Welcome back @Katsa, thought we hadn’t heard from you for a while. Hope you had a good holiday 😊 Your Proper Job is looking fab.
Had some light rain on and off. Of my two Tantau roses currently in bloom, HT Pure Poetry hasn’t coped well, the rain seems to cling to the leaves and weigh the blooms down. In comparison, the floribunda Heidi Klum shrugs it off and stands tall on sturdy stems. HK isn’t giving me any clusters yet, though, just single blooms.
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HK:
Interesting fusion of petal and sepal on a bud of The Prince (sorry it’s a bit blurry). It stands up better to the rain than I thought it would, but it is a touch more sheltered than others:
Little globular buds on Rose de Rescht, another healthy rain-shrugger and currently no damask crud - maybe it’s saving the latter for next year!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Well I finally gave up on seemingly dead BdeJ/Chateau de Cheverny and dug it up. From arrival in July with botyris blight (having left the nursery 3 days earlier in perfect health according to them), to getting stem fasciation then stem canker - thanks for the diagnostics @Marlorena - every cane died off and I am left with this:
Marlorena, would you say there is anything specific wrong with the rootstock/graft? Or has it simply never recovered from a severe root prune to jam it in the pot? Is is worth re-potting and hoping it might recover or is it dead as a dodo?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks @Katsa it doesn't sound too promising but I'll try to keep it as sheltered as possible in the bad weather and hopefully that will help.
@nollie I saw Pure Poetry at the rose nursery a couple of weeks ago. The fragrance was lovely but the blooms and stems very droopy so I passed it up for Proper Job instead. I love that little ball bud of RdeR. I'm rooting for it not to get any crud!!
Yes I think I plumped for the wrong one there @poppyfield64, should have gone for PJ instead, since my aim in getting some HTs was to have more upright blooms!
Thanks @Omori, one occasionally gets a dud (the other three I got from there are healthy enough) but doesn’t excuse their appalling attitude over this one. Hopefully it’s an isolated problem with this particular specimen and others will have success with it.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
...I would give up on that.. looks dead to me, in fact when I first saw your pictures I suspected the rootstock may not have survived... you would normally see little white shoots coming off it, but none I can see there...
..perhaps try 'Champagne Moment' instead... I'm getting one... I've just seen a video of a garden in England with one of these and it just blew me away... totally healthy too..
@Katsa ...oh and welcome back.. I wondered where you had been and missing your garden somewhat...
@Marlorena - I've been missing you all too! And not much is happening on the gardening front. Still waiting for a shed to be built and for things to die back so i can do some moving of roses and plants around.
@edhelka - how's your paul transen/paul noel holding up? I'm wondering whether to replace alister stella grey as I don't really like the yellow flowers against the pergola.
Thanks @Marlorena I thought as much, actually now it’s dried off from hosing off the soil I can see the old root pruning cuts are dead and the epidermis and cambium layers dry and peeling. I have asked for an alternative bare root rose in replacement but am being ignored - will send him the root pics in a final attempt then give up.
Champagne moment is a lovely rose though.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Welcome back @Katsa, clearly I was not the only one wondering where you were. Love to see your PJ, while you were away I got one and initial impressions are very positive.
@Nollie I too love the round bud and health currently of RdeR. That rose was doomed and you really gave it a good shot not giving up on it earlier, very poor of Agel Rosen's CS. The 2 I got from them are fine.
Now on high alert for damask crud, Arthur de Sansal is still fine though this first flower is mutant. Good colour though.Heidi Klum continues to look different to @Nollie's , that is a bumble bee in the very deep cup, the colour is the correct lilac and scent is great. Lots of blooms in this group outside my bedroom window. Very first thing I do after getting out of bed is open the curtain
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Had some light rain on and off. Of my two Tantau roses currently in bloom, HT Pure Poetry hasn’t coped well, the rain seems to cling to the leaves and weigh the blooms down. In comparison, the floribunda Heidi Klum shrugs it off and stands tall on sturdy stems. HK isn’t giving me any clusters yet, though, just single blooms.
PP:
HK:
Interesting fusion of petal and sepal on a bud of The Prince (sorry it’s a bit blurry). It stands up better to the rain than I thought it would, but it is a touch more sheltered than others:
Little globular buds on Rose de Rescht, another healthy rain-shrugger and currently no damask crud - maybe it’s saving the latter for next year!
Well I finally gave up on seemingly dead BdeJ/Chateau de Cheverny and dug it up. From arrival in July with botyris blight (having left the nursery 3 days earlier in perfect health according to them), to getting stem fasciation then stem canker - thanks for the diagnostics @Marlorena - every cane died off and I am left with this:
Marlorena, would you say there is anything specific wrong with the rootstock/graft? Or has it simply never recovered from a severe root prune to jam it in the pot? Is is worth re-potting and hoping it might recover or is it dead as a dodo?
@nollie I saw Pure Poetry at the rose nursery a couple of weeks ago. The fragrance was lovely but the blooms and stems very droopy so I passed it up for Proper Job instead. I love that little ball bud of RdeR. I'm rooting for it not to get any crud!!
Thanks @Omori, one occasionally gets a dud (the other three I got from there are healthy enough) but doesn’t excuse their appalling attitude over this one. Hopefully it’s an isolated problem with this particular specimen and others will have success with it.
...I would give up on that.. looks dead to me, in fact when I first saw your pictures I suspected the rootstock may not have survived... you would normally see little white shoots coming off it, but none I can see there...
..perhaps try 'Champagne Moment' instead... I'm getting one... I've just seen a video of a garden in England with one of these and it just blew me away... totally healthy too..
@Katsa
...oh and welcome back.. I wondered where you had been and missing your garden somewhat...
@edhelka - how's your paul transen/paul noel holding up? I'm wondering whether to replace alister stella grey as I don't really like the yellow flowers against the pergola.
Champagne moment is a lovely rose though.