Wow, that intense blue reticulata is stunning, Peter!
Yes, SCPB seems to have come through OK, Marlorena, some leaves purpling in the cold but it does benefit from a sunny spot against the stone wall.
I’ve been looking for some good shots of West Garden from last year and realised I don’t have any! Lots of photos of roses but the whole really suffered in the heatwave so I had lots of fried plants, dahlia no-shows and gaping borders. Lets hope this year is better.
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Thanks @JessicaS the clem is Warsawska Nike, which despite being lovely I took out and replaced with the taller and more vigorous Etoile de Violette. I wanted something to climb and scramble up the wisteria more and WN is now on an obelisk, better suited to it’s modest proportions.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Oooh I often see little pots of that one reasonably priced at the garden shows, I bet that would be gorgeous with lady of shalotton her obelisk when her earlier clem finishes, I shall grab one next time, thank you! Garden left today;
@purplerallim Your Standard is doing great.. all that growth! going to look fabulous.. and your Sheila's Perfume reminds me of Olivia Rose Austin, foliage wise.. I think Eustace posted earlier.. Hubby's photobombing is perfectly ok..
Lovely garden pictures and good companion planting combos too :-) I'm drooling over the photos!
As a general observation, is it true that roses bearing red/pink blooms have reddish leaf growth around now/spring? Yellow roses tend to have greener new growth. That is what I'm seeing in my garden. Curious to know whether that is the case with you all.
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
Did your Sheila's Perfumed have a different shaped flower last year @JessicaS . Mine could have been a different rose altogether! Top pics two years ago, bottom last year. This rose is five years old, and has never looked like this. It did seem to like the heat though, and put on alot of growth and flower.
I’m not sure either of my clematis will return after they fried and died last summer @JessicaS, in fact I have a climbing rose pencilled in for the Etoile Violette spot so if it does come back (no sign yet) I will have a dilemma! Lady of Shalott and Warsawska Nike would be a great combo.
@Eustace pretty mixed here I would say but that could just be my choices. My yellow and blush pink tea roses have the deepest red new growth, but then teas often do, equalled by Lady Emma Hamilton, which is pretty bionic. Of the reds/pink most have a good dash or red but Falstaff and Thomas a Becket have barely a hint. Looking at most of my yellows and apricots, again a combination of green, red and bronze. Golden Celebration is my closest to pure green.
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@JessicaS@Nollie It was just my observation, that is all. Probably doesn't have anything to do with the colour of the flower,, more likely its heritage. I happened to notice that Munstead Wood and Darcey Bussell have dark red growth; that is what prompted me to inspect the new growth on my other roses too. May be @Marlorena can shed some light on this. TIA.
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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Yes, SCPB seems to have come through OK, Marlorena, some leaves purpling in the cold but it does benefit from a sunny spot against the stone wall.
I’ve been looking for some good shots of West Garden from last year and realised I don’t have any! Lots of photos of roses but the whole really suffered in the heatwave so I had lots of fried plants, dahlia no-shows and gaping borders. Lets hope this year is better.
Garden left today;
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Lovely Irises @PeterAberdeen I used to have those two..
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Your Standard is doing great.. all that growth! going to look fabulous.. and your Sheila's Perfume reminds me of Olivia Rose Austin, foliage wise.. I think Eustace posted earlier..
Hubby's photobombing is perfectly ok..
..rather lovely @JessicaS .. ^
Ive got Sheilas perfume too, lovely healthy red foliage and plenty of it. Its in flower in my summer pic, the pinky one in a pot left corner of patio
This rose is five years old, and has never looked like this. It did seem to like the heat though, and put on alot of growth and flower.
@Eustace pretty mixed here I would say but that could just be my choices. My yellow and blush pink tea roses have the deepest red new growth, but then teas often do, equalled by Lady Emma Hamilton, which is pretty bionic. Of the reds/pink most have a good dash or red but Falstaff and Thomas a Becket have barely a hint. Looking at most of my yellows and apricots, again a combination of green, red and bronze. Golden Celebration is my closest to pure green.