Here's the latest update on my rose, since I last posted weeks ago it has grown another almost 2feet. Def don't think it's a bush rose. My dad Thinks it's a standard one.
This the second flush for City of York rambler. I think it’s more like a climbing rose x rambler. Really like this rose but it needs pruning etc. Valerie
Empereur Charles IV. It had some rain-damaged blooms but I deadheaded them and they were quickly replaced by new opening buds. In a garden setting, this would be necessary, it self-cleans well. Quite strongly fragrant at the moment.
Silas Marner cane terminated just above 120cm. If in the ground and happy, I can easily imagine this getting bigger than in the DA description.
Princess Alexandra of Kent doing its double-decker thingy.
And a quick disease report. Blackspot is getting really bad. Out of roses that were healthy so far, Gabriel Oak has some blackspot on lower leaves, Eye of the Storm some rust on the lower leaves. Completely clean DAs: The Generous Gardener (I think this rose is completely immune to our BS strain), Silas, Olivia. Empereur Charles IV. also completely clean. I am cautiously optimistic about Reine des Violettes (lot of healthy fresh new foliage), Purple Skyliner (clean), Eyes for You (some BS on lower leaves but I think it's just senescence), Souvenir de St. Anne's (some BS but not much, which surprises me for a tea-bourbon).
@PeteS I think it could play a role but it wouldn't stop me from buying from them.
@cazsophieq2019 It looks like a climber. Roses don't grow as a standard on their own, they need to be grafted on a tall stem to create the tree look. You have some nice side shoots there. Train it as horizontally as you can and you will get more of them and a nice autumn flush on them.
Agel-Rose have now confirmed that my browning Chateau de Cheverny has this. The rose arrived from the nursery with it. They have been very condescending, telling me this is normal and nothing to worry about, plus they do not have it in their nursery and it must have developed during transport. Given the journey was pretty quick (the only positive) and it has been warm and dry here, I am sceptical it didn’t start with them. At least they bothered to respond, but no apology or redress.
Apart from cutting off infected parts and keeping the leaves dry, is it essential to use an anti-fungal treatment as they recommend? Would any actually work? I have a no-spray garden so am reluctant to resort to this.
Also, is this something that might spread? I have never had it before, so would appreciate some neutral advice!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie I see a lot of botrytis in autumn or late August. It is a super common fungus which is everywhere and isn't rose-specific. Normally, it consumes only dead matter but when conditions are right, it can infect healthy tissue too.
It is a common problem in greenhouses. It's said it's a sign of bad greenhouse hygiene and sign of overfilling the greenhouse. It is rarely a problem outside.
I see it on rotting/balled/dead flowers and on broken branches when it is as humid as it is now. It produces a lot of spores so if you want to see less of it, it is a good practice to cut infected parts. Most probably it won't infect your other plants. When I had it in the greenhouse last year, it needed some wound to infect healthy tomatoes or leaves.
It will disappear over the winter and you probably won't see it in spring. It's mostly end of season thing.
It's also said that rose balling and those red spots on blooms are also caused by botrytis but the conditions aren't right for it to develop the brown/grey fruiting bodies. I am not sure, I think there are more causes to balling, not all of them fungal.
- 'Amanda Paternotte' (in commerce as) - portland - I don't have space for this but what can a poor rose addict do - 'Daybreak' - Pemberton's hybrid musk - 'Narrow Water' - noisette - R. pimp. 'Dunwich Rose'
So....my lovely husband came home with this bargain £10 trellis for me. My dilemma is where to put it. I'd really like to hide our neighbours fence/improve the privacy (the unattractive black we put up to stop the dogs barking at each other through the gaps).
I have Kiss me Kate growing on the arbour and Royal Jubilee has the obelisk. I'm not sure whether to have the gap like the first pic and grow something new up the trellis or have it close to the arbour and use it for Kiss Me Kate as she gets bigger.
The third option in picture 3 is the bare wall just outside our kitchen door and a new plant/rose.
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Here's the latest update on my rose, since I last posted weeks ago it has grown another almost 2feet. Def don't think it's a bush rose. My dad Thinks it's a standard one.
Any thoughts?
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Carol
- 'Daybreak' - Pemberton's hybrid musk
- 'Narrow Water' - noisette
- R. pimp. 'Dunwich Rose'
I've started to measure the back yard with a view to adding more beds.
Roses are starting their second flush. I love how floriferous the front garden looks.
Aphrodite
Proper Job
I have Kiss me Kate growing on the arbour and Royal Jubilee has the obelisk. I'm not sure whether to have the gap like the first pic and grow something new up the trellis or have it close to the arbour and use it for Kiss Me Kate as she gets bigger.
The third option in picture 3 is the bare wall just outside our kitchen door and a new plant/rose.