Yes nice to see you @Marlorena, and hope you feel more energetic soon. In the meantime just enjoy the garden as much as you can. I too have delphinium trying to flower, white geraniums still flowering, and bright orange Gaziania 🤷♀️ plus Desdemona in flower again, third time, since June. After seeing @Nollie 's description of golden celebration, and seeing the blooms on here, my yellow celebration ( name on the label) is definitely not that one . As it's growth is very compact and upright. Just how many types of 'celebration' roses are there that are yellow? BTW it's only four years old.
Lovely to see you on here again @Marlorena, hope you feel much better soon.
Thanks for that advice @Nollie, it's been difficult to prune those particular two roses correctly as the rose basket gets in the way but they are not congested. Their growth is restricted by the growing conditions as they are planted (in spite of advice not to!) in front of a vigorous hedge. However, as they bloom well enough for me, I don't mind. I enjoy pruning and look forward to doing it.
@Lizzie27 - also love pruning, I itch to do it. Probably did my espalier slightly earlier than I should have this year but I just couldn’t hold back the urge to pick up my secateurs any longer! 😂
Im hoping to do some cuttings today, now I’ve got my larger pots back from the rugosas that were occupying them.
@Marlorena - I love the look of the hips on your tottering - makes me want one every time. Arthur Bell at my plot is great for hips too though.
Anyone starting to prune roses? Usually I don't get a chance till march or even April but this year I will have some time to prune in coming weeks. Is it too early?
No, I'm trying to hold off pruning as well. Some of my roses are still blooming and most still have leaves on so they're not dormant yet. I try to leave it till nearer Xmas.
I'll hold off until Feb. But will hopefully do a big Trevor order in the next few weeks. Still 20oC here, so it feels a bit odd to be putting in bare roots but want to get it done before surgery.
That’s very kind @Marlorena, but please do jump in anytime you feel like.
@Woodgreen, patience required with ET if you go for it. It’s odd for a Weeks floribunda to be so slow to establish. Especially when compared to it’s lusty stablemates like Love Song and Julia Child. Perhaps vigour has been sacrificed to get that colour..
@purplerallim I haven’t heard of a Yellow Celebration and can’t see anything on HMF listed under that name, but there is a yellow ‘Celebration 2000’ which I’m sure someone on here has. Maybe post some photos and see if anyone recognises it?
@newbie77 I remember reading somewhere that if you ask a dozen expert rosarians how and when to prune you will get a dozen different answers. Personally I don’t see any advantage of doing the proper annual prune earlier than Jan/Feb, but do do a light autumn tidy-up and prune back any waving, overlong canes whenever I see them. It’s very tempting to do it early, but if I do, I just get lots of soft new growth afterwards and then cane dieback over winter. So I end up having to do it twice and the roses end up shorter than I wanted!
Speaking of Golden Celebration, mine is currently in buff celebration mode:
Julia Child looking as lovely as ever, if defoliated from the waist down:
Lady Hillingdon, love these soft blooms and looking forward to seeing how it develops over the coming years:
Mrs. Oakley Fisher, a little smaller than clematis size at present:
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I too have delphinium trying to flower, white geraniums still flowering, and bright orange Gaziania 🤷♀️ plus Desdemona in flower again, third time, since June.
After seeing @Nollie 's description of golden celebration, and seeing the blooms on here, my yellow celebration ( name on the label) is definitely not that one . As it's growth is very compact and upright. Just how many types of 'celebration' roses are there that are yellow? BTW it's only four years old.
Thanks for that advice @Nollie, it's been difficult to prune those particular two roses correctly as the rose basket gets in the way but they are not congested. Their growth is restricted by the growing conditions as they are planted (in spite of advice not to!) in front of a vigorous hedge. However, as they bloom well enough for me, I don't mind.
I enjoy pruning and look forward to doing it.
Im hoping to do some cuttings today, now I’ve got my larger pots back from the rugosas that were occupying them.
@Marlorena - I love the look of the hips on your tottering - makes me want one every time. Arthur Bell at my plot is great for hips too though.
@Woodgreen, patience required with ET if you go for it. It’s odd for a Weeks floribunda to be so slow to establish. Especially when compared to it’s lusty stablemates like Love Song and Julia Child. Perhaps vigour has been sacrificed to get that colour..
@purplerallim I haven’t heard of a Yellow Celebration and can’t see anything on HMF listed under that name, but there is a yellow ‘Celebration 2000’ which I’m sure someone on here has. Maybe post some photos and see if anyone recognises it?
@newbie77 I remember reading somewhere that if you ask a dozen expert rosarians how and when to prune you will get a dozen different answers. Personally I don’t see any advantage of doing the proper annual prune earlier than Jan/Feb, but do do a light autumn tidy-up and prune back any waving, overlong canes whenever I see them. It’s very tempting to do it early, but if I do, I just get lots of soft new growth afterwards and then cane dieback over winter. So I end up having to do it twice and the roses end up shorter than I wanted!
Speaking of Golden Celebration, mine is currently in buff celebration mode:
Julia Child looking as lovely as ever, if defoliated from the waist down:
Lady Hillingdon, love these soft blooms and looking forward to seeing how it develops over the coming years:
Mrs. Oakley Fisher, a little smaller than clematis size at present: