@Tack, so true about seeing familiar faces and photos of roses from everyone's garden. I am a total mess at the moment with office, kids and everything else. Hardly any time to take care of garden but two things I always do. Read this thread and get a bouquet of roses.
Bathsheba - planted as a bare root quite late this year.
Molineux
Desdemona
I think possibly William Shakespeare...
Ghislaine de Feligonde (at least I think it is? It's more pink than I'd expected though)
Blue For You
An old shrub rose. I don't know what it's called - was here before we were but only flowering at the top of a few gnarly trunks. I've gradually been cutting the thick old stems down - one a year. It has rewarded me by shooting new flowering stems up from lower down. The leaves often succumb to all sorts of things but it is a prolific flowerer nevertheless.
@Camelliad , I do not believe that is a Ghislaine . I have 2 Ghislaine in my garden and they are absolutely not pink, are different from bloom form, cluster and even stems and leave shape.it has nasty pricklers.
Nevertheless it is a lovely rose on your picture . Maybe someone else can ID it .
@Imprevu thank you. I'm inclined to agree with you. It's labelled Ghislaine but yes I was expecting the colouring to look like yours! Ah well. I'll put actual Ghislaine on my list for later on this year and grateful for anyone able to identify!
@pitter-patter - Apparently the trick with the taller ones is to give them the chelsea chop, then thay are more compact, I keep meaning to do it with mine, then forget. I have a single Short n’Sassy helenium this year - ordered 5, 4 arrived, 2 died and one is most definitely not right as its 4ft tall and pure yellow! Anyway, it’s one extreme to another, this is my one and only, only 25cm high so far, it’s meant to be 45cm
@Camelliad your Not Ghislaine de Feligonde is very pretty, whatever it is. If you post photos to wherever you bought it from, if a good rose supplier, they should replace it for free and you usually get to keep the wrong one too. Funnily enough there is a Pink sport of GdeF, discovered in France, but it’s not that either!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Hi everyone, sorry for bothering you again with my questions! I have decided to take out Etoile de Hollande, as it grew even taller (probably over 4 metres now) since I last posted its photo and I just cannot cope with its vigour. I would still like to have a climbing rose there and would love to hear your suggestion/recommendation.
It’s a north facing wall and I would like something smaller/manageable and less thorny than EdH.
Harkness recommended The Prince’s Trust. Does anyone grow it? I’d love to find out more information about this rose. Any suggestion/recommendations would be greatly received.
@Nollie I was going to do the Chelsea chop, but last year that helenium was much shorter, so I didn’t consider it necessary. I might divide them and move them in the spring and try the Chelsea chop on one of them to compare.
The barkarole (left) is well into its second flush. The Crimson Glory on the right has never grown in many years of being in and this is its first spurt (after RRD). All the energy is going into one big cane and has no urge to flower. Probably no blooms this year, like Etoile last year. I am training it to grow along the shed.
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Hope your building work gets done soon.
..you have a nice clump... perhaps Heleniuim 'Short and Sassy' might suit you ?..
Rubinzwerg has a nice dark colour but fades a bit I find, and the flowering season isn't as long as some others..
Molineux
Desdemona
I think possibly William Shakespeare...
Ghislaine de Feligonde (at least I think it is? It's more pink than I'd expected though)
Blue For You
An old shrub rose. I don't know what it's called - was here before we were but only flowering at the top of a few gnarly trunks. I've gradually been cutting the thick old stems down - one a year. It has rewarded me by shooting new flowering stems up from lower down. The leaves often succumb to all sorts of things but it is a prolific flowerer nevertheless.
The Simple Life
Munstead Wood
Olivia Rose Austin
Bright as a Button
picture attached of Ghislaine
Second flush on Vanessa Bell — the blooms are smaller and more buttery yellow
@Camelliad your Not Ghislaine de Feligonde is very pretty, whatever it is. If you post photos to wherever you bought it from, if a good rose supplier, they should replace it for free and you usually get to keep the wrong one too. Funnily enough there is a Pink sport of GdeF, discovered in France, but it’s not that either!
Harkness recommended The Prince’s Trust. Does anyone grow it? I’d love to find out more information about this rose. Any suggestion/recommendations would be greatly received.
Many thanks in advance!