I do love your Hanne @Omori, I’m a sucker for red roses though, even though I have yet to find one that is truly happy here. It’s an addiction - just one more roll of the dice and that’s it, I say. Every year 😆
On the pink/purple front, higher temps and not much rain of late so an undamaged bloom from Rose de Molinard. Has lots of new buds too, but the earwigs got most of them, damn! A strong, sweet smell of pink grapefruit bubblegum:
New Rose de Rescht, temporarily in a pot. I like the casual, muddled nature of the tiny bloom. They should get bigger and a deeper colour in cooler weather, especially when I put it in the ground:
A nice fragrant bloom from Soul too. The plant itself has grown so well I am now fanning it out over the fence (excuse the temporary lurid green ties, run out of the subtle ones!) in the hope of encouraging more laterals. If it put out more blooms I wouldn’t mind the occasional rain/heat damage. Will have to wait and see how it does next year...
Stormy Weather has grown well and is a great bloomer too, subtle fragrance:
The latest from The Prince, such a colour chameleon. The fragrance is very temperamental, sometimes nothing at all, occasionally cat’s pee (OH insists that’s what it is!) or currently a nice fruity fragrance not dissimilar to Munstead Wood:
Burgundy Ice is not very happy here. In addition to it’s spindly habit, blooms have been a bit sparse after the initial flush, the foliage is unhealthy, it’s mostly defoliated... suffers from a lot of leaf senescence and fungal infections all over.
Astronomia is very bushy, healthy and rarely without blooms, even if they don’t last long. Here a bit camouflaged against tall Dahlia Mexican Star:
Phew, finally that’s it from me, except to say @Marlorena, I do so appreciate all your wise advice, excellent recommendations and encouragement over the years, but hope you will still pop in and see us whenever you can. All the best xx
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..that's kind of you both, thank you... I shall still be around I hope, just not so much... but I did start to get a bit narked when you get personal messages from those you've never heard of, asking to i.d. a rose, and when you can't come up with an answer, you either don't even get a ''thank you anyway'', but something like ''well you're supposed to be the rose expert, don't you know?''.. having spent hours on it.. I mean, I don't like to appear rude but I really don't have the time ..
..I've had none in the last couple of weeks thankfully.. but earlier in the season I was getting quite a few.. and that's without all the tags of course, which I don't mind at all from regulars, it's those who post just once and never hear from them again... can't be doing with that..
@Omori ..there probably is but I leave it on as I get pm's from regulars too, which is nice, I don't mind that.. but I think people see my name and link it with roses... I don't even consider myself an expert, never have, even though I've grown some 500 roses over 40 years I'm still learning every day, and from everyone else too..
@Nollie ..thanks so much Nollie, always great to talk with you and your photos manage to swoon worthy regardless.. sorry about Burgundy Ice though, that's a bummer.. I think it wants a hot climate, but a dry one.. .. mine is much the same, and I'm thinking of going back to the white Iceberg.. it was so much better.. Your 'Soul' is a spitting image of an Austin called 'Thomas a Becket' I would hardly know the difference from that picture..
I'm so glad to hear you will still pop in. I would definitely miss you and your lovely roses. You've helped me reconsider my choices and expand my horizons, as I'm sure you've done for many people even ones who never post. So thank you @Marlorena. And I'm sure my roses would thank you even more!
@Tack @newbie77 ..thank you again.. I shall certainly be looking in at your roses.. and I'm delighted if I have helped in any way.. @Omori .. I would not have known your garden was only 2 years old.. it always looks quite mature..
I’m well pleased to hear that Marlorena, both the fact that nothing bad has occurred to your circumstances and also because you’ve agreed to still be around on and off.
By the way, I noticed this most unusual bloom on my Desdemona.. I wonder if it’s the ingenious work of that caterpillar that I spotted munching away in one of my Desdemona blooms last week.. I think it’s created a rather interesting form on this rose..
Bit gutted I had hoped to take my Late Mum's standard rose but I'm not sure it is really worth it? I'm probably best just buying a new one to remember her by (along with all the other memorial roses I have bought in the last 11 months 😂)
@rock_hen It doesn't look totally beyond saving, although certainly I'm no expert. It does still have nice green shoots from the graft centre I see though whether it would survive a hard prune I'm not sure. You can but try and if it doesn't work, then as you say, you could buy a new one. Do you know the name of it and is it still available? I managed to save and move my Dad's memorial rose which had been sadly neglected in my mum's garden. Three moves and 26 years later, it is doing really well. It's my HT Royal William in my photos posted yesterday.
@celcius_kkw ...Adrian, not seen one like that before on Desdemona.. reminds me a bit of the muddled blooms on Susan Williams-Ellis.. see how it opens, and if you get any more like that... you shouldn't.. I've just looked at my photos of this rose going back a few years, and can't see anything similar to report..
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I do love your Hanne @Omori, I’m a sucker for red roses though, even though I have yet to find one that is truly happy here. It’s an addiction - just one more roll of the dice and that’s it, I say. Every year 😆
On the pink/purple front, higher temps and not much rain of late so an undamaged bloom from Rose de Molinard. Has lots of new buds too, but the earwigs got most of them, damn! A strong, sweet smell of pink grapefruit bubblegum:
New Rose de Rescht, temporarily in a pot. I like the casual, muddled nature of the tiny bloom. They should get bigger and a deeper colour in cooler weather, especially when I put it in the ground:
A nice fragrant bloom from Soul too. The plant itself has grown so well I am now fanning it out over the fence (excuse the temporary lurid green ties, run out of the subtle ones!) in the hope of encouraging more laterals. If it put out more blooms I wouldn’t mind the occasional rain/heat damage. Will have to wait and see how it does next year...
Stormy Weather has grown well and is a great bloomer too, subtle fragrance:
The latest from The Prince, such a colour chameleon. The fragrance is very temperamental, sometimes nothing at all, occasionally cat’s pee (OH insists that’s what it is!) or currently a nice fruity fragrance not dissimilar to Munstead Wood:
Burgundy Ice is not very happy here. In addition to it’s spindly habit, blooms have been a bit sparse after the initial flush, the foliage is unhealthy, it’s mostly defoliated... suffers from a lot of leaf senescence and fungal infections all over.
Astronomia is very bushy, healthy and rarely without blooms, even if they don’t last long. Here a bit camouflaged against tall Dahlia Mexican Star:
Phew, finally that’s it from me, except to say @Marlorena, I do so appreciate all your wise advice, excellent recommendations and encouragement over the years, but hope you will still pop in and see us whenever you can. All the best xx
..I've had none in the last couple of weeks thankfully.. but earlier in the season I was getting quite a few.. and that's without all the tags of course, which I don't mind at all from regulars, it's those who post just once and never hear from them again... can't be doing with that..
..there probably is but I leave it on as I get pm's from regulars too, which is nice, I don't mind that.. but I think people see my name and link it with roses... I don't even consider myself an expert, never have, even though I've grown some 500 roses over 40 years I'm still learning every day, and from everyone else too..
@Nollie
..thanks so much Nollie, always great to talk with you and your photos manage to swoon worthy regardless.. sorry about Burgundy Ice though, that's a bummer.. I think it wants a hot climate, but a dry one..
.. mine is much the same, and I'm thinking of going back to the white Iceberg.. it was so much better..
Your 'Soul' is a spitting image of an Austin called 'Thomas a Becket' I would hardly know the difference from that picture..
@newbie77
..thank you again.. I shall certainly be looking in at your roses.. and I'm delighted if I have helped in any way..
@Omori
.. I would not have known your garden was only 2 years old.. it always looks quite mature..
Bit gutted I had hoped to take my Late Mum's standard rose but I'm not sure it is really worth it? I'm probably best just buying a new one to remember her by (along with all the other memorial roses I have bought in the last 11 months 😂)
It doesn't look totally beyond saving, although certainly I'm no expert. It does still have nice green shoots from the graft centre I see though whether it would survive a hard prune I'm not sure. You can but try and if it doesn't work, then as you say, you could buy a new one.
Do you know the name of it and is it still available?
I managed to save and move my Dad's memorial rose which had been sadly neglected in my mum's garden. Three moves and 26 years later, it is doing really well. It's my HT Royal William in my photos posted yesterday.
...Adrian, not seen one like that before on Desdemona.. reminds me a bit of the muddled blooms on Susan Williams-Ellis.. see how it opens, and if you get any more like that... you shouldn't.. I've just looked at my photos of this rose going back a few years, and can't see anything similar to report..