Thanks Marlorena! I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t said as it wasn’t labelled with the name I was expecting, but yes it isn’t quite a clear difference now you’ve shown me that.
I have emailed and used yours and my photos. I imagine that with things as they are I’d be more likely to receive a refund than the correct plant sent to me. I’ll see what they say.
But actually I do like the look of it in photos anyway! So not dissapointed, although it’s not ideal for the position I wanted it for.
@moomywill I only grow Guinee from your list - put in last year. It has been one of my first to bloom and the scent is astonishing. The colour perfect, such a deep, dark red.
In choosing (if you haven't already) I would try to look at the flowers in the flesh first (as it were). It's so hard to get a real idea from photos. Decide what your most important features are - habit, scent, colour, height, good for bees etc. I find it's nearly impossible to hit every nail on the head - so choose one or two qualities you are most looking for.
I'm just now learning about roses and one thing I totally missed, when choosing, was that each climbing rose behaves in a different way - in vigour, height, repeat flowering, rigity of stem, colour of leaf. So there is no point in putting a rose that can over a house front on a little trellis. There is no point in putting a rose in to cover a huge arch if it will only ever reach three feet tall. On the David Austin website you can search via the qualities - how tall, what function it's suitable for etc. I would start with that and see what short list you end up with.
Thanks Marlorena! I wouldn’t have known if you hadn’t said as it WAS labelled with the name I was expecting, but yes it IS quite a clear difference now you’ve shown me that.
I like that Astronomia more every time I see it. I like the sweet flower shape combined with the fuzzy pink centre. It's lovely. Look forward to seeing its progress.
I'm cautiously pleased with my new roses for this year. Charles Rennie Mackintosh is looking the least robust but he got caterpillared as did Mrs Oakley Fisher. Rosa gallica officinalis took a long while to get going but has shoots from the base. They are all in the same bed, I think the soil is poorer there than other parts of the garden.
This one which I think is The Poet's Wife is doing ok in a temp pot and has 7 tiny buds.
@Victoria Sponge, Astronomia is lovely, it can apparently get a bit wild and can grow to 120cm wide so it does need some space. Bonica is one of the parents and it’s meant to be as tough and floriferous, will post more pics as it develops.
A few from this morning:
Stormy Weather, new bloom and an aged one about to drop it’s petals - turns a lovely dusky lilac-purple:
Munstead Wood, a bit battered from the rain but still looks like it will produce a good flush:
Gertrude Jekyll:
Harlow Carr:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Cautiously optimistic that I'll have flowers to share within the upcoming week. Malvern hills is very close to opening as is Vanessa Bell, then Amber Queen is starting to stretch.
Oddly, Ghislaine de Feligonde was one of the first, I think second, to bloom last year but this year she hasn't got a single bud! She's the only one of my second year roses not sporting buds. She's put out a lot of new growth but it's all really short.
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I have emailed and used yours and my photos. I imagine that with things as they are I’d be more likely to receive a refund than the correct plant sent to me. I’ll see what they say.
But actually I do like the look of it in photos anyway! So not dissapointed, although it’s not ideal for the position I wanted it for.
I'm cautiously pleased with my new roses for this year. Charles Rennie Mackintosh is looking the least robust but he got caterpillared as did Mrs Oakley Fisher. Rosa gallica officinalis took a long while to get going but has shoots from the base. They are all in the same bed, I think the soil is poorer there than other parts of the garden.
This one which I think is The Poet's Wife is doing ok in a temp pot and has 7 tiny buds.
A few from this morning:
Stormy Weather, new bloom and an aged one about to drop it’s petals - turns a lovely dusky lilac-purple:
Munstead Wood, a bit battered from the rain but still looks like it will produce a good flush:
Gertrude Jekyll:
Harlow Carr:
First bloom of Julia Child, love this rose, so perfect, healthy and floriferous:
And first of Darcey Bussell, just opening:
Lots of buds on Golden Celebration, this is usually one of the first to bloom, but I cut it down a lot last year, so I think it’s playing catch-up:
Stunning @Nollie. Such lovely reds. Sigh.
Oddly, Ghislaine de Feligonde was one of the first, I think second, to bloom last year but this year she hasn't got a single bud! She's the only one of my second year roses not sporting buds. She's put out a lot of new growth but it's all really short.