Here also thundershowers were forecast from 3 pm onwards with 89% chance; not even a drop or a dark cloud. Golden Showers, The Churchill, Wisley and an yellow Tigridia.
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
I also feel pressured/guilty binning perfectly good roses just because they sent the wrong ones, such a waste. Sometimes it works to your advantage, so nice one @WhereAreMySecateurs.Â
Dewilde has acknowledged they sent me WS2000 instead of The Prince and promised to send the real deal in the autumn, so I may finally get a matching pair around my door.
Love Song is in my east garden but catches the full glare from the south through a gap in the trees. My second best Weeks rose after Julia child. Not as prolific as JC but tolerating this heat pretty well, should be even better for you @Tack:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thank you for that info Nollie, you and I think one other on here put me onto wanting it. I plan to put Love song in an east-facing border which has large trees to the south so doesn't get full sun from noonish, plenty of light though. Sounds like it might work.
I hope you like Albrighton Rambler @WhereAreMySecateurs, as you say not many people can accommodate an unwanted rambler, I wouldn't. My freebies, 3 of them, I am very happy about (Blue River, Eden, Susan Williams-Ellis). I do quite fancy that PAOK though, I hope all three roses do well for you.
Thanks, Tack. Those are three fabulous roses to get free! The Albrighton (no idea how to pronounce that!) Rambler was never on my radar but the flowers are just my cup of tea.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone. Hope everyone who needs rain gets some!
Dr Jamain is grown as a shrub at Sissinghurst. I grow it as a climber to about 3m. Is an unhealthy rose more likely to conserve energy as a contained, smaller shrub? Is it being over stretched?
My Jamain is planted at the foot of a damson tree. I used to try to encourage it to bedeck the branches. "One flower or two, Woodgreen?"
Southwesterly gales and honey fungus-rotted roots blew the tree askew, and it was pushed back upright and propped. Storm Arwen attacked from the northeast and blew the tree the other way, off its props.
By the time spring arrived Jamain was freestanding, with a look of "What the hell happened?" about it. And gave me more blooms than ever before.....
... so, maybe it does prefer to be compact... I do get loads of flowers from it. It's just totally wrecked and crusted by black spot. Is yours @Woodgreen ?
It does get some black spot, but not too bad this year. It's isolated from other roses. Â (Elsewhere, nearer the house where roses are closer together or against walls, there has been really bad black spot, the worst I've seen in thirty years of gardening here.)
I hope to move Jamain to the north facing front of the house in winter, but grow it as a shrub. The wall is white roughcast so I think the deep red flowers will show to advantage there.Â
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Golden Showers, The Churchill, Wisley and an yellow Tigridia.
Dewilde has acknowledged they sent me WS2000 instead of The Prince and promised to send the real deal in the autumn, so I may finally get a matching pair around my door.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone. Hope everyone who needs rain gets some!
Pheno Geno 'Draga' ('Hallie') starting to open this morning
And six and a half hours later...
"One flower or two, Woodgreen?"
Southwesterly gales and honey fungus-rotted roots blew the tree askew, and it was pushed back upright and propped. Storm Arwen attacked from the northeast and blew the tree the other way, off its props.
By the time spring arrived Jamain was freestanding, with a look of "What the hell happened?" about it. And gave me more blooms than ever before.....
 (Elsewhere, nearer the house where roses are closer together or against walls, there has been really bad black spot, the worst I've seen in thirty years of gardening here.)
I hope to move Jamain to the north facing front of the house in winter, but grow it as a shrub. The wall is white roughcast so I think the deep red flowers will show to advantage there.Â