I like cupped roses and packed roses and almost all roses but not the small single types like Kew Gardens or Ballerina. I wasn’t particularly bothered by roses until last year. In my head I pictured them bare and thorny or covered in wind battered red flowers (like where I grew up on the windy west coast of Ireland). The variety of colours and shapes I saw on Instagram has converted me. Not to mention that they’re much lower maintenance than the dahlias I grew last year.
@Katsa No, it's not rose mosaic virus, what you have is very common in roses, blackberries etc. if you look on the underside of the leaves you will see little white grubs, they strip the foliage of the green and so they go white or blotchy. It's only a cosmetic thing, and does little damage otherwise, although it doesn't look nice, some leaves may turn almost white, and if extensive the rose can lose some vigour.  I just pull off the worst affected leaves, if I happen to notice.
I like almost all roses in garden. In the beginning of my rose journey I didn't appreciate single ones but when I got tottering by gentle and for your eyes only, it has changed my mind. Now I wish I had bought couple of more single ones.Â
My favourite ones are though the most fragrant ones, then I don't care about their colour, form, blackspots anything. As long as they live and give flowers. Yesterday I had a little posy of Abraham Darby, Gertrude J, munstead woods and lady Emma H. Just 4 roses and it was lovely.Â
Thanks @Marlorena. This climber only has one basal stem. The rest are all brown and sad looking and the rose is very straggly and small. To perk it up, would you suggest consistent feeding, cutting off the brown and sad looking stems and lots of water?
Oh wow, that Kew Gardens is so beautiful @Mr. Vine Eye @Marlorena - is the Devoniensis the more yellow flower on the right or the peachier one on the left? The left in particular one is incredible
My Meg rose is now in bloom! It was so miserable when I planted it ~autumn last year, but it seems to have perked up a lot. But I'm not sure whether I like it or not Â
I think Meg is a cutie, Puschkinia! Lovely soft colours.Â
Botzaris looks stunning, like some delicious meringue covered in piles of whipped cream, Marlorena.
Some colours from my garden this morning. The aphids have mostly departed from the roses and are now hiding from the robins in the English marigolds. Arthur Bell (bottom right) gets more resplendent every day. Still waiting for buds on Tranquility and Chandos Beauty.
@Katsa ..yes all that, if you have a bottle of Tomorite, this is a very good liquid feed for roses this time of year, at the correct dosage.. [20 ml in 10 litres water]
@puschkinia ..your Meg is very nice I think, but we all look at roses differently.. yes that's 'Devoniensis, the yellow-y bloom on the right is aged, and will fall off shortly.  If you want a modern DA with similar opening blooms to the one on the left, then 'Bathsheba' offers a similar look and strongly scented.
I have pampered my Deep Secret @Fire and @Omori and it does get good sun, but it seems to be a slow developer for me, lacking height and vigour and non too healthy looking. I keep trying the occasional HT but most have lived up to my low expectations and only serve to reinforce my (probably unfair) prejudices. It is beginning to bloom but the Salvia Mainacht planted in front to hide it’s bare legs is towering over it:
Lovely first bloom on William Shakespeare 2000, bought on a whim as a basket filler:
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@Katsa, plenty of my foliage looks like that, the leaf hoppers and rose slugs shred them. They seem to love the roses planted against a wall in particular. Maybe that gives them more room to hide so I don’t notice them immediately. My The Prince is really bad, I agree it doesn’t do any long term damage, but the rose does have to keep putting energy into producing new leaves so I find I have to feed and water them a lot more.
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No, it's not rose mosaic virus, what you have is very common in roses, blackberries etc. if you look on the underside of the leaves you will see little white grubs, they strip the foliage of the green and so they go white or blotchy. It's only a cosmetic thing, and does little damage otherwise, although it doesn't look nice, some leaves may turn almost white, and if extensive the rose can lose some vigour.  I just pull off the worst affected leaves, if I happen to notice.
My favourite ones are though the most fragrant ones, then I don't care about their colour, form, blackspots anything. As long as they live and give flowers. Yesterday I had a little posy of Abraham Darby, Gertrude J, munstead woods and lady Emma H. Just 4 roses and it was lovely.Â
'Botzaris' [Damask]
'Devoniensis' [Tea]Â ..Â
'Nathalie Nypels'.. [Polyantha]
'Desdemona' [Austin]
'Dr. O'Donel Browne' [Old HT]
'Wild Rover'...[floribunda climber..]
thank you!
@Marlorena - is the Devoniensis the more yellow flower on the right or the peachier one on the left? The left in particular one is incredible
My Meg rose is now in bloom! It was so miserable when I planted it ~autumn last year, but it seems to have perked up a lot. But I'm not sure whether I like it or not
Botzaris looks stunning, like some delicious meringue covered in piles of whipped cream, Marlorena.
Some colours from my garden this morning. The aphids have mostly departed from the roses and are now hiding from the robins in the English marigolds.
Still waiting for buds on Tranquility and Chandos Beauty.
..yes all that, if you have a bottle of Tomorite, this is a very good liquid feed for roses this time of year, at the correct dosage.. [20 ml in 10 litres water]
@puschkinia
..your Meg is very nice I think, but we all look at roses differently.. yes that's 'Devoniensis, the yellow-y bloom on the right is aged, and will fall off shortly.  If you want a modern DA with similar opening blooms to the one on the left, then 'Bathsheba' offers a similar look and strongly scented.
Lovely first bloom on William Shakespeare 2000, bought on a whim as a basket filler: