'Eustacia Vye'... showing proliferation in the middle, where it tries to create another bud.. interesting, I've not seen it before on this rose.. 'Scented Garden'.. Geranium sanguineum 'Apple Blossom'.. a nice colour change from the purple.. long season... ..some good basal breaks on climbing rose 'Wild Rover' ..on this one, Marie Nabonnand, the first flush is just going over.. so new basal... well, not basal but it's low down.. ..same rose, this first bloom on a stem from a notched node I did last autumn...
..3 lovely scented roses but I have a fondness for Queen of Denmark because it's the old fashioned apple scent that I covet, and rarely found in modern roses..
@cooldoc .. yes first season, although it wasn't from a cutting otherwise I would have pinched off the buds... the scion above the graft had rooted in.. it's about a foot tall at the moment and growing well... it has all the colour and scent just the same and a huge bloom.. I just had to cut it for the vase..
Such a smorgasbord of delicious roses you have Marlorena. I am very taken with your Botzaris and Queen of Denmark.
Numpty that I am, I’ve only just clicked that the latter is the English name for the same rose, Königin von Dänemark I’ve had on my long list for ages, along with Duc de Guiche and Yolande d’Aragon. I’m not sure how an Alba would do here, though, it’s never a class of rose listed for warm climates so far as I can tell..
My Francis Dubreuil did give me that one early bloom months ago, but nothing since, little growth above ground either, but hopefully it’s just putting it’s energies into root growth. It did have a few nascent buds a few days ago, though, so maybe I will see something by the weekend.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie ..ha.. yes, I quite like the German name but the anglicised version is simpler, let's be honest.. I think Alba's would be ok for you actually, you get winter chill.. and they only provide a Spring bloom, perhaps before your heat really sets in..
.. what a pity FD hasn't bloomed since, I had been wondering what happened to it..
Well.. I'm in awe of this own root 'Munstead Wood'... I was recommended by a lady in Chicago to grow it own root in my high alkaline soil as it's one of the few roses she knows of that does better in these conditions.. most roses prefer slightly acid on own roots.. of course our rootstock doesn't care too much, easy going, but sometimes own root can be better..
..my ph is a whopping 8.1 in the location I have it.. it was tested by RHS.. and has been watered by my hardest tap water imaginable.. both my own roots are thriving but this was the first to bloom.. and it's 4 inches across.. which may be normal for some, but of my 3 grafted plants I had for 3 years, I don't think I ever got a bloom this sumptuous or this large.. and the scent to match.. ..dark crimson centre with purple outer petals..
...I have many gorgeous photos of my grafted Munsteads, some with rich dark colours, yet somehow they don't quite match this one.. and the plant is only a foot tall..
That C belle of Woking is a striking clematis. Trying to find it now here in Be but without any luck.. the search continues .
Florence Ducher Climber is on the shortlist now for November what a beautiful rose. Especially if it is truly thornless. I have two small boys that will need to pass the future arch so if I can avoid damaged clothes 😉.
Your choices are truly inspirational and my list of future plants only becoming larger.
@cooldoc .. yes first season, although it wasn't from a cutting otherwise I would have pinched off the buds... the scion above the graft had rooted in.. it's about a foot tall at the moment and growing well... it has all the colour and scent just the same and a huge bloom.. I just had to cut it for the vase..
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'Scented Garden'..
Geranium sanguineum 'Apple Blossom'.. a nice colour change from the purple.. long season...
..some good basal breaks on climbing rose 'Wild Rover'
..on this one, Marie Nabonnand, the first flush is just going over.. so new basal... well, not basal but it's low down..
..same rose, this first bloom on a stem from a notched node I did last autumn...
.. yes first season, although it wasn't from a cutting otherwise I would have pinched off the buds... the scion above the graft had rooted in.. it's about a foot tall at the moment and growing well... it has all the colour and scent just the same and a huge bloom.. I just had to cut it for the vase..
Numpty that I am, I’ve only just clicked that the latter is the English name for the same rose, Königin von Dänemark I’ve had on my long list for ages, along with Duc de Guiche and Yolande d’Aragon. I’m not sure how an Alba would do here, though, it’s never a class of rose listed for warm climates so far as I can tell..
My Francis Dubreuil did give me that one early bloom months ago, but nothing since, little growth above ground either, but hopefully it’s just putting it’s energies into root growth. It did have a few nascent buds a few days ago, though, so maybe I will see something by the weekend.
..ha.. yes, I quite like the German name but the anglicised version is simpler, let's be honest.. I think Alba's would be ok for you actually, you get winter chill.. and they only provide a Spring bloom, perhaps before your heat really sets in..
.. what a pity FD hasn't bloomed since, I had been wondering what happened to it..
Well.. I'm in awe of this own root 'Munstead Wood'... I was recommended by a lady in Chicago to grow it own root in my high alkaline soil as it's one of the few roses she knows of that does better in these conditions.. most roses prefer slightly acid on own roots.. of course our rootstock doesn't care too much, easy going, but sometimes own root can be better..
..my ph is a whopping 8.1 in the location I have it.. it was tested by RHS.. and has been watered by my hardest tap water imaginable.. both my own roots are thriving but this was the first to bloom.. and it's 4 inches across.. which may be normal for some, but of my 3 grafted plants I had for 3 years, I don't think I ever got a bloom this sumptuous or this large.. and the scent to match..
..dark crimson centre with purple outer petals..
...I have many gorgeous photos of my grafted Munsteads, some with rich dark colours, yet somehow they don't quite match this one.. and the plant is only a foot tall..
Florence Ducher Climber is on the shortlist now for November what a beautiful rose. Especially if it is truly thornless. I have two small boys that will need to pass the future arch so if I can avoid damaged clothes 😉.
Your choices are truly inspirational and my list of future plants only becoming larger.