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ROSES: Spring/Summer 2022 🌹

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  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    She's an utter darling, @Nollie.
  • cooldoccooldoc Posts: 853
    edited August 2022
    @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?
    A rose lover from West midlands
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @cooldoc
    .. I trained it, I had vine eyes inserted into the wall and tied back to those..
    East Anglia, England
  • SYinUSASYinUSA Posts: 243
    @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. 

    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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