@Tack@cooldoc I have Gräfin Diana/Royal Parfuma as well but mine is quite young. It flowered for the first time just before a torrential downpour, not sure what it’s like today but before the rains it looked like a beautiful rose.
Beautiful roses one and all. I've been in DIY meltdown and roses have suffered. Also, my mother in trying to help, has cut the basal stems of my climber (rambling rector). How do I need to manage it now? I guess hope that other basals will grow? Super gutted as I was about to tie them in 😭😭😭
Hurrah, we finally had some torrential rain to relieve the dry, desert-like conditions here. It was such a relief putting buckets out everywhere and seeing the water butts fill for the first time in months! Of course the downside is now everything is now flattened and sodden!
Lovely to see so much colour and variety in everyone’s gardens. @Marlorena I’m glad you managed to nurse Dee-Lish back to health, I was considering replacing my poorly performing La Rose de Molinard with that, as I believe it has a similar strong grapefruit scent, which is what I love about RdeM.
RdeM, has been generally sickly, with small, discoloured blooms. The leaves went yellow and a couple of strong, healthy canes also went yellow and died right back, which is odd. No idea what’s up there as other roses around are fine and it’s been well fed and watered. Anyone any thoughts there?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..glad you got some rain @Nollie ... sounds like you had a decent amount too, as we have done here.. a couple of thunderstorms did the trick, so now it can go away for another month..
...talking of 'Dee-Lish' / 'The Anniversary Rose'.. yes a fruity scent, not sure what of exactly.. they had some good potted specimens at Peter Beales, vigorous plants, so no idea why mine was a weakling, but it's doing well now, so I need to find a spot for this and try again.. Vapourer caterpillar on 'Wild Rover'.. 'Scented Garden'.. this is one fabulous rose, just starting 2nd flush, full of buds, large clusters about 5.5 feet tall.. Phlox 'Purple Flame'..
@Katsa, that is upsetting and really hard to deal with when family try to help. I would assume that the rose will eventually grow more basals, you'll laugh about it one day I'm sure.
G.Diana being called Royal Parfuma here took me by surprise @Omori, I thought it was Dark Desire in english but HMF doesn't actually tell us what it is called in all the different countries, just a selection. Being somewhat germanic myself I really like original names for german roses so will prob continue as I am. I hope it does as well for you too.
Shame about your RdeM @Nollie but Dee lish does look great @Marlorena .
Oh my, I can’t stand “help”. Other people, especially family, “helping” with tasks has almost always ended in disaster.
Like when my mother-in-law decided to “help” by putting all the dishes in the dishwasher away....it hadn’t been on yet! Or my father-in-law decided to “help” by making a start on the painting of our extension...was so badly done and with an awful thick vinyl sort of paint it took me hours of sanding to get the wall back to being smooth.
If anyone ever tried to “help” in the garden I’d go ballistic.
Thankfully, I think they all think of me as “the gardener” so wouldn’t even consider it.
@katsa the rose will be fine! It’ll just be a temporary set back. It’ll grow new ones eventually. Like when I lost a really good cane on Bathsheba last year.
Oh dear @Katsa, ‘helpful’ relatives 🙊 are so frustrating! Rambling Rector is a vigorous rose though, so finger’s crossed you won’t have to wait too long for new basals. Hope you are well and taking care of yourself.
@Marlorena yes it was a good downpour. We are due more rain soon and I’m really hoping it comes, we so need it. I might have had Dee-Lish already if I’d realised that was what TCL were selling as Elbflorenz/Line Renauld, what a ridiculously confusing array of names for one rose! Be interesting to hear how the scent develops for you..
Yeah, I don’t know what’s up with RdeM @Tack, just seems to have gone from rude health last year to turning up it’s toes, maybe something is going on underground. I’ll dig it up and investigate in winter if it doesn’t rally.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Not a rose but I’ll post it here anyway as I have mentioned it before. This is my espalier apple tree, it’s done really well this year, the fourth tier which I started this year is already half way to full size, and of course it hasn’t finished growing yet. The other three are at full length now. It’s also covered in short fruiting spurs this year so I’m very hopeful that we’ll have the first blossom and fruit from it next year.
@Nollie - we’d talked about it getting attacked by black aphids awfully last year and ending up with gnarled, stunted growth. Well they seem to have completely left it alone this year. It’s one of the cleanest plants in the garden. Nice continuous strong growth since Spring.
The crabapple’s doing well too. Should have enough to make some jelly this year!
Although I’ve tied it into the fence I’m planning on letting it send out new branches going out away from the fence, as this one has a naturally weeping habit. Hoping for a sort of cascade effect when it’s in bloom. There’s not enough room to train it too much horizontally.
@cooldoc Love lady em and Rachel! All double jabbed up here now, and appreciate your hard work. The garden must be a lovely escape after work I bet.
@Mr. Vine Eye I forgot to say re earlier end of school post - teachers like you that care and treat kids as individuals not numbers really made a huge difference to kids like me that found some elements of school life challenging ---------- Roses! Anyone else spot Monty has a few munstead woods last week? Noticed Adam Frost has it too. Excited to see how mine does!
On 'help' my friend messaged me in a flap for help the other day after her mum accidentally tipped a bottle of distilled vinegar not water all over a rose... (i got her to flush it with water to prevent burning roots, its fine, not enough to affect ph and roses dont mind slightly acidic!)
Few snaps from yesturday. Crown princess still doing well, slowly climbing the arch and covered in blooms. Lovely scent. Nostalgia looking gorgeous, delighted with it. Lady marmalade
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RdeM, has been generally sickly, with small, discoloured blooms. The leaves went yellow and a couple of strong, healthy canes also went yellow and died right back, which is odd. No idea what’s up there as other roses around are fine and it’s been well fed and watered. Anyone any thoughts there?
... sounds like you had a decent amount too, as we have done here.. a couple of thunderstorms did the trick, so now it can go away for another month..
...talking of 'Dee-Lish' / 'The Anniversary Rose'.. yes a fruity scent, not sure what of exactly.. they had some good potted specimens at Peter Beales, vigorous plants, so no idea why mine was a weakling, but it's doing well now, so I need to find a spot for this and try again..
Vapourer caterpillar on 'Wild Rover'..
'Scented Garden'.. this is one fabulous rose, just starting 2nd flush, full of buds, large clusters about 5.5 feet tall..
Phlox 'Purple Flame'..
Like when my mother-in-law decided to “help” by putting all the dishes in the dishwasher away....it hadn’t been on yet! Or my father-in-law decided to “help” by making a start on the painting of our extension...was so badly done and with an awful thick vinyl sort of paint it took me hours of sanding to get the wall back to being smooth.
If anyone ever tried to “help” in the garden I’d go ballistic.
Thankfully, I think they all think of me as “the gardener” so wouldn’t even consider it.
@Marlorena yes it was a good downpour. We are due more rain soon and I’m really hoping it comes, we so need it. I might have had Dee-Lish already if I’d realised that was what TCL were selling as Elbflorenz/Line Renauld, what a ridiculously confusing array of names for one rose! Be interesting to hear how the scent develops for you..
Yeah, I don’t know what’s up with RdeM @Tack, just seems to have gone from rude health last year to turning up it’s toes, maybe something is going on underground. I’ll dig it up and investigate in winter if it doesn’t rally.
@Nollie - we’d talked about it getting attacked by black aphids awfully last year and ending up with gnarled, stunted growth. Well they seem to have completely left it alone this year. It’s one of the cleanest plants in the garden. Nice continuous strong growth since Spring.
Although I’ve tied it into the fence I’m planning on letting it send out new branches going out away from the fence, as this one has a naturally weeping habit. Hoping for a sort of cascade effect when it’s in bloom. There’s not enough room to train it too much horizontally.
@Mr. Vine Eye I forgot to say re earlier end of school post - teachers like you that care and treat kids as individuals not numbers really made a huge difference to kids like me that found some elements of school life challenging
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Roses!
Anyone else spot Monty has a few munstead woods last week? Noticed Adam Frost has it too. Excited to see how mine does!
On 'help' my friend messaged me in a flap for help the other day after her mum accidentally tipped a bottle of distilled vinegar not water all over a rose... (i got her to flush it with water to prevent burning roots, its fine, not enough to affect ph and roses dont mind slightly acidic!)
Few snaps from yesturday.
Crown princess still doing well, slowly climbing the arch and covered in blooms. Lovely scent.
Nostalgia looking gorgeous, delighted with it.
Lady marmalade