@Oliya 99% certain that’s Warm Welcome, it does have stiff, upright canes. I grow it on an obelisk but it can’t be wound around it. It’s very forgiving of neglect and just shows what it can do if left unchecked. My 1% uncertainty is I get no fragrance at all from mine, but my sense of smell isn’t great so that could be why.
@Fire, yes, For in-ground roses I use a hose with a lance attachment for general watering including pre-wetting the soil around the roses (never the foliage) then for Sunday breakfast roses get a half-stength liquid feed in watering cans.
This year is a new feeding regime. I couldn’t get any granular feed like DA stuff for in-ground roses. I used an alfalfa tea recipe with added fish emulsion, seaweed extract, sequestered iron and magnesium instead. The local liquid feed I currently use is actually designed as a citrus feed, also with a fish emulsion base, slightly favouring K - so far they haven’t needed any additional tomato food. I will repeat the alfalfa tea shortly. So far the roses seem to be doing well on the new regime.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks @Nollie! Warm welcome already was on my wish list, now it’ll be moved on to ‘must have’ list 🙈 I thought this rose was unscented. But when I walked past the other day and stiffed it (and took all these photos), it had a light scent. I checked the description for Warm welcome and it does say light scent:)
..nice to see 'Evelyn', I've always been meaning to get that one and no idea why I don't have it, but I understand it's weather resistance is not so good..
... 'Mme. Antoine Mari' today... this is my best rose at the moment, about half flush..
My EdH is suddenly blooming very nicely. It's outside our kitchen boundary and today I have one bloom at the top of the fence I can see from the kitchen. I'm hoping to train it along the top so I can see it better.
Penelope on the back wall is also blooming all over - just 2 days sunshine did it. The aphids have arrived in numbers though, which is not so good. this is a beautiful apricot/peach colour fading to pink and cream. One of the Rev. Pemberton breeds.
Your Mme. Antoine Mari looks fabulous @Marlorena, I was just admiring it on your Notes thread. My new one is only about a foot high so it will be a while yet until it looks as good as that, but I’m so glad your photos and reviews sold it to me.
@Jessica I have Darcy. I really like the blooms, lovely form and colour, but it is one of the first to get blackspot and defoliate.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Lizzie27 My aphids have also arrived in swarms.. I’m still spraying with SB plant invigorator (which is effective, as I can see the existing ones shrivel up) but few hours after new batches would arrive..
my experiment with ladybird larvae has failed miserably.. I wonder if I shouldn’t have chosen a most windy day to release them.. though I didn’t really have a choice as they already look half dead on arrival and I didn’t want to keep them in the bottle much longer.
I guess I’ll have to stick to SB for the rest of the season.. it’s only doable in a small garden like mine.. can’t imagine spraying more than 20 roses weekly (if not twice weekly)..
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@Fire, yes, For in-ground roses I use a hose with a lance attachment for general watering including pre-wetting the soil around the roses (never the foliage) then for Sunday breakfast roses get a half-stength liquid feed in watering cans.
This year is a new feeding regime. I couldn’t get any granular feed like DA stuff for in-ground roses. I used an alfalfa tea recipe with added fish emulsion, seaweed extract, sequestered iron and magnesium instead. The local liquid feed I currently use is actually designed as a citrus feed, also with a fish emulsion base, slightly favouring K - so far they haven’t needed any additional tomato food. I will repeat the alfalfa tea shortly. So far the roses seem to be doing well on the new regime.
I thought this rose was unscented. But when I walked past the other day and stiffed it (and took all these photos), it had a light scent. I checked the description for Warm welcome and it does say light scent:)
So I cut a bouquet of peonies instead
... 'Mme. Antoine Mari' today... this is my best rose at the moment, about half flush..
I see a lot of deformities and untypical first blooms this year.
Ebb Tide
The Albrighton rambler
Souvenir de St. Anne's
Eyes for You
The aphids have arrived in numbers though, which is not so good.
@Jessica I have Darcy. I really like the blooms, lovely form and colour, but it is one of the first to get blackspot and defoliate.
my experiment with ladybird larvae has failed miserably.. I wonder if I shouldn’t have chosen a most windy day to release them.. though I didn’t really have a choice as they already look half dead on arrival and I didn’t want to keep them in the bottle much longer.