meomye I don't do anything to them really.. this is a no spray garden so most of my roses were researched to be disease resistant... but I do have a few that really are not.. I just put up with it, but if it's really bad I just defoliate the rose, drench the soil with rainwater, and they soon shoot out again with fresh clean growth...
Roses have to build up their own resistance... if it becomes tiresome, well, there's always another... thanks again for looking in here and taking an interest in my garden...
I've no idea what I'm doing with so called ''water features'' and this is hardly a ''feature'' but I had this spare base from a water butt that's not in use, so I turned it upside down, found it wasn't leaking, and planted it up today... I got a tiny water lily but the other 2 plants are probably not appropriate.. one is a bulrush, well that will be far too big and the other is a water mint.. It was fun to do and perhaps only for a season,.. but I'd like to try and keep the water lily going as it wasn't cheap..
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Also is it true that suckers are never red? It would seriously simplify my life if true! Thanks.
I'm hoping my Tea rose will be blooming tomorrow... the nights are still chilly..
'The Herbalist'.. always one of my earliest Austins to flower.
I don't grow Photinia Red Robin, ..too big and bulky, so for copper Spring foliage, on neutral soil, I grow Camellia 'Spring Festival'... after the flowers you get this gorgeous foliage which goes with everything out there.. very narrow upright grower, fits in to small spaces...
@Meomye I don't do anything to them really.. this is a no spray garden so most of my roses were researched to be disease resistant... but I do have a few that really are not.. I just put up with it, but if it's really bad I just defoliate the rose, drench the soil with rainwater, and they soon shoot out again with fresh clean growth...
Roses have to build up their own resistance... if it becomes tiresome, well, there's always another... thanks again for looking in here and taking an interest in my garden...
It was fun to do and perhaps only for a season,.. but I'd like to try and keep the water lily going as it wasn't cheap..