.. @Katsa .. yes many congrats.. life gets in the way for all of us at some point so nice to see you back here again, looking forward very much to seeing your roses.. ..nice fat red buds in the first pic. peony??.. Â
Congratulations and welcome back @Katsa! Just tell yourself you are going for the natural, untamed look in the garden this year 😆Â
@JessicaS, I can’t say for sure but the dieback pattern on your rose canes looks suspiciously like the botrytis blight I had on a new rose once. Those ridges on your canes, circled below, look familiar. I’ve only had it that one time though..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
All the talk on the forum has inspired me to look much closer at the colour and manner of new rose leaves (among many other things). Photography definitely makes me look harder and notice so much more, through conscious looking.
I love the appley colours in the leaves - the russets and the golds, bright pink, dark red. In a radical act of imagination, I can dream of how they would look through the year if they weren't mollocked by citters and stayed all unravaged. I made the video in the spirit of "appreciate what you have while you have it. It might only last a week". Lol. The blue, blue sky in March seems like a miracle in itself.
I used my bridge camera for this. Good to try out new things and build some new skills at sparrow's fart this morning, in my dressing gown. I've no idea who else might appreciate five minutes of roses leaves that you folks.
There is a soft guitar track under the video. Turn up the volume if you'd like it; turn it down if you don't.
@Nollie ah yes you might be right looking at pictures online... I will give it a blast with the fungus clear that seems to sort most things and change the compost etc underneath it see if that helps.
Thank you for posting the video @Fire. I'm looking forward to seeing a photo of the arch this summer.
I've been reading and enjoying the rose threads but I still have a lot of tree clearing to do in the wake of Storm Arwen, which has kept me busy since early December. However I'm taking a short break from all that and have just started pruning my roses and catching up with garden work. I pruned my China rose yesterday, and hope I get as nice a display as last summer. It got a bit swamped by clematis later in the year, so I hope it's not suffered for that.
Thank you everyone for these rose threads, they've kept my spirits up through these months of repetitive work shredding endless branches and splitting logs. Thank you all.
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.. yes many congrats.. life gets in the way for all of us at some point so nice to see you back here again, looking forward very much to seeing your roses..
..nice fat red buds in the first pic. peony??.. Â
@JessicaS, I can’t say for sure but the dieback pattern on your rose canes looks suspiciously like the botrytis blight I had on a new rose once. Those ridges on your canes, circled below, look familiar. I’ve only had it that one time though..
I've been reading and enjoying the rose threads but I still have a lot of tree clearing to do in the wake of Storm Arwen, which has kept me busy since early December. However I'm taking a short break from all that and have just started pruning my roses and catching up with garden work. I pruned my China rose yesterday, and hope I get as nice a display as last summer. It got a bit swamped by clematis later in the year, so I hope it's not suffered for that.
Thank you everyone for these rose threads, they've kept my spirits up through these months of repetitive