Don’t know whether you can see this properly @Marlorena, but here is my Mme Antoine Mari, re our conversation on your rose a day thread, low and wide bush with sturdy canes:
The rose fence coming along nicely, Stormy Weather in the foreground, La Rose de Molinard (poor bloomer last year, it better improve this year) and Soul at the back:
Love Song is well-clothed for this time of year:
Foliage contrasts: The Prince at the back, Folle Courtesane left, Marie Pavie right. My pair of MPs are about to be moved from their smaller plastic liners directly into the stone pots for more wriggle room. They are such good bloomers they’ve earned a permanent spot..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Looking good @Nollie , did you get to unpotting GJ?
Gosh, you are sociable and brave @Fire, I wouldn't dare let the garden be inspected by strangers without a whole season of intensive work beforehand. Thank goodness my other son doesn't want his wedding in our garden. Ena makes me think of my mum watching Corrie too, nice association.
My Bring me Sunshine has shoots breaking out of the stems but is some way behind everything else, to be expected as a very recent bareroot I thought.
I can't find a bud anywhere but Ebb Tide, Diamond Eyes and Easy Does It look furthest on.
Aphids I am on top of I think due to the tea leaves, The hellebore just next to the tea-treated roses has aphids, they've disaapeared off the pots that had them earlier. Unfortunately I think the mild winter here has allowed a type of leaf webbing/gumming up pest to proliferate early. Malvern Hills is very affected, about every other shoot looks damaged, I opened one to find a very wriggly green caterpillar. They clearly like tea, sigh
I am also guilty of having plants far too close to the roses. They can fight it out, I'll give enough food and water for all.
Sounds like leaf-rolling caterpillars @Tack, bad luck. I’m guilty of inaction on GJ and it’s going to have to say it the pot for a while longer. The problem is I have nowhere else to put it since the ground I was going to plant it and Blush Noisette turned out to be solid rock. I pruned out so many canes on it but it’s fighting back with a load of new basals:
Yes the new foliage is lovely isn’t it @owd potter. How did you get on with Falstaff in it’s first year? I’ve just got another Austin oldie William Shakespeare 2000, so be interesting to compare them over the summer.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..roses all looking good there Nollie.. it's a pity that your Rose du Molinard has not shown so much, it's difficult to fathom that.. yes Mme A M looking rather different to mine, growth wise, nice sturdy plant, no need for staking that I imagine.. looks set to become quite large..
Gosh, you are sociable and brave @Fire, I wouldn't dare let the garden be inspected by strangers without a whole season of intensive work beforehand.
I can't say I give much of a toss about the garden looking perfect. It doesn't. And the people I'm inviting in are neighbours, not really strangers. It's not an NGS thing, more like - come and share the flowers and the cake, plant share... There 60 people in our local garden group. Maybe 30 of those are visibly active within the group. Our main neighbourhood group has around 200.
I hope to offer some basic composting workshops this year for neighbours, to get more people involved in the alchemy.
If we want there to be more wildlife in gardens, more happy pollinators, more flowers, more growers and people who care about green spaces, then we have to lead. There is no other way.
Rose de Molinard has been fairly problematic for me, Marlorena and I don’t really know what it wants - more or less food, sun, shelter etc. The first year it grew well but bloomed rather late. Fine for a new plant, but when it did bloom, the delicate petals spoilt easily in the rain. Last year it suffered a lot of inexplicable cane dieback and half-formed blooms. When it’s good it’s superb, with lush blooms and an incredibly strong grapefruit fragrance. It’s got one more season to prove itself!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie To be honest, I barely found time even to get into the garden last year, and no time to look in here, I don't think I even saw the summer rose thread. So, Falstaff, what I saw of it, fabulous deep rich crimson colour, good strong fragrance, but of what I know not as I'm crap at detecting fragrances. As a plant, it had a lanky, spreading and flopping growth habit, and the heavy blooms tend to droop, which I hope will improve otherwise it's needing support. I don't recall whether it suffered particularly with BS as I have no photos after early July, it was fine upto then. I saw that you had obtained WS2000, I had considered that one so yes will be interesting to compare this year
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Love Song is well-clothed for this time of year:
Foliage contrasts: The Prince at the back, Folle Courtesane left, Marie Pavie right. My pair of MPs are about to be moved from their smaller plastic liners directly into the stone pots for more wriggle room. They are such good bloomers they’ve earned a permanent spot..
I do like dark foliage colours and the plum and dark olive green foliages on MAM & LS look fabulous
Yes the new foliage is lovely isn’t it @owd potter. How did you get on with Falstaff in it’s first year? I’ve just got another Austin oldie William Shakespeare 2000, so be interesting to compare them over the summer.
To be honest, I barely found time even to get into the garden last year, and no time to look in here, I don't think I even saw the summer rose thread.
So, Falstaff, what I saw of it, fabulous deep rich crimson colour, good strong fragrance, but of what I know not as I'm crap at detecting fragrances.
As a plant, it had a lanky, spreading and flopping growth habit, and the heavy blooms tend to droop, which I hope will improve otherwise it's needing support.
I don't recall whether it suffered particularly with BS as I have no photos after early July, it was fine upto then.
I saw that you had obtained WS2000, I had considered that one so yes will be interesting to compare this year