@WhereAreMySecateurs -- "Smells like cardboard'" -- 😀 that's the great thing about this thread, honest reviews! Thanks WAMS. I'm afraid I don't want 'highly scented' if the scent is like toilet cleaner. I like a rose to smell like a rose, not Germolene (St.Cecelia) or handwash (Eustacia Vye -- but admittedly quite nice handwash.) It's a bit like the old estate agent language, you have to read between the lines perhaps.
I visited Lowther Castle in August, in the hope of seeing lots of DA's in the flesh and sniffing them. But it was a bad day, they had been battered by rain and I came away disappointed but determined to return next July. However, the journey was made worthwhile because the humidity on the day brought out the very strong scent of apples from the leaves of the eglantines which form a hedge around the rose garden. It was lovely. Not rose scented, but really lovely.
DA didn't bother telling me my order has been dispatched. The first I knew of it was Evri/Hermes telling me just now that delivery had failed and would be reattempted tomorrow. Wish they'd use Royal Mail, like Trevor White. Also: twelve bareroots are apparently arriving this week from different vendors, husband has covid, dog was spayed today, and half-term begins not next Monday but on Friday thanks to an inset day I was only just informed about. HELP.
Oh my goodness @bcpathome that must have been/be terrifying, I'm so sorry you have to experience that. Here's wishing you a very good recovery. As for the roses I wouldn't worry, I sent my husband out once with instructions to cut everything that wasn't a climbing rose to knee height and if he could be bothered to remove dead canes. Everything grew really well the following season with him also doing the spring fertilising.
The weather really mucked my roses up this summer. They didn't like the extreme hot spell but the benign conditions since means nearly every one of my roses has some or very many buds.
Dunav Reka, Claire Marshall, Desdemona, Blue River and Carminia.
Knockout, much brighter colour than this picture suggests, it's highly visible far down the garden.Malvern Hills, GdeF and Wollerton OHI rarely show you Maie Pavie but it is a trooper in a potLook how orange ABFab (just spotted a hip) is next to Faustinia which has the prettiest yellow with a very strong aniseed scent. Boscobel just in viewGood luck with Strawberry Hill @Lizzie27, I can't see how it could disappoint you though. It took mine 3 seasons to reach 6ft and seems to bloom best for the later part of the season, it's still going really strong here with good health.
Thanks @Tack, your roses look stunning, can't wait to see my SH in bloom next year. I'm still fighting the Jap. Anemone in the same bed, after 9 months I think I'm winning but resigned to bits popping up for the next few years. Decided SH will have to sink or swim!
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I'm afraid I don't want 'highly scented' if the scent is like toilet cleaner.
I like a rose to smell like a rose, not Germolene (St.Cecelia) or handwash (Eustacia Vye -- but admittedly quite nice handwash.)
It's a bit like the old estate agent language, you have to read between the lines perhaps.
I visited Lowther Castle in August, in the hope of seeing lots of DA's in the flesh and sniffing them. But it was a bad day, they had been battered by rain and I came away disappointed but determined to return next July.
However, the journey was made worthwhile because the humidity on the day brought out the very strong scent of apples from the leaves of the eglantines which form a hedge around the rose garden.
It was lovely. Not rose scented, but really lovely.
Also: twelve bareroots are apparently arriving this week from different vendors, husband has covid, dog was spayed today, and half-term begins not next Monday but on Friday thanks to an inset day I was only just informed about. HELP.