Beautiful, Adrian. I thought you had taken the Etoile to your allotment. I'm delighted it's working well on the balcony after twiddling the conditions. I love your snap dragons too. I will have to have a year of dragons next year.
Beautiful, Adrian. I thought you had taken the Etoile to your allotment. I'm delighted it's working well on the balcony after twiddling the conditions. I love your snap dragons too. I will have to have a year of dragons next year.
Looking good Adrian, I’m impressed you’ve managed to contain Etoile in that way!
Classic Soul bloom there Tack, it’s the rain you have to watch out for with that one.
Yes Palais Biron is a much nicer name, I should really call Stormy Weather ‘Princess Sibilla de Luxembourg’ to be consistently posh. Both of these roses, by Pierre Orard (France) are excellent for me, but since ‘conditions may vary’ I take no responsibility for any of my reviews since I can’t guarantee they will be the same for you 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie thanks for the useful infos about Palais Biron, certainly I love Soul too @Tack and now I have to choose one of the two… difficult task!
Lovely roses @celcius_kkw .. and now I have Desdenona too on my wishlist. Etoile de Hollande is amazing too, but I don’t think I can grow it in partial shade and I don’t have any more place in full sun spots for a climber.
@Fire I didn’t move Etoile to the allotment because it actually looked like it’s settled in its big pot this year.. and I’m glad I didn’t move it because it’s been my favourite rose this year - interestingly my favourite seems to change every year but I still love them all really ☺️
@Nollie I think one of the major factor in the success of Etoile this year has been the comparatively fewer bouts of windy days here.. I remembered last year in late spring my poor Etoile was almost stripped naked of its foliage due to a storm (gales are amplified by at least five times here on the 8th floor!)
@dabolem Desdemona is a popular one.. I especially love its sweet scent.. some of my other roses have a stronger perfume, such as Eustacia Vye and Gabriel Oak but I find their scent a bit overwhelming..
Nice to see some roses, I especially like the apricot ones today, in various shades..
Well I've had a hair raising day. It's still pretty torrential outside right now, after a short break in proceedings, but earlier during the 'tropical like' storm, we had to pack an emergency bag as we thought we might have to scarper pretty sharpish... the road was flooded, my garden was flooded and the driveway, the sky was very dark except for a lighter area in the distance, at which point I had one of those ''oh my God'' moments, when part of the cloud formed a funnel and descended, like you see on those tornado films... fortunately it didn't materialise and dissipated into the storm..
Incidentally, England gets the most tornadoes per land mass than any other country in the world, but most are low level. We do get them around here on the very flat lands, not so long ago a bus got overturned, and they rip through fields without doing much damage..
However, it passed, the air cooled and the sun came out.. the rain is very welcome but the extremes are not..
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Palais Biron is a MUCH better name for that lovely rose.
Ebb Tide, who will be sleeping with the fishes at the end of this season.
Classic Soul bloom there Tack, it’s the rain you have to watch out for with that one.
Yes Palais Biron is a much nicer name, I should really call Stormy Weather ‘Princess Sibilla de Luxembourg’ to be consistently posh. Both of these roses, by Pierre Orard (France) are excellent for me, but since ‘conditions may vary’ I take no responsibility for any of my reviews since I can’t guarantee they will be the same for you 😆
@dabolem Desdemona is a popular one.. I especially love its sweet scent.. some of my other roses have a stronger perfume, such as Eustacia Vye and Gabriel Oak but I find their scent a bit overwhelming..
Well I've had a hair raising day. It's still pretty torrential outside right now, after a short break in proceedings, but earlier during the 'tropical like' storm, we had to pack an emergency bag as we thought we might have to scarper pretty sharpish... the road was flooded, my garden was flooded and the driveway, the sky was very dark except for a lighter area in the distance, at which point I had one of those ''oh my God'' moments, when part of the cloud formed a funnel and descended, like you see on those tornado films... fortunately it didn't materialise and dissipated into the storm..
Incidentally, England gets the most tornadoes per land mass than any other country in the world, but most are low level. We do get them around here on the very flat lands, not so long ago a bus got overturned, and they rip through fields without doing much damage..
However, it passed, the air cooled and the sun came out.. the rain is very welcome but the extremes are not..
@purplerallim I'm amazed you only got drizzle...