Very interesting thank you Marlorena. I have been astonished by GaA and its colour variations only Chippendale of my others is equally chameleon.
Hope everything is well with you @Omori. I bought Madame Isaac P because of your beauty and always hope mine will match, it has not overly impressed till now, it seems to like this heat with only some morning sun. With Pink MartiniLady of S hates the same conditions, the blooms are totally crisped I will spam you with Dames de C as it is looking at its peak now but nobody but me and husband to see it. Such a gorgeous strong but fruity sherbet scent.
Spear and Jackson 8200RS/09 Razorsharp Easy Reach Pruner
Is there an attachment to stop the snipped bits falling into next doors ? I didn't deadhead the back of my Blush Noisette for that reason.
Sorry to hear about the issues with your garden @murasaki, I hope you get it sorted.
On Wed I received my potted sale order from Trevor White. Very pleased with the service and plant as always, Louise Odier to be my new bench side rose after Countess of Wessex failed. Very strongly/sweetly rose scented. Sitting in a tub in my shady admin yard until winter .
First flower on Raymond Carver purchased from Beales potted sale. Faintly but pleasantly scented. Also in a tub in shady yard, no point battling with clay soil in this weather.
Hope you guys are all doing ok with the heat and the watering. I've been harvesting grey and other shades of water for at least 4 weeks now and I had a 3000 litre butt capacity at start of year.
There's been a little wren youngster in the garden the last couple of days and from somewhere a parent wren found a caterpillar or worm not sure from where unless the worms are coming to the surface due to the soapy water I can't feed the birds anymore because of my new neighbours cats (mine are too peaceful/lazy to have any interest in tangling with the wildlife) but I've been feeling sorry for the rooks pecking at bits of litter in the street so have taken to giving them my cat's wet food early in a morning.
Fountain is always doing something since I sadly had to chop down my nearby crab apple. It is never stunning in bloom but almost always present. Post box red in real life.
Looking forward to this merging of roses in the trapezoid bed, hope they don't disappoint President Armand Zinch super-scented super-yellow and the omnipresent Lady Emma Hamilton in second year. Manky leaves in the back ground are older Rhapsody in Blue leaves.
I'm irrationally fond of this tiny flowered, unscented, only moderately healthy rose rose, Celebration 2000.
I think Trevor White are my first choice now if they sell a rose I want. Hope yours do well VictoriaS.
I have that tool Fire, it is brilliant. I went mad with the joy of normally-out-of-reach pruning to start with, I've calmed down a bit now! One thing, I have cracked the grey bit of plastic that holds the trimming by underestimating apple branches.Yes it does hold it well VictoriaS if you cut with the falling off piece on the grey side of the blade. It still works and the blade coped just fine.
I have that tool Fire, it is brilliant. I went mad with the joy of normally-out-of-reach pruning to start with, I've calmed down a bit now!
Yes, I've taken back half of my climbers. Lol. It was joyful to take it out of the box and run out into the garden.
@Victoria Sponge Yes, it does have a "clip and hold" function. I have found that if the clipped piece - like a truss - is a bit heavy, the hold function doesn't work so well. But for simple deadheading, it should be fine.
I've been thinking about my new roses from this year, ones I bought in winter that is. Superstars have been:
Desdemona - grew tall, healthily and flowered profusely. I didn't get a pic when it looked at it's best (so far) but you all know what it looks like Â
Rose de Rescht - rounded shapely growth, floriferous even in a less than amazing spot
The Bishop (L' Eveque at TCL and probably others) - healthy and cheerful, sumptuous colouring and bounces back quickly from enduring cramped living conditionsÂ
I'm going to be churlish and say I'm underwhelmed with Autumn Delight...it is like a less interesting, smaller flowered Stephanie d'Ursel and it has the cold medical scent that always makes me think of a sensible hand cream. Yvonne Rabier and Caroline's Heart have this scent too, but they have other characteristics to recommend them.
I see Thorncroft clematis have a 15% off sale if anyone is in the market.
There's so little going on at the moment I took some aerial (sort of) photos. I also re-wrote my rose wish list but never mind about that for now as it is a bit crazy-lady;)
Nice rounded shape of The Lark Ascending here with scattered flowers only at the mo, and Stephanie d'Ursel, a real work horse. You can see in bottom left how almost every leaf on Penelope has had those under-leaf worms.
It would be nice to have more flowers but pleased that the bare patches are few to looking almost non-existent from this angle. It's hard to keep stuff going all the time. You can see where half of my buddlea has died, the brown tuft of twigs on left of the bridge. It was damaged in storm Arwen and then the first heat wave seemed to finish it off.
The Poet's Wife looking quite sweet in a tumble-down way. It is starting to tumble on the lawn which is what I wanted. Last year it determinedly faced sideways into the other plants.
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Sorry to hear about the issues with your garden @murasaki, I hope you get it sorted.
On Wed I received my potted sale order from Trevor White. Very pleased with the service and plant as always, Louise Odier to be my new bench side rose after Countess of Wessex failed. Very strongly/sweetly rose scented. Sitting in a tub in my shady admin yard until winter
First flower on Raymond Carver purchased from Beales potted sale. Faintly but pleasantly scented. Also in a tub in shady yard, no point battling with clay soil in this weather.
There's been a little wren youngster in the garden the last couple of days and from somewhere a parent wren found a caterpillar or worm not sure from where unless the worms are coming to the surface due to the soapy waterÂ
Fountain is always doing something since I sadly had to chop down my nearby crab apple. It is never stunning in bloom but almost always present. Post box red in real life.
Looking forward to this merging of roses in the trapezoid bed, hope they don't disappoint
I'm irrationally fond of this tiny flowered, unscented, only moderately healthy rose rose, Celebration 2000.
Oooh, good int, thanks @Tack
I've been thinking about my new roses from this year, ones I bought in winter that is. Superstars have been:
Desdemona - grew tall, healthily and flowered profusely. I didn't get a pic when it looked at it's best (so far) but you all know what it looks likeÂ
Rose de Rescht - rounded shapely growth, floriferous even in a less than amazing spot
The Bishop (L' Eveque at TCL and probably others) - healthy and cheerful, sumptuous colouring and bounces back quickly from enduring cramped living conditionsÂ
I'm going to be churlish and say I'm underwhelmed with Autumn Delight...it is like a less interesting, smaller flowered Stephanie d'Ursel and it has the cold medical scent that always makes me think of a sensible hand cream. Yvonne Rabier and Caroline's Heart have this scent too, but they have other characteristics to recommend them.
I see Thorncroft clematis have a 15% off sale if anyone is in the market.
There's so little going on at the moment I took some aerial (sort of) photos. I also re-wrote my rose wish list but never mind about that for now as it is a bit crazy-lady;)
Nice rounded shape of The Lark Ascending here with scattered flowers only at the mo, and Stephanie d'Ursel, a real work horse. You can see in bottom left how almost every leaf on Penelope has had those under-leaf worms.
It would be nice to have more flowers but pleased that the bare patches are few to looking almost non-existent from this angle. It's hard to keep stuff going all the time. You can see where half of my buddlea has died, the brown tuft of twigs on left of the bridge. It was damaged in storm Arwen and then the first heat wave seemed to finish it off.
The Poet's Wife looking quite sweet in a tumble-down way. It is starting to tumble on the lawn which is what I wanted. Last year it determinedly faced sideways into the other plants.