@Mr. Vine Eye I usually try to grow something new every year, I also like to try new varieties. Tomatoes, sweetcorn, pepper - I don't expect much. But this has been a nice surprise - mangetout 'Golden Sweet' - very easy to grow and the flowers are almost like sweet peas, pink/purple and blue. With a small garden, I like ornamental qualities in vegetables.
This year ‘Earth Angel’ being a perfect little angel indeed!
Do you think I should trim some leaves on the bottom? Seems like it really filled up this year, it may be a bit too crowded and start me some leaf spot …
Location, location, location... This is Claire Marshall on 08 July last year. Sad, weather beaten little thing crowded out by a gang of penstemen bullies in a neglected corner of the cottage bed. Transplanted to the patio bed and given a little TLC, this is she now, 47 buds still to open. Seems roses do respond positively to their environment
Lots of ‘Oh My!’ (also known as ‘Dad’s Day’) after some damage control trimming on my standard tree … It is really having a hard time this year in terms of weather damage and I will probably need to find a more sheltered spot for it next year. It bloomed very generously, but branches just keep snapping and have very irregular length compared to previous years. On a plus side, this rose has very short and delicate petals that turn into great rose jam, which I’m glad I can do since my potted roses are no spray grown. Deadheading these turns more into harvest
Part of the newish sunshine rose border, including Ness, Scentimental, William Lobb (L-R) and a glimpse of Charles Rennie Mackintosh behind Scentimental. This is a work in progress as it is not quite right. I need to thin out some of the space filler plants over winter so Ness has more room to spread out and I need to bring Scentimental forward. Alfred Colomb is just about visible in the bottom right (a year 1) but I've decide to move him to a lawn edge area and replace with some alliums. Celestial is on the other side of the path on left.
Close up of Celestial which I have staked to prop it up after getting flattened by the weather. It was about 5 1/2' at the start of the year.
Bouquet of the Day, Walferdange (pink) Countess of Wessex (whitish cream) and MW (you know). I had to shake the spiders and baby harvestmen off them, must have been a hatching.
I think I was testing out the rain-worthiness of Stephanie d'Ursel for someone, was it @Tack? I've forgotten sorry, but the oldest flower here opened on 23 June and has been through a few bouts of rain. It doesn't look amazing but I think as a larger shrub with sprays of flowers (and in my messy garden) it wouldn't look too shabby.
@Katsa, it’s all coming together. Did you mean JI No.2 for the potting mix for your struggling Clementina? No. 3 usually recommended because it has more oomph. I must say, you are very brave to plant Rambling Rector under a window, otherwise known as The House-eating Rampant Rector 😆
@Lena_vs_Deer hope you had a good holiday, looks like your roses survived fine, phew!
I often pick off the bottom 6” of roses in the ground in an attempt to get a head start on the worst blackspot offenders, a tip I picked up from an experienced rose grower on another forum, but you don’t notice the bare bases so much in a mixed border. For potted roses, I pick off any touching the soil, so maybe just a couple of inches. It may delay the inevitable for a while, as does regularly clearing up but any fallen leaves and a mid-season re-mulch. If a rose is susceptible it will get it eventually whatever you do.
The Prince - first bloom of second flush:
Just spotted a tiny wriggler in there when cropping the photo, near the centre at 7 o’clock - a juvenile Curled Rose Sawfly slug, now dispatched. Never seen one on a bloom before. They are much worse than the large sawfly, never seem to stop reproducing and ruining foliage all summer 👿
Lady Emma Hamilton is an honorary yellow rose today, showing the holey blooming evidence of my other crawling nemesis, pollen beetles:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Victoria Sponge do you have maybe a picture of walferdange in the garden. I’m considering it to plant this November in our front border of the house. ( pink tones) but was wondering how the plant looks like. And not only the blooms 😉
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@Janie B I deadhead BN only when all the flowers in the cluster have gone over and that too only whatever I can reach.
This is Claire Marshall on 08 July last year.
Sad, weather beaten little thing crowded out by a gang of penstemen bullies in a neglected corner of the cottage bed.
Transplanted to the patio bed and given a little TLC, this is she now,
47 buds still to open.
Seems roses do respond positively to their environment
It is really having a hard time this year in terms of weather damage and I will probably need to find a more sheltered spot for it next year.
It bloomed very generously, but branches just keep snapping and have very irregular length compared to previous years. On a plus side, this rose has very short and delicate petals that turn into great rose jam, which I’m glad I can do since my potted roses are no spray grown. Deadheading these turns more into harvest
Close up of Celestial which I have staked to prop it up after getting flattened by the weather. It was about 5 1/2' at the start of the year.
Bouquet of the Day, Walferdange (pink) Countess of Wessex (whitish cream) and MW (you know). I had to shake the spiders and baby harvestmen off them, must have been a hatching.
I think I was testing out the rain-worthiness of Stephanie d'Ursel for someone, was it @Tack? I've forgotten sorry, but the oldest flower here opened on 23 June and has been through a few bouts of rain. It doesn't look amazing but I think as a larger shrub with sprays of flowers (and in my messy garden) it wouldn't look too shabby.
@Lena_vs_Deer hope you had a good holiday, looks like your roses survived fine, phew!
I often pick off the bottom 6” of roses in the ground in an attempt to get a head start on the worst blackspot offenders, a tip I picked up from an experienced rose grower on another forum, but you don’t notice the bare bases so much in a mixed border. For potted roses, I pick off any touching the soil, so maybe just a couple of inches. It may delay the inevitable for a while, as does regularly clearing up but any fallen leaves and a mid-season re-mulch. If a rose is susceptible it will get it eventually whatever you do.
The Prince - first bloom of second flush:
Just spotted a tiny wriggler in there when cropping the photo, near the centre at 7 o’clock - a juvenile Curled Rose Sawfly slug, now dispatched. Never seen one on a bloom before. They are much worse than the large sawfly, never seem to stop reproducing and ruining foliage all summer 👿
do you have maybe a picture of walferdange in the garden.
I’m considering it to plant this November in our front border of the house. ( pink tones) but was wondering how the plant looks like. And not only the blooms 😉