Hello @annakinnersly, yes do post some photos, here are a few pointers to ID an individual rose:
1. Photo of the overall plant - to determine the overall type/form of the rose. Eg. climber, hybrid tea, shrub rose, floribunda... there are lots!
2. Photo and info on the foliage. Are the leaves large/small, glossy/matt, is the new growth reddish, green or bronzy in colour?
3. Photos of the colour and type blooms - What do they look like when in bud, half open and fully open?
Even of the exact rose cannot be pinpointed, it’s useful to know what type it is at the least, as the pruning is different for a hybrid tea or a shrub rose, for example.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I’m so enjoying looking at all your Roses, stunning and it’s giving me lots of ideas for when our garden is landscaped. Here is the 1st bloom from one of my favourite roses, it’s late this year but it lifts the heart when in bloom.
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@Bright star yes Golden celebration is so special for me too. Love the colour, size, fragrance of blooms.
@celcius_kkw, I lost the post I wanted to reply about fragrant plants. Fragrant plants are my fav ones. Whenever selecting bulbs, annuals, shrubs anything I go for fragrant variety. My this garden is new and I wasnt very prepared this time for succession. My list last year was My fave fragrant containers In early spring: Daphne, (or sarccocoa because daphnes are too temperamental) Mid spring: hyacinth Late spring: wallflowers Early summer: Roses Summer: Nicotiana (or star jasmine if you have space) , sweet peas, oriental lily
I had done containers of stocks too but forgot which season.
Also did fragrant daffodils. They were quite fragrant but i personally didnt like their fragrance.
The ones which people talk about a lot and were disappointing were mock orange(too small a season, too big a plant), lily of valley (very tiny and small season again) fragrant hosta (yes there are some but they arent as showy). Nightscented stock and phlox (plants tiny and not so fragrant), fragrant iris (too small season), tuberosa (again small season, lily was better). I tried many more but they arent so popular as fragrant to be aware of and not waste time and space for container gardening.
@newbie77 Thanks for that.. looks like a great list to look into. I am actually planning on planting a bulb lasagne this autumn - I came across a particularly fragrant daffodil once and was rather impressed. Also it will add some spring colour as my roses won’t come into bloom till late may/June.
Have you looked into lupins? I must admit I did not know that they’re fragrant too.. it’s a lovely fresh peppery scent reminiscent of the woodlands somehow.
I also grow lavender.. of which I have hidcote, rosea and edelweiss. They all came as tiny plug plants so they’re not quite ready to go into the big pot I have set aside for them.
Anyway I must stop taking up any more space in this rose thread..
Hi. I had a question to ask on a climbing/rambling rose you'll could recommend to grow on an arch with Snow goose rose at the other end (starts off cream and then turns white). It's been a year since my mother passed and I'd like to plant this rose in her memory. Any recommendations? Something that would go with white, is relatively disease-free and has some perfume. I have Snow goose in a pot at the moment which I'm looking to transfer over to the ground. Thank you!
I tried lupins in my last garden but they were so so badly covered in aphids and next spring slugs ate those new little shoots. I should try again in this garden. bit less number of slugs here. Need to learn how to keep lavendar happy in non well drained soil. Two in last garden rotted.
I sound like such a plant assassin if i tell you what all i have tried in last 4 years and they died I would have settled on Dahlias if they were fragrant and not slug's favourite.
Finally I settled on rose as my main plants for this garden, as they are fragrant, beautiful, have long season, can live with all annoying weeds like daffodils and buttercup under their feet, wont mind hard london clay and definitely slugs dont eat them.
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1. Photo of the overall plant - to determine the overall type/form of the rose. Eg. climber, hybrid tea, shrub rose, floribunda... there are lots!
3. Photos of the colour and type blooms - What do they look like when in bud, half open and fully open?
Even of the exact rose cannot be pinpointed, it’s useful to know what type it is at the least, as the pruning is different for a hybrid tea or a shrub rose, for example.
Love when fresh and the temperatures are cooler:
yes Golden celebration is so special for me too. Love the colour, size, fragrance of blooms.
@celcius_kkw,
I lost the post I wanted to reply about fragrant plants. Fragrant plants are my fav ones. Whenever selecting bulbs, annuals, shrubs anything I go for fragrant variety. My this garden is new and I wasnt very prepared this time for succession. My list last year was
My fave fragrant containers
In early spring: Daphne, (or sarccocoa because daphnes are too temperamental)
Mid spring: hyacinth
Late spring: wallflowers
Early summer: Roses
Summer: Nicotiana (or star jasmine if you have space) , sweet peas, oriental lily
I had done containers of stocks too but forgot which season.
Also did fragrant daffodils. They were quite fragrant but i personally didnt like their fragrance.
The ones which people talk about a lot and were disappointing were mock orange(too small a season, too big a plant), lily of valley (very tiny and small season again)
fragrant hosta (yes there are some but they arent as showy). Nightscented stock and phlox (plants tiny and not so fragrant), fragrant iris (too small season), tuberosa (again small season, lily was better). I tried many more but they arent so popular as fragrant to be aware of and not waste time and space for container gardening.
I sound like such a plant assassin if i tell you what all i have tried in last 4 years and they died
Finally I settled on rose as my main plants for this garden, as they are fragrant, beautiful, have long season, can live with all annoying weeds like daffodils and buttercup under their feet, wont mind hard london clay and definitely slugs dont eat them.