Well when it rains here, it really does pour. Mega thunder too. Just when I was getting stuck in to digging and backfilling the new rose bed of course!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie thanks, but the winds were not strong here.
loving every blooms @Nollie@Fire@Busy-Lizzie (and anyone else I missed- difficult to remember names after all these posts ) The blooms are really pretty when they are just unfolding.
Hi, just want to say how much I enjoy seeing all your beautiful rose photos and trying to absorb the vast knowledge on here (rose-wise and generally). I only have eight ... at the moment ... five of which I transported from the UK pre-Brexit, the other two having been bought here. They are all growing in pots as although we have a large garden it is, as is the southern Italian way, dominated by fruit, olive and nut trees, alongside vegetable gardening. I am somewhat of an enigma here, bucking the trend with my passion for flowers.
My roses comprise: Chartreuse de Parme, Sealed With A Kiss, Christopher Columbus , A Whiter Shade of Pale, Fragrant Delight, Twice in a Blue Moon, a "white" one from my local garden centre and my favourite - Munstead Wood.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
@2000GTV Hi, and welcome to Roses... great to see you here from Italy... it will be good to get some input from your region, which must be a warm climate area, so I expect your roses to be in flower now?.. would that be right?.. one or two I'm not familiar with, so looking forward to seeing a few pictures in due course...
..I have to admit, if I lived in your area I would be growing different types of roses to what you have.. but that discussion is for another day, maybe...
I've always maintained that each colour of rose has its different scent - red roses smell red and yellow roses smell yellow. Does anyone find the same? It would be interesting to do a blind scent testing (like the Pepsi Challenge).
@Fire - I like that idea. I may have to do that at some point in summer! Get OH to test me on the scents. I think I’d do pretty well, most of mine are quite distinctive.
Im not sure about the colour thing though - Rhapsody in Blue smells very, very similar to Amber Queen in my garden buy they’re purple/mauve and Apricot/yellow.
@Fire Yes, yellow roses smell like lemon or other citrus, apricot roses like oranges, grapefruits or something tropical. Red roses are heavier, floral, sometimes spicy, sometimes like berries. Purple roses are close to red roses but different, more complex. I've been thinking that associating the smell with a fruit of the same colour is probably some kind of bias/illusion. I guess I am a very visual person. But it happens in wine tasting too, doesn't it? Red wine is always described like berries or plus or currants and white wine like citrus, apricots or peaches.
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My roses comprise: Chartreuse de Parme, Sealed With A Kiss, Christopher Columbus , A Whiter Shade of Pale, Fragrant Delight, Twice in a Blue Moon, a "white" one from my local garden centre and my favourite - Munstead Wood.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Hi, and welcome to Roses... great to see you here from Italy... it will be good to get some input from your region, which must be a warm climate area, so I expect your roses to be in flower now?.. would that be right?.. one or two I'm not familiar with, so looking forward to seeing a few pictures in due course...
..I have to admit, if I lived in your area I would be growing different types of roses to what you have.. but that discussion is for another day, maybe...
Im not sure about the colour thing though - Rhapsody in Blue smells very, very similar to Amber Queen in my garden buy they’re purple/mauve and Apricot/yellow.
But it happens in wine tasting too, doesn't it? Red wine is always described like berries or plus or currants and white wine like citrus, apricots or peaches.