thank you everyone for your support and encouragement, i really appreciate it! i have had a few rough days, but i will come back with an update as soon as possible! i am trying to remain optimistic...
Scorching in my back suntrap... Have had family staying and been enjoying eating outside when cooler. Bronchitis finally getting better so hoping I can get out and garden next weekend though!
Popped to a garden centre today, blue diamond one, great selection of roses (and clematis..) as they are Fryers roses stockists of which I have a few, but also had a big stand of David austin... there was one potted Queen of Sweden left.... been eying it for ages, so home it came! Its going out the front, when the weather cools/ Autumn.
Ive got the same long snips too and did the same enthusiastic deadhead of high roses when I got mine too!
That’s a very impressive crab apple @Mr. Vine Eye, sadly mine got badly burnt so no fruit at all this year! I love Gaura, always in flower, although it does need watering regularly here.
Lots more to come on Palais Biron:
Mme. Antoine Mari is not proving as weatherproof as I had hoped. Lower blooms are OK but those near the top, not so much. Not sure if the second bloom got caught by strong sun or heavy rain though, we had both yesterday:
Golden Celebration back to being golden:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Whites and creams are prevailing just now. Feeling inspired by @Veilchenblau to get lots more white next year, too, if possible.
Albrighton Rambler, Chandos Beauty, Lark, Emily, Tranquillity, Boule de Neige.
Chandos Beauty is looking much healthier and less munched now, so I'll put its earlier insect-addled state down to the lilies which were previously in bloom beside it. Smells as good as Ferdinand Pichard. Some of Gruss an Aachen is so pink again. But I still feel I need the pink version that Marlorena has told us about. I love it that these are off the same plant!
More pink (Ferdinand Pichard (smells incredible), EV, Queen Elizabeth(?), Rose des Cisterciens, Dee-Lish, Gabriel Oak, PAoK.
And while posting that (over several hours...), my local rose friend has said she'll drop off William and Catherine to me on Wednesday, so... more whites it is.
Congrats on QoS, @JessicaS. I don't have it but it's gorgeous in photos.
I am cracking up at the long-handled lopper excitement on this thread.😁
..lovely pics, especially the Albrighton, and the Gruss's.. Gruss an Aachen sports to so many variations, it also has a climbing version too..
.. I also have those long handled pruners, mine is longer as it's a tree pruner, but I find it useful for pruning out old trunks of thorny roses where I don't want to get too close..
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i am trying to remain optimistic...
Popped to a garden centre today, blue diamond one, great selection of roses (and clematis..) as they are Fryers roses stockists of which I have a few, but also had a big stand of David austin... there was one potted Queen of Sweden left.... been eying it for ages, so home it came! Its going out the front, when the weather cools/ Autumn.
Ive got the same long snips too and did the same enthusiastic deadhead of high roses when I got mine too!
Lots more to come on Palais Biron:
Mme. Antoine Mari is not proving as weatherproof as I had hoped. Lower blooms are OK but those near the top, not so much. Not sure if the second bloom got caught by strong sun or heavy rain though, we had both yesterday:
Albrighton Rambler, Chandos Beauty, Lark, Emily, Tranquillity, Boule de Neige.
Chandos Beauty is looking much healthier and less munched now, so I'll put its earlier insect-addled state down to the lilies which were previously in bloom beside it. Smells as good as Ferdinand Pichard.
Some of Gruss an Aachen is so pink again. But I still feel I need the pink version that Marlorena has told us about.
More pink (Ferdinand Pichard (smells incredible), EV, Queen Elizabeth(?), Rose des Cisterciens, Dee-Lish, Gabriel Oak, PAoK.
And while posting that (over several hours...), my local rose friend has said she'll drop off William and Catherine to me on Wednesday, so... more whites it is.
Congrats on QoS, @JessicaS. I don't have it but it's gorgeous in photos.
I am cracking up at the long-handled lopper excitement on this thread.😁
.. I also have those long handled pruners, mine is longer as it's a tree pruner, but I find it useful for pruning out old trunks of thorny roses where I don't want to get too close..
Fingers crossed everyone gets some rain this week.
well, except under the general weather warning..