1) Your top rose of the 2021 season - Roald Dahl. So reliable healthy and floriferous. Top performer.
2) Best new (1st year) rose - purple skyliner - love the colour and flower form. It’s flowered quite a lot from a late bare root.
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - summer sweetheart. little to No maintenance and always stunning. Love the bright golden stamens.
4) Your most reliable rose - amber flower carpet. No fragrance but the blooms are so pretty.
5) Your healthiest rose - the GG: like a triffid. Ghislaine de feligonde - love this rose and it’s almost evergreen it keeps so much foliage here in South Wales.
6) Your most fragrant rose Sheila’s perfume. Stunning fragrance - fruity and sweet.
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer - Gloriana - planted against a short support grown as a short climber / shrub. There’s just no beating the deep mauve colour and form of these petite roses and the Rev loom has been great , especially seeing as its in a very dry spot by a wall.
8) The most disappointing rose i am Macmillan. Not one flower all season! Perennial blue - giant canes but few flowers.
9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad Susie harwhistle rose had a hard prune to rejuvenate her leggings. I stuck the offcuts in soil and they’re growing / budding after only a few weeks!!! Is this the easiest rose to propagate? I’m puzzled!
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season- Munstead Wood/ Rachel
2) Best new (1st year) rose- most are new for me 3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose- n/a
4) Your most reliable rose- Summer romance, Eyes for you (produces bouquets of flower)
5) Your healthiest rose- Lyda, Delia (Odelia)
6) Your most fragrant rose- Lady EH, Well Being (as all are fragrant, these two won on consistently being fragrant)
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer- Delia (Vibrant orange and lasts ages on the plant(never had to cut and bring her indoors), with scent as a bonus)
8) The most disappointing rose- Eleanor (Huge blooms but forms a mushy mess if wet)
NB: Such a difficult list.. depending on my mood/ time, opinions may vary
I don't really have enough roses to play, but here are a few:
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season, most reliable and healthiest - Creme de la Creme - divine shape and scent. Quite defoliated now.
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The biggest surprise of the year - looking back at online records it seems I bought six Etoile (!) over the last five years. A total suprise to me.
8) The most disappointing rose - S d Dr Jamain. Terrible blackspot from about end of July, unsurprisingly (I was warned before planting). Lovely fragrance and good first flush. I might replace it. - - Also Barkarole hasn't had a good year - few blooms lasting only a few days each. It has been much better over previous seasons.
9) Ones I'm mostly looking forward to - next year will be Malvern Hills first blooming year. Also both arches are now covered with multiple red rose canes for the first time this year, so next year's flushes might be great. I have learnt a lot about feeding this year and will seriously address this next year, though I want to travel much more through the summer....
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Serious thanks to everyone for their insights, tips, experience sharing and enthusiasm over the year. It's been a total gamer changer for my garden! ☀️
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season - Malvern Hills 2) Best new (1st year) rose - Lady Emma Hamilton (my replacement one) 3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - Lady of Shalott/Desdemona 2nd year, Malvern Hills 3rd year 4) Your most reliable rose - Desdemona 5) Your healthiest rose - Malvern Hills/Lady of Shalott/Royal Jubilee 6) Your most fragrant rose - Lady Emma Hamilton 7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer - Last years sickly Lady Emma - big recovery 8) The most disappointing rose - Gabriel Oak 9) Add your own category - Strongest colour in a full flush - Rhapsody in Blue
Enjoying everyone’s awards, two roses mentioned that I didn’t order and am still wondering why on earth I didn’t are Paul Noel and Ghislaine de Feligonde. Oh, could it be that I have already over-ordered? Plus I still have plenty of promising 2021 newbies that haven’t shown their potential yet? 🤔 Greedy, greedy Nollie (raps own knuckles).
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
1) Your top rose of the 2021 season: Lady of Shalott
2) Best new (1st year) rose: Roald Dahl 3) Best nth year rose: Golden Showers 4) Your most reliable rose: A pink lost-label HT - has so far bloomed continuously since June 5) Your healthiest rose: Blush Noisette and Ghislaine de Feligonde
6) Your most fragrant rose: (cheating) Polyanthes tuberose
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer - Darcey Bussel 8) The most disappointing rose - Susan Williams-Ellis and Wisley 9) Add your own category - biggest cluster of flowers; long-lived too - Super Dorothy
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
I feel I'm not in the same league as most of you, but here's my list. Many of the following are rather old.....some at least twenty five to thirty years planted.
1) My top rose of the 2021 season is 'Celeste'
2) Best new (1st year) rose 'Eustacia Vye'
3) (2nd or 3rd year rose). n/a
4) Most reliable rose 'Queen of Denmark'
5) Healthiest rose,. 'Marie Pavie' (new this year)
6) Most fragrant rose 'Chapeau de Napoleon', in spite of balling and blackspot!
7) Biggest surprise of the year.
'Parkdirektor Riggers' is not dead after all!
8). Most disappointing 'Souvenir du Dr.Jamain', again....
9) My own category. My 'first & last' ( first to bloom and last to bloom). ' Blush China'. Not strictly applying to this year of course, but every year this is my first and last.
@Athelas Did you not manage to get near the Harkness stand because of number of people? I went at 8:30 pretty much aw they opened for the day and found the first two hours enjoyable.. then the crowd really picked up towards noon and by the time I left it was absolutely jam packed.. even if Covid seemingly has slowly faded into the past I couldn’t help but feel a little anxious.. being packed into a crowd of strangers like that.
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2) Best new (1st year) rose - purple skyliner - love the colour and flower form. It’s flowered quite a lot from a late bare root.
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - summer sweetheart. little to No maintenance and always stunning. Love the bright golden stamens.
4) Your most reliable rose - amber flower carpet. No fragrance but the blooms are so pretty.
5) Your healthiest rose - the GG: like a triffid. Ghislaine de feligonde - love this rose and it’s almost evergreen it keeps so much foliage here in South Wales.
6) Your most fragrant rose
Sheila’s perfume. Stunning fragrance - fruity and sweet.
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer - Gloriana - planted against a short support grown as a short climber / shrub. There’s just no beating the deep mauve colour and form of these petite roses and the Rev loom has been great , especially seeing as its in a very dry spot by a wall.
8) The most disappointing rose
i am Macmillan. Not one flower all season! Perennial blue - giant canes but few flowers.
9) Add your own category - any rose you want to mention for any reason, good or bad
Susie harwhistle rose had a hard prune to rejuvenate her leggings. I stuck the offcuts in soil and they’re growing / budding after only a few weeks!!! Is this the easiest rose to propagate? I’m puzzled!
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose- n/a
6) Your most fragrant rose - Ena Harkness
7) The biggest surprise of the year - looking back at online records it seems I bought six Etoile (!) over the last five years. A total suprise to me.
8) The most disappointing rose - S d Dr Jamain. Terrible blackspot from about end of July, unsurprisingly (I was warned before planting). Lovely fragrance and good first flush. I might replace it. - - Also Barkarole hasn't had a good year - few blooms lasting only a few days each. It has been much better over previous seasons.
2) Best new (1st year) rose - Lady Emma Hamilton (my replacement one)
3) Best 2nd or 3rd year rose - Lady of Shalott/Desdemona 2nd year, Malvern Hills 3rd year
4) Your most reliable rose - Desdemona
5) Your healthiest rose - Malvern Hills/Lady of Shalott/Royal Jubilee
6) Your most fragrant rose - Lady Emma Hamilton
7) The biggest surprise of the year/unexpected performer - Last years sickly Lady Emma - big recovery
8) The most disappointing rose - Gabriel Oak
9) Add your own category - Strongest colour in a full flush - Rhapsody in Blue
3) Best nth year rose: Golden Showers
4) Your most reliable rose: A pink lost-label HT - has so far bloomed continuously since June
5) Your healthiest rose: Blush Noisette and Ghislaine de Feligonde
8) The most disappointing rose - Susan Williams-Ellis and Wisley
9) Add your own category - biggest cluster of flowers; long-lived too - Super Dorothy
1) My top rose of the 2021 season is 'Celeste'
2) Best new (1st year) rose
'Eustacia Vye'
3) (2nd or 3rd year rose). n/a
4) Most reliable rose
'Queen of Denmark'
5) Healthiest rose,. 'Marie Pavie' (new this year)
6) Most fragrant rose 'Chapeau de Napoleon', in spite of balling and blackspot!
7) Biggest surprise of the year.
8). Most disappointing 'Souvenir du Dr.Jamain', again....
9) My own category. My 'first & last' ( first to bloom and last to bloom). ' Blush China'. Not strictly applying to this year of course, but every year this is my first and last.