'Chippendale' 'Faustinia' 'La Belle Rouge' 'Gertrude Jekyll' 'Super Excelsa' with a bumblebee (top left) Roses visible here: 'Gertrude Jekyll', 'La Belle Rouge', 'Faustinia' Also, almost everything in this bed is loved and very much visited by bees - allium sphaerocephalon, scabiosa ochroleuca, Dutch lavender and geranium 'Azure rush' are a hit but other plants, including the rose, are also visited. Scabious is also loved by butterflies.
@Marlorena It all looks very good, despite your dry conditions. 'Scented Garden' looks like an exceptional rose for you. Mine is slower to repeat because it is in partial shade, it does well there but flowers less.
@Discandied Nice subtle stripes. It reminds me of a rose I used to have, 'Vick's Caprice', it had to go because of too much disease and not enough vigour.Â
@Nollie I tend to see these deeper colours on roses going into autumn. Although we're not into autumn yet the temperature here is at least 15 degrees cooler than when the heatwave was at its hottest, so perhaps the roses react to a drop in temperature, rather than the degrees showing on the thermometer? Whatever the reason, the result is pleasing to the eye.Â
Hi all, been quiet for a few weeks with horrible covid. Still utterly exhausted and coughing but getting there. Im way behind on here, only on page 336! Garden was a bit neglected whilst I was ill, bar some hasty pot watering, and ive added saucers to them all as well. Second flush just starting, need to feed them, but lots of new growth. The new Austins this year especially are rebudding profusely. Lady Em, summer song, Munstead; 1
I too have had covid @JessicaS , it is not nice, and as you say it's weeks before you feel you have any energy, and yes I still have the cough. As to roses my eight week old Desdemona is putting on a second flush, the flowers are not as big as first time and its getting a bit straggly, ( is this usual) and the foliage has been caught by something ( sun?) but it is still beautiful to me. The difference in colour on the Celebration is striking And the buds of the Ruby Wedding are deep red I love the furry looking leaves.
I am growing my Honorine on a pillar too, but a little anxious it will prove too unruly - it is already quite a significant size. I saw a large mature specimen at Mottisfont and I hope I can keep mine smaller. Either way I will still enjoy it for now.
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'Faustinia'
'La Belle Rouge'
'Gertrude Jekyll'
'Super Excelsa' with a bumblebee (top left)
Roses visible here: 'Gertrude Jekyll', 'La Belle Rouge', 'Faustinia'
Also, almost everything in this bed is loved and very much visited by bees - allium sphaerocephalon, scabiosa ochroleuca, Dutch lavender and geranium 'Azure rush' are a hit but other plants, including the rose, are also visited. Scabious is also loved by butterflies.
@Suesyn Thanks.
@Discandied Nice subtle stripes. It reminds me of a rose I used to have, 'Vick's Caprice', it had to go because of too much disease and not enough vigour.Â
Really wishing for some rain here but there’s nothing in the forecastÂ
Vanessa Bell, some blooms rather yellow
Although we're not into autumn yet the temperature here is at least 15 degrees cooler than when the heatwave was at its hottest, so perhaps the roses react to a drop in temperature, rather than the degrees showing on the thermometer? Whatever the reason, the result is pleasing to the eye.Â
Garden was a bit neglected whilst I was ill, bar some hasty pot watering, and ive added saucers to them all as well. Second flush just starting, need to feed them, but lots of new growth. The new Austins this year especially are rebudding profusely.
Lady Em, summer song, Munstead;
As to roses my eight week old Desdemona is putting on a second flush, the flowers are not as big as first time and its getting a bit straggly, ( is this usual) and the foliage has been caught by something ( sun?) but it is still beautiful to me.
The difference in colour on the Celebration is strikingÂ
And the buds of the Ruby Wedding are deep red
I love the furry looking leaves.