Wow, absolutely beautiful! I've been very slack on the deadheading for the last month so only a few blooms hanging on here, mostly on Munstead Wood. R.Moschata has just started flowering at the end of Sept, in its second year. I knew it was a late bloomer but didn't expect that late! Now to start working out how to prune/train a late flowering rambler... only ever had climbers before 😬
..thank you... if you know the name of your rambler and need advice, we might be able to help.. ..fun to have R. moschata in your garden, normally flowers from mid July so very late.. I used to have a variant of this rose which I imported as it's not sold here, but I had to remove it and omitted to pot it up for later replanting.. thinking I could get it back again, but of course it's now no longer available anywhere in Europe..
..the great advantage was that it started flowering end of May as you can see in this picture.. fabulous scent too, but the pollen beetles got to it and tended to spoil the flowers.. ''Secret Garden Musk Climber'.. [found, N. California]..
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season 2) Best new (1st year) rose 3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose 4) Your most reliable rose 5) Your healthiest rose 6) Your most fragrant rose 7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer 8) The most disappointing rose 9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad
Choose one for every category, if you want to make it hard. Or up to three if you can't decide
I meant the moschata @Marlorena, but perhaps it doesn't quite fit rambling definition? The stems certainly seem quite sprawly and messy and it's at the top of the 6ft fence already. If I can get away with treating it like a climber that makes things much easier.
I like your game @edhelka, I'll have to have a think!
@Marlorena Thanks for starting. Interesting choices.
I had to go through my photos to decide...
1. Top rose - 'Paul Noel' - it still needs to grow but it showed a lot of potential this year and I am happy to have it. 2. Best new - 'Chippendale', no doubt here, but I would also like to mention 'General Schablikine' - I like it enough to give it space in the ground and let it grow as big as it wants. 3. Best 2nd/3rd year - I could say 'Paul Noel' again but to change it a bit, I am going to say 'La Belle Rouge' for the awesome show in summer and 'Purple Skyliner' also doing well. 4. Most reliable - 'Joie de Vivre' 5. Best health - 'Chippendale', 'Amazing Day', 'Scented Garden' 6. Most fragrant - I can't decide... 'Paul Noel', 'Gertrude Jekyll', 'Mileva' 7. Biggest surprise - 'Amazing Day' - it hates wet weather but is outstanding in everything else... fragrance, health, colour, vigour, shape, flower power Also surprised with 'Our Beth' - much better than last year 8. Most disappointing - 'Vick's Caprice', 'Archduke Charles' - both not here anymore 9. My category - best OGR - they deserve to be mentioned more often 'General Schablikine', I also like something about 'Amande Patternote' and 'Crépuscule' is also growing nicely.
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season : So hard to choose, the ones I love are not the ones who do well so not mentioning those... For your eyes only is the rose that brought smile to me whenever I looked at it. 2) Best new (1st year) rose: Tottering by gentle: Has grown so well, flowering all season 3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose: Super Trouper: Love the colour, good repeat and healthy for me. 4) Your most reliable rose : Julia Child: Whenever I go out to cut flowers there are always some there though when looking for yellow, The Poet's wife is the one that cut and bring for fragrance. 5) Your healthiest rose: Desdemona 6) Your most fragrant rose: Evelyn 7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer: Versigny 8) The most disappointing rose: Novalis : so badly ruined in rain, such a healthy vigorous rose but whats the point. 9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad
7. Most surprising/unexpected-Mountbatten (?) This was planted in the 80s, meanwhile trees grew putting it in deepest shade. I dug it up and planted it into a slightly better spot , it has thrived. I always thought it was Mountbatten and I found a label confirming that in its vicinity but another poster's Mountbatten looks different so I just don't know.
@edhelka excellent, I like lists and awards! I’m working from memory here as I’m in the UK for a couple of days, so hope I haven’t missed any star performer out..
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season - newbie Marie Pavie, so far, fab in all ways, always covered in blooms, attractive foliage, great health and subtle but pleasantly wafty fragrance
2) Best new (1st year) rose - see above, runners up Mme. Antoine Mari, Palais Biron
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - Soul, transformed this year into a stunning all-rounder.
4) Most reliable rose - Julia Child, Astronomia, Stormy Weather all good doers.
5) Healthiest rose - Astronomia and surprisingly as it’s an Austin, The Prince
6) Most fragrant rose - Soul just edged ahead of strong field*
7) Biggest surprise/unexpected performer - Munstead Wood fornon-stop blooming, best year ever for this rose.
8) The most disappointing rose La Rose de Molinard because it’s beautiful, luminous blooms have a scent to die for, but it did nothing this year and suffered a lot of cane dieback. Bit of a mystery.
9) [My pick] Rose with the largest blooms (even in 30+ heat) - Love Song runners up Golden Beauty, Munstead Wood
* Palais Biron, Rose de Rescht, Gertrude Jekyll, Lady Emma Hamilton, The Prince and (normally) La Rose de Molinard, which otherwise might have tied with Soul for most fragrant.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I don't think I have anywhere near as many roses in my garden, but nice to spend some time considering them nonetheless
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season
Munstead Wood. Finally found a happy spot for them and they've been productive and healthy. I adore the colour and scent.
2) Best new (1st year) rose
I only added one this year, Chandos Beauty, which has been a bit of a mess in what I should probably call Blackspot Corner.
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose
Scepter'd Isle has come into its own this year and has thrown up more really long stems for pegging over winter.
4) Your most reliable rose
Desdemona, usually the earliest and the time between flushes is small. And reliably beautiful!
5) Your healthiest rose
The Generous Gardener
6) Your most fragrant rose
Munstead Wood pips even Gertrude Jekyll I think.
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer
I thought I'd ruined R.Glauca with a very inhospitable spot in its first year, but I moved it, and in its second season in a better spot it is thriving and has given me hips, hooray!
8) The most disappointing rose
A white climber we inherited which I think can only be Iceberg. We moved it and it is vigorously climbing the pergola for the second year running, but both years has refused to repeat. We've seen flowers in December before moving it so it definitely could! Also somewhat sickly foliage despite its vigour. Giving it another year to redeem itself.
9) Add your own category -
Enorma-Rose The Pilgrim. I pruned it really tight to the framework last year but even so it is aiming for world domination. It's covered in blackspot but also blooms, so has to have points for effort!
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R.Moschata has just started flowering at the end of Sept, in its second year. I knew it was a late bloomer but didn't expect that late! Now to start working out how to prune/train a late flowering rambler... only ever had climbers before 😬
..fun to have R. moschata in your garden, normally flowers from mid July so very late..
I used to have a variant of this rose which I imported as it's not sold here, but I had to remove it and omitted to pot it up for later replanting.. thinking I could get it back again, but of course it's now no longer available anywhere in Europe..
..the great advantage was that it started flowering end of May as you can see in this picture.. fabulous scent too, but the pollen beetles got to it and tended to spoil the flowers..
''Secret Garden Musk Climber'.. [found, N. California]..
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season
2) Best new (1st year) rose
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose
4) Your most reliable rose
5) Your healthiest rose
6) Your most fragrant rose
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer
8) The most disappointing rose
9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad
Choose one for every category, if you want to make it hard. Or up to three if you can't decide
I like your game @edhelka, I'll have to have a think!
..oh that's ok then, just treat as a climber as it flowers on new wood... not a problem..
@edhelka
... fun questions... here are my answers..
I had to go through my photos to decide...
1. Top rose - 'Paul Noel' - it still needs to grow but it showed a lot of potential this year and I am happy to have it.
2. Best new - 'Chippendale', no doubt here, but I would also like to mention 'General Schablikine' - I like it enough to give it space in the ground and let it grow as big as it wants.
3. Best 2nd/3rd year - I could say 'Paul Noel' again but to change it a bit, I am going to say 'La Belle Rouge' for the awesome show in summer and 'Purple Skyliner' also doing well.
4. Most reliable - 'Joie de Vivre'
5. Best health - 'Chippendale', 'Amazing Day', 'Scented Garden'
6. Most fragrant - I can't decide... 'Paul Noel', 'Gertrude Jekyll', 'Mileva'
7. Biggest surprise - 'Amazing Day' - it hates wet weather but is outstanding in everything else... fragrance, health, colour, vigour, shape, flower power
Also surprised with 'Our Beth' - much better than last year
8. Most disappointing - 'Vick's Caprice', 'Archduke Charles' - both not here anymore
9. My category - best OGR - they deserve to be mentioned more often 'General Schablikine', I also like something about 'Amande Patternote' and 'Crépuscule' is also growing nicely.
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season : So hard to choose, the ones I love are not the ones who do well so not mentioning those... For your eyes only is the rose that brought smile to me whenever I looked at it.
2) Best new (1st year) rose: Tottering by gentle: Has grown so well, flowering all season
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose: Super Trouper: Love the colour, good repeat and healthy for me.
4) Your most reliable rose : Julia Child: Whenever I go out to cut flowers there are always some there though when looking for yellow, The Poet's wife is the one that cut and bring for fragrance.
5) Your healthiest rose: Desdemona
6) Your most fragrant rose: Evelyn
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer: Versigny
8) The most disappointing rose: Novalis : so badly ruined in rain, such a healthy vigorous rose but whats the point.
9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season - newbie Marie Pavie, so far, fab in all ways, always covered in blooms, attractive foliage, great health and subtle but pleasantly wafty fragrance
2) Best new (1st year) rose - see above, runners up Mme. Antoine Mari, Palais Biron
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - Soul, transformed this year into a stunning all-rounder.
4) Most reliable rose - Julia Child, Astronomia, Stormy Weather all good doers.
5) Healthiest rose - Astronomia and surprisingly as it’s an Austin, The Prince
6) Most fragrant rose - Soul just edged ahead of strong field*
7) Biggest surprise/unexpected performer - Munstead Wood for non-stop blooming, best year ever for this rose.
8) The most disappointing rose La Rose de Molinard because it’s beautiful, luminous blooms have a scent to die for, but it did nothing this year and suffered a lot of cane dieback. Bit of a mystery.
9) [My pick] Rose with the largest blooms (even in 30+ heat) - Love Song runners up Golden Beauty, Munstead Wood
* Palais Biron, Rose de Rescht, Gertrude Jekyll, Lady Emma Hamilton, The Prince and (normally) La Rose de Molinard, which otherwise might have tied with Soul for most fragrant.
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season
Munstead Wood. Finally found a happy spot for them and they've been productive and healthy. I adore the colour and scent.
I only added one this year, Chandos Beauty, which has been a bit of a mess in what I should probably call Blackspot Corner.
Scepter'd Isle has come into its own this year and has thrown up more really long stems for pegging over winter.
Desdemona, usually the earliest and the time between flushes is small. And reliably beautiful!
The Generous Gardener
Munstead Wood pips even Gertrude Jekyll I think.
I thought I'd ruined R.Glauca with a very inhospitable spot in its first year, but I moved it, and in its second season in a better spot it is thriving and has given me hips, hooray!
A white climber we inherited which I think can only be Iceberg. We moved it and it is vigorously climbing the pergola for the second year running, but both years has refused to repeat. We've seen flowers in December before moving it so it definitely could! Also somewhat sickly foliage despite its vigour. Giving it another year to redeem itself.
Enorma-Rose
The Pilgrim. I pruned it really tight to the framework last year but even so it is aiming for world domination. It's covered in blackspot but also blooms, so has to have points for effort!