@Nollie, great suggestion! I have been thinking about Rosa pendulina, but I am not sure if I just like it because of the lack of thorns. There is a spot near the shed where I could put this lovely moyesii geranium. Love that it also looks diesease resistant!
I love the term shovel prune, it sums up what I have done with the yellow roses! There was nothing wrong with them except they were just a bit dull. I will have an autumn/winter tidy and divide/move of some of the perennials and so the size isn’t really too much of an issue
I love Heidi Klum too @Nollie , yours look more perfect than my somewhat bicolour ones. It is still nice here but not so hot, so I hope the rest of the flush looks like yours.
Your garden is looking gorgeous @edhelka, you put plants together beautifully.
My climbers are all offering a show at the moment, so I took a pic of the best bloom on each (that I could reach).
Thanks @Nollie now I have to put Heidi Klum on my list too
Lovely photos @edhelka and funny you should put up Lavender Dream. I was showing that one to my husband a couple of nights ago and wondered if anyone here had it. How is it doing for you. The photos I've seen have been of it covered in blooms but the reality isn't always true.
@poppyfield64 I showed more of it on page 425. A slow starter but making up for it now. I think it will be much better in the next season. It's quite possible it will be a continuous bloomer, roses like this often are. It's full of blooms now but it lost some leaves to BS.
Thanks @edhelka. I love the look of the blooms and the colour. I had been looking at Ballerina but saw some mixed reviews so started looking for similar ones and this came up. From what I read Ballerina can suffer badly with BS but not sure if it's any worse than Lavender Dream.
@poppyfield64 I believe 'Ballerina' is worse but I don't have personal experience. I think 'Lavender Dream' is average or above average but I don't know yet. It was a bad year for blackspot and my garden isn't the best testing ground.
I am happy with it, it's lovely, cheerful, always with some blooms.
I think you could like many of Louis Lens hybrid musks, they are good as a contrast to fancier roses and good for mixed borders. It's unfortunate that there isn't more of them available.
Some other good options for you could be 'Yesterday', 'Robin Hood', 'Red Yesterday' ('Marjorie Fair', 'Red Ballerina'), 'The Fairy' or some of her sports or seedling.
I finally got my roots ordered earlier this week although one I wanted was already out of stock.
From Beales:
Ambassador Nogami Highgrove (to grow as a shrub, or try to) President Armand Zinsch Countess of Wessex
From Lens:
Caroline's Heart Chateau de Munsbach Stephanie D'Ursel Walferdange Leah Tutu Alfred Colomb Duchess of Portland Dresden Doll (to try in a permanent pot)
I also added Buff Beauty to my order from Tuincentrum Lottum.
I started some of my rose admin yesterday as the ground isn't too bad, prepping the easy spaces in the ground. Some spaces I have to move some perennials in a sort of chain but my builders still haven't finished and I'm waiting for a patch of ground to free up. I also filled two pots with garden soil for Dresden Doll and Evelyn Fison, a convalescing rose who is currently in the ground and flowering but almost completely bald. I suspect it needs to be somewhere sunny and breezy with nothing touching it.
I too binned Burgundy Ice yesterday. It had one cane about 3' tall although after several months of feeding and extra watering did have two tiny new shoots at the base. I liked the colour and didn't find it particularly unhealthy, just it didn't seem to have any vigour.
I've got two to move, Westerland and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and four in pots to go in the ground.
I also have a fair bit of spring bulb admin still to do and perennials sat in pots everywhere to go in the ground, and I need to buy more waterbutts and trellis. Hopefully that will keep me busy til the end of the year.
@Victoria Sponge ...I've had my eye on Walferdange too... a friend of mine from Instagram grows it, and raves about it.. she lives in the States but similar climate to ours.. ...you could have got that from Beales along with a few others there... I don't know if it would have been cheaper for you...
I've been digging out some overgrown shrubs from my front garden, the 15+ year old spirea was particularly fun. I already have a roughly 4 year old Munstead Wood which is staying and have ordered The Lark Ascending and The Ancient Mariner from DA which will be coming sometime this week.
I have some lightish blue geranium (Brookside) which I can dig up and divide to plant in amongst the roses. I also have a couple of salvias which are getting a bit overcrowded in their spot and I will see if I can divide them in the spring (assuming now would be a bad time to do this).
I'm looking forward to having a front garden I actually like again!
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Lovely photos @edhelka and funny you should put up Lavender Dream. I was showing that one to my husband a couple of nights ago and wondered if anyone here had it. How is it doing for you. The photos I've seen have been of it covered in blooms but the reality isn't always true.
Great photos @tack TGG looks lovely.
Kiss Me Kate is a little more open today. Has a lovely scent too and is definitely holding up better in the nice weather.
Some more open blooms on Storm Cloud. These seem to be lasting really well.
From Beales:
Ambassador Nogami
Highgrove (to grow as a shrub, or try to)
President Armand Zinsch
Countess of Wessex
From Lens:
Caroline's Heart
Chateau de Munsbach
Stephanie D'Ursel
Walferdange
Leah Tutu
Alfred Colomb
Duchess of Portland
Dresden Doll (to try in a permanent pot)
I also added Buff Beauty to my order from Tuincentrum Lottum.
I started some of my rose admin yesterday as the ground isn't too bad, prepping the easy spaces in the ground. Some spaces I have to move some perennials in a sort of chain but my builders still haven't finished and I'm waiting for a patch of ground to free up. I also filled two pots with garden soil for Dresden Doll and Evelyn Fison, a convalescing rose who is currently in the ground and flowering but almost completely bald. I suspect it needs to be somewhere sunny and breezy with nothing touching it.
I too binned Burgundy Ice yesterday. It had one cane about 3' tall although after several months of feeding and extra watering did have two tiny new shoots at the base. I liked the colour and didn't find it particularly unhealthy, just it didn't seem to have any vigour.
I've got two to move, Westerland and Charles Rennie Mackintosh and four in pots to go in the ground.
I also have a fair bit of spring bulb admin still to do and perennials sat in pots everywhere to go in the ground, and I need to buy more waterbutts and trellis. Hopefully that will keep me busy til the end of the year.
...I've had my eye on Walferdange too... a friend of mine from Instagram grows it, and raves about it.. she lives in the States but similar climate to ours..
...you could have got that from Beales along with a few others there... I don't know if it would have been cheaper for you...
I have some lightish blue geranium (Brookside) which I can dig up and divide to plant in amongst the roses. I also have a couple of salvias which are getting a bit overcrowded in their spot and I will see if I can divide them in the spring (assuming now would be a bad time to do this).
I'm looking forward to having a front garden I actually like again!
Thats a great plan. I like to see nice front gardens.
I wish we could remove overgrown shrubs and plant roses in our front garden.