Why thank you @edhelka, that’s very kind. Lovely soft coloured rose, @Daniel, tea roses are not something I know much about. @Aero84 welcome to the rose thread, look forward to seeing your roses.
Here I go again, hogging, but just remember that when all your roses are in their full summer glory, mine will be in semi-hibernation and I will be relying on you for my rose porn!
Lady of Shallot is coming into flush, couldn’t resist picking this one for the table:
Such an astonishing colour - Warm Welcome:
Darcy Bussell:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
....... So will my 12 hts........ looking forward with excitement. Great roses. @Nollie orange would not be a colour I have a lot of but that Warm Welcome is exquisite
Hog away @nollie, I'm still on daffs up here, albeit the dregs. It's great to see some colour and everyone seems to have some good strong colours at the moment!
Roses are more of a summer flower for me which is why I have planted so many as my garden got very spring and autumn focused. My soil sets like a rock in summer due to the clay content but roses don't seem to mind this at all even with limited watering.
That Archiduc Joseph is an interesting and different colour @Daniel Rutherford, I had to look that one up.
I like the colour on that Minerva, @edhelka, I have a thing about lilac roses at the moment and have a couple on my bareroot 2020 list.
I have Alba max too, in about its third year but it is not looking as well as yours. I planted it in a stupid place and am now having to give it extra care to help it along.
@Victoria Sponge It is a new bare-root, I am lucky to have so many buds, several of them on every cane. It is in a pot for this season but I plan to put it in the ground in autumn, to quite shady and rose-unfriendly spot. I hope it will be happy enough there to flower but not happy enough to grow to its full size. I would need much bigger garden to grow a rose like that to its full potential.
Here are some of my roses taken today. From the top:-
Zephrine Douhrin up to the top of the arch.
Gertrude Jekyll
Pink buds on Winchester Cathedral - half the bush reverts back to its parent Mary Rose sometimes.
White bloom on Winchester Cathedral.
Beautiful red foliage on my Royal William - a HT!!! How can you not like it? and lastly the RW from a longer distance. This rose is 25 years old and has been moved three times from house to house with me. I grow it inside the obelisk (a mistake) because the bed it's in is at the end of a wind tunnel side entrance. It does get BS later on the lower part because it's now surrounded by a box hedge plus a hebe that's now crowding it. It will get easily to 5-6ft with long straight rigid stems, just right for cutting and I have had blooms in November. Planted in memory of my father, another William.
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Here I go again, hogging, but just remember that when all your roses are in their full summer glory, mine will be in semi-hibernation and I will be relying on you for my rose porn!
Lady of Shallot is coming into flush, couldn’t resist picking this one for the table:
Such an astonishing colour - Warm Welcome:
Darcy Bussell:
Roses are more of a summer flower for me which is why I have planted so many as my garden got very spring and autumn focused. My soil sets like a rock in summer due to the clay content but roses don't seem to mind this at all even with limited watering.
That Archiduc Joseph is an interesting and different colour @Daniel Rutherford, I had to look that one up.
I have Alba max too, in about its third year but it is not looking as well as yours. I planted it in a stupid place and am now having to give it extra care to help it along.
Great roses everybody - keep the photos coming.
Here are some of my roses taken today. From the top:-
Zephrine Douhrin up to the top of the arch.
Gertrude Jekyll
Pink buds on Winchester Cathedral - half the bush reverts back to its parent Mary Rose sometimes.
White bloom on Winchester Cathedral.
Beautiful red foliage on my Royal William - a HT!!! How can you not like it? and lastly the RW from a longer distance. This rose is 25 years old and has been moved three times from house to house with me. I grow it inside the obelisk (a mistake) because the bed it's in is at the end of a wind tunnel side entrance. It does get BS later on the lower part because it's now surrounded by a box hedge plus a hebe that's now crowding it. It will get easily to 5-6ft with long straight rigid stems, just right for cutting and I have had blooms in November. Planted in memory of my father, another William.