Just caught up on this thread @Nollie, you're quite right my RW is a bush HT rose but gets to about 6ft tall with large blooms, is planted at the top of a terrace and is right in line with the wind tunnel between the house and garage, so gets buffeted with strong westerly winds. Hence the obelisk as a precaution. It's a very sturdy one as well which means I can grab hold of it when pruning or cutting blooms so I don't tumble over the edge of the terrace!
I love obelisks anyway, especially big ones. This one provides a focal point coming up the drive to approach the front door but it's in the back garden, so gives a hint of what's behind the house. All very carefully designed when we opened for the NGS.
I've picked golden celebration darcey bussell Vanessa Bell and Roald Dahl They also have olivoa Austin, brother cadfael and boscobel and Jane Austin.... Have I chosen well?
No, I'm afraid you haven't @Ffoxglove... because you left all the others behind... what were you thinking of?... lucky you though !...
@celcius_kkw Adrian, I am surprised to hear that you already have blackspot, I would think you have similar spring/early summer conditions as I have but probably you have warmer temperatures there.
Although it can be hard to tell from my whining about BS, I almost never have it before late June/early July. It's either cold and wet or warm and dry, rarely the good combination of warm and humid which it needs.
What I do - and it's just my approach - I dislike to defoliate roses. I feel like that's what blackspot does and as long as the rose has some green leaves, they produce energy for the rose. If I defoliate, I make it worse for the rose but I am protecting other roses (and maybe the future of the rose by preventing it getting to the canes but who knows, it usually gets there anyway at some point).
But as long as there isn't too much of BS, it really helps to pick the infected leaves, it slows the spread. In June and July, it can often keep it under control. So I do it if I have time. I stop with this in August or once it gets out of control and leave the roses to defoliate and potentially regrow naturally.
Some roses defoliate completely, some only get it on 30% of the foliage and live and bloom with it. Some roses are visibly weakened by it, some don't care.
I also ignore it on my climbers. I dislike seeing leafless sticks but if they are less visible on some structure or hidden by perennials in a mixed bed, I don't care that much.
@edhelka I do get pretty strong sunshine from noon onwards.. but I’m meticulous with my watering avoiding the foliage.. I’m not sure why it’s started this early I sprayed a couple of times at the beginning of spring but stopped since. I wonder if it could just be one of the roses that started it - and I duly defoliate them quickly but somehow it has still spread to the others.
I’ve also been getting a fair bit of aphid attacks too. I think I will stop picking the leaves for now.. frankly a lot of the foliage that I’d taken off only had a little bit of black spot but I was doing it more to prevent spread so.. from now on I shall only pick those that are more severely affected. I also hate the looks of bare canes but black spot ticks off my OCD too.. ha!
Hahaha @Marlorena it was Hard to do that! Went back and forth about 10 times! I only went in for soil! Still people were saying Vanessa Bell is lovely and I've seen your pictures so she was chosen. Roald Dahl and darcey bussell I liked the look of. Wish i could fit more but I've only a tiny garden
First third of new rose border (the rest still a work in progress). Finally got the fence up, made of bought posts and recycled cheap silver aluminium panels from an old pergola, all painted anthracite grey:
And the roses here...
Burgundy Ice:
Soul - not my photo, still waiting for this one to bloom:
Rose de Molinard:
Stormy Weather:
Diamond Eyes - both this and Stormy Weather start off more claret in colour and age to a dusky purple:
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I love obelisks anyway, especially big ones. This one provides a focal point coming up the drive to approach the front door but it's in the back garden, so gives a hint of what's behind the house. All very carefully designed when we opened for the NGS.
Still people were saying Vanessa Bell is lovely and I've seen your pictures so she was chosen. Roald Dahl and darcey bussell I liked the look of.
Wish i could fit more but I've only a tiny garden
And the roses here...
Burgundy Ice:
Soul - not my photo, still waiting for this one to bloom:
Rose de Molinard:
Stormy Weather:
Diamond Eyes - both this and Stormy Weather start off more claret in colour and age to a dusky purple: