I know what you mean @Lizzie27 . I regret some of my garden choices now I can see much better roses for the spots but rose replant disease is a decider not to change. In the past I have rewarded my worst roses by bunging them in a bed, slaps head!
At least with pots I can see myself operating a 'one in one out' policy.
At this point though I think I should give roses a couple of seasons'
chances.
@Tack, I think the same about rose replant disease. I'm just trying out one rose in such a spot and it is so struggling, I'm wondering whether to hoick it out in the autumn and perhaps plant a peony in it's place for a few years. I do have two roses on the watch list, neither of which I positively love at the moment. My problem is I'm getting older and have osteoarthritis which makes gardening harder than it used to be. We do have quite a large garden on a steepish slope so I'm trying to simplify my beds and borders. However, I can justify roses on the grounds there's not so much bending down to do! Some of the roses on here are just so fabulous, I haven't any deep purples yet, only Blue for You, so I'm very tempted - and I have a big birthday coming up soon.
My Diamond Eyes is definitely going back in a pot seeing your recent photos @Tack, it’s totally overshadowed in the border. Also the fragrance of mine is not as spicy strong as last year, the opposite to you, perhaps it needs more sun than it’s getting to bring it out.
Rose classifications do seem a bit random/difficult to place sometimes, @edhelka, don’t they? I have a couple of Tantau ‘HT’s’ that don’t really fit that mould, a Delbard ‘shrub’ rose that is patently a vigorous climber (even in the UK) and of course DA roses are not above defying their class either. Not so different with older roses I guess, I have seen the same rose variously classed as a portland, a hybrid gallica and a hybrid perpetual so presumably it’s a mix of all three!
Totally agree @Lizzie27, couldn’t do without my daily fix of everyone’s roses, but yes it does make you want them all!
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Gosh, what a rose that Moonlight is! Fabulous, but I have to ask how you keep ivy and bramble down in that border @Pete.8? I have the fear of letting the shrub border get out of control but wow.
@Omori I love that even pink colouring on Wendy Cussons, beautiful.
A hot day today, roses opening everywhere, not necessarily typically given how long the buds took to develop but my very first DA rose bought May 2019 is starting, The Generous Gardener, the scent on this is strong and heady.Carmen Wurth, Royal William, Claire Pavie, Proper JobAmber Carpet, Surrey, Blue River and Pearl Drift
Cheers @Tack The rose has been there for many years and the base is somewhere under the euonymus hedge and the weigela. I can't get to any of it easily, so I just let it grow until a strong wind blows a huge stem down, I cut that off and leave it be. It just gets a handful of blood/fish/bone in early march and again around now and that's it. Fortunately there are no brambles or ivy - not in that area at least
Billericay - Essex
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Here’s a few more from today: Munstead, Eustacia, a couple of Lady of Shalott and Bathsheba with Lavender. Bathsheba is beautiful and a very attractive plant all round, but she smells horrid to me 😂 I know I said yesterday that the smell seemed nicer this year, but no that must have just been because it had faded by the end of the day when I sniffed. It’s as bad as ever. Just reminds me of my Dad deliberately breathing his fisherman’s friend breath onto me because he knew I hated it so much.
thankfully, she’s not a wafter (unlike my father) and she’s very awkward to reach anyway!
Rhapsody again but in sunlight, Kew Gardens, The Generous Gardener soon to start flowering, Royal Jubilee. The bottom corner shows my two year old Lady Emma Hamilton and Gabriel Oak. You can see that LEH has pushed out quite a strong basal cane which she much needed after all that dieback last year! First time fir a while I’ve been able to see them. The aquilegia had finished mostly so I moved it and planted geranium Elsworthy Eyecatcher in its place. In fact I’ve been moving and planting a lot of things today.
Disappointed though to find that my Astrantia Milano (raspberry red) is not at all. Seems like just a generic astrantia. SGC have refunded me. Hopefully I’ll find an alternative at the Gardeners Fair next week! Really missed it last year.
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My problem is I'm getting older and have osteoarthritis which makes gardening harder than it used to be. We do have quite a large garden on a steepish slope so I'm trying to simplify my beds and borders. However, I can justify roses on the grounds there's not so much bending down to do!
Some of the roses on here are just so fabulous, I haven't any deep purples yet, only Blue for You, so I'm very tempted - and I have a big birthday coming up soon.
Rose classifications do seem a bit random/difficult to place sometimes, @edhelka, don’t they? I have a couple of Tantau ‘HT’s’ that don’t really fit that mould, a Delbard ‘shrub’ rose that is patently a vigorous climber (even in the UK) and of course DA roses are not above defying their class either. Not so different with older roses I guess, I have seen the same rose variously classed as a portland, a hybrid gallica and a hybrid perpetual so presumably it’s a mix of all three!
Totally agree @Lizzie27, couldn’t do without my daily fix of everyone’s roses, but yes it does make you want them all!
The rose has been there for many years and the base is somewhere under the euonymus hedge and the weigela. I can't get to any of it easily, so I just let it grow until a strong wind blows a huge stem down, I cut that off and leave it be.
It just gets a handful of blood/fish/bone in early march and again around now and that's it.
Fortunately there are no brambles or ivy - not in that area at least
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Here’s a few more from today:
Munstead, Eustacia, a couple of Lady of Shalott and Bathsheba with Lavender. Bathsheba is beautiful and a very attractive plant all round, but she smells horrid to me 😂 I know I said yesterday that the smell seemed nicer this year, but no that must have just been because it had faded by the end of the day when I sniffed. It’s as bad as ever. Just reminds me of my Dad deliberately breathing his fisherman’s friend breath onto me because he knew I hated it so much.
thankfully, she’s not a wafter (unlike my father) and she’s very awkward to reach anyway!