Fire, I think you were asking about the Carpet groundcover roses? A friend of mine has the pink one, a decade old- she never waters it or feeds it but it's over 12ft high and never gets blackspot or has any apparent problems.Â
Chandos Beauty is finally opening. It's just enchanting. Probably wouldn't have heard of it but for this thread, so thank you.đș
Love love LOVE that Ruby Mella, Tack- thought it was a clematis at first!
@Tack I had Royal William/Duftzauber 2 years ago, but all the canes had dieback and I had to throw it out. Yours is still standing There are plenty of sawfly caterpillars feasting on my roses. I let them be. Also HT roses are very susceptible to BS. If I start stripping off the leaves, the plants will be naked; not nice at all. đđ Hoping that it will rain đ§ïž soon, otherwise I have to bring out the hosepipe to water the roses. The water bill for this semester is going to be huge, having had a rain-free April.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
@Tack oops sorry, didnât mean to lead you into temptation
My husband thinks I should have  planted another âPurple Skylinerâ where we have the âVeilchenblauâ, which is similar but a much shorter and less vigorous rambler of course. He finds Veilchenblau beautiful but the one month flowering disappointing so not sure if that helps? I added a couple of clematis and Jasmine  near to it so that softens the blow a little I think.Â
However, where I have the Purple Skyliner, it does suffer with powdery mildew (not so bad this year as I sprayed it early at first signs). It could be positioning as itâs a North West wall. However, Veilchenblau does not seem to be affected but is on the Eastern side. Although  I grow âBlush Noisetteâ alongside the Purple Skylinerâ and that has no powdery mildew at all.Â
Sorry I have a newbie question, how often is everyone watering their ground roses atm may I ask?
Edited to add: we have put in an watering irrigation  system and the hydrangeas need more water than the roses do as do the new trees so trying  to find a balance.Â
My soaker hoses are mainly there for more newly planted perennials but the roses benefit too of course, they go on every 5 days or so (depends on when things start drooping so heat/wind dependent), for at least an hour. Newly planted roses dotted among the shrubs get a bucket a bit more often.
I usually wait for 2 weeks of no rain before starting to water anything in the ground and this hasn't happened this year yet. I sometimes water roses in my raised bed, also because they need additional liquid feed, but that is a high-competition and quickly drying area.
@Tack ok thank you thatâs helpful to know.  Iâve been doing 2hrs once a week as we have terrible water pressure here and topping up new plants, the soil is still reading moist today and itâs not due a water for  2 more days. The timer setting down is 1hr every 3 days so think I will leave it for now until we go on holiday and then I will change it to that.Â
Thanks, I had read roses could go two weeks with no issues so itâs reassuring to hear yours are definitely ok with that. I do have a couple in a raised bed so will watch those.
I have not tried leaving the hydrangeas and clematis longer than a week with no water but my Liquidamber trees suffered when we went on holiday for a week recently and they were planted in Feb, so weâve re-routed the irrigation system this week to incorporate them now.Â
I try and do a deep watering of new in roses/shrubs once a week. The rest - no matter how long they have been in - love a deep water too in my garden, and it does help to push blooming and new growth. I am trying it more this year than ever before. But I'm on a meter and in the dry south east.
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Fire, I think you were asking about the Carpet groundcover roses? A friend of mine has the pink one, a decade old- she never waters it or feeds it but it's over 12ft high and never gets blackspot or has any apparent problems.Â
Chandos Beauty is finally opening. It's just enchanting. Probably wouldn't have heard of it but for this thread, so thank you.đș
Love love LOVE that Ruby Mella, Tack- thought it was a clematis at first!
There are plenty of sawfly caterpillars feasting on my roses. I let them be. Also HT roses are very susceptible to BS. If I start stripping off the leaves, the plants will be naked; not nice at all. đđ
Hoping that it will rain đ§ïž soon, otherwise I have to bring out the hosepipe to water the roses. The water bill for this semester is going to be huge, having had a rain-free April.
oops sorry, didnât mean to lead you into temptation
However, where I have the Purple Skyliner, it does suffer with powdery mildew (not so bad this year as I sprayed it early at first signs). It could be positioning as itâs a North West wall. However, Veilchenblau does not seem to be affected but is on the Eastern side. Although  I grow âBlush Noisetteâ alongside the Purple Skylinerâ and that has no powdery mildew at all.Â
Edited to add: we have put in an watering irrigation  system and the hydrangeas need more water than the roses do as do the new trees so trying  to find a balance.Â