@dabolem .. I couldn't be without Forever Royal, and keep meaning to get another for elsewhere in the garden, I really must do so this winter.. it has continuous bloom, sweetly scented and an attractive shrubby habit that fits well in a border.. I'm not sure it's a rose for a hot climate, I seem to recall Nollie did not do well with it there in Spain.  I think it's a rose for cooler conditions, and preferably acid soil, my rose does get a bit of chlorosis in my conditions and I sometimes give it an acid feed.
@Marlorena Wow, you have some lovely roses that would go with my theme well if I had more room 🙈 , I particularly love the look of ‘Lavender Lassie’, 'Forever Royal' and ‘Mutabilis’, beautiful colours and would go well with my back theme.
@Fire Haha, I must say I’ve become a bit obsessed lately but roses take the most effort in my garden to keep looking nice. They have not been as easy to grow for me as I originally thought roses would be. The battle with pests, diseases and dead heading etc.
I would like to please ask if you or anyone on this thread has any suggestions for a contrasting rose colour that would work with ‘Lady of Shallot’  which we have just planted at the front of our house?
I would put a coral rose like The Anniversary Rose / Dee-Lish with the Lady of Shalott, a bit of a clash to make them both brighter. Or perhaps Arthur Bell or another fabulous yellow.
Hurray for your Lavender Lassie arriving, Marlorena. It looks really beautiful. Mine is giving me so much pleasure.Â
Also this morning my first passionflower of the year, Amazing Day, Tess, Tranquillity, Buff Beauty and a miraculously-overwintered bedding geranium that I thought that late second snow had done for... but it is alive.
Thank you @Marlorena I will give a try to Forever Royal, maybe planting her where she gets only morning sun, near my Lady Emma. How tall and large does she get?
Stunning roses @WhereAreMySecateurs! Your LL is also beautiful. It seems only mine is struggling. I hope that in a sunnier spot she will get al least half as nice as yours two!
And I will also try to remember Marlorena rule of the East/South growing habit, which I didn’t know but I actually noticed it’s true, now that I know it
@dabolem .. about 5 x 5 feet for me, so a good size, I prune back to about 3 x 3 during winter..
@Veilchenblau .. thank you.. you have some great roses too.. Snow Goose in particular I always like the look of.. 'Lady of Shalott' is a rose I love very much for its shape shifting colours, from orange, pink to nankeen yellow, and I find a rich tea scent, but a difficult one to match up with anything other than white or purple I think.. I did use red once but wasn't happy with that. Now I have it with a row of Lavender at its feet..
Thanks @Marlorena, 5 x 5 is on the big size, sorry I forgot to ask you if she has many thorns or few. If she ha few thorns it would be perfect where I think to put it, because it would be near a passage way.Â
 @Veilchenblau I put my Lady of Shallot on an arch with Phyllis. Bide on the other side.
I think it would be good with Ghislaine too, if you have that kind of space
Question about perennials with roses: I would like to put some Scabiosa near my roses, but I can’t remember if they go well together, anyone could help me with that?
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Also, I love your Nathalie Nypels every single time I see a pic of her, I am thinking to get one too, if I manage to find her here
can you tell me something more about Forever Royal? I really love this one and I am searching for blue/purple roses at the moment
.. I couldn't be without Forever Royal, and keep meaning to get another for elsewhere in the garden, I really must do so this winter.. it has continuous bloom, sweetly scented and an attractive shrubby habit that fits well in a border..
I'm not sure it's a rose for a hot climate, I seem to recall Nollie did not do well with it there in Spain.  I think it's a rose for cooler conditions, and preferably acid soil, my rose does get a bit of chlorosis in my conditions and I sometimes give it an acid feed.
I don't know if it's grown in Italy.. Â
Wow, you have some lovely roses that would go with my theme well if I had more room 🙈 , I particularly love the look of ‘Lavender Lassie’, 'Forever Royal' and ‘Mutabilis’, beautiful colours and would go well with my back theme.
Thank you @dabolem 😀Â
@Fire
Haha, I must say I’ve become a bit obsessed lately but roses take the most effort in my garden to keep looking nice. They have not been as easy to grow for me as I originally thought roses would be. The battle with pests, diseases and dead heading etc.
Or perhaps Arthur Bell or another fabulous yellow.
Hurray for your Lavender Lassie arriving, Marlorena. It looks really beautiful. Mine is giving me so much pleasure.Â
Also this morning my first passionflower of the year, Amazing Day, Tess, Tranquillity, Buff Beauty and a miraculously-overwintered bedding geranium that I thought that late second snow had done for... but it is alive.
Stunning roses @WhereAreMySecateurs! Your LL is also beautiful. It seems only mine is struggling. I hope that in a sunnier spot she will get al least half as nice as yours two!
And I will also try to remember Marlorena rule of the East/South growing habit, which I didn’t know but I actually noticed it’s true, now that I know it
.. about 5 x 5 feet for me, so a good size, I prune back to about 3 x 3 during winter..
@Veilchenblau
.. thank you.. you have some great roses too.. Snow Goose in particular I always like the look of..
'Lady of Shalott' is a rose I love very much for its shape shifting colours, from orange, pink to nankeen yellow, and I find a rich tea scent, but a difficult one to match up with anything other than white or purple I think.. I did use red once but wasn't happy with that.
Now I have it with a row of Lavender at its feet..
Question about perennials with roses: I would like to put some Scabiosa near my roses, but I can’t remember if they go well together, anyone could help me with that?