Sorry @Katsa for giving you a new website to feed your obsession! You better steer clear of the official Tantau site as well, oops 🙊
Hope you recovered from your argument with the rose bed @AlliumPurpleSensation. Most stamens are yellow, maybe an attracting a pollinator thing, but Burgundy Ice has dark stamens and Astronomia a hint of pink. I will have to observe them more closely to see if pollinators still come to them or just make a beeline for the yellow ones!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Sorry @Katsa for giving you a new website to feed your obsession! You better steer clear of the official Tantau site as well, oops 🙊
Hope you recovered from your argument with the rose bed @AlliumPurpleSensation. Most stamens are yellow, maybe an attracting a pollinator thing, but Burgundy Ice has dark stamens and Astronomia a hint of pink. I will have to observe them more closely to see if pollinators still come to them or just make a beeline for the yellow ones!
Thanks for the info. I never thought about the stamens attracting the pollinators as always thought this was down to flower colour and scent.
I've fine, the roses definitely won the battle though!
@Mr. Vine Eye You’ve explained it so well! Yes some of the roses do seem to grow way out of proportion to the pot they’re grown in.. like a genie out of a lamp describes it perfectly lol!
On my way to our post office, I walk by a couple of roses. Two climbers are in smallish pots, on two sides of a porch. I don't know the size but it is certainly small compared to the roses, I would guess 16x18, not more.
One of them is climbing HT, something like Compassion (it's not it but the same style). The other one, I don't know, it doesn't flower and there are some laxa suckers in it (which do flower).
Every year, they cut it back to 3'x2' or even less. Maybe they water them, I would doubt they feed them and they certainly don't repot them. It's quite obvious they aren't gardeners. There are no other plants, just a ton of campanula growing from gaps in the concrete.
The roses grow huge 2-2.5m canes every year, many of them. By the end of the season, they are above the porch and the windows line. No training, they just flop around there, like giant octopuses. Not many flowers. Incredibly resilient plants.
I had my roses in pots in last house. They were in large pots and did very well until a time when I couldn't water them for couple of weeks and they suffered but survived. The plants in small pots wouldn't have survived.
@edhelka I'm surprised they go to the trouble of even cutting them back if they do nothing else lol. Those poor octopuses!!!
@newbie77 Thank you for the info. I'm used to being out watering everyday and we rarely go away longer than a long weekend so shouldn't be a problem there and I'm planning on getting a very big pot for it.
@Nollie I *may have a couple book marked from Tantau! It's funny, I'm definitely leaning towards European rose breeders compared to UK. That said, I'm less than a year into my rose journey so it could all change.
'proper job' is looking stunning right now.
Papworth pride is 'ok' still underwhelmed
English miss smells delish
Raymond Blanc is definitely my favourite. Although according to my OH it smells like the WC of an old lady 🙈🙈
I've been given a planter (60cm x 60cm) and I'd like to grow a rose up and over to pergola (replacing the redcurrent bush highlightted in red). What would you recommend?
It needs to be fragrant a d disease resistant. Not that fussed about colour as nothing else would compete. The large planters in the back have hops in them.
A new addition to the garden Annapurna: I’m liking the white with a slight tingle of yellow centre and a blush tone to the opening buds. chandos beauty, I’ve three of these in a row, all bought at the same time from Harkness and they are all growing very differently. This has so far been the best bloom. It smells wonderful and really is gorgeous.
Boscobel looking pretty growing against my window box. Still doesn’t smell though which is a disappointment after them smelling so lovely last year.
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Thanks for the info. I never thought about the stamens attracting the pollinators as always thought this was down to flower colour and scent.
I've fine, the roses definitely won the battle though!
@newbie77 Thank you for the info. I'm used to being out watering everyday and we rarely go away longer than a long weekend so shouldn't be a problem there and I'm planning on getting a very big pot for it.
'proper job' is looking stunning right now.
Papworth pride is 'ok' still underwhelmed
English miss smells delish
Raymond Blanc is definitely my favourite. Although according to my OH it smells like the WC of an old lady 🙈🙈
I've been given a planter (60cm x 60cm) and I'd like to grow a rose up and over to pergola (replacing the redcurrent bush highlightted in red). What would you recommend?
It needs to be fragrant a d disease resistant. Not that fussed about colour as nothing else would compete. The large planters in the back have hops in them.
chandos beauty, I’ve three of these in a row, all bought at the same time from Harkness and they are all growing very differently. This has so far been the best bloom. It smells wonderful and really is gorgeous.