@Nollie ah, i didn't know about the alternative name Stormy Weather! glad to hear ishe is so floriferous, i love it already. it looks similar to Route 66,but more beautiful with those wavy petals. Here is Route 66
And so funny, it turns out I also have Palais Biron, but here it's called Purple Lodge. First blossoms too, now a bit sunburned:
Novalis is very weak and sickly for me, just got one tiny bloom, the second year. and there is only one other bud. the worst of all my roses. I wouldn't buy it again, but i am waiting until next year before giving him up. maybe something will improve.Â
I planted a Malvern Hills a few months ago, its got a long way to go to match the fine examples on here. Its colour is realy lovely in the flesh, much better than in pictures and the blooms arent as tiny as id imagined. It's covered in buds, a real bloom machine. Its in a challenging spot, dry soil about 5 meters under the canopy of a giant oak, but the fence gets bathed in afternoon sun, so as long as i water it it in dry spells , im hoping it will match the ones on here in a few years time.Â
Hi all... Wonderful blooms all around... Envy those who could visit rose gardens..Â
Close to 400 posts!! took a while to go through them all..Â
Missed the opening of few of my booms but was lucky enough to take some late evening pics before the rains...
Bring me Sunshine.. appearing yellowish than the apricot yellow/ orange as advertised.. will comment on fragrance tomorrow (but expecting rains/ cold temps for 1 or 2 more days)
Natalija.. Bareroot 1st year.. has a peachy scent.. Good performer already.. but does throw canes to one side (My Boscobel/ Desdemona does that as well)
Twice in a blue moon.. lovely bloom form.. something you appreciate when all the other blooms look more like old roses than HTs.. Huge blooms with a strong scent.. and the colour.. I am in love with her...
Clementina Carbonieri.. was a spindly specimen from TW.. Had got it potted but felt it was more like a bare root than proper potted specimen..(unlike their usual potted roses and came with a warning label to leave in pot till May)Â This bloom is a week old as she was about to open before I left.. so cannot comment on her fragrance yet.. (din't get much from her) Already had blackspots.. hope will improve once she grows a bit more..
Louise Odier.. Had pest issues as most others.. hoping will recover with time.. supposed to have a strong scent.. either I missed her peak opening form or she is a wrong specimen.. will wait for more blooms..
Amazing Day.. Just Amazing.. lost lots of buds.. yet she came strong.. buds are really huge.. even bigger than Princess Alexandra of Kent.. It has to be to pack all those petals inside.. and to have that pink and white combo perfectly with an amazing scent (again, this must have been open atleast for 3 or 4 days)... thank you @edhelka
Dioressence.. Supposed to be a floribunda.. another branch has buds in a cluster of 3 or 4.. (HMF also mentions it as grandiflora) Huge blooms.. with more pink in it than blue compared to Twice in a Blue moon.. a strong scent..Â
Harlow Carr.. a fragrant bouquet.. thanks @pitter-patter
 Apologies if this has been discussed before (I don't really have the hang of the search on this site), but is it worth getting older DAs, or have they improved so much and evolved that you're just going to get a less vigorous/less healthy/more prone to balling or whatever version of a more recent one?
I was looking on TW at Pretty Jessica but it's from 1983 (before I was born, lol). Also interested in Othello from 1986.
ETA: can't get over the colour of Twilight Zone, or how great / much better Harlow Carr looks as a standard.
 is it worth getting older DAs, or have they improved so much and evolved that you're just going to get a less vigorous/less healthy/more prone to balling or whatever version of a more recent one?
Others will know more, but I think some DAs have stood the test of time well, and are quite unique and healthy - like Gertrude Jekyll (1986), Lady Emma (2005), Munstead Wood (2007).Â
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ah, i didn't know about the alternative name Stormy Weather! glad to hear ishe is so floriferous, i love it already. it looks similar to Route 66,but more beautiful with those wavy petals. Here is Route 66
And so funny, it turns out I also have Palais Biron, but here it's called Purple Lodge. First blossoms too, now a bit sunburned:
@Imprevu
Novalis is very weak and sickly for me, just got one tiny bloom, the second year. and there is only one other bud. the worst of all my roses. I wouldn't buy it again, but i am waiting until next year before giving him up. maybe something will improve.Â
@Tack
Gorgeous  Dames de Chenonceau, i must look for this one!!!Â
Envy those who could visit rose gardens..Â
Close to 400 posts!! took a while to go through them all..Â
Missed the opening of few of my booms but was lucky enough to take some late evening pics before the rains...
Bring me Sunshine.. appearing yellowish than the apricot yellow/ orange as advertised.. will comment on fragrance tomorrow (but expecting rains/ cold temps for 1 or 2 more days)
Natalija.. Bareroot 1st year.. has a peachy scent.. Good performer already.. but does throw canes to one side (My Boscobel/ Desdemona does that as well)
Twice in a blue moon.. lovely bloom form.. something you appreciate when all the other blooms look more like old roses than HTs.. Huge blooms with a strong scent.. and the colour.. I am in love with her...
Clementina Carbonieri.. was a spindly specimen from TW.. Had got it potted but felt it was more like a bare root than proper potted specimen..(unlike their usual potted roses and came with a warning label to leave in pot till May)Â
This bloom is a week old as she was about to open before I left.. so cannot comment on her fragrance yet.. (din't get much from her) Already had blackspots.. hope will improve once she grows a bit more..
Louise Odier.. Had pest issues as most others.. hoping will recover with time.. supposed to have a strong scent.. either I missed her peak opening form or she is a wrong specimen.. will wait for more blooms..
Amazing Day.. Just Amazing.. lost lots of buds.. yet she came strong.. buds are really huge.. even bigger than Princess Alexandra of Kent.. It has to be to pack all those petals inside.. and to have that pink and white combo perfectly with an amazing scent (again, this must have been open atleast for 3 or 4 days)... thank you @edhelka
Dioressence.. Supposed to be a floribunda.. another branch has buds in a cluster of 3 or 4.. (HMF also mentions it as grandiflora) Huge blooms.. with more pink in it than blue compared to Twice in a Blue moon.. a strong scent..Â
Harlow Carr.. a fragrant bouquet.. thanks @pitter-patter
Trish/ One in a Million.. edges gets fried in sun.. but a good scent and blooms in clusters.. deep cherry red..
Odelia/ Delia.. Poulsen rose.. is orange-ey red than red (hard to capture).. similar habit to above..
Julia Child..
Summer romance.. strongly scented ( But not a good one to my nose.. hope Scepter D' Isle is not similarly scented)
Twilight Zone.. smokey purple with black undertones.. (more darker than in pics
The blooms last surprisingly long, don't they?
I was looking on TW at Pretty Jessica but it's from 1983 (before I was born, lol). Also interested in Othello from 1986.
ETA: can't get over the colour of Twilight Zone, or how great / much better Harlow Carr looks as a standard.
@Tack and @cooldoc, thanks for sharing photos of bring me sunshine. Mine is not yet open and I am feeling disappointed that it is going to be yellow.Â