Love the colour of your Alexander @Omori is it a "good doer" , does it suffer from black spot? Am eyeing up ready to buy bare roots in November, but there is so much choice. I also love @Marlorena Aquarell so both are on my short list.😄
That looks fab, thanks @Victoria Sponge I think GG might just fit the bill, although I am open to other suggestions/colours on the cheery/wafty fragrance front.
@Marlorena it’s a very, very long hedge on my boundary to the south. Blush Noisette and Mme. AC are going farther down, where it’s more open, but I fancied a bit of colour outside the kitchen window - here’s a view from outside with a scrawl showing a raised bed to plant it in. I might need a trellis at the back of the bed to hold off the honeysuckle and give me something to tie in to.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks @Victoria Sponge, there is 2m between the woodstore and the hedge, so I might get away with it, but have noted your comment about the lethal thorns! I want it to grow upwards, so I can see the blooms from the window, so I think whatever I plant I would need to prune out any canes getting in the way.
A few on this sunny morning:
Stormy Weather, again! Sorry, just love this rose:
Golden Celebration on the watch list. It’s still very floppy in season 4, too pale to be interesting and all action at the top despite being wound around an obelisk this year, stubbornly refusing to produce any basal breaks:
Sweet little Dahlia Happy Single Date next to Julia Child:
Not a very good photo, but from front to back, Dahlia Dracula, Susan Williams-Eilis, a still poorly Clematis Durandii but at least it’s alive, then Bonica and tall, dark dahlia Mexican Star just showing:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..thanks for comments about my dog.. she liked nothing more than chasing a ball along the beach... she was 15 in the picture from 1994.. @Katsa ...must have been heartbreaking to leave your dog behind, but she obviously had a great home to go to... yes I think I'd want the rose too.. ..I'm sure you'll sort something out with your climber.. I don't think there's any need to rush as it will be some time before you have to deal with it.. perhaps see how it grows for you and then decide?..
...nice pics @Omori @Nollie ..Stormy Weather does look good I must say... I have a couple of roses for you to consider.. ...two nice roses from Beales @Janie B ..I wish they wouldn't cut them back though, Austins don't do that I think.. I prefer it left to my own judgement.. @Victoria Sponge ...I confess I could not work out what that parasol was... maybe something to do with a trampoline or somesuch as so many people have them today... must be a big parasol.. your Golden Gate rose has fabulous thorns... not one to mess with too much but you have some lovely large roses in your garden..
@Nollie ...looking at your latest picture, I would have thought a thornless rose was required there, what with hedge trimming etc, and general manoeuvering about in that area.. ...consider two of the hybrid musks, both of which are thornless except one or two right at the base if at all.. 'Cornelia' and 'Felicia'... both are scented.. it is said Cornelia wafts, a musky scent, but in my windswept conditions I don't always pick that up... Felicia is sweetly scented and more old fashioned blooms... Cornelia normally 4 - 5 foot tall but at least 10 foot wide, rambling type, can be trained on an arch.... Felicia 5-6 foot tall at least 8 feet wide... both bloom all summer..
I still have Cornelia, couldn't be without it... Felicia grew too big for my garden, very wide spreading and overtook me.. but both are great roses from yesteryear, and famous the world over...
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I also love @Marlorena Aquarell so both are on my short list.😄
@Marlorena it’s a very, very long hedge on my boundary to the south. Blush Noisette and Mme. AC are going farther down, where it’s more open, but I fancied a bit of colour outside the kitchen window - here’s a view from outside with a scrawl showing a raised bed to plant it in. I might need a trellis at the back of the bed to hold off the honeysuckle and give me something to tie in to.
Thanks @Marlorena, errr colour co-ordination, yep, that was planned
@Tack, I always think of a highwayman on a gibbet when the parasol is folded to be honest, especially when it's flapping in the wind at dusk
A few on this sunny morning:
Stormy Weather, again! Sorry, just love this rose:
Golden Celebration on the watch list. It’s still very floppy in season 4, too pale to be interesting and all action at the top despite being wound around an obelisk this year, stubbornly refusing to produce any basal breaks:
Not a very good photo, but from front to back, Dahlia Dracula, Susan Williams-Eilis, a still poorly Clematis Durandii but at least it’s alive, then Bonica and tall, dark dahlia Mexican Star just showing:
@Janie B Shame about the Pink Perpetue
@Katsa
...must have been heartbreaking to leave your dog behind, but she obviously had a great home to go to... yes I think I'd want the rose too..
..I'm sure you'll sort something out with your climber.. I don't think there's any need to rush as it will be some time before you have to deal with it.. perhaps see how it grows for you and then decide?..
...nice pics @Omori
@Nollie
..Stormy Weather does look good I must say... I have a couple of roses for you to consider..
...two nice roses from Beales @Janie B ..I wish they wouldn't cut them back though, Austins don't do that I think.. I prefer it left to my own judgement..
@Victoria Sponge
...I confess I could not work out what that parasol was... maybe something to do with a trampoline or somesuch as so many people have them today... must be a big parasol.. your Golden Gate rose has fabulous thorns... not one to mess with too much but you have some lovely large roses in your garden..
...looking at your latest picture, I would have thought a thornless rose was required there, what with hedge trimming etc, and general manoeuvering about in that area..
...consider two of the hybrid musks, both of which are thornless except one or two right at the base if at all..
'Cornelia' and 'Felicia'... both are scented.. it is said Cornelia wafts, a musky scent, but in my windswept conditions I don't always pick that up... Felicia is sweetly scented and more old fashioned blooms...
Cornelia normally 4 - 5 foot tall but at least 10 foot wide, rambling type, can be trained on an arch.... Felicia 5-6 foot tall at least 8 feet wide... both bloom all summer..
I still have Cornelia, couldn't be without it... Felicia grew too big for my garden, very wide spreading and overtook me.. but both are great roses from yesteryear, and famous the world over...