... very little black spot here this summer due to low humidity, below 50%, but I had a shower of rain the other night, and now it's 83%..
'Desdemona' always in flower without much help from me.. ..some photos of 'Forever Royal'.. I've had more pleasure from this one rose than any number of Munstead Wood's..
I have a mini pond coming along, not quite finished...
@Victoria Sponge I have Gruss an Teplitz in a big pot.. first year from bare root.. Throws up lot of canes 4-5ft easily I think.. blooms normally at the end in clusters.. the blooms are small.. necks are weak which is good for a climber I feel.. blooms are not fully packed.. so the stamens can be accessed and the bees love it.. Fragrance is just awesome.. sweeeeeeet... no wonder the bees are attrcted to it.. Now with proper training you can get laterals all over.. I cannot drill the walls, and hence I leave her/him to be a free standing.. difficult to picture it.. but there are blooms open behind other roses in there.. @Marlorena had it with some beautiful pics to go with it..
Not sure if you can see the laterals with buds (from alternating nodes) on one of the laterally trained shoot..
@dabolem TZ has massively improved on its 2nd year in all aspects.. bloom frequency, scent...It does not produce much basals, but the branching is good enough to produce a good shape..
This pic of Artemis was taken few days ago.. as I knew something will go wrong with all that weight.. din't expect it to happen this soon.. was gutted when it got partially broken/ compressed in the rain and winds we had in the last 2 days..
..all those buds on 'Artemis'.. a rose I should love to try again, but it didn't enjoy my dry soil conditions.. Â
@cooldoc I'm surprised you remembered I had 'Gruss an Teplitz'.. a shorter red climbing rose with a scent to die for.. I grew it next to 'Lady of Shalott'.. I loved the Spring foliage too.. always in bloom and vigorous.. it did well in my dry border without supplemental watering..
(These aren't going to be beautiful pictures of roses - more of a cautionary tale than inspiration!) I did a quick-and-dirty rejuvenation pruning of 4 rose bushes at our old house (we still own it but don't visit frequently) that haven't been touched for 10 years. My hands are going to need a month to recover!
I was a beginning gardener with an infant, so I chose knockouts for their ease. I had 2 double pinks, one double red, and a rainbow (pink with yellow centers). If you leave them to their own devices, the doubles will get extremely large! The red and one of the pinks were about 10' tall.
The trunk of that pink was quite thick, and everything was growing off that trunk.
I cut the oldest, woodiest parts off. Some of it was too thick for the shears I had, so I just cut as low as I could. It probably needed even more, but I only had a couple of hours to do 4 bushes.
The rainbow stayed shorter (only 5' or so and covered in morning glory here) but had an almost weeping habit of long thin canes. Regular pruning would probably help.
I was in such a time crunch I didn't even get after photos of this one, or any photos at all of the red.Â
That all said, these have been disease-free and free-flowering for over 10 years with no pruning, fertilization, or supplemental watering. The knockout family is relatively carefree, but occasional maintenance is still required to keep them from becoming monsters.
@Marlorena that was on just one cane which had shot up above the rest.. others were its usual 4-5 buds ber stem.. This is why I said earlier that I enjoyed the dry hot conditions better than the wet season here.. (can't say I did not enjoy the cool weather that followed) rain and wind combo is not good.. balling, top heavy stems snapping off..... I know I know.. I should probably stop bickering when people are having brown lawns everywhere...
regarding GAT- did you train it along the wall or was it free standing for you?
Many crisped roses around here: Mum in a million HT roses Louis de Funes - another orange rose I like, but for its bad BS. Probably it is less now because of this lack of humidity. It says 'disease-resistant' on the tin, but that is not true. Munstead Wood - among the tomato plants. That plant is an intruder, I should have removed a while back, but never got around to it. Darcey Bussel - elegant as ever. Westerland in its first year.
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
That looks like hard yakka, SYinUSA. I am not sure what a knockout rose is (an American brand, I take it) but they seem pretty remarkable.
Darcey looks beautiful, @Eustace. I'm imagining a ballet-themed island bed with a Darcey standard, a little circle of Ballerina roses around her- what else? There's a Pirouette, a Sadler's Wells, a Bolshoi, a Swan Lake, a Pas de Deux. Could I shoehorn in South African activist "Leah Tutu"? Â Sadly "Margot Fonteyn" (my hero) doesn't seem to be in commerce anymore.Â
Tax: Gladiolus "Butterfly Belinda", Boule de Neige, Eustacia Vye.
@WhereAreMySecateurs Yes, Knock Out is an American brand of a family of about 10 roses but I thought I'd seen it mentioned on the forum previously. It is not for a rosarian - I've seen it described as only a small step up from plastic flowers. Individual flowers are small and unremarkable, but shrubs are covered in flowers, it is disease free (in 20 years I've never seen black spot on one before), it repeats flowering from spring to freeze, and it self cleans. In the US if you see a rose in a parking lot median or commercial property, it is guaranteed to be a Knock Out rose.Â
I've thought about doing a themed flower bed like that - probably not ballet-themed but maybe literature? I've been eyeing the Roald Dahl, Desdemona, and Emily Bronte. Lots to choose from in roses, not so sure about other flowers.
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... very little black spot here this summer due to low humidity, below 50%, but I had a shower of rain the other night, and now it's 83%..
'Desdemona' always in flower without much help from me..
..some photos of 'Forever Royal'.. I've had more pleasure from this one rose than any number of Munstead Wood's..
I have a mini pond coming along, not quite finished...
Not sure if you can see the laterals with buds (from alternating nodes) on one of the laterally trained shoot..
@dabolem TZ has massively improved on its 2nd year in all aspects.. bloom frequency, scent...It does not produce much basals, but the branching is good enough to produce a good shape..
This pic of Artemis was taken few days ago.. as I knew something will go wrong with all that weight.. din't expect it to happen this soon.. was gutted when it got partially broken/ compressed in the rain and winds we had in the last 2 days..
@cooldoc
I'm surprised you remembered I had 'Gruss an Teplitz'.. a shorter red climbing rose with a scent to die for..
I grew it next to 'Lady of Shalott'.. I loved the Spring foliage too.. always in bloom and vigorous.. it did well in my dry border without supplemental watering..
I was a beginning gardener with an infant, so I chose knockouts for their ease. I had 2 double pinks, one double red, and a rainbow (pink with yellow centers). If you leave them to their own devices, the doubles will get extremely large! The red and one of the pinks were about 10' tall.
The trunk of that pink was quite thick, and everything was growing off that trunk.
I cut the oldest, woodiest parts off. Some of it was too thick for the shears I had, so I just cut as low as I could. It probably needed even more, but I only had a couple of hours to do 4 bushes.
The rainbow stayed shorter (only 5' or so and covered in morning glory here) but had an almost weeping habit of long thin canes. Regular pruning would probably help.
I was in such a time crunch I didn't even get after photos of this one, or any photos at all of the red.Â
That all said, these have been disease-free and free-flowering for over 10 years with no pruning, fertilization, or supplemental watering. The knockout family is relatively carefree, but occasional maintenance is still required to keep them from becoming monsters.
that was on just one cane which had shot up above the rest.. others were its usual 4-5 buds ber stem.. This is why I said earlier that I enjoyed the dry hot conditions better than the wet season here.. (can't say I did not enjoy the cool weather that followed) rain and wind combo is not good.. balling, top heavy stems snapping off..... I know I know.. I should probably stop bickering when people are having brown lawns everywhere...
regarding GAT- did you train it along the wall or was it free standing for you?
.. I trained it, I had vine eyes inserted into the wall and tied back to those..
Mum in a millionÂ
HT roses
Louis de Funes - another orange rose I like, but for its bad BS. Probably it is less now because of this lack of humidity. It says 'disease-resistant' on the tin, but that is not true.
Munstead Wood - among the tomato plants. That plant is an intruder, I should have removed a while back, but never got around to it.
Darcey Bussel - elegant as ever.
Westerland in its first year.
Darcey looks beautiful, @Eustace. I'm imagining a ballet-themed island bed with a Darcey standard, a little circle of Ballerina roses around her- what else? There's a Pirouette, a Sadler's Wells, a Bolshoi, a Swan Lake, a Pas de Deux. Could I shoehorn in South African activist "Leah Tutu"?
Tax: Gladiolus "Butterfly Belinda", Boule de Neige, Eustacia Vye.
I've thought about doing a themed flower bed like that - probably not ballet-themed but maybe literature? I've been eyeing the Roald Dahl, Desdemona, and Emily Bronte. Lots to choose from in roses, not so sure about other flowers.