The Generous Gardener has a lot of very long, thick and almost-thornless canes.
Ghislaine de Feligonde
Rhapsody in Boue need some tying, it can’t hold its blooms up anymore!
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First Emily Bronte, just a little one.
Scarborough Fair, Royal Jubilee, Munstead Wood, Salvia Mainacht centre. Astrantia Roma behind. I’m not sure where those dark red astrantia on the left and right have come from! I’m sure they were pale pink last year.
Haha - yes it's quite regimented. The front garden is a bit wilder and has a lot more planting in the borders (and weeds), but out the back I like everything to be in its place and it's alllll about the roses - the two long beds alternate roses with either a shrub or a clematis all the way along, and no planting underneath.
Ooh, I've often looked at Lucia, how do you like it @RoseGirl? Great colour combination with a Rhapsody in Blue.
I really love it - one of my favourites. It makes an incredible volume of blooms and the colour is a lovely sunshine yellow, gradually fading. The first round of flowers pretty much cover the whole plant, and then repeat flowering is a bit more sedate as the summer wears on. It doesn't have much scent, but it makes a real visual impact. And the leaves are nice too - a reliably glossy dark green.
One of my favourite things about is it makes ridiculously cute rosebuds - they are tiny perfection like sugar roses. They do flatten out and go a bit blousy after a few days, but all round a winner. You should definitely get one
This pic was a couple of days ago when it was just starting to get in its stride...
@pitter-patter, sorry I can't tell you what it smells like, about 3 years ago I realised that I have lost my sense of smell (and taste). There is no apparent reason and no cure. It's really disappointing, I have a garden full of plants chosen for their perfume and I can't smell any of them. The colour is quite intense but has faded quite quickly, the blooms which have opened first are on the south facing side of the obelisk. Maybe they will retain the strength of colour for longer on the other side.
@Eustace I love that white one with the pink tinge to the petal edges! Is it unnamed?
Crown princess margaritta Ebb tide Crown princess really opening now. Zephrine droughin first bloom (Im aware of its rep, nowhere near other roses and well sprayed!) Glenfidditch - unusual scent, but nice, I swear theres a peaty whisky whiff! Natalija, pheno geno again colour changing as it ages. Stunning. Lavender ice Rosa des cistertiens
Sweet syrie. Smells beautiful. I think I better feed this lot with the amount blooming - tomato feed weekly?
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Everyone battoning down the hatches is alarming me somewhat...all I did was bring the secateurs inside🤔
One of my favourite things about is it makes ridiculously cute rosebuds - they are tiny perfection like sugar roses. They do flatten out and go a bit blousy after a few days, but all round a winner. You should definitely get one
This pic was a couple of days ago when it was just starting to get in its stride...
@Mr. Vine Eye Rhapsody in Blue looks stunning, as does Lucia @RoseGirl.
Meanwhile on the municipal front, white Flower Carpet has just exploded.
The colour is quite intense but has faded quite quickly, the blooms which have opened first are on the south facing side of the obelisk. Maybe they will retain the strength of colour for longer on the other side.
Crown princess margaritta
Ebb tide
Crown princess really opening now.
Zephrine droughin first bloom (Im aware of its rep, nowhere near other roses and well sprayed!)
Glenfidditch - unusual scent, but nice, I swear theres a peaty whisky whiff!
Natalija, pheno geno again colour changing as it ages. Stunning.
Lavender ice
Rosa des cistertiens
Sweet syrie. Smells beautiful.
I think I better feed this lot with the amount blooming - tomato feed weekly?
You do have some interesting roses @Eustace, I like the picotee one (if that's the right word) too.
Hope everyone's plants are okay if it was last night the bad weather was expected. Just a bit of drizzle here.