@Mr. Vine Eye I think the same thing that happened to your apple new growth may be happening to my young crabapple, did it look like this? If I uncurl a leaf there are lots of microscopic dark blobs which may be baby aphids - should I chop off the affected parts now?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie - that's exactly what happened to mine and it resulted in all the growth going twisted like that. They eventually disappeared but not before they'd forced the whole plant to stop growing.
It took a month off and then started again, so I ended up with what looked like two different seasons growth at the end of the year.
One tier branch was so twisted and short that I had to chop the whole of that years growth off back to the previous year's.
@Marlorena I was thinking there are too many roses for it to be neighbours I remember you have that triangular part of your garden there with a fence and then it wraps around the (back?) entrance to your house and then towards the greenhouse. But the low fence is still slightly confusing - is it between that triangular part and the front garden/road frontage?
Lovely photos everyone. I've just found the first bud nearly open on my Zephirine Drouhin, loads of buds on Penelope and just a few on New Dawn, Jasmina, Winchester Cathedral and GJ. Some sunshine now would be gratefully appreciated!
@owd potter ... just to add to what Mr VE said, here are some pics of how Etoile Violette can totally obliterate a climbing rose, so we need to be careful how we use these gr.. 3 clematis.. sometimes it works with roses, and othertimes it doesn't.. they don't always go that well together .. ..this is it on the march.. ..here it invaded my Blush Noisette rose... ..and here it demolished my Zephirine Drouhin which was a young rose at the time..
Ultimately, I had to remove that clematis to allow the roses to flourish... So what did I do with it? plant it along a picket fence where it swamped my 'Cornelia' rose and a Pittosporum..
I no longer have it, but now have a similar one called 'Rhapsody' which I'm making the same mistake with...but that's gardening....
The only rose I grew that stopped it was 'Malvern Hills'... that rose won the argument..
Wow! You've given me something to think about now. and it looks so fragile & delicate...
@Mr. Vine Eye I think the same thing that happened to your apple new growth may be happening to my young crabapple, did it look like this? If I uncurl a leaf there are lots of microscopic dark blobs which may be baby aphids - should I chop off the affected parts now?
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It took a month off and then started again, so I ended up with what looked like two different seasons growth at the end of the year.
One tier branch was so twisted and short that I had to chop the whole of that years growth off back to the previous year's.
Definitley remove!
I've just found the first bud nearly open on my Zephirine Drouhin, loads of buds on Penelope and just a few on New Dawn, Jasmina, Winchester Cathedral and GJ.
Some sunshine now would be gratefully appreciated!
You've given me something to think about now.
and it looks so fragile & delicate...