Lovely @Mr. Vine Eye, great pictures. I found a cyclindrical car valet bucket which is the perfect height and width to fit the pot opening. Removed the handle and drilled drainage holes . Only problem was my colour choices were white or yellow but the rose has really bushed out and hides it well.
Nice to see a few new and very pretty roses popping up, your Versigny @newbie77 and Steph d’Ursel @Victoria Sponge.
Which would your say is the better lavender rose/fragrance @Tack, your happy accident Blue River or Dioressence? I’m looking for a new lavender and was considering Lavender Vaza, but not committed at the moment.
@Mr. Vine Eye my Lady Emma Hamilton has been exactly the same as your Royal Jubilee this year, lots of buds but only a few open at any one time.
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Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Everytime I see HC I am reminded that it is such a nice rose, I wish I'd chosen it above other DAs but will continue to resist it.
Blue River is streets ahead as a plant and for its fragrance, possibly my most scented rose, but you have to like its colour changing to more or less a bicolour,
and I'm not fond of bicolour roses. But I do like this rose a lot
otherwise.
Damn, I was hoping you would say Dioressence @Tack, as I need to decide on another couple of Delbards to justify ordering the single one on my list only available from them! HC does have hideously thorny canes and nodding bloom issues of course and for me, little to no fragrance, which seems contrary to everyone else’s experience.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Is it just me or anyone else feel that we are in autumn already?? cold and rainy... plus the second flush has deformed buds and burned leaf tips on most of them.. wonder if its some insect (thrip) damage..
The weather is definitely feeling autumnal… brrr… The garden is still looking wonderful though. I think the plants have all enjoyed the rain and the flowers have lasted longer in the cooler weather.
Hi! I’ve been reading all the wonderful rose related advice and admiring all your beautiful pictures for a little while now so thought I should say hello. I live up in Moray in the NE of Scotland. We are pretty close to the coast on the Moray Firth so benefit from the slightly warmer and drier climate of the North East Riviera (compared to much of the rest of Scotland). We moved into this house at the end of March and now have a garden for the first time in many years. It is a new build so the garden was just a layer of weed covered topsoil when we moved in. We started work on creating gravel areas, a raised bed, borders etc in May and started planting towards the end of June. I’ve fallen a little in love with with roses and have added quite a few to my borders.
New Dawn is on the left side of the arch. White flower carpet and sunshine flower carpet are in the bed to the right. Raymond Carver is against the back fence next to the far post (the post is the end support of what will hopefully become a Belgian fence of apple and pear trees along the 6 metres of fence between the two gravelled areas)
Malvern Hills is next to the centre post and hopefully being trained to grow around it. We will probably add rope or chain or something between the posts for it to grow along when it reaches that high. There is also a clematis etoile violette growing with it. To the left is Sandringham and to the right is supposed to be Margaret Merrill but I suspect it is actually Desdemona.
The other side of the garden will be our veg area as well as seating and barbecue and I have an Albertine in the corner there. I also have a potted coral flower carpet on the way and bare root Novalis and Guirlande Rose ordered which will be going in pots for now.
I am a very novice gardener, still have loads of work to do and have no doubt made lots of mistakes already! Pretty sure Albertine was a poor choice as I suspect it will be far too vigorous for the spot it is in but it was a garden centre impulse purchase and it is growing so happily I’ll leave it be for now and hope I can keep it within bounds!
The garden is bringing me so much joy though and to see the bees and hover flies and butterflies enjoying it already is amazing.
This rose was labelled as “Margaret Merrill” in B&M and was a tiny, wimpy little specimen. It has settled in and grown loads and has beautiful blooms that last for ages even in the rain. Does it look more like possibly Desdemona to you?
Please ignore the state of the “lawn” and the tatty edges! The borders will be getting some brick edging when we get round to digging out the bed for the fruit trees and widening everything a bit. There never seems to be enough time (or money!) to get everything done that we want to do! A shed and greenhouse are on the diy list as well.
Looking forward to learning more and enjoying your roses with you alongside my own.
Oh wow @mummybeeleeYa6QsPRB, it will be really lovely to watch this develop, please keep showing us. Your white rose does look a lot like my Desdemona but I have no idea what MM looks like so not the one to help there.
While I'm here, I just took this pic and wanted to thank those of you that showed me your The Lark Ascendings as I am thrilled with mine.
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I live up in Moray in the NE of Scotland. We are pretty close to the coast on the Moray Firth so benefit from the slightly warmer and drier climate of the North East Riviera (compared to much of the rest of Scotland). We moved into this house at the end of March and now have a garden for the first time in many years. It is a new build so the garden was just a layer of weed covered topsoil when we moved in. We started work on creating gravel areas, a raised bed, borders etc in May and started planting towards the end of June. I’ve fallen a little in love with with roses and have added quite a few to my borders.
New Dawn is on the left side of the arch. White flower carpet and sunshine flower carpet are in the bed to the right.
Raymond Carver is against the back fence next to the far post (the post is the end support of what will hopefully become a Belgian fence of apple and pear trees along the 6 metres of fence between the two gravelled areas)
Malvern Hills is next to the centre post and hopefully being trained to grow around it. We will probably add rope or chain or something between the posts for it to grow along when it reaches that high. There is also a clematis etoile violette growing with it. To the left is Sandringham and to the right is supposed to be Margaret Merrill but I suspect it is actually Desdemona.
I am a very novice gardener, still have loads of work to do and have no doubt made lots of mistakes already! Pretty sure Albertine was a poor choice as I suspect it will be far too vigorous for the spot it is in but it was a garden centre impulse purchase and it is growing so happily I’ll leave it be for now and hope I can keep it within bounds!
Please ignore the state of the “lawn” and the tatty edges! The borders will be getting some brick edging when we get round to digging out the bed for the fruit trees and widening everything a bit. There never seems to be enough time (or money!) to get everything done that we want to do! A shed and greenhouse are on the diy list as well.