In the waiting for the rain here too, I am looking at some roses with deep colors. Wonderful roses you all, right now my roses are a poor seeing, burned and no blooms
Has any of you the Westerland? I like its color, but from its description and comments in various sites I can’t understand if it is really floriferous and if it is shade tolerant. Also I need a rose that will reach at least 2,5 m height, does it get there?
@dabolem ..Yes it does, easily, but you can keep it shorter..
Another week of near 90F coming up, a whole week of it... way too much, I've almost given up here for the summer, it's beyond ridiculous..Â
Just 2.. 'Wilhelm'.. one of my best roses right now, mostly unscented by surprisingly an occasional flower has a warm sweet clove scent that is not apparent in the rest of the cluster. I'm not sure I've known this peculiar feature in a rose before.. 'Forever Royal'.. never stops.. never watered, but well established..Â
Oh, I might have to get Odyssey, it is lovely isn't it? It has been on and off my list for a few years after seeing it on here.
Hope everyone that has been unwell is recovering and I hope @newbie77 enjoys a well earned break away.
Congrats on the new girl @Nollie, she looks a smasher and hope she gets on ok with your older fellow. I was admiring your Harlow Carr. I remember you saying it was small in your border I think. The petal arrangement is really sweet I think.
Thank you @cooldoc and @Marlorena for your additional photos and opinions on Gruss an Teplitz. I'm not sure I have space to train it to the sides for flowering, I might have to look for a large upright shrub for my space. A red would be a perfect colour, will have to look out for a 6x4 specimen although I have a Black Prince on order already which I could put there. I ordered it for another space but will have a think.
@SYinUSA, you have some large and robust roses there. Look forward to seeing more of your garden.
You must have a decent sized garden @Eustace? You seem to have a bit of everything growing, I hope your grapes do well and your Hibiscus are beautiful, not something I see around very often. Beautiful raggedy blooms on Super Dorothy, I wonder if all the Supers have flower shapes like that...I might investigate.
A couple of new 'hand helds'
Sunny Day sold as 'Our Rose' from Trevor White. First flower. A nice yellow-yellow.
La Villa Cotta, first flower. This is doing ok for the location it is in but if it is too pink I might move it. Only a FF though so will see how it gets on.
Has anyone done any ordering yet? I'm going to have a look through TW's potted sale after this (just for research ). I have ordered with Beales and TCL. @Marlorena's Forever Royal is growing on me so I might add to my TCL list. I had two unplanned/no-space purchases on there, a couple of Gallicas but now I have found space for them it seems less reckless to add another
Some of you might remember me opining and being boring about a cream rose I wanted for a space in my only bed, where I dug out an old washing line pole base. I have ordered two Matthias Claudius, a Tantau rose from TCL I have never heard of. Â
Front garden seems less colourful than last year unless I am mis-remembering. Celebration 2000, Stephanie d'Ursel and The Lark Ascending here. The maroon plant at base are a couple of herbaceous potentilla I am trying to make an edge of around the paving (work in progress). Flanders looking pinkish here, but is red in real life with a few Larks Ascending. Stephanie d'Ursel with helianthus and buphthalmum in the background. Bup is much smaller this year, consequence of a dry year.
Some non-roses/companions
Bees are loving the globe thistles huge and ugly though they are, also the hollyhocks. Ness in foreground. I have a few named lythrum, this is a species salicaria from Beth Chatto which is quite sweet in its simplicity. Fountain in background.
I think all my roses would be repeating much better wth rain, but they, at least, seem to be alive.
Moonlight is more or less continuous in blooming, if constantly dead headed. I like the big boughs of blooms it throws upon its own.
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Etoile, dotted with red pops. Long canes are making for a good arbour over the eating area. Again, it seems to repeat throughout, as long as continuously dead headed, which is tricky, at height. It loves watering, but I've done little with the roses this year.
Haha, that's nice of you @Desi_in_London. I'm quite fond of them as the bees love them and they grow on fresh air. They are not a special named sort, just a perennial grown from seed.
Thanks to whoever mentioned the TW potted sale, I think it was @WhereAreMySecateurs. I've just ordered Louise Odier. I could have got it cheaper bare root but for the location it is going in it would be beneficial to already be of some height.
@Victoria Sponge lovely garden and nice collection of roses too. I like how you have transformed your front garden to be so colourful. And the cactus 🌵 is looking very nice. 👍
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
Sorry to hear you are about to suffer again @Marlorena, it’s been much hotter than usual here too. Me and the roses are more used to it of course, but even so, as I get older, severe heat gets ever more difficult to deal with. That is intriguing about Wilhelm’s single scented flower..
@Tack Julia is taking turn and turn about it seems, mine sulked for months after the late April frosts blackened all her new growth, but came good eventually. Marie Pavie did the same, which was disappointing after such a fantastically long and floriferous 2021 season. I don’t envy you battling horsetail.
@Victoria Sponge yes Harlow Carr does keep small, repeats well and is is very healthy - if you don’t mind the viscous thorns, which I’ve got used to. The downward facing blooms are a bit of a pain though. I think pitter-patter had the right idea getting a standard HC. Thanks, yes finger’s firmly crossed Bill copes OK with the new fur ball🤞Â
As predicted, Soul has paid the price for that extremely welcome but very heavy downpour. Still smells devine though and a nice pop of colour from a distance:
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Wonderful roses you all, right now my roses are a poor seeing, burned and no blooms
Has any of you the Westerland? I like its color, but from its description and comments in various sites I can’t understand if it is really floriferous and if it is shade tolerant. Also I need a rose that will reach at least 2,5 m height, does it get there?
..Yes it does, easily, but you can keep it shorter..
Another week of near 90F coming up, a whole week of it... way too much, I've almost given up here for the summer, it's beyond ridiculous..Â
Just 2..
'Wilhelm'.. one of my best roses right now, mostly unscented by surprisingly an occasional flower has a warm sweet clove scent that is not apparent in the rest of the cluster. I'm not sure I've known this peculiar feature in a rose before..
'Forever Royal'.. never stops.. never watered, but well established..Â
Hope everyone that has been unwell is recovering and I hope @newbie77 enjoys a well earned break away.
Congrats on the new girl @Nollie, she looks a smasher and hope she gets on ok with your older fellow. I was admiring your Harlow Carr. I remember you saying it was small in your border I think. The petal arrangement is really sweet I think.
Thank you @cooldoc and @Marlorena for your additional photos and opinions on Gruss an Teplitz. I'm not sure I have space to train it to the sides for flowering, I might have to look for a large upright shrub for my space. A red would be a perfect colour, will have to look out for a 6x4 specimen although I have a Black Prince on order already which I could put there. I ordered it for another space but will have a think.
@SYinUSA, you have some large and robust roses there. Look forward to seeing more of your garden.
You must have a decent sized garden @Eustace? You seem to have a bit of everything growing, I hope your grapes do well and your Hibiscus are beautiful, not something I see around very often. Beautiful raggedy blooms on Super Dorothy, I wonder if all the Supers have flower shapes like that...I might investigate.
A couple of new 'hand helds'
Sunny Day sold as 'Our Rose' from Trevor White. First flower. A nice yellow-yellow.
La Villa Cotta, first flower. This is doing ok for the location it is in but if it is too pink I might move it. Only a FF though so will see how it gets on.
Some of you might remember me opining and being boring about a cream rose I wanted for a space in my only bed, where I dug out an old washing line pole base. I have ordered two Matthias Claudius, a Tantau rose from TCL I have never heard of. Â
Front garden seems less colourful than last year unless I am mis-remembering. Celebration 2000, Stephanie d'Ursel and The Lark Ascending here. The maroon plant at base are a couple of herbaceous potentilla I am trying to make an edge of around the paving (work in progress).
Flanders looking pinkish here, but is red in real life with a few Larks Ascending.
Stephanie d'Ursel with helianthus and buphthalmum in the background. Bup is much smaller this year, consequence of a dry year.
Some non-roses/companions
Bees are loving the globe thistles huge and ugly though they are, also the hollyhocks. Ness in foreground.
I have a few named lythrum, this is a species salicaria from Beth Chatto which is quite sweet in its simplicity. Fountain in background.
Thanks to whoever mentioned the TW potted sale, I think it was @WhereAreMySecateurs. I've just ordered Louise Odier. I could have got it cheaper bare root but for the location it is going in it would be beneficial to already be of some height.
Sorry to hear you are about to suffer again @Marlorena, it’s been much hotter than usual here too. Me and the roses are more used to it of course, but even so, as I get older, severe heat gets ever more difficult to deal with. That is intriguing about Wilhelm’s single scented flower..
@Tack Julia is taking turn and turn about it seems, mine sulked for months after the late April frosts blackened all her new growth, but came good eventually. Marie Pavie did the same, which was disappointing after such a fantastically long and floriferous 2021 season. I don’t envy you battling horsetail.
@Victoria Sponge yes Harlow Carr does keep small, repeats well and is is very healthy - if you don’t mind the viscous thorns, which I’ve got used to. The downward facing blooms are a bit of a pain though. I think pitter-patter had the right idea getting a standard HC. Thanks, yes finger’s firmly crossed Bill copes OK with the new fur ball🤞Â