...this is the rose I've been feeding with spent tea bag leaves for the past 12 months... the tannin is supposed to act as a fungicide and pest botherer… I have not touched this rose at all,.. although sparrows are going through the garden, but even so I have no complaints... I'm trying this now on a different rose..
@Marlorena hi, bought over a year ago ago from Beales. It’s called Everest double fragrance. Very fragrant HT that I use for cutting. Sorry I put the wrong name above the photo, I’ve just checked it now. Valerie
@Nollie The Prince is gorgeous, I hope its fragrance will improve for you. Lovely roses as always, keep them coming now it is us needing the rose porn from you.
Does anyone grow or know Corvedale? The one I planted in Nov. 2018 (about 3.5' tall, or used to be, before going horizontal...) has flopped over and doesn't seem to want to stand back up. It has quite thin whippy canes and is starting to get some side shoots growing vertically from the flopped canes. On the US DA site it says:
GROWTH HABIT
A good, trouble-free garden shrub with fine, well-rounded growth. Ideal for planting in a mixed border, perhaps in the more informal areas of the garden.
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I wonder if it will right itself in time, maybe those side shoots will bulk it up? Or should I get it onto an obelisk?
..I would use an obelisk for that as it's capable of some height... although it's not one I've grown, it has a bloom form similar to rose's like Skylark and Royal Jubilee... whilst RJ has typical very globular blooms, and when mature even in the quartered style, it also produces semi doubles much like Corvedale… just to compare..
Corvedale is one of Austin's lesser lights, and I'm not sure if it's due to be withdrawn.. but as I often say they need time... Brother Cadfael, another I keep meaning to get and wish I had for ages now.. is another in this group, bred along similar lines...
Thanks Marlorena the bloom does look very similar, it's a lovely shape and colour. I have a RJ but it's young, that's interesting to know that it produces semi doubles as well. Not sure if this is a typical part of Corvedale's gangly phase or if I just have a flopper.
For some reason posts are coming up delayed...that’s a beautiful rose Marlorena, my own experiment with Sulphur Rose is a dud, it’s left all the leaves with white splotches that haven’t washed off even in heavy rain. Looks terrible!
I have started giving my roses the tea leaves as well as the infusion, having read your bit about the research. I have also been experimenting with feeding them more, including a weak half dose of inorganic fertiliser one week and a weak tomato feed the next, as there is so much amendments in my soil, I’m not sure there is much organic activity (no worms, for example) and if the DA rose feed is having any effect. It seems to be working, fingers crossed, although blackspot has well and truly taken off.
That pot SWE is in is actually a very lightweight plastic one, but still, with the weight of the soil in it, it took two of us to lift it into place!
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GROWTH HABIT
A good, trouble-free garden shrub with fine, well-rounded growth. Ideal for planting in a mixed border, perhaps in the more informal areas of the garden.
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I wonder if it will right itself in time, maybe those side shoots will bulk it up? Or should I get it onto an obelisk?
Corvedale is one of Austin's lesser lights, and I'm not sure if it's due to be withdrawn.. but as I often say they need time... Brother Cadfael, another I keep meaning to get and wish I had for ages now.. is another in this group, bred along similar lines...
Halimium libanotis...
Erysimum 'Golden Jubilee'.. Iberis 'Appen-Etz'.. Erigeron, Helianthemum, Aubrietia..
Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Hillary Rendell'...
Geranium cinereum 'Subcaulescens'...
I have started giving my roses the tea leaves as well as the infusion, having read your bit about the research. I have also been experimenting with feeding them more, including a weak half dose of inorganic fertiliser one week and a weak tomato feed the next, as there is so much amendments in my soil, I’m not sure there is much organic activity (no worms, for example) and if the DA rose feed is having any effect. It seems to be working, fingers crossed, although blackspot has well and truly taken off.