First 'Reine des Violettes' bloom of the year, more pink than violet and clashing against the pieris background, but still pretty. 'Dunwich Rose' My 'Ebb Tide' has been always small, being in a dry area with poor soil without much support from me but it now has two new basals. This area is developing nicely. I can't wait for the peony to bloom. 'Empereur Charles IV.' on the right, growing tall.
@edhelka, I love the simplicity of your dunwich Rose bloom, I’ve been researching it to potentially buy it. It looks very thorny but I don’t mind that, how does it grow for you?
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@Bright star Here is a photo of the full plant and its location. It is a completely unimproved acidic, sandy, stony soil and a spot that can be dry and gets afternoon sun (but not the full 6 hours, I think). The rose is only in its first year. I want it to spread and cover the ground there. After flowering, it produces small black hips and the foliage turns orange in the autumn. Think about it as a landscape shrub for difficult conditions rather than a rose.
We were all looking forward to this season with everyone's unusual and huge number of roses. It is already so interesting and we've got months of this.... does a happy dance.
Malvern Hills is inMy first Obelisk, it's a tall one! Hopefully it will get the rose up to the balcony railings
Fascinating how sense of smell is so different @JessicaS, my Eyes for You was distinctly over-ripe tropical fruit, confirmed by OH, so perhaps the heat brings out different scents.
That’s a superb bloom on Reine des Violettes @edhelka, even if it is pinker than usual.
I think Purple Lodge is fast becoming a favourite:
Seems a more refined bloom form than Ebb Tide:
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@edhelka agree on the scent of eyes for you.. my kids too found it more rose like and a bit stronger than the currently opened austins for me..Desdemona/ Poets wife..
But Desdemona is a beauty.. the way her colour changes from bud to bloom.. peachy to cream to white..
eyes for you..
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'Dunwich Rose'
My 'Ebb Tide' has been always small, being in a dry area with poor soil without much support from me but it now has two new basals.
This area is developing nicely. I can't wait for the peony to bloom. 'Empereur Charles IV.' on the right, growing tall.
After flowering, it produces small black hips and the foliage turns orange in the autumn.
Think about it as a landscape shrub for difficult conditions rather than a rose.
I think Purple Lodge is fast becoming a favourite:
My lady of the lake.
Unknown rose.
I like your 'Susie' and that Buddha [?]..
.. @Nollie
huge bloom on Mme A Mari.. I'm so glad it's flowering for you, I'm interested to see how it does there..
@edhelka
love the Dunwich, just look at that centre.. beautiful R de V.. mine not out yet..
@Tack
..I'm not sure I've seen such a tall obelisk.. how much is gone into the ground?..
@Ditsy
lovely roses... your last one I'd be pretty certain is 'Pink Perpetue'.. it ticks all the boxes..
..oh gosh more fabulous photos above...love that dragonfly picture.. such detail.. if that's what it is..