This is my first bloom from my first HT, "Timeless Purple"...great smell, great colour, upright as well, but unfortunately it's showing all the signs of not standing up to well to rain...which is no good in this part of the world and would have to go if that's the case.
My favourite rose at the moment, my unnamed Apricot one, going great guns on its second flush.
Just love this combination, bright pink Salvia 'Cerro potto' in front with paler pink Guara behind. Both doing well in a very dry bed with box balls and a dwarf box hedge.
Still in bloom, are Pink & White Flower Carpet roses, Blue for You, Winchester Cathedral and Margaret Merrill on 2nd flushes with GJ gearing up for hers.
Managed to get out and do some deadheading, removing the finished foxgloves and some general tidying.
Malvern hills has chosen to throw out two new vigorous stems in exactly the right place to carry on my Criss-cross pattern up the wall which is very helpful!
I find it very calming - rerouting stems, tying in and snipping back laterals on a warm summer evening.
@Marlorena.....I'm a bit concerned about your earlier post on Scarborough Fair suggesting it thrives and is at it's best when the weather remains hot. I've ordered one as a bare root for the Autumn but those temperatures you mentioned we can only dream of up here in't North...have I made a mistake I wonder and will I be left with a plant never really reaching it's true potential.
@peteS ..it should do well anywhere in the UK.. it's optimum conditions may be in blazing hot sun, but none of us get that too often.. I've also grown it north facing in a shady site, and it did surprisingly well there too, but not as good as the full on sun location.. it simply loves heatwaves more..
@peteS It thrives for me too, no worries. The blooms get damaged in rain but there are many of them so you won't even notice. It's never without blooms. And I don't get much over 25C. With the exception of the heatwave in June, it has been under 20 here. It bloomed through all of our wet and cold weather. One large flush at the beginning of June, then some flowers (maybe around 50% of a full flush continually) and now it's gearing up for the next full flush, expected in a couple of days.
Congratulations to everyone - continuing to enjoy looking at all your lovely roses.
Here are my three 4 month old Susan Williams-Ellis. Two have a strong new basal, the third has loads of blooms on very thin canes. The blooms themselves are small and totally beautiful, with a delicious spicy scent. I really hope my vision of an integrated clump covered in blooms comes true eventually!
I can't remember who else grows this one - would be interested in comparisons and experience.
When I separated my knautia macedonica - because half was flowering crimson and the other pale pinky/blue - I didnt actually do it right. So I've ended up with a cutting of the pink one which is growing away happily in a pot and still got the two different types of scabious growing together outside.
I'll have to separate them later on.
That said, the pink-bluey colour flowers actually looks just as nice as the crimson ones with Lady of Shalott. Which is what I planted them there for originally
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My favourite rose at the moment, my unnamed Apricot one, going great guns on its second flush.
Just love this combination, bright pink Salvia 'Cerro potto' in front with paler pink Guara behind. Both doing well in a very dry bed with box balls and a dwarf box hedge.
Still in bloom, are Pink & White Flower Carpet roses, Blue for You, Winchester Cathedral and Margaret Merrill on 2nd flushes with GJ gearing up for hers.
Malvern hills has chosen to throw out two new vigorous stems in exactly the right place to carry on my Criss-cross pattern up the wall which is very helpful!
..it should do well anywhere in the UK.. it's optimum conditions may be in blazing hot sun, but none of us get that too often.. I've also grown it north facing in a shady site, and it did surprisingly well there too, but not as good as the full on sun location.. it simply loves heatwaves more..
Here are my three 4 month old Susan Williams-Ellis. Two have a strong new basal, the third has loads of blooms on very thin canes. The blooms themselves are small and totally beautiful, with a delicious spicy scent. I really hope my vision of an integrated clump covered in blooms comes true eventually!
I can't remember who else grows this one - would be interested in comparisons and experience.
I'll have to separate them later on.
That said, the pink-bluey colour flowers actually looks just as nice as the crimson ones with Lady of Shalott. Which is what I planted them there for originally