No first flower from me but a surprise glimpse of colour on Evelyn Fison, this one snuck up on me. EF has contracted some sort of mildewitis, I don't know why, it's in a high pot in a breezy area, well watered and no other plants are touching it. Have put it on my special care list .
Some fun foliage scenes while I'm waiting for some colour.
Rambling Rosie on the fence nearest, Crown Princess Margereta middle and Lilac Bouquet at the far end.
A arching limb of Goldbusch in the foreground, reddish Fountain behind, a sunlit Celestial on the lhs of the arch and a barely visible Ness on the right. Dresden Doll in the pot.
Thanks @Marlorena, I'm hoping to obscure either end of the garden with it. Have a young Rosengarten Zweibrucken on one side. It is only small but looking promisingly flexible. Have a new alpine clem on the other side that hasn't yet come to life, hoping it is ok.
lucky you @Marlorena to have birds in your garden.. my roses desperately needs some help with aphids.. Munstead wood looks terrible.. below you can see the aphid honey covering my roses..
Trivia time.. anyone can identify any of these below..??
With a bit of help (technology).. I am pretty sure that the last two pics are of Hover fly larvae and Pupae.. so all good news then.. hope they did not get blasted by the water jet...
..interesting photos @cooldoc  I would not have known what they were.  Aphids are swarming alright...
@Victoria Sponge .. that's an interesting rose, I think I would like that, I just had to look it up.. it's called 'Indigo Knights' in other places so I shall look forward to progress.  I like roses by Chris Warner. If it was available here I would likely have got it at some point..
3 days ago, small and not untypical bloom on 'Marie Pavie' Today, I made a half-arch for 'Narrow Water', something that was a long time overdue. It didn't go well, is far from straight, but I don't feel like redoing it, so calling it done, at least for now. Photos are taken late, so excuse the low quality.
Not many aphids on my roses so that is one good thing but I saw some small caterpillars though and have removed affected leaves. They might have been be sawflies. I have very limited time to be out in garden so if there are more of those, I wont even know until some serious leaf loss. Anyway worst case I wont mind spraying roses in pots if that is the only way to save them as they are kept separate from all other plants and any pollinators wont visit those until they are in flower. In border, I wont spray and will just have to accept losses.
One of my Araham darby pot had couple of wine weevil grubs. I had thrown away all that soil/compost and repotted it. Plant is still very poorly.
I’ve been away for a few days and was hoping for a surprise when I got back, sadly not! Still a lot of tatty-looking foliage around but the roses seem to have recovered from their blackened, frosted tops and are putting out new buds.
Glossy leaves really seem to help, Excellenz von Schubert was another one (like Astronomia) that escaped the frost entirely and has lots of little clusters:
My first bloom 8 days ago turned out to be not so typical for The Prince. This is it today, I could never have identified it in a lineup!
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No first flower from me but a surprise glimpse of colour on Evelyn Fison, this one snuck up on me. EF has contracted some sort of mildewitis, I don't know why, it's in a high pot in a breezy area, well watered and no other plants are touching it. Have put it on my special care list
Some fun foliage scenes while I'm waiting for some colour.
Rambling Rosie on the fence nearest, Crown Princess Margereta middle and Lilac Bouquet at the far end.
A arching limb of Goldbusch in the foreground, reddish Fountain behind, a sunlit Celestial on the lhs of the arch and a barely visible Ness on the right. Dresden Doll in the pot.
Trivia time.. anyone can identify any of these below..??
@Victoria Sponge
.. that's an interesting rose, I think I would like that, I just had to look it up.. it's called 'Indigo Knights' in other places so I shall look forward to progress.  I like roses by Chris Warner. If it was available here I would likely have got it at some point..
Today, I made a half-arch for 'Narrow Water', something that was a long time overdue. It didn't go well, is far from straight, but I don't feel like redoing it, so calling it done, at least for now. Photos are taken late, so excuse the low quality.
.. that's a nice arch actually, I've had one that type before on a wall..Â
One of my Araham darby pot had couple of wine weevil grubs. I had thrown away all that soil/compost and repotted it. Plant is still very poorly.
Glossy leaves really seem to help, Excellenz von Schubert was another one (like Astronomia) that escaped the frost entirely and has lots of little clusters:
My first bloom 8 days ago turned out to be not so typical for The Prince. This is it today, I could never have identified it in a lineup!