I've had "Dusky Maiden" from Beales in a pot all Summer, and it's been a consistent performer, considering the weather we've had up here in the North...always in flower, but unfortunately it's been savaged by rust then black spot over the last 3-4 weeks, to a point now where it is almost defoliated and bloomless. So what do I do, do I keep it or do I get rid; do I re-pot it into a smaller less conspicuous pot and sit on it for a couple of years and see if it's health improves. Decisions decisions.
I also agree with Edhelka’s answers. C is defo MW with its many thorns.. I don’t have Kew but knowing it bears single blooms I would imagine it being much smaller than Ancient Mariner.
The Generous Gardener definitely dominated by the left hand side. All of the structure on the fence is coming from the two canes on the left and all the others are staying short and shrubby. Please with the new vigorous red canes growing, they’re in exactly the right place to fill in a missing tier on the right hand side.
Amber Queen - I’m unsure about her. I sort of like her and sort of don’t. She’s got great colour on new foliage was lovely in spring, nicely scented but she’s very very thorny and mostly defoliated lower down. Think I’ll see how she does next year.
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Geranium Rozanne - thought I’d killed it earlier this year as it starting flopping and dying back in the pot she was in. Must have become waterlogged. I repotted in a temporary pot after pruning the roots and all fine now. Only planted in the garden temporarily. I’ll put her in a pot, likely the one with Rosa Remembrance in at the moment!
Very nice.. it’s so exciting a rose starts to throw up these incredibly vigorous new canes.. my Etoile de Hollande has just done this recently.. and they do grow so fast compared to the rest of the plant.. it felt like it’s grown 2 feet in just a couple of days! I didn’t see it on Tuesday and when I went to water it yesterday there they were.. just out of nowhere!
Always good to hear the minusus as well as the plus points on roses, so...
Julia Child [Ab-Fab] is such a strong bloomer and has been pretty clean until this year - however, some early blackspot spread so rapidly you could actually watch it defoliating in front of you! The upper half does more than compensate for the lower half though and it’s partly my fault for planting stuff too close to it:
Here’s another crinkled Austin, Susan Williams-Ellis. I quite like the crinkly look too @poppyfield64, I have a few Austins that do this. The blooms are very much ‘here today, gone tomorrow’:
I have definitely decided that I won’t be keeping Burgundy Ice despite those lovely blooms, the plant habit and foliage (what foliage?!) is simply not good enough, it looks pathetic in the border:
I’m not a pelargonium fan, but I really like this white ivy-leaved one and plan to dot more of them around the rose border. Works really well in pots or tumbling over the side of raised beds:
Geranium Rozanne is a fantastic plant but it is such an agressive, deep-rooted spreader here, I shall be keeping it well away from the roses. This single plant is about 150cm wide:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
And a couple more. We had fairly heavy rain yesterday evening but La Rose de Molinard’s open blooms fended it off better this time, I think it’s the just-opening blooms rain tends to affect more:
Lady Em, this is the potted one, slightly sheltered by a pergola:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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@poppyfield64 - you should still be happy for taking part! 😉
Im going to do something trickier next time...
Here’s another crinkled Austin, Susan Williams-Ellis. I quite like the crinkly look too @poppyfield64, I have a few Austins that do this. The blooms are very much ‘here today, gone tomorrow’:
I have definitely decided that I won’t be keeping Burgundy Ice despite those lovely blooms, the plant habit and foliage (what foliage?!) is simply not good enough, it looks pathetic in the border:
I’m not a pelargonium fan, but I really like this white ivy-leaved one and plan to dot more of them around the rose border. Works really well in pots or tumbling over the side of raised beds:
Geranium Rozanne is a fantastic plant but it is such an agressive, deep-rooted spreader here, I shall be keeping it well away from the roses. This single plant is about 150cm wide:
Lady Em, this is the potted one, slightly sheltered by a pergola: