I’ve got so much to learn still, but I do pamper them a bit (you know, me and my obsessive fertiliser regime..) we’ve had a few days of rain lately and the roses are getting some black spots.. I am trying to avoid spraying this year so I just removed the foliage that are infected. I suppose I caught it early so I didn’t have to defoliate the whole plant like last year.
I know exactly what you mean, @Mr. Vine Eye, I feel a bit of a fraud giving rose advice as I have been growing them for only 4 years and I’m basically parroting the advice that M gives us all. However, absorbing and then passing on knowledge learnt from those more experienced than oneself is what education is all about - even if the b*ggers don’t even thank you for it - that can be a bit irksome.
@Marlorena, me too, re StormyWeather, hope it copes with my summer heat. I almost like the faded blooms better than how they start out!
@Fire, you plant a lot for pollinators, so if you would like Munstead Wood you should go for it - it’s ok to indulge yourself occasionally as well as provide food for insects.
It’s so true about David Austins, they do need a time investment. DAs aren’t always suited to my climate and they often behave differently here in both colour and form, as I have discovered. I do get the classic shape of MW too, but at the moment, it almost looks as if it is reverting to its roots and is being visited by pollinators:
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@Marlorena actually it’s 5! I forgot one... here’s my non-DAs.
Warm Welcome - I love orange, bought it at the end of last year so really looking forward to the buds opening in the next few weeks.
Hot Chocolate - don’t know what drew me to this one, bought it as a bare root in Feb and not really sure what the blooms will look like as google is inconsistent! Total experiment but will be fun to see.
Flower Power Gold - little patio rose, put on a lovely show of yellow flowers last year but has struggled with disease and bug attacks this year. Ended up pruning it a second time to cut all the damage and infestation away so will definitely miss first flowering. It’s nice enough and adds a splash of colour to a semi-shaded area right up to mid November.
Starlight Express - small pink climber. Its not going to set the world on fire but I like the simple flowers and it’s one of the very first plants I bought for my garden so I’m somewhat attached.
Crimson Cascade - red climber. I hate it. Blooms are few and far between and look artificial. It’s still very young but I didn’t tie in the canes properly so it looks a mess. Tempted to replace it with a different climber. It’s on a west facing wall with tons of room to grow tall and wide - I could have chosen much nicer roses in all sorts of colours!
...thanks for the list @jonathanmichell23 ... I love Warm Welcome too, I see it every day in a neighbours garden.. it's about 6 foot tall and just coming into flower... Nollie has it too... ..we all make mistakes with roses, so if one isn't up to scratch I just chuck it and get something else ... I've had my eye on Hot Chocolate, I think others here have that one... I hope your Flower Power improves for you... I quite like the Flower Carpet series, named after Counties.. the very best one I think is named after 'Surrey'... if anyone sees this anywhere I think it should be snapped up... Looking forward to some nice pics from you bit later on.....
... don't anyone worry about parroting me anywhere, because that's all I really do, the only difference is that it comes from many years involvement and I try to inject personal experience into it, which may be more than the average gardener these days... but you know there's a lot of snobbery in gardening, especially roses and I'm not a snob... there are some places in the world which I won't mention that seem to have their fair share of snobs as far as roses go... ...there are one or two in the UK that I know of too...
@Fire "explosion of nature and colour and scent" Yes, I like exactly that too.
@Mr. Vine Eye I agree with everything in your comment (05:47... you're an early bird!!!)
@Marlorena I know what you mean with the tagging. I try to help in other threads because I think it isn't good when there are newbies wanting advice and everyone only tags you... it has to be a lot of work for you and waiting time for them. Still better to advise here than in some (mostly American) Facebook groups. As Mr. Vine Eye said, some people want quick solutions and quick solution means a link to a product they can buy to immediately fix their problem (fungicide, insecticide, fertilizer).
@celcius_kkw Happy to see that they do well for you. It should get warmer from Wednesday, I think you will have some blooms before the next weekend.
@Nollie You are really good at giving advice, you can explain things in a way that's easy to understand and good for newbies. And I also like your Stormy Weather.
I’m really quite new to having a garden as my husband and I bought our first house in 2018 after living in a flat for many years. we inherited a garden with only a hydrangea a forsythia and lots of bluebells. I have a lot of work ahead of me. I’m just finding my way with all plants Including roses which I love and all the advice and conversations that take place on here are so useful for me and always appreciated, even if Im just lurking around absorbing it all.
I’m finding it hard to not just impulse buy everything as Ive many years of visiting gardening shows with my mum and not being able to buy anything to get out of my system. I wasn’t very good at restraint last year and this year I’m having to move plants around because of my haste but it’s all a learning experience.
ive been really pleased with how well my fighting Temeraire and Boscobel are doing this year. It’s their second summer planted and they are huge in comparison to last year! Even my little Yellow patio rose which always looks awful by the end of summer is looking good.
I’m a little worried that I’ve not planted my new chandos beauty deeply enough so I’ll see how that goes. I don’t want to dig them up too soon, but also don’t want to cause unnecessary damage by leaving them.
...not me, Simple Peach is not one I know... pleased your roses are doing so well for you Aero..
Edhelka… thanks for helping out.. no problem, I appreciate that.. I went on Facebook once, some rose group, can't remember which, but I couldn't get on with it..
Daniel... wonderful Tea rose from Nabonnand, one of my favourite breeders...I remember you saying you got this rose.. you've beaten me to it as my Duchess de Brabant isn't quite open yet..
..an interesting report has reached me... whilst we can't build our hopes up I thought to pass it on.. ...as you all know so much is going on out there to try find a vaccine for Coronavirus... in America they are exploring a whole lot of native plants, and it's funny but I was only thinking the other day if Roses had any use in this.. ...it has been found that extracts of plants from 3 members of the Rose family [Rosaceae].. namely Rosa nutkana, [its branches] a specie rose from NW America... Amelanchier Alniifolia [its branches]… and Potentilla arguta [its roots] have been able to completely stop Bovine Coronavirus in cattle.. ...they work by totally inhibiting viral induced CPE, which means they stop the virus from changing cells in the body..
..this may not work against Covid-19... but I think it's an interesting development.. Beales roses still sells Rosa nutkana I think... Native American Indians still use these plants for their own medicinal purposes, something they've been doing for centuries to treat all sort of ailments, so this is an extension of that...
...work is underway to isolate the anti-viral constituents in these plants...
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@Marlorena, me too, re StormyWeather, hope it copes with my summer heat. I almost like the faded blooms better than how they start out!
It’s so true about David Austins, they do need a time investment. DAs aren’t always suited to my climate and they often behave differently here in both colour and form, as I have discovered. I do get the classic shape of MW too, but at the moment, it almost looks as if it is reverting to its roots and is being visited by pollinators:
Warm Welcome - I love orange, bought it at the end of last year so really looking forward to the buds opening in the next few weeks.
Hot Chocolate - don’t know what drew me to this one, bought it as a bare root in Feb and not really sure what the blooms will look like as google is inconsistent! Total experiment but will be fun to see.
Flower Power Gold - little patio rose, put on a lovely show of yellow flowers last year but has struggled with disease and bug attacks this year. Ended up pruning it a second time to cut all the damage and infestation away so will definitely miss first flowering. It’s nice enough and adds a splash of colour to a semi-shaded area right up to mid November.
Starlight Express - small pink climber. Its not going to set the world on fire but I like the simple flowers and it’s one of the very first plants I bought for my garden so I’m somewhat attached.
..we all make mistakes with roses, so if one isn't up to scratch I just chuck it and get something else ...
I've had my eye on Hot Chocolate, I think others here have that one... I hope your Flower Power improves for you... I quite like the Flower Carpet series, named after Counties.. the very best one I think is named after 'Surrey'... if anyone sees this anywhere I think it should be snapped up...
Looking forward to some nice pics from you bit later on.....
...there are one or two in the UK that I know of too...
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Still better to advise here than in some (mostly American) Facebook groups. As Mr. Vine Eye said, some people want quick solutions and quick solution means a link to a product they can buy to immediately fix their problem (fungicide, insecticide, fertilizer).
ive been really pleased with how well my fighting Temeraire and Boscobel are doing this year. It’s their second summer planted and they are huge in comparison to last year! Even my little Yellow patio rose which always looks awful by the end of summer is looking good.
Edhelka… thanks for helping out.. no problem, I appreciate that.. I went on Facebook once, some rose group, can't remember which, but I couldn't get on with it..
Daniel... wonderful Tea rose from Nabonnand, one of my favourite breeders...I remember you saying you got this rose.. you've beaten me to it as my Duchess de Brabant isn't quite open yet..
...as you all know so much is going on out there to try find a vaccine for Coronavirus... in America they are exploring a whole lot of native plants, and it's funny but I was only thinking the other day if Roses had any use in this..
...it has been found that extracts of plants from 3 members of the Rose family [Rosaceae].. namely Rosa nutkana, [its branches] a specie rose from NW America... Amelanchier Alniifolia [its branches]… and Potentilla arguta [its roots] have been able to completely stop Bovine Coronavirus in cattle..
...they work by totally inhibiting viral induced CPE, which means they stop the virus from changing cells in the body..
..this may not work against Covid-19... but I think it's an interesting development..
Beales roses still sells Rosa nutkana I think... Native American Indians still use these plants for their own medicinal purposes, something they've been doing for centuries to treat all sort of ailments, so this is an extension of that...
...work is underway to isolate the anti-viral constituents in these plants...