It's been a strange year in the garden. Only one of my repeat flowering roses is giving me a second flush. No sign of buds on the others, despite deadheading and feeding the same as every other year. Many of my hydrangeas were frosted so no flowers this year. I wonder if the same happened to the roses, and the first flowers were actually the second flush.
Over here it’s been a poor season for growing veg as well, @newbie77. A friend of mine who is totally obsessed with his veg patch was so depressed at his poor harvest he is thinking of chucking it in. I know how he feels.
Could be @Balgay.Hill finger’s crossed you will get another flush before the year is out, if the weather picks up as promised, there is still time. Conversely, most of my roses have done reasonably well. If it weren’t for the zillions of sawflies destroying the foliage and weakening them, they might have done even better. The destruction rate has slowed, but the curled sawfly larvae are still lurking.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Not much to show in the garden t the moment. Here’s Vanessa bell. She’s had a poor showing this summer like many roses. Hope she’s making up for it now.
I’ve a love hate relationship with Tess of the durbivilles. My 3 year old rose was completely defoliated with black spot a fortnight ago - now she’s ready to go again.
I’ve got a cutting growing on the other side - propped it up for pictures because of the weak necks.
but I’m thinking of changing it for two rambling rosies. I like the red. But they’re grown in large pots… I don’t know. RR will like those conditions.
Very irregular rose-poster here. This time prompted by a realisation that a) my roses receive no extra care (except for some compost like other shrubs) after first season of planting and b) with this absence of much care some roses seem to fare very well and others not at all. A prime example is Midsummer Night's Dream faring badly after two seasons, being almost entirely defoliated now and looking miserable. Perhaps I planted it too deep, and I'll give it another chance moving it to a less sunny aspect (after @Marlorena's observation a while ago regarding this rose). In contrast to this, 'For Your Eyes Only' in its first season of planting is a flowering beacon of health. I have a few roses that seem to do very well without much TLC:
Westerland, MND, Albertine, For Your Eyes Only, Tottering by Gently and in shadier aspects Chandos Beauty, Mme. Alfred Carriere, Simple Gold.
Ones that are so-so: Queen Elizabeth, That's Jazz and aforementioned MND on the lower end of so-so.
Ghislaine de Feligonde, acquired to cover a garden storage area, looks promising so far. I have eyes on Lady of Shalott and some Lens roses.
I wonder if this is an important criterion for anyone else to the extent that they have a list of favourite tough/easy/healthy/drought-resistant roses.
I like a mix @micearguers, if I just stuck to the easy ones it could get boring. Most Austin roses are water and food hogs that I have to push with extras to get them to perform, then they defoliate, but I wouldn’t be without some of them so am prepared to go the extra mile.
These are my top carefree crowd pleasers:
Julia Child Stormy Weather Astronomia Soul - surprisingly, given the dark, petal packed and very fragrant blooms Warm Welcome - until I killed it!
Harlow Carr and Gertrude Jekyll are my healthiest, easiest Austins.
Top of the newbies is Marie Pavie, established fast and a prolific bloomer. I have lots of other promising and not so promising newbies, a mix of old and modern, but I’m reserving judgement until they have established more.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I thought my 'Dusky Maiden' was a goner at the beginning of summer as it had been reduced to one solitary, weak, feeble cane due to disease and die back over the winter and early spring, and definitely looked like it was on it's last legs. But because it was such a beauty last summer I thought I would try and save it...so after repotting it, and plenty TLC, lo and behold we have flowers again.
@Fire I just remove the sawfly larvae/caterpillars along with the leaves they're munching on. I think there is no point in removing the canes as the eggs have hatched and left, though the vertical wound remains. This is just from my experience, Someone more knowledgeable will be able to give you good advice.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
Thanks. In my garden the vertical wounds are quite significant on some canes. Ususally we are advised to remove dead, dying and damaged canes/branches...
To add to the little care roses, all the persican roses... angel eyes, eyes for you. I could leave them to it and theyd be fine. Sweet Syrie too... I cant fault that rose! Rhapsody in blue is another great low effort performer. I do deadhead, but like the eyes the stalks would soon shrivel and drop anyway if I didnt.
My Trevor white potted sale roses arrived today, superb. Edens covered in buds with lovely lush foliege and pheno geno peach is so glossy it shines! No fresh buds yet but im sure there will be, its neatly deadheaded. Im debating swapping it out with 95th celebration as I think thats shorter than expected so I might move it to more of a front border. Am I safe from rose replant disease if itsonly been in a few months?
Tried a nice little pot suited rose that came in a cheap pot luck mix "wiltshire" with some summer bedding and its been lovely all season. Drapes artfully over the sides. Crown princess margaritta still flowering away. Lovely scent, Im very pleased with it. Lady of shalott is doing well in its obelisk too, thrown up a load of fresh long canes and buds, more than the first flush!
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Could be @Balgay.Hill finger’s crossed you will get another flush before the year is out, if the weather picks up as promised, there is still time. Conversely, most of my roses have done reasonably well. If it weren’t for the zillions of sawflies destroying the foliage and weakening them, they might have done even better. The destruction rate has slowed, but the curled sawfly larvae are still lurking.
Westerland, MND, Albertine, For Your Eyes Only, Tottering by Gently and in shadier aspects Chandos Beauty, Mme. Alfred Carriere, Simple Gold.
Ones that are so-so: Queen Elizabeth, That's Jazz and aforementioned MND on the lower end of so-so.
Ghislaine de Feligonde, acquired to cover a garden storage area, looks promising so far. I have eyes on Lady of Shalott and some Lens roses.
I wonder if this is an important criterion for anyone else to the extent that they have a list of favourite tough/easy/healthy/drought-resistant roses.
These are my top carefree crowd pleasers:
Julia Child
Stormy Weather
Astronomia
Soul - surprisingly, given the dark, petal packed and very fragrant blooms
Warm Welcome - until I killed it!
Harlow Carr and Gertrude Jekyll are my healthiest, easiest Austins.
Top of the newbies is Marie Pavie, established fast and a prolific bloomer. I have lots of other promising and not so promising newbies, a mix of old and modern, but I’m reserving judgement until they have established more.
My Trevor white potted sale roses arrived today, superb. Edens covered in buds with lovely lush foliege and pheno geno peach is so glossy it shines! No fresh buds yet but im sure there will be, its neatly deadheaded. Im debating swapping it out with 95th celebration as I think thats shorter than expected so I might move it to more of a front border. Am I safe from rose replant disease if itsonly been in a few months?
Tried a nice little pot suited rose that came in a cheap pot luck mix "wiltshire" with some summer bedding and its been lovely all season. Drapes artfully over the sides.
Crown princess margaritta still flowering away. Lovely scent, Im very pleased with it.
Lady of shalott is doing well in its obelisk too, thrown up a load of fresh long canes and buds, more than the first flush!