Thank you all! @Marlorena - I'm relieved that's it's characteristic of the rose. It seems really happy otherwise.
I'm hoping the heat and sun over the next few days help perk up the roses. They all just look so sad! And I fed them with the DA rose food in April so was expecting a bit more oomph. To be honest, the terrible weather is really not going to have helped over the past month or so.
@Nollie - what's the tea solution? I don't drink this much tea, but can increase my consumption of it helps with aphids! Currently I'm attempting neem oil and washing up liquid, which I'm not sure is that effective!
Congratulations @Katsa. Please take care of yourself. Your garden is looking great 😊 First rose to flower this season in my garden is golden showers. Lots of buds on other roses; hoping for a rose-filled June.
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And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
@cooldoc My Desdemona is in its third year.. they really is a noticeably difference in vigour as they mature. Yours will be like that in no time. My desdemona is actually in a smaller-than-I-would-have-liked pot.. but despite that it’s still doing really well. I do get the feeling that it’s probably a little pot bound but seeing as it’s still giving me plenty of blooms I might just postpone the daunting task of root pruning or re-potting.. as I’d not reported anything this big before nor attempted root pruning in the past.
@Tack I have a vague recollection from a lecture back in Uni that of all the human senses, the sense of smell is the most primitive and the first to have evolved in the human species - and it’s interesting that it is the only cranial nerve that bypasses the thalamus and directly feeds into the higher processing centre in our brain that is the cerebrum. I wonder if that’s why it’s often one of the most evocative of senses in many people..
@Marlorena I actually really like that delicate pale pink colour of your Bitzaris.. as well as it’s creamy texture. It looks delicious!
@edhelka Im planning on a visit to Bodnant garden at some point - but I’m keen to time it such that I get to see their roses in bloom.. I reckon maybe a couple more weeks? Speaking of gardens - I just booked a slot to visit David Austin’s rose nursery at the end of June. It’s been almost two years..! As far as Rose gardens go I think DA has the best one in the UK.. I’m happy to be corrected though if there is a better one out there.
@Mr. Vine Eye Glad your Desdemona is ok.. I suppose looking on the bright side the pot is replaceable but the Rose is not..!
I also received the email from DA about the free shipping this weekend.. as soon as I announced that my partner immediately grabbed my phone and deleted that email.. as well as clearing it from my ‘deleted” folder.. at least one of us is a sensible one..
My roses are really starting to bloom now..
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Desdemona in a little bouquet - I’ve cut these as they’re facing outwards so I can’t really see them unless I pop my head over the top of the plant - I thought I might as well cut them to enjoy indoors and allow the plant to concentrate on producing bigger blooms on the inward facing buds where I can actually see them..
And Lady of Shallot - again it’s an outward facing cane but I managed to stake it so that it stands upright at least - it’s too far out for me to be able to reach it to catch a whiff of its scent - my roses have grown so large this year I physically can’t hover over to reach the outer edge - it’s gonna be a problem deadheading - I’ll probably just cut them for indoor enjoyment like I did with Desdemona
The Generous Gardener has already put out some very thick, long canes - not basal but from existing stems. So I started doing some careful repositioning and tying. Considering collective experience last year with broken canes, I thought it best to start early!
All starting to happen, yay! Desdemona is such an elegant rose, it might accidentally slip into my next basket!
@Katsa, re aphids, that was Tack that said dosing roses with copious spent tea leaves seems to keep the critters off 😊 Careful with the neem oil if you get hot, sunny weather, it can burn the leaves, weak soapy water should do it.
Well we had a long, massive downpour of fierce rain yesterday evening and all the roses are battered and bruised, even the usually rain-resistant ones. Julia Child is the only one completely unscathed. Naturally, the singles and semi-doubles came off better but many of those with a high petal count suffered, even Gertrude Jekyll, which normally shrugs it off, has some damage:
Newer Pure Poetry blooms continue to ball, they looked pretty much like this even before the rain, so that doesn’t bode well for the future:
Soul, oh my poor Soul! To be fair these blooms were nearly over anyway and buds and those not open fully are really not too bad:
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Hello all, I thought I'd post a photo of the whole plant of 'Morletii' now that it's in full flower. The only other one I have out just now is the first, very pink, flower of 'Cornelia'. 'Danaë' would normally be in flower but I cut her back savagely this spring, so she is now a modest-sized plant again. My lovely 'For Your Eyes Only' is declaring that it would much rather be a climber, with long sinuous stems growing out in all directions. This is a problem, because it can't climb where it is (half standard in a pot in a narrow alley), and I've run out of places in the ground to put it! Am adding a few of geraniums, alliums and so on just for luck. This year's colour theme in the front is purple and yellow; in the back, coppery pink. As always, they have rotated while uploading... sorry.
Really looking forward to my new roses blooming ( all have buds , julia child has most, as someone very accurately predicted on this or the last rose thread re JC being quick to establish ), but I guess in spite of being in London my new plants are behind the more established ones. In the meantime , I'm quite happy that the theoretically less hardy lavender continues to give me some colour at least until the other lavenders and hopefully the roses start!
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I'm hoping the heat and sun over the next few days help perk up the roses. They all just look so sad! And I fed them with the DA rose food in April so was expecting a bit more oomph. To be honest, the terrible weather is really not going to have helped over the past month or so.
@Nollie - what's the tea solution? I don't drink this much tea, but can increase my consumption of it helps with aphids! Currently I'm attempting neem oil and washing up liquid, which I'm not sure is that effective!
Mme isaac pereire almost there...
First rose to flower this season in my garden is golden showers. Lots of buds on other roses; hoping for a rose-filled June.
@Marlorena I actually really like that delicate pale pink colour of your Bitzaris.. as well as it’s creamy texture. It looks delicious!
@edhelka Im planning on a visit to Bodnant garden at some point - but I’m keen to time it such that I get to see their roses in bloom.. I reckon maybe a couple more weeks? Speaking of gardens - I just booked a slot to visit David Austin’s rose nursery at the end of June. It’s been almost two years..! As far as Rose gardens go I think DA has the best one in the UK.. I’m happy to be corrected though if there is a better one out there.
@Mr. Vine Eye Glad your Desdemona is ok.. I suppose looking on the bright side the pot is replaceable but the Rose is not..!
Sunsprite
Desdemona in a little bouquet - I’ve cut these as they’re facing outwards so I can’t really see them unless I pop my head over the top of the plant - I thought I might as well cut them to enjoy indoors and allow the plant to concentrate on producing bigger blooms on the inward facing buds where I can actually see them..
And Lady of Shallot - again it’s an outward facing cane but I managed to stake it so that it stands upright at least - it’s too far out for me to be able to reach it to catch a whiff of its scent - my roses have grown so large this year I physically can’t hover over to reach the outer edge - it’s gonna be a problem deadheading - I’ll probably just cut them for indoor enjoyment like I did with Desdemona
@Katsa, re aphids, that was Tack that said dosing roses with copious spent tea leaves seems to keep the critters off 😊 Careful with the neem oil if you get hot, sunny weather, it can burn the leaves, weak soapy water should do it.
Well we had a long, massive downpour of fierce rain yesterday evening and all the roses are battered and bruised, even the usually rain-resistant ones. Julia Child is the only one completely unscathed. Naturally, the singles and semi-doubles came off better but many of those with a high petal count suffered, even Gertrude Jekyll, which normally shrugs it off, has some damage:
Newer Pure Poetry blooms continue to ball, they looked pretty much like this even before the rain, so that doesn’t bode well for the future: