@Woodgreen your PR is amazing, I think Iāll give her a try next autumn!
@Omori Iād like my ZD to become as beautiful as yours. When did you plant yours? Mine is still young, in her first year, made some flower in spring and the nothing at all
I keep reading about the GW lady but no idea where to find that, somebody help please? Thanks!
As a lot of my pots are in a bit of a lull I am taking stock.
New Roses that have delighted
MidsummerND
Wild Rover
Unknown white
Munstead Wood
Olivia RA
Newbies that have made a good start
Faustinia
Chippendale
Gruss an Aachen
Soul
Knockout
Heidi Klum
My oldie favourites
Odyssey
Utopia
Dames de Chenonceau
Ebb Tide
Easy Does It
Blue River
Roses I will give till this time next year but need to improve
Bring Me Sunshine
Strange Brew
Purple Skyliner
The Prince
Mme.Isaac Pereire
Almost out of the door are
Burgundy Ice
Lady of Shalott
Grafin Diana
Charles Darwin
Snow Ballet
I think the only in-ground rose I am getting rid of is Royal William. It could be moved but only if the foliage improves, I've picked off all the leaves because they had very bad rust, it has not had this before, usually BS is the problem with this rose.
Anybody else assessing their rose stock? I have 3 on order so feel I need to give at least as many away or shovel prune as are coming in.
Edit, the formatting is all over the place but on placing this post in edit it all reverts to ok.
Your Gallica O is looking great @Woodgreen, very floriferous and a really tidily shaped shrub.Ā Glad your PDR is recovering.Ā The red will look great against that wall.
I'm carrying out a rose audit @Tack but only plan to get rid of one, Evelyn Fison which has a different issue each year and I am starting to find it a bit tedious.Ā I'm going to swap some of the pots around over winter and put some lightweight ones where I might need to move them and the un-carriable ones in the front garden.
Summer Sweetheart, I think this is a colour that will not appeal to all but thought I should put on a close up to show how nice it is.Ā If anyone wanted an easy climber, pliable and doesn't do crazy things/rip you to pieces, but does get to fence height and cover some area this would be my suggestion.Ā I also don't water it anymore and only chuck dry feed at the base and hope the rain washes it in. Has little red hips if not deadheaded. Ness but I think this sprig (at least, I missed the other flowers on the stem) might have reverted to Jacqueline du Pre.Ā The flowers do fade to white anyway but here the bud is creamy white and Ness buds are a strong pink. Rambling Rosie view from over the borage thicket, formally the path.Ā I haven't the heart to remove them but it is terrifically scratchy to wade through. Had some fun this weekend researching roses to pad out the coverage of the fence.Ā Have decided on a large orange shrub Fred Loads to go in the RHS gap here next to the clematis Skyfall.Ā Does anyone know/have that one?Ā Don't think I've seen it mentioned.Ā Might try a yellow patio climber on the LHS, I think it was called Summertime or something similar, had good reviews on help me find. CelestialĀ Stand-off in a Goldbusch.Ā It's a Comb-footed spider according to UK Safari.Ā When deadheading today I realised I had harvested a trug full of these and have had to spread my snippings out over the lawn so they can return from whence they came.Ā They must be the spider of the year.
@dabolem, it should be on BBC iPlayer, but it's also on YouTube. Starts about 25mins in and is delightful (haven't seen the rest of the episode). I'm grateful peopleĀ on here highlighted it.
I was delighted she showed Sombreuil because that's one that's been haunting my dreams recently.
Surprised at Lady of Shalott, Tack... she's just about my favourite plant.Ā Is it her lack of fragrance or...? They say she does even better as a climber and am waiting for the psychological moment to put an obelisk on her. Amazing Day... another day, another unique bloom like strawberry viennetta
@WhereAreMySecateurs, Re LoS, the rose habit is irritating, I was going to grow it as a climber but the octopus canes grow away from where I want them so I now have it in a frame and prune these canes after flowering, the foliage is always under sawfly attack, no scent to speak of and most of all the buds and day one blooms are great but from then on they don't develop more, even in your lovely pics none of those roses look 'open'.
True! She has the scrunched up look I can't stand in other roses, actually. And I am nodding along with your criticisms. Love is irrational, I suppose.
Am totally getting Odyssey from TCL if I can based on your pics, btw!
Some yearlings Dame Judy Dench, first flower: sweet shape, nice scent, lovely warm colour Hopefully not too brightly white, my phone struggled to focus on it.Ā First flowers on Alba Mme Legras de St Germain all came out at the same time.Ā It is the small darker leaved plant.Ā The light leaved pinkish buds are a piece of Little Rambler that has fallen into shot.Ā Not that it is filling its own space, the trellis is for MLdSG. Yey, looks like all the flowers are going to be this fun five petal shape.Ā The old one left on for research purposes I couldn't figure out if the bottom flower really is half-ly coloured or if it is the light. Editing to add it is Mme Ernest Calvat. This isn't the first flower, I forgot to post the previous ones, Nuits de Young with I think proliferation (?) in the bud.
new in - Flanders Rose has made a good start, although she is in the wrong place and is getting swamped. I could have planted the shrubs much closer together as they are small.Ā - Malvern Hills looks like it will be good, though, again, is in the wrong place, a bit too far from the fence, in an effort to avoid RRD (which was successful).Ā
- Edith Cavell - rather tiny and underwhelming, perhaps not a good choice. Too shy. But itās very early days.Ā
- Munstead Wood. Not sure. Not doing much, although well mulched with manure. There is possibly too much going on in that small bed. Competing with hellebores, fgmn in the spring and now linaria. Maybe it just needs some time to get going. The bed would look very bare Ā with nothing but Munstead in it. Two plants barely a foot tall.Ā
- I still think I should pull out the Docteur but canāt bring myself to do it. Not bushy, terrible black spot. No good at all for ācoveringā a fence.Ā
Iām getting zero new basals from the old stalwarts which is concerning. I guess itās because they are all puttin on height. I do hope they swap over to ground growth. Iām feeling like a bad parent.Ā
Iām v much looking forward to opening a new bed with a Ghislane, Buff Beauty and maybe Cream Abundance in front. Iām still plotting some kind of swap for the front door.Ā
I hope someone can give me some advice, or reassurance regarding my Generous Gardener. We went to Australia in mid March when it had all this lovely new growth. We came back at the end of April and it has not really recovered from 6 weeks of neglect since. I know it was very dry while we were away but I have given it lots of water since. I can see that there are some glimmers of a new shoot at the base so hopefully it will recover but what should I do in the meantime.Ā There are no signs of any buds the flower in the 2nd picture is its neighbour.Ā
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@Omori Iād like my ZD to become as beautiful as yours. When did you plant yours? Mine is still young, in her first year, made some flower in spring and the nothing at all
I keep reading about the GW lady but no idea where to find that, somebody help please? Thanks!
I'm carrying out a rose audit @Tack but only plan to get rid of one, Evelyn Fison which has a different issue each year and I am starting to find it a bit tedious.Ā I'm going to swap some of the pots around over winter and put some lightweight ones where I might need to move them and the un-carriable ones in the front garden.
Summer Sweetheart, I think this is a colour that will not appeal to all but thought I should put on a close up to show how nice it is.Ā If anyone wanted an easy climber, pliable and doesn't do crazy things/rip you to pieces, but does get to fence height and cover some area this would be my suggestion.Ā I also don't water it anymore and only chuck dry feed at the base and hope the rain washes it in. Has little red hips if not deadheaded.
Ness but I think this sprig (at least, I missed the other flowers on the stem) might have reverted to Jacqueline du Pre.Ā The flowers do fade to white anyway but here the bud is creamy white and Ness buds are a strong pink.
Rambling Rosie view from over the borage thicket, formally the path.Ā I haven't the heart to remove them but it is terrifically scratchy to wade through. Had some fun this weekend researching roses to pad out the coverage of the fence.Ā Have decided on a large orange shrub Fred Loads to go in the RHS gap here next to the clematis Skyfall.Ā Does anyone know/have that one?Ā Don't think I've seen it mentioned.Ā Might try a yellow patio climber on the LHS, I think it was called Summertime or something similar, had good reviews on help me find.
CelestialĀ
Stand-off in a Goldbusch.Ā It's a Comb-footed spider according to UK Safari.Ā When deadheading today I realised I had harvested a trug full of these and have had to spread my snippings out over the lawn so they can return from whence they came.Ā They must be the spider of the year.
https://youtu.be/Nc0v9eiBqBI
I was delighted she showed Sombreuil because that's one that's been haunting my dreams recently.
Surprised at Lady of Shalott, Tack... she's just about my favourite plant.Ā Is it her lack of fragrance or...? They say she does even better as a climber and am waiting for the psychological moment to put an obelisk on her.
Amazing Day... another day, another unique bloom like strawberry viennetta
Am totally getting Odyssey from TCL if I can based on your pics, btw!
Dame Judy Dench, first flower: sweet shape, nice scent, lovely warm colour
Hopefully not too brightly white, my phone struggled to focus on it.Ā First flowers on Alba Mme Legras de St Germain all came out at the same time.Ā It is the small darker leaved plant.Ā The light leaved pinkish buds are a piece of Little Rambler that has fallen into shot.Ā Not that it is filling its own space, the trellis is for MLdSG.
Yey, looks like all the flowers are going to be this fun five petal shape.Ā The old one left on for research purposes
This isn't the first flower, I forgot to post the previous ones, Nuits de Young with I think proliferation (?) in the bud.
new in
- Flanders Rose has made a good start, although she is in the wrong place and is getting swamped. I could have planted the shrubs much closer together as they are small.Ā
- Malvern Hills looks like it will be good, though, again, is in the wrong place, a bit too far from the fence, in an effort to avoid RRD (which was successful).Ā
Iām getting zero new basals from the old stalwarts which is concerning. I guess itās because they are all puttin on height. I do hope they swap over to ground growth. Iām feeling like a bad parent.Ā