Not much posting from me lately, busy at work catching up from holiday and been deadheading to tidy garden too, but few from me; Birthday gift from a friend "sheilas perfume"... I was dropping off her gift.. another rose... when she started grinning and produced it. Same idea, so lovely! Harry Wheatcroft Bonkers... (styles) which im delighted with. Lovely red dianthus rocking red with glenfiddich My peach purple and pinks border, clematis and various companions out, roses there about to burst into bloom again when I took this picture, and I noticed more out today. (Theres about 11 roses in here including miniatures!) Visited Styles roses today to collect a potted weeping standard "Nozomi". Its lovely. Had a wander round the nursery and ooooh they have some gorgeous roses in, I was especially taken with "Birthday boy" which had enormous shaded pink toned blooms and "Nostalgia" which ive eyed for ages but was beautiful in person. Im going to have to do some moving things around!
That Bonkers is pretty funky @JessicaS, I like it!
Had fun reading everyone's rose reviews. I had three teetering close to the bin list but I've reprieved them all. Yvonne Rabier fell over in the earliest rains and knocked two other plants into the pond. I've decided to move it to a lighter spot, perhaps she wasn't too happy in the shade after all. Evelyn Fison has been in a hospital pot this year, after previously being in a border it wasn't happy in. I noticed a tiny new basal and will repot this winter. Celebration 2000 has been looking manky but I like it when it flowers, tiny yellow flowers.
My worst rose wasn't on the bin list but I'm disappointed with it. Fru Dagmar Hastrup was the last rose to get going this spring and then produced 2 fronds of leaves. Lost the best frond to some brown mank which I would put down to low leaves, lack of air flow on a bigger plant, but it isn't big, less than 1'. Then it produced a new sprig of leaves and something ate them😒
I've made a small TCL order and have had some fancy pots for roses delivered. Now need to wait for payday before anything else as I spent the rest of my plant budget on a new bench.
This is a sweet yellow, Our Dream. Unscented and balls a bit in the rain but it just carries on without a fuss.
Hot Chocolate isn't as big and buoyant as normal. It melted back in the late frosts. Luckily this Lychnis colllapses into it every year and is helping to pad it out.
I'm always posting this area but it's the best of my recent rose planting. Lark Ascending has put up nine fresh canes at the back, I don't think they are all basal but low anyway. Munstead Wood and Chateau de Munsbach at the back. I gave CdM two iron treatments as the leaves aren't looking too good but is recoverable I am sure.
@Marlorena, sadly acreage doesn’t count for much when it’s mainly oak forest and thin rocky soil. It’s a lot of work and around €150 per square metre in materials for raised beds and bought soil/compost to create a suitable planting depth for a rose. I will soon be forced to adopt a one in one out policy, not sure my back or the budget can take much more bed building! Nevada might be a good replacement for Kew Gardens though, which gives me one flush then keels over in the heat.
@Ffoxglove, my Ivor’s rose is going too, but due to a poor specimen that is struggling to survive. I’d be willing to try another, but Beales aren’t shipping to the EU anymore. Shame, it’s meant to be a great rose.
Offerings from me may dwindle unless we get some rain, serious drought conditions here. Many perennials have gone over before they got going and roses are shrivelling. The only thing falling from the sky is dust to spoil the foliage!
The Weeks roses are coping and Guy Savoy (Delbard) has only a minor bit of crisping:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@pitter-patter shame about peach, i was eying that! Natalija continues to please, its covered in blooms again. Bonkers is so unusual, they are quite small dainty heads that last, prolific too covered in buds constantly. Its nice and compact too. @Victoria Sponge its one of my weirdest! Styles staff were saying it flies off the nursery with increasing speed and its one of the most unusual theyve seen too. Its prolific flowerer, first year ive had it and cant fault it really.
My bin list is a scruffy cheapie black baccara that was poor stock. No blooms and black spotted and scrappy. Decided its coming out and that nostalgia i loved is going in its spot! Ill stick it in a pot just incase it does recover to be rehomed but its got dieback etc so not likely.
Im definatley eying pots for a few and the front garden is getting tackled, grotty new build shrubs replaced. Im eying choisya apple blossom and more roses etc instead of the flowerless scratty evergreens and hypericum hidcote which just gets huge, is bare in winter and isnt my colour there.
We're going to get our chance to test the roses with heat this week @Nollie, 30deg yesterday 31 forecast today. Some balcony roses this morning, they get the full brunt of it. Diamond Eyes, Surrey, England's Rose, DioressenceA really honourable mention has to go to Blue River. Top left was 8th July bottom right today
Such a varied selection of roses everyone has.. great to see..
'The Country Parson'.. 'Frilly Cuff'... Hydrangea 'Libelle'.. C. 'Rooguchi'.. 'Nye Bevan'.. strong scent today.. lovely.. C. 'The Vagabond'.. Anthemis / Lavender..
Well you might have got the wrong rose, but Blue River looks a perfectly respectable substitute @Tack, more frequent bloomer than HK actually. It’s not so much the heat for me at the moment, although it was already 30c before noon today, but total lack of rain plus the dry air and dusty, hot wind desiccating everything. I never thought I would miss those humid, rainy summers! Be interesting to see how everyone’s roses cope.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Birthday gift from a friend "sheilas perfume"... I was dropping off her gift.. another rose... when she started grinning and produced it. Same idea, so lovely!
Harry Wheatcroft
Bonkers... (styles) which im delighted with.
Lovely red dianthus rocking red with glenfiddich
My peach purple and pinks border, clematis and various companions out, roses there about to burst into bloom again when I took this picture, and I noticed more out today. (Theres about 11 roses in here including miniatures!)
Visited Styles roses today to collect a potted weeping standard "Nozomi". Its lovely. Had a wander round the nursery and ooooh they have some gorgeous roses in, I was especially taken with "Birthday boy" which had enormous shaded pink toned blooms and "Nostalgia" which ive eyed for ages but was beautiful in person. Im going to have to do some moving things around!
I’ve been watering some of my garden, though it might have been a mistake. I probably should have watered in the evening.
My mystery cutting turned out to be Sweet Honey.
Peach Melba is looking very good.
Had fun reading everyone's rose reviews. I had three teetering close to the bin list but I've reprieved them all.
Yvonne Rabier fell over in the earliest rains and knocked two other plants into the pond. I've decided to move it to a lighter spot, perhaps she wasn't too happy in the shade after all.
Evelyn Fison has been in a hospital pot this year, after previously being in a border it wasn't happy in. I noticed a tiny new basal and will repot this winter.
Celebration 2000 has been looking manky but I like it when it flowers, tiny yellow flowers.
My worst rose wasn't on the bin list but I'm disappointed with it. Fru Dagmar Hastrup was the last rose to get going this spring and then produced 2 fronds of leaves. Lost the best frond to some brown mank which I would put down to low leaves, lack of air flow on a bigger plant, but it isn't big, less than 1'. Then it produced a new sprig of leaves and something ate them😒
I've made a small TCL order and have had some fancy pots for roses delivered. Now need to wait for payday before anything else as I spent the rest of my plant budget on a new bench.
This is a sweet yellow, Our Dream. Unscented and balls a bit in the rain but it just carries on without a fuss.
Hot Chocolate isn't as big and buoyant as normal. It melted back in the late frosts. Luckily this Lychnis colllapses into it every year and is helping to pad it out.
I'm always posting this area but it's the best of my recent rose planting. Lark Ascending has put up nine fresh canes at the back, I don't think they are all basal but low anyway. Munstead Wood and Chateau de Munsbach at the back. I gave CdM two iron treatments as the leaves aren't looking too good but is recoverable I am sure.
@Ffoxglove, my Ivor’s rose is going too, but due to a poor specimen that is struggling to survive. I’d be willing to try another, but Beales aren’t shipping to the EU anymore. Shame, it’s meant to be a great rose.
Offerings from me may dwindle unless we get some rain, serious drought conditions here. Many perennials have gone over before they got going and roses are shrivelling. The only thing falling from the sky is dust to spoil the foliage!
The Weeks roses are coping and Guy Savoy (Delbard) has only a minor bit of crisping:
@Victoria Sponge its one of my weirdest! Styles staff were saying it flies off the nursery with increasing speed and its one of the most unusual theyve seen too. Its prolific flowerer, first year ive had it and cant fault it really.
My bin list is a scruffy cheapie black baccara that was poor stock. No blooms and black spotted and scrappy. Decided its coming out and that nostalgia i loved is going in its spot! Ill stick it in a pot just incase it does recover to be rehomed but its got dieback etc so not likely.
Im definatley eying pots for a few and the front garden is getting tackled, grotty new build shrubs replaced. Im eying choisya apple blossom and more roses etc instead of the flowerless scratty evergreens and hypericum hidcote which just gets huge, is bare in winter and isnt my colour there.
'The Country Parson'..
'Frilly Cuff'...
Hydrangea 'Libelle'..
C. 'Rooguchi'..
'Nye Bevan'.. strong scent today.. lovely..
C. 'The Vagabond'..
Anthemis / Lavender..
Other roses looking good are