Thank-you for the replies. It has been fed manure at planting time, top dressed again around March and fed some liquid tomato feed from time to time. The 2 outer canes are at 45ish degrees for about 3 feet then horizontal in a wire and 2 canes growing up the middle. As I say it looks OK, just lacking flowers so I will see what next year brings.
In the meantime have a picture of my joie de vivre. 😀
I would think just patience too @Emptyheadtime, some roses are just a lot slower to get going than others and climbers often spend their first year just putting down roots and not much else. I also had a quick gander online and no, there is not much info out there, but a couple of ratings on helpmefind did indicate it was not the most prolific of bloomers..
Talking of roses slow to get going, for a theoretically prolific ground cover rose Avalanche Abricot has been a very slow starter with an angular, arkward habit and few blooms. Doubtless it will get going in time, but I’m presently calling it Glacial Abricot:
Julia Child unusually stopped blooming in the worst of the heat but now waking up:
My Ghislaine de Feligonde standard is filling out really well and having a modest second flush. However, I’ve already removed two suckers from the top graft, one from the trunk and two from the base rootstock. Seems a lot for a standard that was only planted in Spring?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
'Indigoletta' is another version of 'climbing Blue Moon', marketed under a different - unapproved - name... one of two 'sports' of the bush rose, one found in Holland the other in Australia, but as it's a separate clone, it may have different characteristics, such as more or less freedom of flower, even a different scent. Style Roses in England sell 'Climbing Blue Moon' but I don't know which one they have, and how different the two clones are I wouldn't know, as I've not grown them... but for commercial reasons, the Dutch one got called 'Indigoletta'... the Australian clone 'climbing Blue Moon'...
Best let it grow a bit and see how it does next year, if not satisfactory then you might want to reconsider your options with it..
High Summer, time to take it easy, but 'Bring Me Sunshine' is hugely impressing me with its next flush.. both flowers and healthy shapely growth, I have no problems with this rose and starting to wish I had another.. 'Elizabeth'.. I agree with Cooldoc, the scent has improved tremendously.. I shall be planting this on an obelisk.. 'Forever Royal' one of my best roses, 5 x 5 feet and currently full of buds.. I've no idea why I don't have 3 of this considering my conditions..
I've given up watering, so this is the effect on one of my worst affected roses... too bad..Â
regardless, having completed my recent cull, I'm back in the market for another rose..  I'm looking forward to my choices..Â
Bring me sunshine.. a 5 foot upright cane with buds at the end broke off in the wind (that's what my boys said.. not sure if I can trust them after they broke off the top bit of my Lily)Â
Twilight zone.. (the flower on the left is Grafin Diana).. this has improved drastically in its second year.. and I was going all wrong about its scent.. its stronger in the mornings.. (either that or it improved in the scent department as well with time)..
In terms of fragrance, Elizabeth is almost there with Emily Bronte (last pic).. almost..
Clementina Carbonieri.. I never thought I could actually smell that Tea scent in a rose.. impressive flowering as well considering its a tiny specimen..
Lily along with Summer romance.. both were broken off due to different reasons.. (kids having holidays + broken bits in the garden when I am not around... hmmmmm......)
Returning home from away, I see that several long canes have snapped off. I have to decide if I'm going to continue tying the long ones in or cutting them back as laterals.
Snap, cooldoc. A long cane was mysteriously snapped off a rose on my back fence near where my dog and daughter were playing football this afternoon. Got my perlite and my rooting powder and my eternal optimism... lol
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In the meantime have a picture of my joie de vivre. 😀
Talking of roses slow to get going, for a theoretically prolific ground cover rose Avalanche Abricot has been a very slow starter with an angular, arkward habit and few blooms. Doubtless it will get going in time, but I’m presently calling it Glacial Abricot:
Julia Child unusually stopped blooming in the worst of the heat but now waking up:
Style Roses in England sell 'Climbing Blue Moon' but I don't know which one they have, and how different the two clones are I wouldn't know, as I've not grown them... but for commercial reasons, the Dutch one got called 'Indigoletta'... the Australian clone 'climbing Blue Moon'...
Best let it grow a bit and see how it does next year, if not satisfactory then you might want to reconsider your options with it..
'Elizabeth'.. I agree with Cooldoc, the scent has improved tremendously.. I shall be planting this on an obelisk..
'Forever Royal' one of my best roses, 5 x 5 feet and currently full of buds.. I've no idea why I don't have 3 of this considering my conditions..
I've given up watering, so this is the effect on one of my worst affected roses... too bad..Â
regardless, having completed my recent cull, I'm back in the market for another rose.. Â
I'm looking forward to my choices..Â
In terms of fragrance, Elizabeth is almost there with Emily Bronte (last pic).. almost..
Clementina Carbonieri.. I never thought I could actually smell that Tea scent in a rose.. impressive flowering as well considering its a tiny specimen..
Lily along with Summer romance.. both were broken off due to different reasons.. (kids having holidays + broken bits in the garden when I am not around... hmmmmm......)