I think it was probably a fox @Bright star and @newbie77, I lost 2 pairs of gloves from the greenhouse earlier this week, that is their usual misdemeanor of choice 🙄
@Tack your Diamond Eyes is doing so much better than mine. Mine is a bit lost in the front of the border and overshadowed by the rose fence behind. Think I will lift and pot it at the end of the year, it is better suited to pot life.
3 Roses on the rose fence..
La Rose de Molinard, not the best it can do but probably the best so far, previous ones were much smaller and weather damaged:
Stormy Weather:
Soul:
New buds of The Prince:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Everything right on the edge of bursting into bloom here. I counted and have about 45 roses of varying sizes! Several minis. Buds on nearly everything. Harkness Mountbattens second big bud opened, I wanted to show how the colour changes as it opens, from dark egg yolk yellow with streaks of red on buds to a paler lemon once open with dark stamens. Lovely glossy dark leaves, crisp perfect blooms and a lovely citrussy scent. My beloved Sweet Syrie is still teasing its first opening bud, its absolutly covered in them this year. I wish id properly planted it as a climber (...rubbish labelling meant didnt realise!) but ive put cane supports in and she seems quite content to gracefully bloom as a towering shrub with them. Im dying to see if the fragrance is even more boosted this year by the feed like the others. I should add this is a drooping branch, the bud cluster next to it is Lavender Ice which is lovely and compact in the gap. The splotty white on leaves is just sulphur rose, the sprayer jammed!
@Nollie I think I want most of your garden at this point Those beautiful dark blooms are all stunning.
Olivia seems to score a perfect score in all departments except fragrance.. some at it has no scent, some says it has a very light scent..
Being a very fragrance-‘scent’ric person (I apologise for my dad joke.. I’m not even a dad, but I suppose I’m reaching that sort of age..) I just can’t afford to have it just yet.. one day, when I have a larger garden..
My Etoile is actually doing ok.. it has really bounced back from the gale force onslaught.. lovely fragrance, huge blooms.. but prone to aphids.
This is 'Constance Spry', which I never imagined would take off the way it has in the few weeks it's been in the ground (again testament I think to Trevor White's plant quality), so I really must get the support up on the wall...but what is the rule of thumb when it comes to tackling outward growing canes on a climber such as the one highlighted. Do I cut it off (but not yet as it's got a nice bud on it) to keep the shape nice and open, or try and bend it round towards the support when it gets longer.
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3 Roses on the rose fence..
La Rose de Molinard, not the best it can do but probably the best so far, previous ones were much smaller and weather damaged:
Stormy Weather:
Harkness Mountbattens second big bud opened, I wanted to show how the colour changes as it opens, from dark egg yolk yellow with streaks of red on buds to a paler lemon once open with dark stamens. Lovely glossy dark leaves, crisp perfect blooms and a lovely citrussy scent.
My beloved Sweet Syrie is still teasing its first opening bud, its absolutly covered in them this year. I wish id properly planted it as a climber (...rubbish labelling meant didnt realise!) but ive put cane supports in and she seems quite content to gracefully bloom as a towering shrub with them. Im dying to see if the fragrance is even more boosted this year by the feed like the others.
I should add this is a drooping branch, the bud cluster next to it is Lavender Ice which is lovely and compact in the gap. The splotty white on leaves is just sulphur rose, the sprayer jammed!
@Nollie I think I want most of your garden at this point
Its Cerastium Tomentosum, 'snow in summer' my friend. Its a lovely plant that works well for under planting.
Desdemona opening up.
Being a very fragrance-‘scent’ric person (I apologise for my dad joke.. I’m not even a dad, but I suppose I’m reaching that sort of age..) I just can’t afford to have it just yet.. one day, when I have a larger garden..
I've done some tidying and tying in as well as taking loads more photos!
I'm not sure if for your eyes only is going to stop growing in width!
New basals on eyes for you.
The start of the colour clashes!
A Rhapsody in Blue bloom hiding.
Sir John Mills bud, this still remains one of my favourites.
The wafting smell as I walk up the garden is just lovely.