Hi @Marlorena, The opposite here, Lady of Shallot is one of my better orange/lemon Austins that goes the least pink of the lot. I get some pink spotting as the blooms are going over, certainly blooms are paler in heat, but otherwise they hold on to their peachy tones fairly well:
Young Graham Thomas’ new foliage is burning in the least bit of sun and going chlorotic again, if I have to give a rose an iron tonic 9/10 times it’s an Austin!
Well I won’t even mention the unmentionable foliage of Burgundy Ice, but at least the blooms are pretty:
Stormy Weather showing gorgeous purple tones. I love this rose, so eager to please:
Munstead Wood in continuous bloom for 13 weeks now and still producing new buds. I’m amazed it hasn’t died of exhaustion, needs another iron tonic but alfalfa is clearly it’s crack cocaine!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
First blooms on Madame Alfred carriere - I ordered bare root from eBay and ended up with two plants instead of one.
The only thing is I’m not sure if it is Madame Alfred carriere… I was expecting them to have taken over the garden by now but they’ve been very restrained, no long canes or sign of climbing. 🤔
@Ffoxglove it looks right compared to mine, which is pretty much the same, a new bare root last autumn has produced spindly growth off the old pruned canes, one new climbing basal cane and only two blooms. There was a discussion earlier about climbers being very slow to get going this year, put down to the weather. The other new bare root climber I planted at the same time has yet to produce a single bud never mind a climbing cane! So I think yours is doing pretty well, all things considered 😊
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie MW and LEH has been producing blooms almost continuously (along with Jubilee celebration and Young lycidas).. only problem being they are the first ones to show blackspot.. LEH blackspots are getting extensive..
@Mr. Vine Eye lots of visitors to your pond.. The oxygenators take over within no time, better than watching the green algae..
Ah @cooldoc, that actually looks interesting as it doesn't have the mad colour change that Easy Does It has. I missed this on my first pass but am intrigued by your 'experiment' ?? I fancy a rose called Trish! But I really hate the idea of a Munstead Wood, I do, I really do.....Yours and everyone's are gorgeous.
Which leads to @Nollie and hoping he can get more dark DA back catalogue roses so we can all admire them.
I may have used my long pruners on everything in sight too @Mr. Vine Eye and @JessicaS, my OH has sneakily borrowed them for a play too. I don't wear gloves so reaching into a rose bush is now bloodless.
Your Phlox collection is fabulous @Marlorena. Brilliant timing for when there is a bit of a rose lull. You have this gardening thing in the bag.
@cooldoc, that’s interesting, My MWs have never done that continuously blooming thing before, usually just the normal flush pattern, so I’m thrilled. Not dozens of blooms at a time, but always respectable. Trouble is, I don’t know if it really is the new alfalfa tea regime or other factors. LEH certainly didn’t respond to it. Every Austin gets blackspot here so I don’t find either especially bad, but LEH does get Cercospora. If I ever go awol it’s because I’m crawled under her skirts picking up fallen leaves 😆
@Tack I did find TP in stock in one place but Tradescant and Prospero seem to be delisted or out of stock elsewhere. I already have lists for 3 nurseries though, so I can’t really justify the postage for a single so I would end up buying another two to make me feel better!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
To add the royal red flush - my Ena is starting again - the second flush since cutting to the ground in Feb. I think this climber has permanently reverted to a bush type. There seems no to desire to climb.
Great colour, great scent, my preferred bloom shape, nodding heads not too bad, black spot not bad, but two small flushes a year, on a seaweed feed once a week, manure and rose granules. The upside is its low maintenance. The downside is doesn't "flower its socks off". More like a few, short bursts of song. I like it against the London red clay brick, which echoes a kind of terracotta theme. Maybe I wanted to buy this house because it was red.
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Young Graham Thomas’ new foliage is burning in the least bit of sun and going chlorotic again, if I have to give a rose an iron tonic 9/10 times it’s an Austin!
Well I won’t even mention the unmentionable foliage of Burgundy Ice, but at least the blooms are pretty:
Stormy Weather showing gorgeous purple tones. I love this rose, so eager to please:
Munstead Wood in continuous bloom for 13 weeks now and still producing new buds. I’m amazed it hasn’t died of exhaustion, needs another iron tonic but alfalfa is clearly it’s crack cocaine!