With some plants flowering at their normal time and some earlier than usual, I think I've never had so many spring and early summer plants flowering at once.
'Amazing Day' fully open 'Paul Noel' 'Silas Marner' 'The Albrighton Rambler' 'Amanda Paternotte' 'Clarence House' 'Minerva' 'Saphir' 'Eyes for You' with veronica 'Reine des Violettes' 'Jaqueline Humery'
@Lizzie27 gorgeous Ispahan! does this look like Ispahan ? my mom gave me this rose which suffered badly during transplant, sulked for three years and has only now produced these incredibly beautiful blooms, strong sweet fragrance. my mom only knows that "it can be used to make rose syrup and jam", so i suppose it is a kind of Damask rose and after googling it could be Ispahan?
@Marlorena i think i have fallen in love with your Tottering! i consider buying it in autumn😀
@Nollie thank you for your hint about LoS and the very interesting musings about roses and heat. my summers are very hot and dry, which is another type of challenge. maybe it will get better in... many years, when the young trees i have planted will grow😅
i have just found out on a local forum that MW has grown to 2 m high and 4 m wide!!! i have to reconsider my present location! 😳 (sorry for the metric system, i can't calculate the equivalents in my head right now😅).Â
Following on from @Marlorena helpful advice I have now sourced a 7ft obelisk which has been ordered. I'm looking for some suggestions please for a rose to plant up it. My new mixed border is going to have a pink rose theme with blue / purple perennials. The roses I have ready to be planted are: Harlow Carr, Felicia, Cornelia, Scepter'd Isle and Dunham Massey. My preference is for larger flowers with repeat flowering or at least a long season and ideally scented. Was thinking perhaps Gertrude Jekyll but don't know if a crimson might provide a bit of contrast ? Advice from the experts here very much appreciated please
We visited Lowther Castle yesterday. I brought my proper camera expecting to take lots of beautiful rose pics of the rose garden. Having only visited in the past while it was under construction i've not seen it in bloom.
Well I didn't get to see this year either! We all had to hunt around to find any roses in flower, except the wild roses around the outside.Â
I do like the huge metal thorny arches though.
We're just away for a few days, hopefully the cooler weather will stop me missing out on Malvern's main flush.
While I was packing the car I spotted sawfly larvae damage to the new leaves on Lady of the Lake!! Rubbed off as many as I could find under the leaves.
Poor thing, first the aphid attack that made her stop growing, then when she finally started recovering she gets assaulted by sawfly. She's not having a great season!
@WhereAreMySecateurs My ebb tide is not spindly but it is small shrub. Mine is very close to, almost under large apple tree so it would never be the best, but it is smaller than roses next to it.Â
@Fire, agree about acronyms. I will try to remember and write at least partial name.Â
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'Amazing Day' fully open
'Paul Noel'
'Silas Marner'
'The Albrighton Rambler'
'Amanda Paternotte'
'Clarence House'
'Minerva'
'Saphir'
'Eyes for You' with veronica
'Reine des Violettes'
'Jaqueline Humery'
gorgeous Ispahan! does this look like Ispahan ? my mom gave me this rose which suffered badly during transplant, sulked for three years and has only now produced these incredibly beautiful blooms, strong sweet fragrance. my mom only knows that "it can be used to make rose syrup and jam", so i suppose it is a kind of Damask rose and after googling it could be Ispahan?
@Marlorena
i think i have fallen in love with your Tottering! i consider buying it in autumn😀
thank you for your hint about LoS and the very interesting musings about roses and heat. my summers are very hot and dry, which is another type of challenge. maybe it will get better in... many years, when the young trees i have planted will grow😅
i have just found out on a local forum that MW has grown to 2 m high and 4 m wide!!! i have to reconsider my present location! 😳 (sorry for the metric system, i can't calculate the equivalents in my head right now😅).Â
@murasaki
I'm happy you'll be getting a Tottering rose. I'll take a better photo in a few days, I have to climb a ladder to photograph it properly..Â
..nice collection of roses edhelka... 'Amazing Day' reminds me of 'Queen of Denmark'.
My preference is for larger flowers with repeat flowering or at least a long season and ideally scented. Was thinking perhaps Gertrude Jekyll but don't know if a crimson might provide a bit of contrast ?
Advice from the experts here very much appreciated please
Well I didn't get to see this year either! We all had to hunt around to find any roses in flower, except the wild roses around the outside.Â
I do like the huge metal thorny arches though.
We're just away for a few days, hopefully the cooler weather will stop me missing out on Malvern's main flush.
While I was packing the car I spotted sawfly larvae damage to the new leaves on Lady of the Lake!! Rubbed off as many as I could find under the leaves.
Poor thing, first the aphid attack that made her stop growing, then when she finally started recovering she gets assaulted by sawfly. She's not having a great season!
@Fire, agree about acronyms. I will try to remember and write at least partial name.Â
Olivia rose Austin is looking beautiful in rain.
And a couple of HT roses with raindrops on them.