I have two yellow ones Marlorena, Graham Thomas (climbing) and Ab Fab, which is in a pot and will be in it's 2nd year this summer. Both have spectacular blooms, and I'm especially pleased how GT has come on in the last 2-3 years after slumbering for the first five. Couldn't do without a good yellow now.
@Marlorena, this astonishing thread is going to keep me occupied on my lunchbreaks all week. You have definitely inspired me to grow Tottering By Gently- may I ask if you planted it inside the obelisk? It looks astonishingly glossy and lovely. Oh, divine. Also, I don't think too many yellows is possible. This one will be about six feet away from an Arthur Bell and two feet from a wall of obnoxious sunflowers.
Also, out of nosiness (and not personal interest- I don't live anywhere near you!), what do you do with your roses when you jettison them? Do they go straight to compost, or do you leave them somewhere for budding rosarians to put in their gardens?
My yellow rose collection is expanding rapidly, given I never really liked yellow as a garden colour this is an astonishing about face! I love the look of the Poet’s Wife and also Tottering.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I like colours that are bright and happy, summery, so yellow and white are a sort of theme here... I have other yellow roses that I did not choose to highlight in this thread..
@pandakoalagirl49lS9c8QR_ ..thanks so much, that's ok... first, re Tottering, always plant your rose outside the obelisk. As it grows, I use lots of green string, pulling the canes towards the structure and tying them. It gives the rose a relaxed look I think..
..No, I'm afraid I don't do that.. Once a decision is made, they're in the garden recycle bin. I do my 'removals' the day before bin day, so I don't have much time to change my mind, which actually does happen. I have a rose growing well in a pot now that I chucked out last autumn, purely on a whim, but had second thoughts and retrieved it before the bin men came. I check back on my photos of said rose and think .. aww, it's too good to throw away, so rummage around in the bin before all is lost. Sometimes I have several 'chucked' in there, and I forget which is which. It's not the first time I've done this..
'Vanessa Bell'...
[Austin, UK 2017]... English Rose shrub, about 4' x 4'..
A luxuriant shrub rose
and another with the yellow/white blend. Fully double, sometimes
quartered, lemony scented blooms, the yellow is deepest when opening
as the blooms fade to creamy white. In the evening especially, this
will look more like a white rose than yellow.
The foliage remains
healthy for me throughout the season, I have no issues that I can
recall. It's a well foliated plant, shapely and graceful.
David Austin is on
record as saying it's probably one of the best roses they've
introduced, and I see nothing to
disagree with this, but with one proviso, like so many of their many
petalled roses, it's a water guzzler, and in my often dry summer
conditions, it performs best if I pour a 10 ltr can of water on the
roots, once a week, starting late June until mid August, about 6
weeks.
I mix in some liquid
tomato fertilizer. It is the only rose in my garden that I water
with any regularity, and it responds by flowering almost continuously
and producing such beautiful leafage, that it makes it worthwhile to
do this, otherwise it will lose some vitality, blooms will be
smaller, and flowering will be less.
For me, it was nothing
much in the first year, in the 2nd year it started to show
what it's made of, and growing it in a large pot, kept well watered,
will speed up this process, but by the 3rd year it took
off, and I then realised what a gem of a rose I had on my hands..
So great to read about this rose from you @Marlorena! I bought one last year, being influenced by your posts in the rose thread — it’s exactly as you describe. I found the flowers more often white/cream with a yellow centre on mine, like in your 14 June photo. That’s a great tip about the watering, will remember to stay on top of it this summer, thank you.
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..thanks so much, that's ok... first, re Tottering, always plant your rose outside the obelisk. As it grows, I use lots of green string, pulling the canes towards the structure and tying them. It gives the rose a relaxed look I think..
..No, I'm afraid I don't do that.. Once a decision is made, they're in the garden recycle bin. I do my 'removals' the day before bin day, so I don't have much time to change my mind, which actually does happen. I have a rose growing well in a pot now that I chucked out last autumn, purely on a whim, but had second thoughts and retrieved it before the bin men came.
I check back on my photos of said rose and think .. aww, it's too good to throw away, so rummage around in the bin before all is lost. Sometimes I have several 'chucked' in there, and I forget which is which. It's not the first time I've done this..
[totally insane.. ]..
'Vanessa Bell'... [Austin, UK 2017]... English Rose shrub, about 4' x 4'..
A luxuriant shrub rose and another with the yellow/white blend. Fully double, sometimes quartered, lemony scented blooms, the yellow is deepest when opening as the blooms fade to creamy white. In the evening especially, this will look more like a white rose than yellow.
The foliage remains healthy for me throughout the season, I have no issues that I can recall. It's a well foliated plant, shapely and graceful.
David Austin is on record as saying it's probably one of the best roses they've introduced, and I see nothing to disagree with this, but with one proviso, like so many of their many petalled roses, it's a water guzzler, and in my often dry summer conditions, it performs best if I pour a 10 ltr can of water on the roots, once a week, starting late June until mid August, about 6 weeks.
I mix in some liquid tomato fertilizer. It is the only rose in my garden that I water with any regularity, and it responds by flowering almost continuously and producing such beautiful leafage, that it makes it worthwhile to do this, otherwise it will lose some vitality, blooms will be smaller, and flowering will be less.
For me, it was nothing much in the first year, in the 2nd year it started to show what it's made of, and growing it in a large pot, kept well watered, will speed up this process, but by the 3rd year it took off, and I then realised what a gem of a rose I had on my hands..
...tomorrow.. 'Wild Rover'..
.. I'm so glad you've got this rose..
I have only one yellow rose, Rosa Banksii Lutea but it is my most favourite one of all.
Thanks for the pics @Marlorena but do you realize just how much havoc you're creating with our bank balances.