This is one of my small potted patio roses. Anyone know what the lighter coloured mottling of the leaves is? none of my other roses have this. This pic is a couple of weeks ago, and the mottling is more extensive now. Other than this, it seems quite healthy with no BS or other dark spots, and no defoliation as yet.
@owd potter is the mottling a discolouration on the surface of the leaves or is the flesh being rasped away from underneath, i.e. sawfly larvae damage?
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@owd potter is the mottling a discolouration on the surface of the leaves or is the flesh being rasped away from underneath, i.e. sawfly larvae damage?
Thanks @Nollie, interesting point. I've just ventured out in the pouring rain and can see no pests lurking under the leaves or around, but the leaves feel very dry crepe paper like and something has obviously been at them There were also a couple of small spiders that scarpered before I had chance to get a pic and presumably have been feasting on summat
@owd potter I get similar damage from little jumping things that suck the sap on the underside of the leaves. Spider mites damage is also similar. You could also have sawfly larvae where the damage is bigger.
@iaincd and @Nollie I have decided that CdeP is going to stay. It did have poor mildewy foliage but has got over that even though it has been and is now very humid and somewhat warm here. Other roses are suffering, namely Mme Isaac P, Freifrau Caroline and Dioressence, but CdeP has shrugged it off. I'm fine wih the colour, I have various similar and it sits well with Odyssey. This pic just now in the wind and rain. The 2 upper blooms are several days old.My rose of the day is Easy Does it. Never stopped flowering, already starting another flush, great in the rain with excellent health so far. It always gets a wow but it is not really my thing, I mostly like roses to stay the same colour and certainly not to clash when they change. The equally rain resistant AbFab and Ebb tide behind
I think I'll be doing a post rain tidy-up on the weekend
Rose of the Day can be Warm Welcome for looking the same rain or shine and also because it lives under both my hedgehog heap and my neighbour's willow overhang.
Tiny update on front garden roses. Clockwiseish, Stephanie d'Ursel, Chateau de Munsbach (white blob centre) Penelope, MW, Lark Ascending and the resolute Flanders. Unseen, Highgrove is in the back corner behind the Buphthalmum and Ambassador Nogami which looks to be a striking yellow is along the railings between the Lark and Penelope so I haven't had a good look at it yet.
Some rain rescues, Trumpeter and Poet's wife and below, back to back Fountain
Lady Emma Hamilton. We’ve had a lot of rain in the last couple of days and the blooms haven’t been spoiled. I’ve had to stake the stems though as she’s grown rather lanky, I’m not sure if that’s because it only gets the morning sun. I’m not sure what to make of the colour, it’s unusual and certainly eye catching and difficult to capture in a photo. Scent is gorgeous!
Claire Austin, bare root this year
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'Amazing Day' - pretty but dislikes humidity 'Joie de Vivre' Beautiful and reliable 'Scented Garden' 'Blackberry Nip' Unknown HT 'Silas Marner' cluster 'Purple Skyliner' cluster 'Ebb Tide' - huge clusters on new basals, geranium 'Eureka Blue' Another part of the front garden, 'Gabriel Oak' in the background 'Gabriel Oak'
@Tack I've always had it in a pot in the front garden. It got some late frost damage this year, so it flowers later than usual, but it has recovered well. Are you happy with it?
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Anyone know what the lighter coloured mottling of the leaves is? none of my other roses have this.
This pic is a couple of weeks ago, and the mottling is more extensive now.
Other than this, it seems quite healthy with no BS or other dark spots, and no defoliation as yet.
I've just ventured out in the pouring rain and can see no pests lurking under the leaves or around, but the leaves feel very dry crepe paper like and something has obviously been at them
There were also a couple of small spiders that scarpered before I had chance to get a pic and presumably have been feasting on summat
Spider mites damage is also similar.
You could also have sawfly larvae where the damage is bigger.
Rose of the Day can be Warm Welcome for looking the same rain or shine and also because it lives under both my hedgehog heap and my neighbour's willow overhang.
Tiny update on front garden roses. Clockwiseish, Stephanie d'Ursel, Chateau de Munsbach (white blob centre) Penelope, MW, Lark Ascending and the resolute Flanders. Unseen, Highgrove is in the back corner behind the Buphthalmum and Ambassador Nogami which looks to be a striking yellow is along the railings between the Lark and Penelope so I haven't had a good look at it yet.
Some rain rescues, Trumpeter and Poet's wife and below, back to back Fountain
'Joie de Vivre'
Beautiful and reliable 'Scented Garden'
'Blackberry Nip'
Unknown HT
'Silas Marner' cluster
'Purple Skyliner' cluster
'Ebb Tide' - huge clusters on new basals, geranium 'Eureka Blue'
Another part of the front garden, 'Gabriel Oak' in the background
'Gabriel Oak'
Are you happy with it?