That’s quite a variation in colour Nollie! The weather has been exceptional for the time of year, goodness knows what colour variations we’ll get with my other roses.
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I sometimes wish I liked Julia's colour but I sadly don't. I like cool yellow (lemon) but not warm yellow (gold or towards orange). I also don't like orange, I can tolerate and even like apricot but will never get something like Lady of Shalott. Generally, I am much more into cold colours (or shades) but willing to use warm colours for design purposes, to create contrast.
I like all colours for roses, except bright red and multicoloured - by which I mean more than one colour of petal on a single flower, not natural looking variations in shade or freckling.
I think ‘masquerade’ is ghastly, as an example. I feel the urge to vomit quite profusely when I see it.
...don't worry about Scarborough Fair... what you are seeing now, is nothing to what it becomes... very sturdy canes, spreading growth, continuous sparkling bloom even in 100 deg... as here...
Colour changes so much depending on light (and in my case, climate!). On the sunnier west side of the house I have warm-toned roses and perennials, and use strong purples to break it up/contrast - it just seems to suit the stronger light. In my east garden, where the morning sun is gentler, I use cool tones - cool pinks, white and softer purples and blues. I’m not a fan of peach/apricot, which is why I don’t actually like Lady Em much, even though she does well here (freckles aside). Logically, I shouldn’t like Lady of Shallot, but the colour is robust enough, mostly, to suit my west garden and I like to cut some for the table.
@Fire I don’t see why not re planting shorter roses in front of leggy ones, since many suit growing in threes to look like one bush. Maybe is the leggy one is very vigorous, that might be an issue. I think Marlorena often grows two roses up an obelisk and plants closer than many of us, so is far better to advise than me.
5 x 6 foot after 3 years.. very clean foliage, scented of anise or liquorice.. wide spreading, draping at the edges... stiffer canes that hold themselves well..
...however, it does have a gap in bloom, maybe 2 weeks or so, and in this regard it is outdone by 'The Poet's Wife', which never has a gap, is scented of citrus and achieves the same height and width.. but, it's a gangly plant that needs staking...
@Marlorena - thanks, your Scarborough Fair looks lovely.
I'm not worried about it at all, I know that they all grow at different rates and I’m very patient. Was just commenting on the state of things in the garden rather than voicing concerns! 🙂
Im trying grow a Wisteria Standard from scratch. Last year it grew to the top off its support stake and then kept going, which was great. What wasn’t so great was the neighbour deciding to have a go at tree surgery and dropping a massive pine branch down on my garden.
Luckily most things survived intact, but it chopped off a big chunk of the Wisteria, which then started to die back and ended up well below the height I needed it. So in early spring I cut it right back down to the lowest bud to start again from square one!
Long term project clearly. Luckily I’ve got plenty to keep me busy while that’s catching back up to where it should have been!
No pine tree anymore, they employed professionals to take it down last month! So don’t need to worry about any more of that happening!
..that's ok.. I thought you might have been worried about it... ...I used to have a Standard Wisteria, already grown by the nursery... I left it behind in the last garden I had... I really didn't know how to deal with it then, so just as well... good luck with yours... what I found interesting about them is that the Japanese Wisteria floribunda, which is what I had, twines clockwise, but the Chinese Wisteria sinensis twines anti-clockwise...
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Thank you for the Scarborough Fair pics - yep growth pattern looks exactly the same!
I think ‘masquerade’ is ghastly, as an example. I feel the urge to vomit quite profusely when I see it.
...let me show some of Absolutely Fabulous..
@Fire I don’t see why not re planting shorter roses in front of leggy ones, since many suit growing in threes to look like one bush. Maybe is the leggy one is very vigorous, that might be an issue. I think Marlorena often grows two roses up an obelisk and plants closer than many of us, so is far better to advise than me.
That looks a lovely, healthy rose @WorcesterPark.
5 x 6 foot after 3 years.. very clean foliage, scented of anise or liquorice.. wide spreading, draping at the edges... stiffer canes that hold themselves well..
...however, it does have a gap in bloom, maybe 2 weeks or so, and in this regard it is outdone by 'The Poet's Wife', which never has a gap, is scented of citrus and achieves the same height and width.. but, it's a gangly plant that needs staking...
I'm not worried about it at all, I know that they all grow at different rates and I’m very patient. Was just commenting on the state of things in the garden rather than voicing concerns! 🙂
Im trying grow a Wisteria Standard from scratch. Last year it grew to the top off its support stake and then kept going, which was great. What wasn’t so great was the neighbour deciding to have a go at tree surgery and dropping a massive pine branch down on my garden.
Luckily most things survived intact, but it chopped off a big chunk of the Wisteria, which then started to die back and ended up well below the height I needed it. So in early spring I cut it right back down to the lowest bud to start again from square one!
Long term project clearly. Luckily I’ve got plenty to keep me busy while that’s catching back up to where it should have been!
No pine tree anymore, they employed professionals to take it down last month! So don’t need to worry about any more of that happening!
...I used to have a Standard Wisteria, already grown by the nursery... I left it behind in the last garden I had... I really didn't know how to deal with it then, so just as well... good luck with yours... what I found interesting about them is that the Japanese Wisteria floribunda, which is what I had, twines clockwise, but the Chinese Wisteria sinensis twines anti-clockwise...