Do you think Thomas A Becket is suitable for growing up a short obelisk. I've had one now for about 4 years, (plus another one which I ordered by mistake in April), but I don't think I've ever really seen the blooms as the older one is so floppy, they always end up facing downwards.
Thank you for the photos @Tack. It looks like it's doing really well for you. I have problems capturing certain colours too. I have now found that taking them in portrait mode on my android phone gives me the truest colour. Macro works ok with paler blooms but other brighter colours it seems to blow up and can't cope with them. My Canon works for some but tends to fade the colours.
We have had high winds, torrential rain and thunderstorms for days now.
Leondardo da Vinci which I bought because it claimed it was rain resistant has held on to every bloom however the foliage is really bad and dropping leaves daily. Hopefully next year this may improve as it is a new one. Rhapsody in Blue also did well. New bloom on a b&q buy. It does have a little fragrance but the canes are very thin and spindly. And A Whiter Shade of Pale hasn't done badly either.
Seems ok here, glad I tied in the long canes on Malvern Hills though as though would have been whipping about all over the place otherwise and snapping.
Few casualties at the allotment though. Some beans and a couple tomato plants.
It's been another bad year up here for "unseasonably" high winds, and another one coming midweek. Flattened my Gallica Tuscany Superb, stripped every petal off the other roses as well as off every clematis flower.
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We have had high winds, torrential rain and thunderstorms for days now.
Leondardo da Vinci which I bought because it claimed it was rain resistant has held on to every bloom however the foliage is really bad and dropping leaves daily. Hopefully next year this may improve as it is a new one.
Rhapsody in Blue also did well.
New bloom on a b&q buy. It does have a little fragrance but the canes are very thin and spindly.
And A Whiter Shade of Pale hasn't done badly either.
Seems ok here, glad I tied in the long canes on Malvern Hills though as though would have been whipping about all over the place otherwise and snapping.
Few casualties at the allotment though. Some beans and a couple tomato plants.