Oh wow @Marlorena@Fire@Mr. Vine Eye@Tack@Lizzie27@Nollie@Omori. We are in for a feast of photos this coming rose season. I have, may be, around 40 varieties now, about half of them DAs and the rest HTs. My DA roses are quite young, 3 years at the most. Most of them are in pots. I have had some of my potted HT roses more than 10 years, having been relocated thrice during this period. I should thank my OH for patiently moving the roses from Manchester to Cambridge to Oxford every time we moved with our jobs. I never used to keep track of their names until I chanced upon @Marlorena's rose thread a few years ago. Now, I label all new ones, lest I forget which variety they are. 😀
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 have, prepare yourselves, 3 roses, none of which are DA 🤣 all in pots at the moment but only one is staying in a pot. I have 4 or 5 cuttings growing as well, hoping to add 2 to my tiny collection this year, then when I tackle the front garden next year I’ll be buying a lot more!
@cooldoc
– here are some very old photos of Rose de Rescht and Indigo from my previous
garden. I’ve also added photos of two
other Portlands I had then – Jacques Cartier and Madame Knorr (said to be the same as Comte de Chambord) and
Yolande d’Aragon (sometimes classed as a Portland and sometimes not).
Indigo
grows upright and Rose de Rescht is a more rounded bush. Incidentally, by trial and error I found that
after a few years in the garden the Portland roses responded much better to a
severe pruning and thinning out in late winter rather than following the usual more
gentle pruning advice for repeat flowering shrub roses. I am not advocating that other people do this,
it was just something that worked for Portlands for me at the time – it kept
the bushes more compact and flowering was better, otherwise they had become big
and lanky and flowering was not so good.
After
a few years my RdR started sending up suckers which could be potted up for new
plants as it wasn’t grafted and therefore not from a rootstock. Some people find this to be a problem but I
believe that not all RdR sucker in this way.
I expect @Marlorena knows more about this if you need further information.
@Tack - to my nose, Yolande has the most delicious old rose fragrance of any rose I have known, but has drawbacks in unattractive growth, disease issues and poorer second flush. RdR, Indigo and Madame Knorr/Comte de Chambord all have slightly different, very good old rose fragrances - to me Madame Knorr has the best of those three. I felt that Jacques Cartier has a more over-sweet old rose fragrance, but of course we all have different perceptions of scent.
@Marlorena - your Indigo flowers should be darker than in those photos in early and late season (in cooler conditions).
Oh dear, I think pushing 70 for me, need a proper count tomorrow... two are being rehomed but Ive not done that yet. I have 5 DA's and I think 5 in pots... (EDIT; quick headcount says 72 roses, tbc tomorrow...)
Mostly hybrid teas and floribundas as I clearly have a type!
@zugenie like tetris in my case! Ive got roses stuffed in everywhere, I love that you can underplant some roses with smaller roses... Theres 7 in this bed...
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We are in for a feast of photos this coming rose season. I have, may be, around 40 varieties now, about half of them DAs and the rest HTs. My DA roses are quite young, 3 years at the most. Most of them are in pots. I have had some of my potted HT roses more than 10 years, having been relocated thrice during this period. I should thank my OH for patiently moving the roses from Manchester to Cambridge to Oxford every time we moved with our jobs. I never used to keep track of their names until I chanced upon @Marlorena's rose thread a few years ago. Now, I label all new ones, lest I forget which variety they are. 😀
@edhelka - I like your Amande Paternotte.
@cooldoc – here are some very old photos of Rose de Rescht and Indigo from my previous garden. I’ve also added photos of two other Portlands I had then – Jacques Cartier and Madame Knorr (said to be the same as Comte de Chambord) and Yolande d’Aragon (sometimes classed as a Portland and sometimes not).
Indigo grows upright and Rose de Rescht is a more rounded bush. Incidentally, by trial and error I found that after a few years in the garden the Portland roses responded much better to a severe pruning and thinning out in late winter rather than following the usual more gentle pruning advice for repeat flowering shrub roses. I am not advocating that other people do this, it was just something that worked for Portlands for me at the time – it kept the bushes more compact and flowering was better, otherwise they had become big and lanky and flowering was not so good.
After a few years my RdR started sending up suckers which could be potted up for new plants as it wasn’t grafted and therefore not from a rootstock. Some people find this to be a problem but I believe that not all RdR sucker in this way. I expect @Marlorena knows more about this if you need further information.
Indigo
Rose de Rescht
Jacques Cartier
Madame Knorr (Comte de Chambord)
Yolande d'Aragon
@Marlorena - your Indigo flowers should be darker than in those photos in early and late season (in cooler conditions).
Mostly hybrid teas and floribundas as I clearly have a type!
@zugenie like tetris in my case! Ive got roses stuffed in everywhere, I love that you can underplant some roses with smaller roses...
Theres 7 in this bed...