Loving everyones blooms. My rose of the day is the beautiful 'checkmate' new to me, and a climber. Delighted with it. Pheno geno Natalija looking and smelling great - quite citrus fruity. Copper lights towards the end of a bloom. Lovely. Rosa des Cistertiens. This really wants to climb... A brother cadfael (Austin) that hasnt balled. Smells beautiful, fills the air. Clematis Taiga climbing my pear tree. My newly arrived birthday boy - fab quality. My new nostalgia - the red gets more pronounced as it ages I believe. Looks like a delicious icecream... My lady of shallot
Lovely pics @JessicaS. You do have some interesting roses. I used to have Nostalgia, I replaced it when I updated the front garden but I loved the foliage on it. Spring foliage red and really shiny later.
..hot and humid, it's an effort to take pictures..
..this could be any pink Austin, only the foliage and growth habit reveal it as a HT.. 'Pink Martini'... has a good scent too.. 'Golden Beauty'... shrivels in the heat.. I've heard it gets better with age.. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.. again.. seems to be adapting to the Dry Garden here, finally.. 'Nathalie Nypels'... 'Commandant Beaurepaire'... 'Westerland' climbing form arrived today from C and K Jones.. spicy clove scent.. this garden is now 2 out and 1 in, as I'm trying to downsize a bit.. so I have a spot for this.. C. 'Star of India'...
Mine looks exactly like that too @newbie77 but it's too hot to go out again and photograph it. I've pushed some pots in the shade, Easy Does It was suffering on the older blooms.
I've got Rose de Rescht, Timeless Purple and Utopia just starting up again, they are in the full sun. RdeR needs iron again (or something else, all advice welcome?), seems to need feeding more than all my others.I have many new and lovely clematis but this truly ancient one just happens every year.
@newbie77 -- your pics of the poet's wife in shade and in sun are two different plants or the same plant photographed when in shade and in sun? Asking because I like the colour of your shade flower very much , so if it is a different plant, that might be one to add to my list for a part-sun / part shade spot ( which i don't think easy does it is liking, so that pot may need to move )
Two different plants. One in sun has lighter colour flowers.
If you are considering getting one let me warn you it is sprawling type. Flops and throws canes all over the place. I still love it but yes it isn't a nice shapely bush.
@Victoria Sponge I do seem to be drawn to the unusual ones! Several more bare root on order Ive eyed nostalgia for years but seeing it blooming at styles nursery I just had to have one. @Tack Natalija well worth it, doing well in the heat too.
Is that a cinnabar moth on Palais Biron @Nollie ? Nice rose, glad you can keep some of your dark colours. Ebb Tide is just an all round good egg I think.
Oh, my Golden Beauty arrives tomorrow @Marlorena, I'll put that somewhere shady
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My rose of the day is the beautiful 'checkmate' new to me, and a climber. Delighted with it.
Pheno geno Natalija looking and smelling great - quite citrus fruity.
Copper lights towards the end of a bloom. Lovely.
Rosa des Cistertiens. This really wants to climb...
A brother cadfael (Austin) that hasnt balled. Smells beautiful, fills the air.
Clematis Taiga climbing my pear tree.
My newly arrived birthday boy - fab quality.
My new nostalgia - the red gets more pronounced as it ages I believe. Looks like a delicious icecream...
My lady of shallot
..this could be any pink Austin, only the foliage and growth habit reveal it as a HT..
'Pink Martini'... has a good scent too..
'Golden Beauty'... shrivels in the heat.. I've heard it gets better with age..
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.. again.. seems to be adapting to the Dry Garden here, finally..
'Nathalie Nypels'...
'Commandant Beaurepaire'...
'Westerland' climbing form arrived today from C and K Jones.. spicy clove scent.. this garden is now 2 out and 1 in, as I'm trying to downsize a bit.. so I have a spot for this..
C. 'Star of India'...
If you are considering getting one let me warn you it is sprawling type. Flops and throws canes all over the place. I still love it but yes it isn't a nice shapely bush.
Over in the East Garden:
Pale blooms, but no crisping on young Ebb Tide:
Chartreuse de Parme has deigned to grace me with a bloom. Just the one, but better than previous and also crisp-free:
@Tack Natalija well worth it, doing well in the heat too.