Your Albertine looks stunning @B3, it's what inspired me to take the plunge and post. I don't have many roses, and my Emily Gray sadly looks miserable this year. Maybe I need to feed it more; also it's been very dry (Cambridgeshire, similar region as @Marlorena I think) and it shows also in my Albertine (unlike yours B3). That's a very impressive and beautiful honeysuckle hedge @Nollie! Do you cut it back much every year? A quick search gives You can encourage blooming with a spring application of a low-nitrogen fertilizer, such as 2-10-10, is that something you've tried?
I have some nice blooms on Mme. Alfred Carriere, a Claire Austin was recently sort-of-buried in a hedge and is certainly growing but not yet making an impression. Waiting for blooms on newly planted Tottering-by-Gently, a Midsummer Night's Dream, Simple Gold, Simple Peach, Chandos Beauty, as well as Westerland (well, maybe not many roses but also not so few I realise). Westerland is in its second year, and seems to go well with its trellis, I'm hopeful for a good picture later.
@Nollie I've planted Mme Alfred Carriere in front of a mixed hedge border and it seems to be doing ok, still only in year 2 so hoping for more growth over the coming years, but has grown some long stems this spring that I have tied into the hedge. Will see how it goes.
I've come to the conclusion that the rose heights given on Peter Beale's website are not always very accurate. According to their website Gardener's Joy should grow to only 120cm, but it's grown huge and looks more like a climber, so has to be moved towards the back of my the border as it looks ridiculously next to other roses half the size. I was also was expecting Perse rose to grow much bigger (according to their website it'll grow to 150cm), but it's now in year 3 and has remained a short compact rose, no taller than 110cm (lovely rose though!). Both need to be moved to spots that suit their growth habit better and I'm a bit worried about the move killing them . I'll have to wait until they go dormant in the winter.
Lovely roses all. I'm a bit downcast as I noticed yesterday that as well as black spot my New Dawn rose had powdery mildew. I've hastily watered it well (it usually doesn't get any, being well established by the shed) and sprayed it last night with Rose Clear. I also defoliated all the affected leaves and those with blackspot - it now has bare legs!
On the upside my Isaphan climbing rose on top of the arch is looking gorgeous, I'll take a photo later on.
Hi @micearguers, no never water, feed or do anything to it, possibly a factor! But it’s about 40 metres long, got a wild fig, walnut tree and all sorts growing on the roadside bank on the south side of it. Perhaps I should try a feed on one section and see if it makes a difference. It is a good green screen, apart from that gappy bit, just a tad boring and I’m always on the lookout for another rose growing opportunity 😆
Mme. AC is another option, thanks @cats_and_dogs. Some roses (and perennials) grow much larger than stated here, except when they don’t! Munstead Wood has stayed very compact at little over a foot on three years. I think so much depends on aspect, growing conditions, climate and sometimes just the vagaries of a particular rose.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@newbie77 - with great difficulty! (gardening with 2 Year Old) Our eldest, who is a few months away from 4 was always brilliant. Our Youngest routinely ploughs his way into borders, picks things, jabs plants with sticks.
At the allotment today, he was fine, but just as we were about to leave, he tugged at a strawberry plant and then ran over and ripped up a rudbeckia from the flower bit we'd just today planted!!
He's a menace when he starts getting tired. Usually he is fine though. It doesn't help that our garden is small and on a pronounced slope - makes it very easy for toys to roll in the wrong direction and crush things! Oh well it's their garden too!! They do love talking about the flowers and watching the bees and birds visiting.
Speaking of visitors! This bamboo cane, I put it there last year whilst training the cane around the corner so it didn't rub against the harsh edge of the brick wall. Looks like a bee is trying to make it a home
Close up of opening Allium Christophii
First time I've sene bees visiting roses in my garden. None were interested last year. This one visited all of my Rhapsody in Blue blooms multiple times!
The blooms on Malvern Hills are gorgeous this year!
Blackberry Nip with a visitor. As you see, double roses can be loved by bees too. Tons of bees in the garden today... and tons of photos. I will post more after going through them.
Wonderful roses folks, I can't get to take pictures at a lot of roses as we are having major works done... But a few from today One of my favourite small DA.. Olivia Austin And the other Desdemona... A small Gertrude gekyll, amongst alium purple sensation
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I've come to the conclusion that the rose heights given on Peter Beale's website are not always very accurate. According to their website Gardener's Joy should grow to only 120cm, but it's grown huge and looks more like a climber, so has to be moved towards the back of my the border as it looks ridiculously next to other roses half the size. I was also was expecting Perse rose to grow much bigger (according to their website it'll grow to 150cm), but it's now in year 3 and has remained a short compact rose, no taller than 110cm (lovely rose though!). Both need to be moved to spots that suit their growth habit better and I'm a bit worried about the move killing them
Two of my favourites are about to open
golden dawn and the other has a missing label
Kristall White
Cuba Dance
Isabelle Autissier
Just 2 weeks into the ground and as you can see we have some foliage on the cuba dance and new growth on the others!
On the upside my Isaphan climbing rose on top of the arch is looking gorgeous, I'll take a photo later on.
Mme. AC is another option, thanks @cats_and_dogs. Some roses (and perennials) grow much larger than stated here, except when they don’t! Munstead Wood has stayed very compact at little over a foot on three years. I think so much depends on aspect, growing conditions, climate and sometimes just the vagaries of a particular rose.
At the allotment today, he was fine, but just as we were about to leave, he tugged at a strawberry plant and then ran over and ripped up a rudbeckia from the flower bit we'd just today planted!!
He's a menace when he starts getting tired. Usually he is fine though. It doesn't help that our garden is small and on a pronounced slope - makes it very easy for toys to roll in the wrong direction and crush things! Oh well it's their garden too!! They do love talking about the flowers and watching the bees and birds visiting.
Speaking of visitors! This bamboo cane, I put it there last year whilst training the cane around the corner so it didn't rub against the harsh edge of the brick wall. Looks like a bee is trying to make it a home
Close up of opening Allium Christophii
First time I've sene bees visiting roses in my garden. None were interested last year. This one visited all of my Rhapsody in Blue blooms multiple times!
The blooms on Malvern Hills are gorgeous this year!
One of my favourite small DA.. Olivia Austin
And the other Desdemona...
A small Gertrude gekyll, amongst alium purple sensation