My argument for my over-long wishlist @edhelka is that if I don’t buy during bareroot season, I don’t get to buy, since there are few opportunities to import potted roses and it’s risky and expensive. I need insurance for those that don’t make it through this year’s rose trials. La Belle Rouge might well make it onto the list, oh but I’m not buying any more red roses am I? 😉
Fringed stipules, yes they are aren’t they? I didn’t notice that @Marlorena. I have told mum it’s The Fairy and she’s happy with that. I do like Nathalie Nypels, polyanthas seem to be doing well for me, so far.
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..that's good Nollie.. I also like La Belle Rouge.. .. as for The Country Parson.. too prickly for its own good. I can't imagine having it in the garden and cultivating around it..
'Mme Antoine Mari'.. too big to photograph outside.. 'Tottering....' Lavender 'Gros Bleu'.. elegant shape, but I've had no rain to flatten it.. Hollyhock and Lythrum.. 'Duchesse de Brabant'.. 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' / 'Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller'..[?] leaf cutter bee in the greenhouse.. I have a couple of roses in there..
Urgh, those rose slugs look yuck @Nollie, interesting you had and now have the same mildew problem as me. I really think whatever the temp here we have had abnormally high humidity for months.
I have a bad sawfly problem on Lady of Shalott and Eglantyne, my Boscobel is untouched @peteS , so still on DAs but that is itself odd because I have more not DA roses.
Roses starting good flushes here are Utopia and Timeless Purple with a heavy but shortlived shower cloud looming. Monstrous Millie,a really huge bloom, Timeless Purple, Wollerton OH, Blackberry NipI have Surrey, an offspring of The Fairy with a similar colour and look but a more simple double without the fringing, it is troublefree but not wowing me.
I have Chippendale in my TCL preorder so good to read the positives.
@Mr. Vine Eye i have a telescopic grabby thing its brilliant! Im only 5ft2 so super handy for me! I dead head climbers etc and back of borders with it.
@Marlorena love your phlox border! Ive picked quite a few plants after admiring them in yours!
Few snaps from mine pre rain. Most of mine gearing up for a second flush.
As we were talking about them previously - my Secret garden club order just arrived, took a pot shot at some £1.99 perennial fillers thinking if they were teeny again id just put in coldframe overwinter, but actually they are fully grown and look really great! Gaura, dianthus, lovely creeping thyme, a nice Salvia and hyssop all ready to or in flower. No out of stock issues or dead ones for once either, im very pleased with them all. Hopefully this means they have sorted themselves out!
Bit of my peach, pink, dark purple border. Natalija at the front, first great western on left, waltz time going mad at the back. Clematis I think is polish spirit, cheapy supermarket one ive also got elsewhere thats nicely established now. Copper lights blooms aging very gracefully Abracadabra (supposedly?!) Rosa des cistertiens. Its so over the top, but I love it for its flamboyance! Light fruity scent too. Firey tone bed companion planting, rockin red dianthus, illumination foxgloves and some coreopsis popping up Wiltshire, cheapie ground cover pot luck rose, which has been lovely in a pot, drapes nicely and prolific.
Crown princess margaritte doing very well. Fairy red behind. Excuse the mess, birds love that bath! I have to change the water multiple times on hot days!
I'm sure it's best to buy rose plants from a rose specialist like Trevor White etc, however Sarah Raven is offering 20% off pre-booked roses for delivery in the autumn, it seems. If you try the code and it doesn't work, please let me know. The email doesn't give any detail of what it does and doesn't cover - it just says 'roses'.
@newbie77 To be fair I must have spotted that Country Parson at its peak and in full bloom.. I think Edhelka went to the garden a good 3 weeks after so it was probably coming to the end of its first flush.
I have literally just managed to catch up with all the posts here.. I’ve been so busy at my allotment plot (going there every weekend and during midweek whenever I could) - I’ve managed to keep up with the feeding and watering of my roses but not been able to sit down on my balcony much and snap more pics. I’ll soon have a week off and hopefully it will coincide with some better weather..
Meanwhile I’ll enjoy all the beautiful pictures here in between work ☺️
@Marlorena...I have quite a few leaf cutter bees in residence now, and if I go out really early on a warm still morning when it's quiet before the background noise gets going, I can hear them chomping the leaves and watch them fly off with the piece tucked underneath their body's.
@dominia30 I brought renaissance sandra for a friend whose not a huge gardener, shes delighted with it. Ive got nostalgia rose lavender ice which is on a similar vein, its really lovely and has done very well in its first year.
@Tack, the opposite here, very dry air and low humidity, I think MIP is just prone to mildew, as is MAP. Might improve with age..
Talking of sawflies, this one nearly sawed through the entire cane, biggest wound I’ve seen:
Love Song, a little frayed around the edges but to be fair, these are going over:
Gertrude Jekyll second flush blooms, in full sun for much of the day, no frying:
Munstead Wood can take the heat surprisingly well for a dark rose. This is my longest, continuous flush on record, first bloom 7th May. It must love the alfalfa tea!
Forever Royal a respectable colour in max. 1 hour’s morning sun, it may get a reprieve:
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Looks like that TCP had over grown between the two visits. With such a thorny branches it would be hard to manage.
Fringed stipules, yes they are aren’t they? I didn’t notice that @Marlorena. I have told mum it’s The Fairy and she’s happy with that. I do like Nathalie Nypels, polyanthas seem to be doing well for me, so far.
.. as for The Country Parson.. too prickly for its own good. I can't imagine having it in the garden and cultivating around it..
'Mme Antoine Mari'.. too big to photograph outside..
'Tottering....'
Lavender 'Gros Bleu'.. elegant shape, but I've had no rain to flatten it..
Hollyhock and Lythrum..
'Duchesse de Brabant'..
'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' / 'Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller'..[?]
leaf cutter bee in the greenhouse.. I have a couple of roses in there..
@Marlorena love your phlox border! Ive picked quite a few plants after admiring them in yours!
Few snaps from mine pre rain. Most of mine gearing up for a second flush.
As we were talking about them previously - my Secret garden club order just arrived, took a pot shot at some £1.99 perennial fillers thinking if they were teeny again id just put in coldframe overwinter, but actually they are fully grown and look really great! Gaura, dianthus, lovely creeping thyme, a nice Salvia and hyssop all ready to or in flower. No out of stock issues or dead ones for once either, im very pleased with them all. Hopefully this means they have sorted themselves out!
Bit of my peach, pink, dark purple border. Natalija at the front, first great western on left, waltz time going mad at the back. Clematis I think is polish spirit, cheapy supermarket one ive also got elsewhere thats nicely established now.
Copper lights blooms aging very gracefully
Abracadabra (supposedly?!)
Rosa des cistertiens. Its so over the top, but I love it for its flamboyance! Light fruity scent too.
Firey tone bed companion planting, rockin red dianthus, illumination foxgloves and some coreopsis popping up
Wiltshire, cheapie ground cover pot luck rose, which has been lovely in a pot, drapes nicely and prolific.
Crown princess margaritte doing very well. Fairy red behind. Excuse the mess, birds love that bath! I have to change the water multiple times on hot days!
Ive got nostalgia rose lavender ice which is on a similar vein, its really lovely and has done very well in its first year.
Talking of sawflies, this one nearly sawed through the entire cane, biggest wound I’ve seen:
Love Song, a little frayed around the edges but to be fair, these are going over:
Gertrude Jekyll second flush blooms, in full sun for much of the day, no frying:
Munstead Wood can take the heat surprisingly well for a dark rose. This is my longest, continuous flush on record, first bloom 7th May. It must love the alfalfa tea!