Your Sunsprite is a really pretty rose @celcius_kkw, yellow roses are certainly growing on me!
Plucky Warm Welcome is recovering from it’s severe chop (to fit the new obelisk over it) and doesn’t seem to mind being in this crowded corner, no BS, rain and sun-proof:
I had almost forgotten about this newbie, The Prince’s Trust, as it hadn’t rebloomed since it’s first flush, but has just given me a single new bloom - slightest bit of sun or rain and they discolour and shatter, goes rather pink, plus it is covered in BS. Newbie or not, I don’t like it so it’s going!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie I love the combination in your first picture it's like a sunrise. Good that someone keeps it alive here. We have cold and rainy weather again. The weekend should be sunnier but the forecasted temperatures are 15-16 Funnily enough, I checked the forecast for you and you are expected to have exactly twice that
Gorgeous photos everyone ❤️ I'm not sure but I am suspicious someone is chomping my rose buds, my Gertrude Jekyll and brand new White fox, the buds just don't seem quite right ? difficult to get my phone to focus on the correct thing! Also it's just the opening buds, nothing else has been eaten like leaves or tight buds.
@K67...thanks for that, I was actually considering buying one until I read your experience... now I'm kinda not. I have to say they've never looked particularly floriferous whenever I've seen them on the verges, but I put that down to minimum TLC from the council. Sounds like it's their nature though.
I went out to take a photo of 'Purple Lodge' before it gets rain-damaged again. I would cut it and take inside but the stalk is too short, as it often is with cluster flowering roses.
'Eye of the Storm' is getting big for its place. Trevor White describes it as 80x50cm, HMF as 75x45cm... I think it wants to be much bigger.
@edhelka thank you so much for that guide. I've been checking all mine and it seems my new climber I received last week is covered in rust. Should I remove all the leaves that are affected so as to protect the new growth?
@Ffoxglove that's a very pretty rose and colour. I really like roses with that slightly scalloped edge to them.
@Nollie what a shame about your Prince's Trust. I have a rose in the garden that has leaves just like yours. I'm tempted to dig it up but it has a few buds on and I'm curious to see how they look once open before I take a shovel to it. If they wow me then it may get a reprieve.
@poppyfield64 Different people have different opinions on this. The usual advice is to remove the infected leaves. I usually don't. Even if you remove the leaves, there will be spores left and quite possibly the act of removing the leaves makes many spores fall off and spread. You would need to kill them using a fungicide. But even then, new spores can arrive with the wind. If you want to go the spraying route, remove them and spray the rose. If you want to stay no-spray or organic, I think it doesn't make a big difference if you remove them or not.
This is a bit off on a tangent but I actually wrote to Harkness to say how disappointed I am with the Claire Marshall rose they sent me from the 'chelsea stock' it has only flowered once: two bloomd that dropped and shrivelled in day.
It's very slow to rebloom and the growth is slow too with hardly any new shoots.
I sent them a picture of a Claire matshall rose my friend bought in homebase that was glorious. I'm wondering if I have the wrong rose!
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I had almost forgotten about this newbie, The Prince’s Trust, as it hadn’t rebloomed since it’s first flush, but has just given me a single new bloom - slightest bit of sun or rain and they discolour and shatter, goes rather pink, plus it is covered in BS. Newbie or not, I don’t like it so it’s going!
@Ffoxglove that's a very pretty rose and colour. I really like roses with that slightly scalloped edge to them.
@Nollie what a shame about your Prince's Trust. I have a rose in the garden that has leaves just like yours. I'm tempted to dig it up but it has a few buds on and I'm curious to see how they look once open before I take a shovel to it. If they wow me then it may get a reprieve.
It's very slow to rebloom and the growth is slow too with hardly any new shoots.
I sent them a picture of a Claire matshall rose my friend bought in homebase that was glorious. I'm wondering if I have the wrong rose!
How are everyone else's 'chelsea' roses?
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