Only 3 roses on my list so far, Tiger eyes, Cheshire life and Ferdinand Pritchard.
This just leaves me to find a rose representing Manchester and then I'll have one for all the places I've lived.
Port Sunlight - Liverpool
Mountbatten - Kent
Cheshire Regiment - Cheshire
Manchester - TBC
Out of curiosity, did Fryers breed lots of orange tone roses? I also have Mamma Mia which was bred by them and is also an orange / coral.
I'm going to be doing some moving around as realised the roses really do need some more space, already moved Desdemona (at a time when I shouldn't have) but she's coming back lovely.
Will just be leaving my 3 "eyes" roses in the bed with the climbers and moving my others to a new bed I created over the summer.
Hopefully, this will mean they can all reach their full potential.
My Darcy is mostly shaded behind a bench @Eustace and apart from bad blackspot, usually does fine in much hotter summers than this one. Some roses just seem to have had a ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude this year, some have late but great and others have bloomed better than ever all summer long. I think it’s just been a funny old year!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
All lovely @Omori, but when LEH is good she’s really spectacular isn’t she? Your foliage is so healthy looking too. Mine is great at the start but is a sorry mess now.
Here are my order lists, I wasn’t going to order from TCL until Spring, but they seem to be selling out of lots of things so I cracked today, managed to get all but one I wanted..
TCL:
Roses Loubert (French old rose specialist) haven’t opened bare root orders yet, but I’m hoping to get the following:
Mutabilis (china)
Lady Hillingdon (tea, shrub form)
Catherine Guillot (bourbon)
Mme de Sévigné (bourbon, ‘upright climber’)
Marie d’Orléans (tea)
Ducher (china)
I also want one rose from Rosiers Delbard, Souvenir de Marcel Proust, but I might do without as I have absolutely no space in the ground or pots for the obligatory other two!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I think summer's over now then... oh well, it was fun while it lasted.. Exciting rose lists above..
'New Zealand'.. 'Bathsheba'.. I'm quickly getting tired of this rose for some reason.. 'Forever Royal'.. 'Gruss an Aachen'.. 'Pink Martini'.. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'..
Oooh that midsummer nights dream is gorgeous! Im looking forward to lady emma hamilton arriving too.
Ive got some blackspot appearing here and there, but not horrendously bad. I blasted the worst offenders to prevent spreading as i pack them in!. Ive got mosaic virus on birthday boy, but its not doing any harm and kind of interesting!
Hi all, so hot! My eldest had a good first day at school, he was first out at the end of the day was calling out “I’ve had a great day, I love school!” Made all the other parents smile. So pleased!
Here are a few roses from the last few days that I haven’t had chance to post. Scarborough Fair, I love the light in this one.
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This just leaves me to find a rose representing Manchester and then I'll have one for all the places I've lived.
Port Sunlight - Liverpool
Out of curiosity, did Fryers breed lots of orange tone roses? I also have Mamma Mia which was bred by them and is also an orange / coral.
I'm going to be doing some moving around as realised the roses really do need some more space, already moved Desdemona (at a time when I shouldn't have) but she's coming back lovely.
Will just be leaving my 3 "eyes" roses in the bed with the climbers and moving my others to a new bed I created over the summer.
Hopefully, this will mean they can all reach their full potential.
Here are my order lists, I wasn’t going to order from TCL until Spring, but they seem to be selling out of lots of things so I cracked today, managed to get all but one I wanted..
TCL:
Lady Hillingdon (tea, shrub form)
Catherine Guillot (bourbon)
Mme de Sévigné (bourbon, ‘upright climber’)
Marie d’Orléans (tea)
Ducher (china)
I also want one rose from Rosiers Delbard, Souvenir de Marcel Proust, but I might do without as I have absolutely no space in the ground or pots for the obligatory other two!
Exciting rose lists above..
'New Zealand'..
'Bathsheba'.. I'm quickly getting tired of this rose for some reason..
'Forever Royal'..
'Gruss an Aachen'..
'Pink Martini'..
'A Midsummer Night's Dream'..
Ive got some blackspot appearing here and there, but not horrendously bad. I blasted the worst offenders to prevent spreading as i pack them in!. Ive got mosaic virus on birthday boy, but its not doing any harm and kind of interesting!
Here are a few roses from the last few days that I haven’t had chance to post.
Scarborough Fair, I love the light in this one.