Coincidentally I have moved Scarborough Fair at totally the wrong time. Planted as a bare root in March I realised it was a hopeless task keeping it clear so here is a photo on 5th July just before I moved it into a pot trying to keep as much soil around the roots as I could hold together with shovel and hand. The tips flopped horribly so after a couple of days I cut the flower heads off. This is it now, with a closeup of one of the many shootsWe finally cleared my parents' shed. Among lots of ancient potions, many now banned I reckon, I found a childhood gardening toy and green sulphur dusting powder. Being fed up with the reappearance of mildew on MmeIsaacP I used it, it's very green! I'm loving my new Golden Beauty but deadheading..ouch, prickles right up to the receptacleCosmos really liking the manure I put in for Malvern Hills Round up of colours WollertonOH, LadyoS, New Zealand and Easy Does ItOdyssey, Millie, England's Rose, Carmen WurthBlackberry Nip, Mainauduft, Timeless Purple and Proper Job
'Joie de Vivre', my most reliable rose 'Marie Pavie' 'Sandringham' 'Crépuscule' (2nd year, 2nd flush) with badly eaten hosta and alstroemeria 'Olivia RA' is very floriferous in its 2nd year, even though she was moved Talking about mosses, this is my best bloom on 'James Veitch' at the moment. It dislikes too strong sun. The moss smells like pine resin. It has been flowering a lot this year. Hydrangea much bluer this year than last year, probably because of the rainy spring. 'Eyes for You' The drive border. 'Jacqueline Humery' at the front, 'Purple Skyliner' on the wall and my neighbour's orange HT behind the wall.
My garden is fairly quiet at the moment so I have started some of my autumn prep. I can't move anything as I don't have the time or water to sustain it but have dug a new little border at the pond edge for two new roses and some other favourites and moved the stepping stones in my lawn so I can extend the bed a little.
Have a humungous list of autumn jobs and have ordered millions of bulbs. I hate planting bulbs (clay, bricks, plants in the way) but I do love their cheery faces come spring.
'Mme. Antoine Mari'... I got on a ladder to take the photo as the rose is 6 x 6'.. doesn't look it I know.. 'Donatella'.. Austin influenced HT... [Meilland 2011 'Maxima Romantica'..] Pebble Beach garden, suited to East Anglian drought.. ..this is Sea Lavender [Limonium].. I think it turns bluer.. ..the Enclosure is a bit bare, as I swopped out a rose..
4-5 days feels like a long time in this forum with lots to catch up.
as usual, wonderful roses all around.
@edhelka thanks for the description of your rose experience
I came across this rose in PeterBeales website, 'Kazanlik'- not sure if anyone has heard about it before. Apparently they are the ones cultivated in Saudi Arabia, famous for its perfume/ rose oil. Being a damask, I expect it to bloom only once. But the site says repeat flowering and I did mail their team to check if its a mistake and they said that it does repeat. Anyone here having a repeat flowering damask?? @Marlorena
I always forget how hard it is to switch off at the end of a school year. Probably even more so after a year like this one. Starting the year in class bubbles, closing after Christmas and having to adjust to doing online lessons and videos, then them all coming back to school and having to readjust again to that, then ending the year with being sent home to self isolate!
Full throttle right to the end, and then you expect to just stop and relax but it’s not that easy. Especially if you’ve just had to say goodbye to a group of children that you had strong relationships with. These children were the youngest in the school when I started working there, and due to my teaching role in school, I’ve worked with them all the way through. So naturally saying goodbye is hard! I’m quite an emotional, wear heart on my sleeve type person anyway!
As nice as that Leavers Assembly video was - I’ve had so many lovely comments from parents about it, it included messages from the teachers, slideshows, a song written with all of them in and also a music video that I made with the Year 6s to say goodbye (luckily we did the recording the day before the bubble was closed!) of course this is something they get to keep as well - as good as it was, it still wasn’t the same as saying goodbye in person.
But we’re planning, I think, to have a day during the summer holiday when they can come back, do some of the fun stuff we wanted to do in that last week and say a proper goodbye. So that’ll be nice.
A few more days of getting some catchup sleep and I’ll be fine!
See, it’s affected me so much I’m blabbering about it on a Rose thread 🤣
Here’s a photo of Lady of Shalott to make up for it, and get back on topic!
@newbie77 - yes I found aster Monch quite easy to take cuttings from. I did modules with Multipurpose and sharp sand, used rooting powder. Standard cut just below a leaf node at the bottom and just above on top, removed lower leaves. Put a propagator lid on top and they pretty much all grew. Although not all of them came through winter. Think I’ve ended up with 3 out of 5 ish
@cooldoc .. I don't have Kazanlik but I understand it repeats a little in the autumn on established plants, but you shouldn't expect too much from it then, as it's mainly a Summer Damask..
.. I have the Autumn Damask - R. damascena 'Quatre Saisons', which also flowers in June and is supposed to rebloom through summer, but my plant is young and so far I've not had any repeat, but I'm hoping I might get something later on.. it's growing well..
..I also have 'Botzaris' which is not pure, but regarded as a Summer Damask.. ..on order from Beales I have 'St. Nicholas', which is also a hybrid of this type..
..some well known roses sold as Damasks are also not true, like 'Ispahan' and 'Mme. Hardy'.. whereas the York and Lancaster rose [R. damascena 'versicolor'] is..
True Damasks are noted for their thin [attenuated] hips.. very thin shape, as opposed to the more usual rounded form..
'Kazanlik' is grown in Bulgaria for attar of roses from what I've read, I hadn't heard of it in Saudi Arabia so that's news to me... interesting group of roses, very prickly...
..you deserve a well earned break @Mr. Vine Eye .. clearly emotional times for you right now..
.. @iaincd .. lovely garden and I like the seat.. it reminds me of one Victoria Sponge has in her garden that she showed us the other day..
.. @edhelka .. your Marie Pavie standard is looking splendid... I saw Sandringham at Peter Beales and was taken by the scent..
..you have so many beautiful roses @Tack .. interesting finds in your parents' shed.. powdery mildew can sometimes be cleared with a good watering.. it's dryness at the roots that is often the cause..
.. all lovely photos posted today from everyone...
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'Marie Pavie'
'Sandringham'
'Crépuscule' (2nd year, 2nd flush) with badly eaten hosta and alstroemeria
'Olivia RA' is very floriferous in its 2nd year, even though she was moved
Talking about mosses, this is my best bloom on 'James Veitch' at the moment. It dislikes too strong sun. The moss smells like pine resin. It has been flowering a lot this year.
Hydrangea much bluer this year than last year, probably because of the rainy spring.
'Eyes for You'
The drive border. 'Jacqueline Humery' at the front, 'Purple Skyliner' on the wall and my neighbour's orange HT behind the wall.
Your hydrangea is an amazing blue @edhelka
My garden is fairly quiet at the moment so I have started some of my autumn prep. I can't move anything as I don't have the time or water to sustain it but have dug a new little border at the pond edge for two new roses and some other favourites and moved the stepping stones in my lawn so I can extend the bed a little.
Have a humungous list of autumn jobs and have ordered millions of bulbs. I hate planting bulbs (clay, bricks, plants in the way) but I do love their cheery faces come spring.
'Donatella'.. Austin influenced HT... [Meilland 2011 'Maxima Romantica'..]
Pebble Beach garden, suited to East Anglian drought..
..this is Sea Lavender [Limonium].. I think it turns bluer..
..the Enclosure is a bit bare, as I swopped out a rose..
Enjoying all the garden and flower photos.
Full throttle right to the end, and then you expect to just stop and relax but it’s not that easy. Especially if you’ve just had to say goodbye to a group of children that you had strong relationships with. These children were the youngest in the school when I started working there, and due to my teaching role in school, I’ve worked with them all the way through. So naturally saying goodbye is hard! I’m quite an emotional, wear heart on my sleeve type person anyway!
But we’re planning, I think, to have a day during the summer holiday when they can come back, do some of the fun stuff we wanted to do in that last week and say a proper goodbye. So that’ll be nice.
A few more days of getting some catchup sleep and I’ll be fine!
See, it’s affected me so much I’m blabbering about it on a Rose thread 🤣
Here’s a photo of Lady of Shalott to make up for it, and get back on topic!
.. I don't have Kazanlik but I understand it repeats a little in the autumn on established plants, but you shouldn't expect too much from it then, as it's mainly a Summer Damask..
.. I have the Autumn Damask - R. damascena 'Quatre Saisons', which also flowers in June and is supposed to rebloom through summer, but my plant is young and so far I've not had any repeat, but I'm hoping I might get something later on.. it's growing well..
..I also have 'Botzaris' which is not pure, but regarded as a Summer Damask..
..on order from Beales I have 'St. Nicholas', which is also a hybrid of this type..
..some well known roses sold as Damasks are also not true, like 'Ispahan' and 'Mme. Hardy'.. whereas the York and Lancaster rose [R. damascena 'versicolor'] is..
True Damasks are noted for their thin [attenuated] hips.. very thin shape, as opposed to the more usual rounded form..
'Kazanlik' is grown in Bulgaria for attar of roses from what I've read, I hadn't heard of it in Saudi Arabia so that's news to me... interesting group of roses, very prickly...
.. @iaincd
.. lovely garden and I like the seat.. it reminds me of one Victoria Sponge has in her garden that she showed us the other day..
.. @edhelka
.. your Marie Pavie standard is looking splendid... I saw Sandringham at Peter Beales and was taken by the scent..
..you have so many beautiful roses @Tack .. interesting finds in your parents' shed.. powdery mildew can sometimes be cleared with a good watering.. it's dryness at the roots that is often the cause..
.. all lovely photos posted today from everyone...