Marlorena your garden is such an explosion of colours! It must be so enjoyable having a stroll in it on a calm day.. the visual and olfactory experience must be out of this world! I’m enjoying learning about the bigger world of non-DA roses.. do you ever wish you have an even bigger garden?
@celcius_kkw ...thank you Adrian... olfactory makes me feel good today, as I've just sniffed Jardin des Tuileries and it's fabulous..
...you know, one of the biggest mistakes I made was downsizing to a smaller garden.. fine if you don't like gardening... madness if you do... I used to have 1/4 acre which was just right, not too big,... now my scope is so limited, it's frustrating..
..still no rain here. I gather everyone else has had some... dry as a bone where I am.. but this electric blue Anchusa 'Loddon Royalist' is great with pink roses I think... doesn't last long, a couple of years and they seem to need replacing..
'Vanessa Bell'.. is rather photogenic .. 'Jardin des Tuileries' again.. ..another Eustacia.. I want rain, but I don't want rain to spoil this lovely fragrant white rose...
Although we have had a little rain, my garden's still very dry and some of my perennials are suffering. I think I'm going to follow your example Marlorena and plant more roses instead, on the grounds that their roots grow further down so won't wilt as much. I believe this hot weather is likely to continue in future years so we'll need to re-think what we grow. Do you agree?
@Mary370 ...they were a young couple who were not gardening people, so they dug it all up... all my rose garden... laid it all to lawn.. I don't blame them, not everyone wants to garden with roses... same will happen here eventually, and I'm the same, because I dug out all the plants the previous owner put in when we moved in.. I did keep one Azalea though..
@Lizzie27 ...yes it looks that way.. but I won't be buying any more roses with massive blooms, fully doubles, because they require too much moisture, which I can't provide these days.. so it's singles and semi doubles from now on.. they don't want half as much fuss..
...thanks Voyager.. yes it's turned out a great rose this one..
...like winter's day here.. I had to put the heating on... a light shower of rain too..
'Dame Judi Dench'.. struggling to open.. but I like the strong colours.. ..for a hybrid tea, 'Chandos Beauty' is a cut above... climbing blue Geranium... I've forgotten the name..
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...thank you Adrian... olfactory makes me feel good today, as I've just sniffed Jardin des Tuileries and it's fabulous..
...you know, one of the biggest mistakes I made was downsizing to a smaller garden.. fine if you don't like gardening... madness if you do... I used to have 1/4 acre which was just right, not too big,... now my scope is so limited, it's frustrating..
..still no rain here. I gather everyone else has had some... dry as a bone where I am..
but this electric blue Anchusa 'Loddon Royalist' is great with pink roses I think... doesn't last long, a couple of years and they seem to need replacing..
'Jardin des Tuileries' again..
..another Eustacia..
I want rain, but I don't want rain to spoil this lovely fragrant white rose...
...they were a young couple who were not gardening people, so they dug it all up... all my rose garden... laid it all to lawn.. I don't blame them, not everyone wants to garden with roses... same will happen here eventually, and I'm the same, because I dug out all the plants the previous owner put in when we moved in.. I did keep one Azalea though..
@Lizzie27
...yes it looks that way.. but I won't be buying any more roses with massive blooms, fully doubles, because they require too much moisture, which I can't provide these days.. so it's singles and semi doubles from now on.. they don't want half as much fuss..
...thanks Voyager.. yes it's turned out a great rose this one..
'Dame Judi Dench'.. struggling to open.. but I like the strong colours..
..for a hybrid tea, 'Chandos Beauty' is a cut above...
climbing blue Geranium... I've forgotten the name..