I think his accent is the real deal. My SIL lives near where he was born and some the older generation still talk like that, especially the hunting/polo set whose Received Pronunciation can outdo the Queens!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie , what an excellent talk! Thank you for sharing. The only one of those many gardens I've been to is the rose garden in the Buen Retiro in Madrid. I don't remember much except beds of 'Baroness Rothschild' looking very healthy and happy!
I really enjoyed that too, thanks @Nollie. I may soon have exciting news (for me) from the rose powerhouse of Italy (I didn't know that before this video). And it is all down to @newbie77....
Today was gorgeous out. I decided to give 2 of my roses the award of Best Potted Roses with a Long Season. 2 roses that have not noticed it is winter and just keep pumping out the flowers and with excellent foliage. I give you ......Ebb Tide and Charles Darwin
Glad you are all enjoying the talk, with the old buffer accent it seemed like from a bygone age. Yes the ‘ I suppose I better shove in something about pruning’ bit was amusing!
@Tack I’m envious of your Charles Darwin, mine was diseased and miserable, hated the heat, balled in rain, always a milky tea colour.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Tack, @Nollie, I was thinking exactly same about CD. Mine have been nice yellow colour but blackspotted a lot. It could be because it is in shade, or may be it didn't like my soil. Anyway, i liked fragrance so i have got another one now which will be in a pot in my cutting garden and in more sun.
I feel so proud while saying cutting garden as if i have acre of land 😂 i guess eventually it will be a corner where all fragrant blackspotters will be quarantined 😂
Yeah, Charles Darwin. I can live with the blackspot but it balls or get otherwise weather damaged all the time. When it looks good (almost) (July 2019) and when it doesn't (October 2019): To be fair, most of my autumn and winter blooms look like this, they can't open properly when it is cold and humid. But CD does this in humid or rainy summers too. It needs perfectly dry and sunny conditions to look good.
@edhelka, My Claire Austin looks a bit like that, beautiful blooms in perfect conditions but very bedraggled if not. I'm never quite sure whether I like the incurved blooms or not.
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@Tack I’m envious of your Charles Darwin, mine was diseased and miserable, hated the heat, balled in rain, always a milky tea colour.
I was thinking exactly same about CD. Mine have been nice yellow colour but blackspotted a lot. It could be because it is in shade, or may be it didn't like my soil. Anyway, i liked fragrance so i have got another one now which will be in a pot in my cutting garden and in more sun.
I feel so proud while saying cutting garden as if i have acre of land 😂 i guess eventually it will be a corner where all fragrant blackspotters will be quarantined 😂
To be fair, most of my autumn and winter blooms look like this, they can't open properly when it is cold and humid. But CD does this in humid or rainy summers too. It needs perfectly dry and sunny conditions to look good.