Well after yesterday's feeding frenzy I feel a bit deflated... so just to say your 'Buff Beauty' is a wonderful sight @Alchemist and goes to show we don't always need Austin's to grace our gardens..
Now that says something.. I feel we need to mix and match different roses.. still Austins take the upper hand because of the shrubby nature we associate with old roses and the perfume...
Most of my roses have been from peter beales, blue moon is my all time favourite! I think, as most do on this thread, I go with the roses I like rather than the name!
I gave a good friend Blue Moon and I have been absurdly worried that it might be a flop. A year in, it has done nothing and was concluding it might have been a mistake. She has a tiny garden with room for only one rose. I have told her that the pot is too small but she doesn't believe me yet. It hurts me more than her.
Thanks @Marlorena. Many of our roses are based on your advise 🙂 at one point or another. Will put a few more this season where advise from this forum has made a big difference.
I am pondering whether to rip out the whole front garden in disgust and just plonk a Buff Beauty there instead and have done. It can eat the house and the neighbourhood with impunity.
My Blue Moon was such a weedy thing @zugenie@Fire ( in the 90s) that I never got another. Now that this thread has fired my enthusiasm for roses over the past six years, I decided to try again , and that is why I went for the newer version of Twice in a Blue Moon. It is supposedly a stronger plant with more fragrance, we will see.
Oh no, I didn't realise Twice in a Blue Moon was an updated version. I think TiABM is not a climber and a climber was required. They often don't mention these details on websites. Maybe we should never give plants we haven't grown ourselves...
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Now that says something.. I feel we need to mix and match different roses.. still Austins take the upper hand because of the shrubby nature we associate with old roses and the perfume...
Now that this thread has fired my enthusiasm for roses over the past six years, I decided to try again , and that is why I went for the newer version of Twice in a Blue Moon. It is supposedly a stronger plant with more fragrance, we will see.