ROSES: Spring/Summer 2022 🌹

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• Eustace Posts: 2,290

  August 2022

  @bcpathome is this the one you are looking for? https://www.classicroses.co.uk/roses/hommage-a-barbara-bush-rose.html

  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
  

  
  

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• bcpathome Posts: 1,313

  August 2022

  Yes! I do believe it is . So , it’s still available and no name change .Thank you very much  Eustace .

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• Nollie Posts: 7,529

  August 2022

  I think you and Julia will be very happy together @dabolem! 

  
  

  I’ve not been wowed by all the new Delbard roses I’ve tried @WhereAreMySecateurs, many are ‘modern hybrid tea’ in character, even when they class them as a floribunda or shrub, with a high ratio of bush to bloom. So far Folle de Courtisane is like that and ‘ground cover’ rose Avalanche Abricot is stiff and awkward in habit and more a reluctant drizzle than an avalanche. Souvenir de Marcel Proust is the oldest cultivar and by far the most impressive of the three. I reckon those offered by Trevor White are probably a good bet, as they’ve doubtless picked the best of the bunch.
  
  Massive and prolonged rainstorm again yesterday evening - OK, enough for now! I’m trying to paint and erect a section of fence but keep getting rained off.

  Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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• Mr. Vine Eye Posts: 2,394

  August 2022

  Must have rained while we were away, the water butts are full and the lawn is turning green again, everything perked up. Just going to check on the plot and hope the pond has managed to catch some raindrops.

  
  

  Lovely bunch of roses on The Generous Gardener. Best it's been this year, thriving in the shade! Except the usual leaf discolouration  which you can see behind. It's blooming well.
  

  

  
  

  Lady of Shalott great all-round. Just cut some sawfly scars and larvae off
  

  
  

  East Yorkshire

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• Ffoxglove Posts: 538

  August 2022

  Since the very hot weather, the generous gardener in my parents garden has been turning yellow and looking awful. 

  What should I do? 

  
  

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  August 2022

  @Ffoxglove , Give it buckets of water, at least 3 per week, slowly poured so it sinks in.

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  August 2022

  Yes, don't feed it, just loads of water until the rains return.
  

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• Ffoxglove Posts: 538

  August 2022

  Thanks @Fire and @Lizzie27
  i will try this and pray!!! 

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• newbie77 Posts: 1,838

  August 2022 edited August 2022

  @WhereAreMySecateurs, yes it is dahlia Islander. I have planted three big ones Cafe au lait, Café au lait rose and islander. 

  South West London

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• Marlorena Posts: 8,705

  August 2022

  @WhereAreMySecateurs
  .. no more roses for me this year, I'll just have to enjoy all of yours and others..
  
  Well, just to say cheerio to one and all, and thanks for all your company on Roses these past few years, but I'm off for a bit now, don't want anyone thinking I've got ill or something if you don't see my name for some time.
  
  Do take care, hope you'll keep the threads alive, and enjoy your roses !... xx

  East Anglia, England

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