@Victoria Sponge I feel sure the yellow rose on the right is DA The Pilgrim. Will double check tomorrow when I go over there. (Across the road!) My daughter has just bought me Rosa Ebb Tide which hopefully will be a deep purple but where I am going to plant it I do not know.Â
For me Elizabeth's fragrance is similar to Emily.. as the flowers are, the scent is short lived as well.. a month ago I could'n smell anything from Elizabeth but now it has gotten stronger.. interesting to see how others feel..
New purchases always brings a smile, don't they @Victoria Sponge love the Nuits..
Welcome @Veilchenblau, lovely roses and garden, thank you for sharing them. Had to snigger as the first thing I did was google Snow Goose and I see many others had the same thought , I can't have a tender rose unfortunately. I really like that fluffy petal look it has though.
Thanks for the warm welcome @Victoria Sponge  Haha I didn’t realise Snow Goose was a bit of an enigma. I do love it, one of my easiest roses to care for and it does well on my south facing wall.Â
We visited my favourite garden centre today and if it was not for this extreme heat, I would have come home with this DA beauties today (to join Lady of Shallot):
Desdemona (I had purchased one previously but it didn’t survive its winter planting), Roald Dahl and Vanessa Bell.
If anyone could please tell me any of the pros or cons of this three varieties I would greatly appreciate itÂ
Is there any point buying potted roses now? Tempted to one last fling this summer (Emily Brontë) but not sure how many blooms there'd be left this year.
I have Roald Dahl in a pot and Vanessa Bell in the ground, both in full sun, and both bought as potted roses last summer. Both are really great roses — flowering well in distinct flushes for me; minimal nodding of blooms; healthy leaves with no blackspot or mildew; some sawfly activity but I squish the ones I find. They hold on to old petals well and the flowers are unfazed by rain and don’t crisp in the heat — so far (we have an unprecedented 39C predicted tomorrow, will see how things go).
Roald Dahl has a nice bushy habit, and I love the colour changing from orange buds to peach waterlily-like flowers to faded apricot. The only thing is, despite what the DA website says, it has almost no scent, or at least mine doesn’t.
Vanessa Bell is slightly taller with a slightly looser habit, but still bushy. Again the colours and flower form are lovely, from buttery yellow to an elegant cream-white. The scent is citrus and ginger, perhaps an unkind person might say it had hints of lemon cleaning fluid about it. The fragrance doesn’t waft about, you have to stick your nose in to smell it.
In short, I don’t think you can go wrong with either rose.
Here’s my Roald Dahl this morning:
Vanessa Bell is resting between flushes, which is probably best given tomorrow and Tuesday’s heat:
I too have all the three you have mentioned @Veilchenblau. @Athelas has given a good comparison of these roses. To add on, my personal favourite is Desdemona for its cupped blooms and plentiful flowering. Vanessa Bell is however quite upright, if you are looking for that quality. I'm rather underwhelmed by potted Roald Dahl; it is stingy with flowers compared to the above 2. Mine is lagging far behind compared with that of @celcius_kkw. May be it needs some cajoling.
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My daughter has just bought me Rosa Ebb Tide which hopefully will be a deep purple but where I am going to plant it I do not know.Â
Good point about genders in the grammar of other languages, @dabolem
Ebb Tide has a delicious, Christmassy fragrance as well as gorgeous blooms, @Fran IOM. So lovely of your daughter!
Elizabeth is very pretty there,Â
@Lizzie27. I wonder how its scent compares with Emily Bronte's.
New purchases always brings a smile, don't they @Victoria Sponge love the Nuits..
Haha I didn’t realise Snow Goose was a bit of an enigma. I do love it, one of my easiest roses to care for and it does well on my south facing wall.Â
Desdemona (I had purchased one previously but it didn’t survive its winter planting), Roald Dahl and Vanessa Bell.
If anyone could please tell me any of the pros or cons of this three varieties I would greatly appreciate itÂ
Is there any point buying potted roses now? Tempted to one last fling this summer (Emily Brontë) but not sure how many blooms there'd be left this year.
I have Roald Dahl in a pot and Vanessa Bell in the ground, both in full sun, and both bought as potted roses last summer. Both are really great roses — flowering well in distinct flushes for me; minimal nodding of blooms; healthy leaves with no blackspot or mildew; some sawfly activity but I squish the ones I find. They hold on to old petals well and the flowers are unfazed by rain and don’t crisp in the heat — so far (we have an unprecedented 39C predicted tomorrow, will see how things go).
Roald Dahl has a nice bushy habit, and I love the colour changing from orange buds to peach waterlily-like flowers to faded apricot. The only thing is, despite what the DA website says, it has almost no scent, or at least mine doesn’t.
Vanessa Bell is slightly taller with a slightly looser habit, but still bushy. Again the colours and flower form are lovely, from buttery yellow to an elegant cream-white. The scent is citrus and ginger, perhaps an unkind person might say it had hints of lemon cleaning fluid about it. The fragrance doesn’t waft about, you have to stick your nose in to smell it.
In short, I don’t think you can go wrong with either rose.
Here’s my Roald Dahl this morning: