You are very welcome to join us @Rojas, you clearly love your roses and we would love to see them too!
@Fire, yes interesting to hear her selections and that she highly rated Pearl Drift for a white rose. I am also attempting Mutabilis again this year, the last one from TCL died (as did Omori’s) so I may try another supplier this time.
I didn’t used to like yellow roses much until I got Julia Child on your recommendation @Marlorena, so I can blame you for my current obsession with them! That’s actually a trio, but they seem to be self-regulating within the allotted space for me and haven’t gotten out of hand - year 3 currently.
Speaking of yellow/golden roses, Golden Beauty has improved since it’s poor start and grown new leaves to replace the previously abysmal ones - just starting another flush:
Rose de Rescht, very healthy for me, no sign of damask crud:
Blush Noisette, repeats very fast, must get it in the ground:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I agree that Eglantyne is a gorgeous rose @Rickyjones24. I really am tempted by your and @Omori's photos of Olivia. It's currently in my basket, I stopped when I realised the Bank Holiday free delivery code didn't include the BH. I think DA give out a code in Sept so will wait and see how I feel then.
I did enjoy that video @Fire, thank you. I don't agree with the Pearl Drift praise though. I liked it for one day last week but the flowers look pink and somehow grubby again even with no rain nor strong sun.
I really hope you show us your roses and garden @Rojas, welcome.
I hope my Soul a) arrives, b) is the correct plant and c) does half as well as yours @Nollie. It is the rose I am most excited about getting. I share your love of JC/Abfab, it seems very happy in a pot, never not covered in blooms.
Clockwise, JC and EasyDI, Wildberry and Grafin Diana, Charles Darwin (glimpse of Boscobel and The Prince behind), Chandos Beauty, GoldenB and LadyoSEglantyne, Dames deC, Snow Ballet and New Zealand
Moonlight (first year). It hasn't done marvellously but there is often a bit of bloom on it. It doesn't die back well (and shatter). But hopefully when it bushes out and climbs, the deadheads won't show as much. Maybe nobody else notices.
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Etoile (first year) having a mini flush.
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Malvern Hills (first year). These are its first flowers. A lovely pale yellow. It goes well with Creme de la Creme. I'm toying with taking out Dr Jamain (terrible blackspot) and putting in another Malvern but worrying if it might take down the fence.
Very fine photo of Olivia @Omori. What’s the pretty lilac flower in the foreground?
Fabulous display of roses, as ever @Tack. Finger’s crossed re your Soul.
Do you recall I was disappointed in Heidi Klum’s poor rebloom this year? Well I think I found out why! I hauled out the pot today and put it on a table in fuller sun, thinking that may help, to discover on close inspection that something had been chewing the nascent buds in the leaf nodes. I’m wondering if it was baby aphids as there were bits of white fluff on the canes and stuffed in the leaf nodes which looked suspiciously like cast off aphid skins. These bud nubbles never got a chance to develop into flowering shoots. It’s very strange, none of the other potted roses in that run were affected.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Beautiful roses you all have! @Nollie I too tried with Mutabilis and failed, she died in her first year. everybody says she is and easy rose, but she is the only one rose that I was not able to keep alive
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You are very welcome to join us @Rojas, you clearly love your roses and we would love to see them too!
@Fire, yes interesting to hear her selections and that she highly rated Pearl Drift for a white rose. I am also attempting Mutabilis again this year, the last one from TCL died (as did Omori’s) so I may try another supplier this time.
I didn’t used to like yellow roses much until I got Julia Child on your recommendation @Marlorena, so I can blame you for my current obsession with them! That’s actually a trio, but they seem to be self-regulating within the allotted space for me and haven’t gotten out of hand - year 3 currently.
Speaking of yellow/golden roses, Golden Beauty has improved since it’s poor start and grown new leaves to replace the previously abysmal ones - just starting another flush:
Rose de Rescht, very healthy for me, no sign of damask crud:
Just a quick snap from the patio seats:
Fabulous display of roses, as ever @Tack. Finger’s crossed re your Soul.
Do you recall I was disappointed in Heidi Klum’s poor rebloom this year? Well I think I found out why! I hauled out the pot today and put it on a table in fuller sun, thinking that may help, to discover on close inspection that something had been chewing the nascent buds in the leaf nodes. I’m wondering if it was baby aphids as there were bits of white fluff on the canes and stuffed in the leaf nodes which looked suspiciously like cast off aphid skins. These bud nubbles never got a chance to develop into flowering shoots. It’s very strange, none of the other potted roses in that run were affected.
everybody says she is and easy rose, but she is the only one rose that I was not able to keep alive
..beautiful roses.. does Leah Tutu have much scent? thanks..