@tack and @Nollie thanks for the advice. I really wanted twice in a blue moon - two or maybe three in large pot. Want to try Marlorena’s multiple roses in a pot and I really like the unique lilac blooms. So much snow here, snowed in completely.
@Tack - the main lens that I use is a 35mm macro. Which is an awesome lens, very sharp and lovely colours. Because it's 35mm it can be used as a general purpose walk-around-snapping-pictures-of-anything lens.
But you do have to get very close to the subject to fill the frame, and for certain beasties it's too close and they just fly off.
And as I said it's getting harder to reach the roses. The 100mm makes that much easier. I can also snap some good full bush shots without having to leave the bench!
My Dad has this lens so I've already had chance to test it out.
I don't often do full garden pics either, but I'm starting to feel prouder of it now, there are moments where it actually looks quite nice! And it's so small that I can capture most of it in a single shot with a wide enough lens.
I think you need three in the pot to achieve a good, balanced shape @Alfie_, that’s the way DA do it with their shrub roses anyway. I think you’re quite brave to try it with a hybrid tea rose, since they do tend to be fairly stiff and upright in habit - taller than wide. You might need to keep pruning it quite hard throughout the growing season to keep it in a nice shape and in proportion with the pot. I don’t know TIABM’s habit tho, perhaps that’s more bushy like some of the more modern HTs?
Not that I’m suggesting this as an alternative, but Love Song is a bushy, healthy and prolific floribunda and a similar lavender colour, but the big downside is little fragrance to speak of, so TIABM wins out there, by all accounts. Purple and lavender roses like this are more blue in cool weather/shade:
More pink in sunny, hot weather, especially mine!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Mr. Vine Eye, I like to see and share full view of garden. In my garden when I take full view, all the flowers are lost and it always looks like just lawn, shrubs and trees. I used to enjoy taking full view photos in my previous garden which was smaller and I could capture all the mix of flowering plants and leaves showing different height, colours and textures.
Finally, my very overdue Lens order arrived, the bare root standard was rather dry but not brittle so it should be ok..
Hybrid Musks Darlow’s Enigma and Violet Hood. I want them to be large shrubs and encourage lots of basals so I think I will try the Beales’ method with these - prune back by half and also plant nice and deep:
Lady Emma Hamilton potted standard (the last one in stock, no bare root available). It’s in a flimsy, squished pot and the loose, woody compost is mostly dislodged so I may as well bare root it:
Empereur Charles IV standard, those two long canes will soon be meeting my secateurs too:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I’ve neglected my roses and they kept on trying through Nov/Dec!
Is it still worth cutting back and mulching or wait until the frost pulls back?
I’m not sure if this got a reply and I missed it but I would just wait a bit, the weather is shooting up next week. You have til February really to prune anyways so no huge rush.
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But you do have to get very close to the subject to fill the frame, and for certain beasties it's too close and they just fly off.
And as I said it's getting harder to reach the roses. The 100mm makes that much easier. I can also snap some good full bush shots without having to leave the bench!
My Dad has this lens so I've already had chance to test it out.
I don't often do full garden pics either, but I'm starting to feel prouder of it now, there are moments where it actually looks quite nice! And it's so small that I can capture most of it in a single shot with a wide enough lens.
Not that I’m suggesting this as an alternative, but Love Song is a bushy, healthy and prolific floribunda and a similar lavender colour, but the big downside is little fragrance to speak of, so TIABM wins out there, by all accounts. Purple and lavender roses like this are more blue in cool weather/shade:
More pink in sunny, hot weather, especially mine!
Hybrid Musks Darlow’s Enigma and Violet Hood. I want them to be large shrubs and encourage lots of basals so I think I will try the Beales’ method with these - prune back by half and also plant nice and deep:
Lady Emma Hamilton potted standard (the last one in stock, no bare root available). It’s in a flimsy, squished pot and the loose, woody compost is mostly dislodged so I may as well bare root it:
Empereur Charles IV standard, those two long canes will soon be meeting my secateurs too:
@Nollie, nice bare roots and standards. I am getting itchy fingers to buy something now.