@Nollie I will post more pics when the sun is out. Guniee smells like strawberry jam boiling on the stove - astonishingly fruity. Barkarole not out yet. It's my own rose bush (not climber). It's covered in uds - it's first real year of flowering. I will keep you posted.
I tend not to grow the button eye types, ala Jacques Cartier, grew it once and that was it! I didn’t use to like HT but now I do very much, as I’ve grown to appreciate that ‘classic’ rose look and knock out fragrance many have, also nice to cut and bring inside 🙂
I have Beales catalogue which has some different names for the bloom shape, including muddled, cushioned and saucer.
From the above list my favourite is semi-double but there's something about the pompon and button eye that intrigues me. I think Leda must be a button eye and I've had that on my wish list a few times but never purchased.
I'm experimenting with the other bloom types as I think I should stretch and evolve, not just buy the same thing all the time. I'm still a bit twitchy about the cup types though, haven't figured them out yet🤔
I like variety and I have all of those types in my garden... I like them all depending on the rose, whether they stand up to rain or look a complete mess... if I had to put one first it would be the quartered rosette, but I wouldn't want a garden full of them, no more than I would every rose a single...
I am easy to please I like everything. Maybe not too deep cup and globular but that's because they are often smaller and with a higher probability of balling. And I don't like too perfect HT shape with thick petals, they often look almost fake but I love the shape of antique tea roses (muted colours, more delicate petals, some shading, slightly ruffled and light quilling). Most favourite shape probably shallow to medium cupped and quartered, something like Madame Isaac Pereire. Or those full bloom gallicas likes Charles de Mills, that's pure perfection.
For me it’s all about the big picture, so its whether the rose bush is healthy, floriferous, has a pleasing overall form as a plant, as well as bloom type and ability to hold it’s colour. I like most of those with the exception of the incurved which to me just looks like it’s balled. I dislike the growth habit of most hybrid teas so don’t grow them. If I had to limit myself to one, it would probably be semi-double, but would miss the extravagant blowsiness of some of the others, especially the quartered. As I don’t have to limit myself, that’s alright!
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My reds are mostly on the pink side, as you may remember from my history of moaning about them!
Whats your favourite/least favoured bloom style?
I love Open cup and semi-double best followed very closely by single.
Im really not a fan of very angular, even pointy, hybrid tea style blooms. The sort that look like they’d have your eye out if thrown at you!
From the above list my favourite is semi-double but there's something about the pompon and button eye that intrigues me. I think Leda must be a button eye and I've had that on my wish list a few times but never purchased.
I'm experimenting with the other bloom types as I think I should stretch and evolve, not just buy the same thing all the time. I'm still a bit twitchy about the cup types though, haven't figured them out yet🤔