I am wondering if I have another weather related change in a rose, or if this variety matures with time. This is my Sheila's Perfumed, two plants planted a year apart five years ago. The pictures are last years blooms and this year, the difference is striking.
I agree @VictoriaSponge it’s so incredibly helpful to get honest feedback. Oh and please keep posting more, I am so enjoying everyone’s garden photos!
Rose de Rescht is my most successful potted rose to date, it does keep a good bushy shape, flowers steadily and evenly, healthy foliage, rain and heat tolerant and wonderful fragrance from those little blooms.
@dabolem welcome back, poor you, I hope you are recovering and will be back to full strength soon. This year has been most difficult for roses - not enough rain and this horrible early heatwave. Ha, yes if I listen to my own advice I would give Alberic Barbier a chance! I was about to order a large arch for it but I’m now not sure it’s worth it as we are thinking of moving in a few years.
Unfortunately Kew Gardens doesn’t do very well for me, provided I give it a huge amount of water it will produce one early summer flush but nothing more.
While my garden roses are suffering, I have this wild rose tumbling over dry, rocky slopes in uncultivated areas. I think it’s Rosa Sempervirens:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Honest feedback on roses and photos in real garden is incredibly helpful.
The poet's wife, my favourite yellow rose for fragrance and number of flowers it produces but look at how desperate it is to flop!
The yellow/orange marigold like hulthemia does turn pink in heat.
Golden celebration less floppy than the poet's wife. Gets a lot of blackspots though.
Daphne (Daphne × transatlantica eternal fragrance ) are lovely shrubs, evergreen, amazing fragrance, my favourite to keep by the door and dot around garden, this is second full flush and it is only June. Will flower again later. Tolerates shade.
And finally I have managed to get something purple near my yellow roses in shade. This is Julia child and penstemon. Saliva may night and campanula gone with slugs.
@purplerallim, I don’t know about Sheila’s Perfume, but it’s possible it’s a weather effect as the red pigment inhibitors can break down in heat, so pink coloration is more evident. Most of my yellow and apricot roses get pink spots and streaks in summer. Lady Emma Hamilton gets it badly and even bombproof Julia Child gets it a little.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@peteS .. as you are into HT's of the older type, let me recommend one to you in case you wish to acquire another at some point.. and in case you don't have it already..
'Alec's Red'.. This is a large leaved HT, of surprisingly good health, an upright branching habit, about 4 feet.. Blooms all summer of course, they are large, rounded, scented and red.. spaced out over the plant.. In September it's a ''stand back and admire'' rose, as the blooms are arranged from top to bottom as if an artist or expert flower arranger has been at work..
@Marlorena Thanks for that Marlorena, I was looking at a HT with the exact same name at my local GC just the other day selling for £9.99. It had plenty of buds but no open blooms, would this be the same rose Beales are selling for £24. If so, I'll be back tomorrow and hope they've still got it. Looks a beauty. Is it a rose you have, or have had.
Beautiful Boule de Neige, @discandied. @Purplerallim, I would not have recognised that as the same plant!
Gabriel Oak seems to last forever. Wind, rain galore last night and not a petal dropped.
I am going to weed this after work (😁 no perfection here😁), but wanted to show the size disparity between my new 3 Gertrude J bareroots from DA. You can tell which ones had four canes and which had only 2. Is it too early to peg down the octopus cane the one on the bottom left has thrown up? It's about 50cm high.
Whatever, I love her. Some insects have been eating my Arthur Bell climber but it just makes him look frillier.
It's not so much the colour @Nollie as the shape. It's gone from HT to puffball! And yes it's hard to believe it's the same rose @WhereAreMySecateurs 😲😆
@zugenie I’m not sure you could grow City of York in a pot, but if you want to try, get the deepest one you can find. No harm in trying if you’re ok with it not working out. It would certainly need close attention to watering and feeding.
A little bouquet, featuring a bit of this, a bit of that, but namely Twilight Zone and Chandos Beauty. The one with the buds is Boscobel which I accidentally snapped off.
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This is my Sheila's Perfumed, two plants planted a year apart five years ago. The pictures are last years blooms and this year, the difference is striking.
Rose de Rescht is my most successful potted rose to date, it does keep a good bushy shape, flowers steadily and evenly, healthy foliage, rain and heat tolerant and wonderful fragrance from those little blooms.
@dabolem welcome back, poor you, I hope you are recovering and will be back to full strength soon. This year has been most difficult for roses - not enough rain and this horrible early heatwave. Ha, yes if I listen to my own advice I would give Alberic Barbier a chance! I was about to order a large arch for it but I’m now not sure it’s worth it as we are thinking of moving in a few years.
While my garden roses are suffering, I have this wild rose tumbling over dry, rocky slopes in uncultivated areas. I think it’s Rosa Sempervirens:
The poet's wife, my favourite yellow rose for fragrance and number of flowers it produces but look at how desperate it is to flop!
The yellow/orange marigold like hulthemia does turn pink in heat.
Golden celebration less floppy than the poet's wife. Gets a lot of blackspots though.
Daphne (Daphne × transatlantica eternal fragrance ) are lovely shrubs, evergreen, amazing fragrance, my favourite to keep by the door and dot around garden, this is second full flush and it is only June. Will flower again later. Tolerates shade.
And finally I have managed to get something purple near my yellow roses in shade. This is Julia child and penstemon. Saliva may night and campanula gone with slugs.
.. as you are into HT's of the older type, let me recommend one to you in case you wish to acquire another at some point.. and in case you don't have it already..
'Alec's Red'..
This is a large leaved HT, of surprisingly good health, an upright branching habit, about 4 feet..
Blooms all summer of course, they are large, rounded, scented and red.. spaced out over the plant..
In September it's a ''stand back and admire'' rose, as the blooms are arranged from top to bottom as if an artist or expert flower arranger has been at work..
Thanks for that Marlorena, I was looking at a HT with the exact same name at my local GC just the other day selling for £9.99. It had plenty of buds but no open blooms, would this be the same rose Beales are selling for £24. If so, I'll be back tomorrow and hope they've still got it. Looks a beauty. Is it a rose you have, or have had.
@Purplerallim, I would not have recognised that as the same plant!
Gabriel Oak seems to last forever. Wind, rain galore last night and not a petal dropped.
I am going to weed this after work (😁 no perfection here😁), but wanted to show the size disparity between my new 3 Gertrude J bareroots from DA. You can tell which ones had four canes and which had only 2. Is it too early to peg down the octopus cane the one on the bottom left has thrown up? It's about 50cm high.
Whatever, I love her.
Some insects have been eating my Arthur Bell climber but it just makes him look frillier.