@Nollie I think my birthday boys about recovered from its dieback, the fungicide spray helped, its still got new green leaves but is still lacklustre, its got tulips etc around at the moment so will check they arent flopping over it and I think the grafts failed on 'simply gorgeous' - I moved it as it wasnt looking happy and found only one spindly new root, its in a pot and been given extra TLC but looks very wrinkly and sad. Going to mail styles...
Thank you Marlorena, I wonder if what I thought were whitefly are the rose sawflies. Â This picture shows what happened to some of my roses last year- really quickly just over the course of a few days- which I was told were sawflies. Â Is there any organic treatment I can use? last year I had to cut my roses right back as they looked so dreadful. Â
@Eustace - yes that will have been me. She’s vicious!Â
I’ve not spent as much time in the garden as I’d have liked today. Almost the entire day has been devoted to the boys new bunk bed. Clearing the room, going to buy bedding, taking delivery and then building the thing.Â
I did have a little peek - no new roses. It’s looking tidy though. I edged the lawn and did some weeding yesterday. Doing the mulching has made it so much easier to do.
I also popped my rose seedlings into their first pots. Foolishly unlabelled, but I think I can tell them apart by their leaf shape. The ones from Scarborough Fair are broader and rounded - the Malvern Hills seedlings are narrow and more pointed. No sign of the royal jubilees germinating yet. I tried to put them in the fridge, intending it to be for a week or two, last all of an hour before OH found them in there and gave me a telling off. 😅
@Super gardener ..Hiya, yes that's sawfly damage..  I cannot advise on sprays as I don't use them, but if I find some leaves offend me, I just pick them off, as you've done there.. if there are only a few then it doesn't hurt the plant really.. other than that, I don't worry too much about it..
.. another member who sprays, or uses some other method, might be able to advise you on that..Â
Please show photos of your roses in due course, we should like to see them I'm sure..Â
..it seems we have some kind of heatwave coming soon, if so then all our roses will be opening en masse.. ..has anyone noticed how thorny the new Austin's are? not untypical of course..
..both mine are showing buds, which is nice.. and both have good foliage so far.. 'Elizabeth'..
'The Anniversary Rose' ['Dee-Lish'].. has buds that are almost black in shade, reddening as they age, into quite a seductive colour.. the blooms are large, pink and fragrant..
Ah yes, I do indeed remember your Astronomia @edhelka. I like SdSA’s blooms and yours looks good. Mine is in good conditions, so it may well be just a duff plant/poor grafting. If it doesn’t start to improve I will dig it up and, providing the roots look ok, will move to a sunnier position to see if that makes it happier.
My ‘shine brightly, burn quickly’ potted rose was Heidi Klum. In year 2 it bloomed much less, got diseased and the initially good fragrance totally disappeared.
@JessicaS just seen your post, at least Styles tend to respond well, so hope you get a new SG.
Is it my imagination or are grafts failing more frequently? I wonder if nurseries are having to rely on inexperienced staff to do it..
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I also popped my rose seedlings into their first pots. Foolishly unlabelled, but I think I can tell them apart by their leaf shape. The ones from Scarborough Fair are broader and rounded - the Malvern Hills seedlings are narrow and more pointed. No sign of the royal jubilees germinating yet. I tried to put them in the fridge, intending it to be for a week or two, last all of an hour before OH found them in there and gave me a telling off. 😅
..Hiya, yes that's sawfly damage..  I cannot advise on sprays as I don't use them, but if I find some leaves offend me, I just pick them off, as you've done there.. if there are only a few then it doesn't hurt the plant really.. other than that, I don't worry too much about it..
.. another member who sprays, or uses some other method, might be able to advise you on that..Â
Please show photos of your roses in due course, we should like to see them I'm sure..Â
..has anyone noticed how thorny the new Austin's are? not untypical of course..
..both mine are showing buds, which is nice.. and both have good foliage so far..
'Elizabeth'..
'Bring Me Sunshine'..
My ‘shine brightly, burn quickly’ potted rose was Heidi Klum. In year 2 it bloomed much less, got diseased and the initially good fragrance totally disappeared.
Is it my imagination or are grafts failing more frequently? I wonder if nurseries are having to rely on inexperienced staff to do it..
@Super gardener
I took these just for you..
..no fret..Â