@peteS - nasty, I’ve not had that yet. I did see a sawfly last year parked on Malvern Hills but I didn’t know what it was at the time! Can’t have been very successful as there wasn’t any noticeable damage.
Few photos as I’ve not posted any for a while...or at least it feels like that! Most of my roses are on a break.
The Generous Gardener has pushed out lots of nice new foliage.
It’s a plant of two halves - climber on the left, small shrub on the right. That tall red cane right in the middle is the one that got snapped, it’s tied to another cane for support while it hopefully heals up. It looks quite promising to me the leaves all look ok on it.
But there’s also a replacement coming in at the back which is happily bending to go in the right direction - and another centre left which you can just make out in this photo.
Royal Jubilee starting to flower again after a week off. The lazy thing! 😉
Mortimer Sackler, I haven’t done any full shot photos of it, but it’s doing quite well, healthy. I do really like the foliage on this one.
New growth low down on Lady of Shalott which is good to see.
First flowers coming now on Geranium Patricia, planted in May.
Lovely little tortoise shells of Geraniums
Salvia Mainacht is great, it’s flowered for a really long time. I’ve also successfully taken cuttings from it which are showing roots! That’s the first time I’ve ever managed to successfully root cuttings using the traditional methods. Very pleased!
Princess Alexandra of Kent taking a very exaggerated bow! Almost going full circle 😄
My seedling of 'Claire Jolly' finally has buds. It is a mini or even micro-mini (the pot is 9cm). Tiny minis are actually quite easy to create because the miniaturizing gene is dominant. So thanks to this seedling, I know CJ has this gene and passes it on, which means I can expect the majority of her self-seedlings to be minis. It had mildew earlier in the year but it's clean now. I expect the blooms to be light pink and single. I should get rid of it but at this point, it doesn't take any space or special care
'La Belle Rouge', a nonstop bloomer and self-deadheading.
could someone tell me what are good online shops for bare root roses apart from the obvious breeders please? Also could I hear postives and negatives about standard roses please? Thank you
@rock_hen I'm glad you asked that about standard roses. I've been curious about them too. As for bare roots, I'm sure Marlorena recently said that Trevor Whites were very good for bare roots.
My understanding - bearing in mind I've never had a standard so this is all theoretical!
Positives -
gives additional height to a rose. Which could be good in lots of different ways - depending on where you're going to put it.
Takes up less ground space so allows underplanting.
Pleasing form - if you like standards.
Negatives -
More suckers? Most of the sucker posts I've seen that are actually suckers are on standards because the trunk rootstock is exposed. Likewise when I've passed gardens with standards I've seen a lot of ones that have clearly been taken over - so you need to be vigilant and remove any growth from the trunk.
I've also seen a lot of dead ones. They're much more vulnerable up there than shrub roses. The grafted points are way up on a stick, so they're open to the elements and if they get damaged, diseased or start to dieback, then recovery is much less likely.
Thanks for the video link @Marlorena, good explanation of the different scents - had to strain to hear him over that running water though and I missed the last bit as my internet gave up. Will try again to catch the end.
On growing, feeding and pruning roses, I came across this article recently by Kim Rupert on HMF which is well worth a read - some of it was a real revelation to me, but fail to see what was ‘lazy’ about it!
@Nollie, interesting article. I found low, medium and high pruning really interesting. I think he meant lazy by not spraying chemicals though spraying garlic water would take same effort too!
I also enjoyed the video, despite the poor choice of recording location with that water!
I wanted to do the same thing at some point, have all of my roses in front of me and give them all a sniff test and have a go at grouping them or loose ranking.
Especially after Marlorena asked about how Emily Bronte compares to Gabriel Oak. You really need them both in either hand to compare. I kept forgetting the smell on the short walk across the garden to the other plant! 😅
As so many of mine are new, they’ve bloomed at funny times and not a huge number of them either. So it’s hard to compare.
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The Generous Gardener has pushed out lots of nice new foliage.
But there’s also a replacement coming in at the back which is happily bending to go in the right direction - and another centre left which you can just make out in this photo.
Positives -
gives additional height to a rose. Which could be good in lots of different ways - depending on where you're going to put it.
Takes up less ground space so allows underplanting.
Pleasing form - if you like standards.
Negatives -
More suckers? Most of the sucker posts I've seen that are actually suckers are on standards because the trunk rootstock is exposed. Likewise when I've passed gardens with standards I've seen a lot of ones that have clearly been taken over - so you need to be vigilant and remove any growth from the trunk.
I've also seen a lot of dead ones. They're much more vulnerable up there than shrub roses. The grafted points are way up on a stick, so they're open to the elements and if they get damaged, diseased or start to dieback, then recovery is much less likely.
They're expensive.
On growing, feeding and pruning roses, I came across this article recently by Kim Rupert on HMF which is well worth a read - some of it was a real revelation to me, but fail to see what was ‘lazy’ about it!
https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/ezine.php?publicationID=653&js=0
I wanted to do the same thing at some point, have all of my roses in front of me and give them all a sniff test and have a go at grouping them or loose ranking.
Especially after Marlorena asked about how Emily Bronte compares to Gabriel Oak. You really need them both in either hand to compare. I kept forgetting the smell on the short walk across the garden to the other plant! 😅
As so many of mine are new, they’ve bloomed at funny times and not a huge number of them either. So it’s hard to compare.