@Nollie, Lovely roses, your Excellenz von Shubert and The Prince are so beautiful.
@cooldoc, glad that 'Avengers' are on action. I was also thinking of spraying if saw fly situation goes out of control in pots, but sometimes it is good to busy. I never got chance of ordering it and now looks like i dont need it.
@jessica, at first i thought that wisteria is from show, only to realize after scrolling down it is from your garden!
@Mr. Vine Eye , I enjoyed the video. Everything is looking so lush and ready for summer.
@celcius_kkw, nice to hear from you. That sunsprite is a perfect yellow rose.Â
@fire, your garden and arches are looking very beautiful. It is nice that your friend sent photo.It is beautiful view and he is a good photographer to captured it perfect.
@suesyn, You have done great job with MAC. I would have loved to plant it but was so worried that I wont be able to manage it.
@Mr. Vine Eye wow, youâve got so many buds on everything, I hope youâll do us another tour once theyâre blooming!
@celcius_kkw thatâs a gorgeous shade of yellow, perfect spring flower!
@Fire those red roses are stunning, such a shame youâre not there to enjoy them! My mum had this beautiful climbing rose at their last house, every year it had buds from top to bottom, every year it bloomed while they were on holiday so only I got to enjoy it đ
@Fire Thatâs a real monster of an Etoile youâve got there! How many years have had it for now?Â
@Mr. Vine Eye Your roses didnât look soo infested in the video but I suppose they can be hard to spot without getting in closer.. I am also going to set up a bug hotel this year and buy some ladybirds to set up a healthy predatorial presence.. the larvae I bought last year worked a treat but I donât think they have successfully overwintered.. I have finally found the perfectly sheltered spot on my trellis just under my Etoile climber for the bug house.. it wouldnât have been sheltered enough had my Etoile not quadrupled in since once last year!Â
@newbie77 Yes in some ways I am starting to appreciate even more of what Marlorena says about the whole world of great non DA roses out there.. this sunsprite being somewhat superior to many of my DAs..Â
@celcius_kkw I think Iâve had Etoile three years. First year it put on huge canes. The second it pondered life, few flowers. This year no new basals, all flowers. I put in two more Etoile on the left side of my big arch. Total over kill, but should make for a good jungle intersecting with Malvern on one side. Hopefully good height.Â
The garden - about3x7 Â metres - is now pretty much surrounded with climbing roses. I have one spot left, for either a Malvern or Ghislaine. Probably Malvern. I will be removing a planter this summer and putting the last climber in after the alliums are done.
@celcius_kkw, yes, so true about appreciating non DA roses. Last year i was surprised by how well Versigny rose performed. Julia Child and Super Trouper are my most reliable roses. My Austins are more of my roses for vase on desk than garden.Â
The wires I put up for mary delany are spaced approx 40cms apart, do you think I should add some more and move them closer? The fence is 5 foot if that helps
Very good vid @Mr. Vine Eye I agree the bee hotel has been expertly erected. You have your hands full with fabulously rampant roses, particularly GdeF.
Lots to admire in your garden @Victoria Sponge, you have such interesting roses. @edhelka's garden as always is stunning because of how beautifully curated and kept it is. I hope my Purple Skyliner does half as well.
Amazed how behind you are this year @Nollie and barely recognise the look of raindrops on roses. So dry here. But am jealous of The Prince flowering.
@fire just beautiful,hope you're not gone long, being parted from those beauties must be such sweet sorrow.
I don't see how that corner could look any prettier @Suesyn, gorgeous
I have mildew, sawfly and aphids but not enough to do anything about them, just squashing and watering a lot. GdeF is smothered but too difficult to reach and seems to cope, as it does with the 12ft hedge planted tight on the other side of the fence, here it is (and the lilac)
 Something new flowering in the pots daily. I look forward to yours @celcius_kkw , Sunsprite is a gorgeous yellow. Rhapsody in Blue and Malvern Hills are the most advanced in the ground.
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I didn't notice this last year but the first blooms on Desdemona and Odyssey are a huge 4 inches I fear someone has been fritzing about with my labels (I have sons) this looks much more like Claire Marshall than Carminia as the label states
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@celcius_kkw thatâs a gorgeous shade of yellow, perfect spring flower!
@Fire those red roses are stunning, such a shame youâre not there to enjoy them! My mum had this beautiful climbing rose at their last house, every year it had buds from top to bottom, every year it bloomed while they were on holiday so only I got to enjoy it đ