Hello @newbie77, sorry for delay in replying. I got behind on the thread and my tablet needs replacing and makes hard work of the forum (there is always something😉).
My CRM has just had its second year but I moved it last winter and I'm not sure if that knocked it back but it hasn't put on much growth this year despite an extra special feeding and watering regime. In low light I think it looks lilac but I would describe it as pink with a lilac tinge. It has balled a lot this year but the rainfall has been excessive and none of my roses looked exceptional as the weather kept battering them.
Hope everyone is doing well and I will go back and catch up with the thread (I'm on page 13), look forward to reading about everyone's new roses as I saw some bareroot photos when flicking through😀 I only ordered from TCL in the end but I might buy some DA for pots before the code expires.
Here is Mrs Oakley Fisher recently, a graceful sort of rose.
I needn't have worried about the roses in this bed clashing with the asters since none of them on this side are flowering and my helianthus patch has muscled in😉
They look really good @Rojas, proper DA label too! My Prince is also covered in buds @Tack and one or two are opening. The foliage looks crispy and dreadful though, didn’t recover from the hot week we were away when the sitters forgot to water it. I am going to cut my losses and prune it back.
Here’s a rescued one this morning - same bloom, the first in shade and the second (more accurate colour rendering) in sun:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Sorry about the bad year for the roses @Victoria Sponge, but your autumn colour is fabulous.
Talking of things taking over, the salvias have done likewise in my hot border - especially those extra Amistad I popped in, which will have to pop right out again! I’m going to have to completely rethink this busy border if the new roses planned for it are going to survive:
S. Nemorosa Mainacht isn’t as refined as Caradonna, but has a much longer flowering season. At least it doesn’t strangle the roses:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Funny you mention Standards Nollie, I have been fancying trying one but I'm not entirely sure I like them. So ages ago I put Pierre de Ronsard in my order with TCL, I am very intrigued how a big flowered climbing rose like that can be the top of a 1m high lollipop. DA sell much taller Standards I think. GdeF sounds a better option. Mine btw is fairly shady, maybe 4hrs of direct sun max daily, and seems happy enough, who knows how much more it might have flowered in sun? Though I think maybe it did flower better the sunnier summer of '20.
That’s a coincidence too @Tack I debated ordering a standard Nahema, another large flowered climber, but I didn’t really have a spot for another pink rose. That’s good to know that your Ghislaine does ok in 4hrs of sun, mine would get half that, but the light in general is stronger here so that might help.
TCL don’t say what size their standards are, but I seem to recall @edhelka got a standard Marie Pavie from them that was quite tall. How is that doing btw, edhelka?
I am also wondering how stable a standard would be in a large pot. I could plant it in a large plastic tree pot sunk in the ground to see see how it does in the north wall location. Might be easier then to move it to a sunnier location if necessary.
I think I’m doing an excellent job of talking myself into it 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Mine's going in a pot @Nollie which won't surprise anyone! G'wan.
Edit TCL state 100cm on the rose details page, I assumed that meant the stalk height, no?
Not got MW @Fire but TP doesn't have BS and I don't spray other than I did once with Invigorator and I gave it a sulphur dusting mid summer when I found some, it has a bit of rust right now though, but not bad.
Oh I guess it must be @Tack, GdeF says 130cm, that makes no sense re the height of the rose.
@Fire, not The Prince, no, it’s astonishingly healthy and BS-free for me, which is saying something with my disease pressures. Munstead Wood is somewhere in the middle amongst my Austins. By the end of September it was pretty much defoliated, but it has been blooming continuously since May and is still trying to do so. I reckon it’s exhausted and I should have given it an extra feed. The dark Austins do need constant water and you neglect them at your peril - the only reason the foliage of TP suffered was because the sitters didn’t water it.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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My CRM has just had its second year but I moved it last winter and I'm not sure if that knocked it back but it hasn't put on much growth this year despite an extra special feeding and watering regime. In low light I think it looks lilac but I would describe it as pink with a lilac tinge. It has balled a lot this year but the rainfall has been excessive and none of my roses looked exceptional as the weather kept battering them.
Hope everyone is doing well and I will go back and catch up with the thread (I'm on page 13), look forward to reading about everyone's new roses as I saw some bareroot photos when flicking through😀 I only ordered from TCL in the end but I might buy some DA for pots before the code expires.
Here is Mrs Oakley Fisher recently, a graceful sort of rose.
I needn't have worried about the roses in this bed clashing with the asters since none of them on this side are flowering and my helianthus patch has muscled in😉
Your garden is looking so lush. Perfect autumn planting.
S. Nemorosa Mainacht isn’t as refined as Caradonna, but has a much longer flowering season. At least it doesn’t strangle the roses:
TCL don’t say what size their standards are, but I seem to recall @edhelka got a standard Marie Pavie from them that was quite tall. How is that doing btw, edhelka?
I am also wondering how stable a standard would be in a large pot. I could plant it in a large plastic tree pot sunk in the ground to see see how it does in the north wall location. Might be easier then to move it to a sunnier location if necessary.
I think I’m doing an excellent job of talking myself into it 😆
@Fire, not The Prince, no, it’s astonishingly healthy and BS-free for me, which is saying something with my disease pressures. Munstead Wood is somewhere in the middle amongst my Austins. By the end of September it was pretty much defoliated, but it has been blooming continuously since May and is still trying to do so. I reckon it’s exhausted and I should have given it an extra feed. The dark Austins do need constant water and you neglect them at your peril - the only reason the foliage of TP suffered was because the sitters didn’t water it.