Thanks @Omori. I was wondering how DA came up with their selection of own roses that were more suited for a mixed border than any of the others, what they all shared that would be considered suitable because of course, a mixed border could be any size and position. It's not important at all, I just can't get my head around it
@Victoria Sponge If you look on their website, they list pretty much all of their roses as suitable for mixed borders 😆 From that list in the paper catalogue, I feel like they just chose whichever!
Rescued snapped easy does it and chandos beauty ...former destined for the bin tonight most likely but hopefully CB will last me 2-3 days at least of perfuming the kitchen/living space
Yes I think you're right @Omori, I wondered if it was a selection from all the other 'best for...' categories, perhaps a marketing ploy and I went off down a rabbit hole with it
@cooldoc Grafin Diana does send up long canes, this tall one is 70cm, but I am tolerant of them because they are so sturdy, notwithstanding that one old rain-heavy bloom! and the plant is well foliated. There are no new basal shoots as far as I can see at the moment. I am happy with this rose, only a bare root last November, what do you think of yours?
I think it’s exactly that, marketing (maybe ones they have excess stock?) @Victoria Sponge. I remember looking at those lists before and thinking they seemed rather idiosyncratic. Harlow Carr would get lost in a mixed border. I have it at the front of a raised bed and it’s ok there, but think the droopy blooms works best as a standard.
Summer heat has really kicked in here and blooms are fewer, smaller, less fuller-petalled and frying around the edges.
Munstead Wood hasn’t stopped though, no rest or distinct flushes:
The Prince has much smaller, very magenta blooms:
Palais Biron:
Early Excellenz von Shubert blooms were small but exquisite, now they are washed out and tiny!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Does anyone know what these beasties are? Thought they were pollen beetles, which I have had a lot of recently, but these are larger, pointy tailed and more evil-looking 👿
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I can't help @Nollie but agree they look stingy and unpleasant. Have you identified the damage they are responsible for, as in, does it look different to eg sawflies or Vine weevils?
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It's not important at all, I just can't get my head around it
Yes I think you're right @Omori, I wondered if it was a selection from all the other 'best for...' categories, perhaps a marketing ploy and I went off down a rabbit hole with it
Summer heat has really kicked in here and blooms are fewer, smaller, less fuller-petalled and frying around the edges.
Munstead Wood hasn’t stopped though, no rest or distinct flushes:
The Prince has much smaller, very magenta blooms:
Palais Biron: