Was working.. so din't get to enjoy the rain.. Had a hard time travelling back with all the strikes going around..Â
Lovely pics of EdH.. I am chasing a fragrant 'Red' rose which does not fry in the sun.. little bit frying is tolerable.. EdH being a climber will be a bit too much for me now..
I too love Soul @Nollie Fragrant and produces clusters consistently.. weight of its clusters seems to weigh them down.. Balling is a concern.. I see that Palais B has similar characteristics but Soul appears to have more red in it than purple..
@WhereAreMySecateurs I have noticed EV and Elizabeth shattering pretty quickly in the sun.. Atleast Elizabeth is good for repeat compared to EV
@peteS Troika.. that takes me back... one of the first roses I got, I'm pleased you have this rose... when computers first came out, I used the name Troika as a kind of moniker.. Â
My Soul clusters don’ t get weighed down particularly Cooldoc, but I have it espaliered against a fence and keep the laterals short. I find you can pick off the outer soggy petals and it then opens fine, but open blooms are certainly spoilt in rain. Not as bad as it used to be and not as bad as Mme. A. Mari. The rain we’ve had was so fierce tho, it would test any rose to the limit!
I’m quite hard on roses, as is my climate, which yours seems to have been mirroring of late, but I can’t really find any fault with Palais Biron/Purple Lodge, Marlorena. Maybe not as fast a repeat as some, but worth the wait.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Julia Child.. love to click pics with the morning dew or rain drops..
Golden Celebration.. has not taken a break this year.. (evening sun makes the colour a bit more saturated)
One in a million.. exposure to sun spoils the blooms.. otherwise a good rose with good repeat and plenty of blooms.. wonder if it would do well in shade..
Artemis.. takes a break between blooms.. but the amount of blooms it produce during each flush is amazing..Â
Strawberry hill... flops over if grown as a shrub.. thin stems would make it ideal to train I guess..
Domaine de Chantily.. Did not expect these to open after the rain we had.. has opened better than during the heat wave..
Chandos Beauty.. has the strongest fragrance in the garden now..
Glad I managed to stir up a few memories @Marlorena, I've got four HT's at the moment with another 3-4 planned for the autumn. So the way it's going my little garden will soon be resembling a 1970's throwback.
@cooldoc I have Lovestruck, it's the sort of deep red one would want red roses to be (my phone doesn't get the colour). It has flowered from May in full sun without a break and has been totally unaffected by heat, drought or heavy rain.i do deadhead very often and have been watering a bit during this dry spell . It is scented and seems to be disease resistantÂ
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Was working.. so din't get to enjoy the rain.. Had a hard time travelling back with all the strikes going around..Â
Lovely pics of EdH.. I am chasing a fragrant 'Red' rose which does not fry in the sun.. little bit frying is tolerable.. EdH being a climber will be a bit too much for me now..
I too love Soul @Nollie Fragrant and produces clusters consistently.. weight of its clusters seems to weigh them down.. Balling is a concern.. I see that Palais B has similar characteristics but Soul appears to have more red in it than purple..
@WhereAreMySecateurs I have noticed EV and Elizabeth shattering pretty quickly in the sun.. Atleast Elizabeth is good for repeat compared to EV
..essentially, it looks pristine for 1 day...Â
'Armada'..Â
'La France'Â I'm very impressed with this rose..
@peteS
Troika.. that takes me back... one of the first roses I got, I'm pleased you have this rose... when computers first came out, I used the name Troika as a kind of moniker.. Â
I’m quite hard on roses, as is my climate, which yours seems to have been mirroring of late, but I can’t really find any fault with Palais Biron/Purple Lodge, Marlorena. Maybe not as fast a repeat as some, but worth the wait.
Julia Child.. love to click pics with the morning dew or rain drops..
Golden Celebration.. has not taken a break this year.. (evening sun makes the colour a bit more saturated)
One in a million.. exposure to sun spoils the blooms.. otherwise a good rose with good repeat and plenty of blooms.. wonder if it would do well in shade..
Artemis.. takes a break between blooms.. but the amount of blooms it produce during each flush is amazing..Â
Strawberry hill... flops over if grown as a shrub.. thin stems would make it ideal to train I guess..
Domaine de Chantily.. Did not expect these to open after the rain we had.. has opened better than during the heat wave..
Chandos Beauty.. has the strongest fragrance in the garden now..