I'm so excited about all the roses I have on order but now I'm worried I've gone too orange/yellow and want some pinks! Was tempted by Emily Brontë (peach/apricot) and PAoK. But as I've so many roses coming, I really need to hold fire and see how much room I have left. It didn't happen I got the David Austin marketing through the door today 🤣
My replacement Lady Emma Hamilton is on the way! Hope this one does better - the few flowers I did get smelled lovely.
Fingers crossed I’ll get chance to clear some spaces at the allotment so I can start moving plants from the garden soon. Will be half term in another week anyway.
@Katsa - love Emily Bronte - but you need to be happy with her actually being mostly cream with a hint of apricot in the centre, as she fades quite quickly. The pink colour doesn’t last long at all. But the blooms are a lovely form and scent. I like the colour anyway.
I know what you mean, @edhelka. I keep having ‘what have I done’ moments about the ridiculously large number I have on order and the subsequent excavations required! I am going to pot up a fair number and grow them on in the poly to spread the workload.
What a perfect Corvedale @Omori. Not just my plants, the odd blooms I am still getting are looking a bit exhausted. The poor lambs are trying, but can’t quite summon the energy for many petals.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm looking at companion planting for my new roses. I'm thinking of sticking with salvia caradonna and nepeta walker low as they work with both pink and orange tones, I was also thinking of Roxanne geranium and maybe something that will retain colour during winter. I always seem to over plant though!
@celcius_kkw A white horse. There's a rotation - white horse, brown horse, five sheep. Sometimes the brown horse is there together with the sheep. All good neighbours
Some more photos from yesterday.
Silas Marner
Claire Jolly
Jacqueline Humery
Empereur Charles IV.
Unknown HT and the cat telling me to stop photographing roses because it's her feeding time
Flowers - penstemons (Pensham Czar and Purple Passion) and nemesia (Mirabelle)
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Fingers crossed I’ll get chance to clear some spaces at the allotment so I can start moving plants from the garden soon. Will be half term in another week anyway.
@Katsa - love Emily Bronte - but you need to be happy with her actually being mostly cream with a hint of apricot in the centre, as she fades quite quickly. The pink colour doesn’t last long at all. But the blooms are a lovely form and scent. I like the colour anyway.
I'm looking at companion planting for my new roses. I'm thinking of sticking with salvia caradonna and nepeta walker low as they work with both pink and orange tones, I was also thinking of Roxanne geranium and maybe something that will retain colour during winter. I always seem to over plant though!