@Nollie i look forward to your MAC updates, i find her so fascinating. And someone just confirmed to me that she handles dry heat very well. Let's keep our fingers crossed 😅
@Victoria Sponge glorious Tuscany and Blush Noisette, wow! how much time does she need to become so big?
Couldn't help myself and just bought Lavender Dream from a supermarket, it is sooo cute, like little butterflies! 😍
@Marlorena thank you for replying so quickly, much appreciated! I went went checked GdF again and look what i found! 🙂
But Buff Beauty seems to be a much better repeater, at least here, even in the first year it bloomed a bit in autumn, and now it's already full of buds again, so quickly, unfazed by the heat! I also find the reddish new growth so lovely. I am trying to grow it as a climber, the lily got caught in the wire fence from the other side!
Just to say to Fire and cooldoc.. and said with a jovial tone.. that there are no pests in my garden, I don't see them that way at all, and they all do as they please, so munching on a few leaves isn't doing me any harm so it's a live and let live garden... I still got nice roses, and lots of lovely clematis - no prevention there either... figure that one out.. Come on, I just knew you'd love my sawflies .. my greatest enemy is drought actually, these days, and nothing I can do about it..
I hear some are having problems with ...er.. um.. what's it called again? DeeLish.. Few roses look this clean at midsummer..
..just an update on my notched rose, which I did autumn before last I think.. Nodes 1 and 6 were notched, and you can see two nice shoots covering what was very bare lower canes on this climbing rose. The brown cane on the right, now with 2 green shoots.. the lower one also has a lateral. ..flowering too..
I know you wouldn't do anything about Aphids or other pests.. but was hoping you would squish the Sawfly atleast...
My personal experience was not great with pests.. Probably coz its a new garden and mostly roses.. ?mono-culture.. (My neighbours grow only lawn I guess or could that be synthetic as well.... )... almost all my roses were just decimated.. Combo of aphids and thrips... May be with time and experience, I will be able to tolerate these...
@cooldoc Super Dorothy is quite young; I'm hoping in time, it will grow and spread to cover a certain area of fence.
@Marlorena Amaryllis flower for me during summer rather than the forced indoor ones during Christmas time. I'm trying Amarine Belladiva this year, but they haven't shown any growth so far.
Also I have too many aphids and sawfly caterpillars on my roses. I let them be. 🙂
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And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
What a wonderful flurry of beauties to devour and welcome Sarah, great roses!
Of all the options for That Rose, oddly enough my vote would go to DeeLish even though it’s the US name. Short and memorable and it does sum up the fragrance - it’s worth keeping for that alone, so I’m hoping it’s current problems are just growing pains.
@Eustace, @edhelka and everyone else, thanks very much for your thoughts on HTs. They are not my first love tbh, I am much more a shrubby fan, but thought they may be useful where I needed an upright/back of the border rose.
Delbard roses actually perform that task quite well though. Some of mine are classed as shrubs or floribundas but I would say they are more modern HT’s, in their habit at least. Of those, Guy Savoy is my most frequent bloomer.
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@Eustace Superdorothy looks good with those folded petals..
@Marlorena my blood is boiling after seeing those sawfly larvae..
RdeR is on top of my waiting list...
@Victoria Sponge does Alfred Colomb's petals gets fried in full sun?
i look forward to your MAC updates, i find her so fascinating. And someone just confirmed to me that she handles dry heat very well. Let's keep our fingers crossed 😅
@Victoria Sponge
glorious Tuscany and Blush Noisette, wow! how much time does she need to become so big?
Couldn't help myself and just bought Lavender Dream from a supermarket, it is sooo cute, like little butterflies! 😍
thank you for replying so quickly, much appreciated!
I went went checked GdF again and look what i found! 🙂
But Buff Beauty seems to be a much better repeater, at least here, even in the first year it bloomed a bit in autumn, and now it's already full of buds again, so quickly, unfazed by the heat! I also find the reddish new growth so lovely. I am trying to grow it as a climber, the lily got caught in the wire fence from the other side!
the other side🙂
P. S. i so loved your Dionysian scene😍
..as are the Amaryllis earlier posted by Eustace, I've never grown those..
Come on, I just knew you'd love my sawflies .. my greatest enemy is drought actually, these days, and nothing I can do about it..
I hear some are having problems with ...er.. um.. what's it called again? DeeLish..
Few roses look this clean at midsummer..
..just an update on my notched rose, which I did autumn before last I think..
Nodes 1 and 6 were notched, and you can see two nice shoots covering what was very bare lower canes on this climbing rose.
The brown cane on the right, now with 2 green shoots.. the lower one also has a lateral.
..flowering too..
My personal experience was not great with pests.. Probably coz its a new garden and mostly roses.. ?mono-culture.. (My neighbours grow only lawn I guess or could that be synthetic as well....
Perhaps your synchronised caterpillars were doing a raindance for you, Marlorena.
@Marlorena Amaryllis flower for me during summer rather than the forced indoor ones during Christmas time. I'm trying Amarine Belladiva this year, but they haven't shown any growth so far.
Also I have too many aphids and sawfly caterpillars on my roses. I let them be. 🙂
Of all the options for That Rose, oddly enough my vote would go to DeeLish even though it’s the US name. Short and memorable and it does sum up the fragrance - it’s worth keeping for that alone, so I’m hoping it’s current problems are just growing pains.
@Eustace, @edhelka and everyone else, thanks very much for your thoughts on HTs. They are not my first love tbh, I am much more a shrubby fan, but thought they may be useful where I needed an upright/back of the border rose.
Delbard roses actually perform that task quite well though. Some of mine are classed as shrubs or floribundas but I would say they are more modern HT’s, in their habit at least. Of those, Guy Savoy is my most frequent bloomer.