@amancalledgeorge thought I would answer you here instead of taking over the other person’s thread about greenfly! Glad to here you are well. Really pleased with my new roses so far, posted some pics on page 72 and 73 of this thread. I wanted to ask you about Rose de Molinard, she seems healthy, but a bit behind in growth at about a third of the size of the other newbies. Was she a bit slow to start for you?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Yes was a bit slow, but when it got warmer it got much better. Mine has grown some lovely new foliage and a new cane has just popped up at the base alongside the first couple of flowers. @Nollie better go and have a look at your photos.
@peteS that looks very similar to my Shirley Temple btw...love peonies. Never understood people that hate them. Such a spectacular show and such lovely foliage
Hello Treeface, It's a shame, it does look a bit sorry for itself. Did you water it well during the recent hot spell? Newish roses take some time to settle in and need lots of water. Personally, I would have left it a for a full year before digging it up, most roses prefer to be in the ground rather than a pot and often take 3 years to really look good.
First bloom now fully open on my Etoile de Hollande. This to me, is the perfect shape for a rose, maybe I'm just old-fashioned. The perfume is out of this world as well. The only gripe I've got with this rose is that the heads are so heavy, they often droop - I had to tie this bloom to the cane for support to take the photo, so I've cheated a bit! It's a darker red than the photo as well.
Beautiful rose Lizzie, I have a baby EdH planted, can’t wait til it blooms but that will be quite a ways off for me as it’s only a little over a foot tall 😆
I just joined Gardeners World to talk about Rose Rosette Disease. We moved to current house 6 years ago. Our house was surrounded in gorgeous red roses. About 40 bushes! I had never grown roses and did not know how to care for them. They pretty much care for themselves.
After loving them so much for 2 years someone commented on a neighborhood forum about having rosettes disease. I looked at every single rose bush in my yard and they were all infected. I just couldn’t bring myself to have them dug up. I eventually had to. They died from rose rosette disease (RRD). My family and I visited all over the UK and Ireland last fall. To my dismay every rose bush I saw had RRD. I live in N Texas. It’s been here for quite some time now.
I do see beautiful roses of different varieties here and don’t understand how they don’t have RRD. If you’re interested in knowing more you can contact Neil Sperry here in N Texas.
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