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....more Rose Garden notes...2020

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  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ..you see here in this picture from 2014, 5 own root roses... one of them is 'Marie Nabonnand'..  I no longer have the others... 


    ..from that tiny own root it turned into one of my favourite red roses..



    East Anglia, England
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Thank you for taking the time posting these. I love the evolution of your garden. That's another thing I wanted to ask, have you always loved roses?
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ..thank you.. yes right from the very beginning.. but in those days, like most people, we start with modern roses, hybrid teas and floribundas... then we gradually learn about other types of roses, so ones interest develops and can change over time..
    ..visiting open gardens full of roses made me see things differently too... but I enjoy so many different plants really, not only roses... I love Rhododendrons for instance, in fact one of my favourite plants is Rhododendron loderi 'King George' but I couldn't grow that here.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    Beautiful flowers Marlorena, thank you for sharing you garden again. I love seeing your combinations of roses growing together, it reminds me of the rose displays at the shows.
    Wearside, England.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Wonderful photos Marlorena, your knowledge and garden(s) are such an inspiration - I shamelessly admit to copying some of your ideas!

    Thanks for the note on Blush Noisette, that’s encouraging. It says full sun, do you think it would cope with semi-shade to begin with until it tops the honeysuckle fedge which is about 4ft high?  I think that may be why the climbing iceberg is unhappy (and covered in blackspot!).

    I found this interesting article on noisettes:

    https://www.southernliving.com/garden/flowers/noisette-roses
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Nollie
    ..thanks so much, and for the link...  I have a small book that I got off Amazon titled 'Noisette Roses' edited by Virginia Kean for the Charleston Hort. Society.. it's very interesting, superb historical research too..     John Champneys incidentally, who made the original cross parents of the Noisette roses, sided with the English during the American War of Independence, for that he was hounded out of Charleston and fled back to England.. he returned to Charleston after the war, to continue his rose breeding, to become the founder of the Noisette roses... some people think they should be called Champneys rather than Noisettes, but maybe that doesn't sound so good..

    I've seen Blush Noisette grown on a shady wall,. I've grown it here north west facing..
    but it's such a trial and error in your Spanish garden... I am reminded that Aimee Vibert is another lush Noisette you might like to add one day..

    @Victoria Sponge 
    ...thanks so much, that's so nice of you... great to see you too..
    East Anglia, England
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Oh that’s good to know, re Blush Noisette and shade, thanks Marlorena. Yes, always a gamble here (Clg. Iceberg is, in theory, perfect, but not in practice) but the fact Noisettes grow in sultry Tennessee gives me hope! I see Aimee Virbert and also Mme. Alfred Carriere are available on TCL. Perhaps I should try one of each - the fedge is long enough to take them all!

    Still drooling over Lauriol de Barny...

    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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