I think this year has been pretty humid, which isn’t great on the disease front. If a rose is generally thought of to have good resistance, it could just be a bad year, or perhaps some stress one way or another. ‘Timeless Purple’ is supposed to be a very good rose.
@Tack, I’m still fairly keen on trialling disease and heat/rain resistant roses, since pressures are high here, but there is a balance to be had in terms of actually liking the plant, the blooms and indeed getting any fragrance!
How is the fragrance on your new Diamond Eyes? Mine was fairly strong at first, but since the cooler weather over the last 6 weeks, nothing. I am thinking I must have imagined it, but I guess it needs a good heat to bring it out.
@edhelka that’s a really helpful guide, thank you.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I think this year has been pretty humid, which isn’t great on the disease front.
I agree. Most of my roses were clean for a long time (while it was humid and cold) but the recent slightly warmer weather made most of the BS appear overnight. It does that. It's OK, OK, and then one day they can be full of spots. Which can be quite discouraging.
I almost never have mildew on roses. It likes dry soil conditions, cool humid nights and warm days. So like the spring we had. I hope roses with mildew this year will be better in a more normal year but who knows.
The only rose with rust I have is Sandringham. Also not a common disease here.
@Nollie Diamond Eyes has a lovely and unusual clovey, spicey smell. While I am not currently entertaining much if I do it is in the garden. Everyone has to go round sniffing my roses! the varying rose scents are a revelation to most and I leave DA to last and it always elicits an ooo.
My Sandringham is about to flower for the first time after being delivered as a miserable specimen from Yougarden.. I put it in the very sunniest spot on your advice @edhelka, it's looking good.
Hi @Tack, yes that’s exactly what I got from it too. Hopefully it will return when we get a few days of proper sun - it feels weirdly autumnal here just now. Mind you, if we were having the scorching Saharan heatwaves we had this time last year I would be moaning about that too 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
That’s a lovely visual summary @edhelka I think some of my roses perhaps had Antracnose in the past rather than blackspots. In the past I used to defoliate my roses manually of black spot infected bits.. and inevitably end up with a very bare looking plant. Over the last two months however I chose to leave them as they are.. only removing the foliage that’s are most heavily affected.. and what I’ve noticed is there has been no significant change in the plant’s health and the blackspots have not spread any more than usual to the rest of the plant.. and on the plus side I have more foliage on the plants. I wonder if we sometimes nurture our plants too much.. maybe less is more?
On another note most of my roses are now producing lots more buds ready for the second flush. As usual the earliest second flush bloomer is my yellow Sunsprite
Also.. I believe some of you grow Rugosas? My Claire Austin is currently sitting in a very exposed part of my balcony and she is clearly hating it.. I am thinking of replacing it with Rosa rugosa or rugosa Alba. Can they really stand the test of extremely strong winds as they’re rumoured to be? Also.. is the fragrance really as strong as they’re said to be and how about the repeat flowering potential?
I used to photograph flowers, and I've picked many a rugosa from your typical council roadside shrubbery, and I can tell you the scent is exquisite...thorny as hell mind, but a scent to die for. As for standing up to winds and the elements, I've never seen a flattened roadside verge of rugosa yet. Not quite sure how floriferous they are in terms of garden appeal though.
There’s a rugosa hedge on a plot at out allotment and you can smell it from over 10 metres away, very strongly scented and lovely.
ive said before I wanted one of my own, and planned to start it with the little mini bareroots that they sell at Poundstretcher in spring. But they didn’t sell rugosa this year.
Thats a very good visual guide Edhelka. Very good of you to go to the effort of putting that together! 😊
@celcius_kkw Anyone who wants a rugosa alba are welcome to mine. They are untidy, thorny, sucker and spread. Plastered in green or black flies earlier in the season, Flowering is sporadic when I had hoped for it being smothered you just get a few here and there. If you dead head you lose the hips which are the size of baby tomatoes.
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How is the fragrance on your new Diamond Eyes? Mine was fairly strong at first, but since the cooler weather over the last 6 weeks, nothing. I am thinking I must have imagined it, but I guess it needs a good heat to bring it out.
@edhelka that’s a really helpful guide, thank you.
ive said before I wanted one of my own, and planned to start it with the little mini bareroots that they sell at Poundstretcher in spring. But they didn’t sell rugosa this year.
Thats a very good visual guide Edhelka. Very good of you to go to the effort of putting that together! 😊
@celcius_kkw
Anyone who wants a rugosa alba are welcome to mine. They are untidy, thorny, sucker and spread. Plastered in green or black flies earlier in the season,
Flowering is sporadic when I had hoped for it being smothered you just get a few here and there.
If you dead head you lose the hips which are the size of baby tomatoes.