Thanks for sharing. This is one that just spoke to me and I had to order in the spring. Mine is a bit small, but as it’s in the wild area and not so gentle I will give it a few years to settle in.
First Munstead of the year - my camera, which is a pretty good camera, can’t cope with the colour - I had to do some post processing to try and get it looking true to life. Still not quite there. I’ll try again with sunlight! First Lady of Shalott opening up. Royal Jubilee and another Bathsheba.
I like the scent on Bathsheba better this year I think. Less fisherman’s friend like.
Lovely pictures @Mr. Vine Eye Your Bathsheba smells of Fisherman's Friends? Your Rhapsody and Munstead is looking stunning. So much work there!
She did last year! This year it’s still a bit mentholy but not as strong, I’ll have another sniff in the morning.
We visited a garden today that we hadn’t been to before, It had quite a nice rose garden at the back. Lovely looking around but...I had to keep fishing my boys out from the rose beds! They kept stepping over the box hedging so they could get close enough to sniff the roses.
I’ve created monsters in my own image 😂
They should have planted the roses closer to the paths 😉
@JessicaS My pheno-geno rose is still at least a week from flowering, probably a little bit more. A lot of buds, some of them showing a thin strip of colour. Beautiful healthy plant so far.
@Lizzie27 Ispahan is very beautiful. It's been on my list for a long time but I don't have space for it.
@Mr. Vine Eye I love the wildflower planting under your Malvern Hills, it goes so well together.
'Amande Patternote'/'Joasine Hanet'... damask fragrance but not as good as Gertrude 'Charles Darwin' 'Chippendale' in peachy tones... I am seriously in love with this rose. 'Belle de Crecy' Geranium 'Alan Mayes' 'Dunwich Rose' loved by bees C. 'Samaritan Jo' C. 'Nelly Moser' and rose 'The Albrighton Rambler' 'Astronomia' A slightly unusual view of my garden - from the greenhouse, through the stipa. And a sneaky photobombing cat, as I've only just noticed.
@Rickyjones24, I had an inherited pink HT that used to suffer like that, pale, browning and distorted blooms, it was suggested at the time it could be thrips damage, done at bud stage, although I never managed to spot any of the tiny monsters. A possibility?
A deservedly exclusive post for Rhapsody in Blue @Mr. Vine Eye, stunning.
Wonderful trio @Omori, glowing with health. Ferdinand Pichard is the most beautiful of bi-colour roses, similar colouring to my Guy Savoy, but lusher. How is it’s habit now?
@Katsa, Be interested to hear what others think? but I’m wondering if the yellowing leaves on your Roald Dahls is leaf senescence you normally see at the end of the season, but at an abnormal time, maybe through being too dry earlier?
I thought I had got onto the watering well in time and my roses have been well-fed, but have a fair bit of that too, as well as early fungal diseases and sawfly damage - the foliage is suffering under sustained attack and the bottom half of most look atrocious!
Even my Stormy Weather, normally very healthy and not a water hog, is suffering:
Here is Katsa’s RD for comparison:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie - I wonder. They did get a big shock being transplanted and then the really hot weather. In hindsight I shouldn't have done the transplant, but I did move a couple of bushes last year with no issue around this time so thought it would be fine. I'll live and learn! Any tips on how to coddle them, or is it a case of watch and wait?
@edhelka - That Chippendale looks beautiful! I've been eyeing it for a while, but haven't much luck with HTs.
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I like the scent on Bathsheba better this year I think. Less fisherman’s friend like.
We visited a garden today that we hadn’t been to before, It had quite a nice rose garden at the back. Lovely looking around but...I had to keep fishing my boys out from the rose beds! They kept stepping over the box hedging so they could get close enough to sniff the roses.
I’ve created monsters in my own image 😂
They should have planted the roses closer to the paths 😉
@JessicaS My pheno-geno rose is still at least a week from flowering, probably a little bit more. A lot of buds, some of them showing a thin strip of colour. Beautiful healthy plant so far.
@Lizzie27 Ispahan is very beautiful. It's been on my list for a long time but I don't have space for it.
@Mr. Vine Eye I love the wildflower planting under your Malvern Hills, it goes so well together.
'Charles Darwin'
'Chippendale' in peachy tones... I am seriously in love with this rose.
'Belle de Crecy'
Geranium 'Alan Mayes'
'Dunwich Rose' loved by bees
C. 'Samaritan Jo'
C. 'Nelly Moser' and rose 'The Albrighton Rambler'
'Astronomia'
A slightly unusual view of my garden - from the greenhouse, through the stipa. And a sneaky photobombing cat, as I've only just noticed.
A deservedly exclusive post for Rhapsody in Blue @Mr. Vine Eye, stunning.
@Katsa, Be interested to hear what others think? but I’m wondering if the yellowing leaves on your Roald Dahls is leaf senescence you normally see at the end of the season, but at an abnormal time, maybe through being too dry earlier?
I thought I had got onto the watering well in time and my roses have been well-fed, but have a fair bit of that too, as well as early fungal diseases and sawfly damage - the foliage is suffering under sustained attack and the bottom half of most look atrocious!
Even my Stormy Weather, normally very healthy and not a water hog, is suffering:
Here is Katsa’s RD for comparison:
@edhelka - That Chippendale looks beautiful! I've been eyeing it for a while, but haven't much luck with HTs.