Like WAMS I think your garden is very special @pitter-patter, a true gem of a garden, so much to look at and pleasing photography to boot.
Congratulations on your anniversary @purplerallim, I keep thinking I should get Blue Moon but am too forgetful to remember if it's that or TiaBM I admire most. At the moment though new purchases of roses or any othe plant are off the table, water butts empty at the beginning of June are no joke, plotting a space for my 6th one now.
I gave my MIP away @Rojas, although individual blooms could be gorgeous I never achieved the display I wanted. I had it in a large pot which was never intended to be long term but even as a young plant it never like the spots I tried it in.
@Athelas I just followed what the experts on here advised, feed rose food granules as growth starts and repeat after the first flush then dilute tom feed every week or so in with the watering, roughly monthly seaweed with iron instead.
Edit, forgot to say I don't let pots dry out so water a lot but frequency is of course temp and wind dependent, so every 1-4 days in summer.
Thank you all for the nice comments, I am just good at following advice it seems.
Not so many good flowers right now in my garden but a lot of buds coming. All my roses were planted Feb / Mar. Some were bare root the rest had been in pots for 1 or 2 years. Some seem much happier to be in the ground and many are throwing up basals.
A Whiter Shade of Pale.
Wendy Cussons. The basal is taller than the rest of the plant.
Yolande d'Aragon is the only rose wafting at the moment. I don't have a big garden, so I can smell its rose and lemon Turkish Delight scent everywhere.
Common Moss / Old Moss has one of my favourite buds.
Don't grow up - grow sideways.
Gardening in the West Midlands on a mix of neutral loamy sand & Victorian building rubble.
'Belle de Crecy' is a gallica rose, or I should rather say hybrid China from 1829. Once-blooming and easy to grow. The blooms are reddish purple, shaded with violet, small for today's standards and often irregularly shaped. It is supposed to be strongly fragrant but I can only detect a light to medium scent. I have this problem with most gallicas and albas though, I think my nose doesn't pick their fragrances well.
'Purple Lodge' is a modern shrub or floribunda. Probably one of the best modern purples. Lovely old-fashioned blooms in clusters. Fragrant with the typical complex scent of purple roses with hints of fruit/berries. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it is not available in the UK. I can't understand why no one introduces it yet, given how rare and demanded purple roses are. Nollie also has it.
I think between Nollie and me, we tried almost all purple roses on the market
@Edhelka, I too find rose history very
interesting. Liked the reviews you found from the olden days. To my
knowledge, the dark version of Reine des Violettes is the original.
The lighter version has appeared as a sport and is sold by various
dealers and breeders in Germany. I read about it on
roses.shoutwiki.com. It doesn't say much though. But I dare say, we
both have the original. I am not going to get the lighter version for
comparison.
Finally had some time to pop into the rose threat. It's been a busy season with work, but I've taken a few moments to smell the roses (ha!)
Enchantress just about to open, around June 2nd. There are just two buds at the minute.
Enchantress opened, June 5th. It's literally the size of my hand, so deep and cabbagy. The most romantic rose I've ever seen in real life. I'm absolutely in love. Sadly, it doesn't have much of a scent to my nose, and what I do pick up is a bit soapy. But that bloom! If I had the space I'd put in rows of this for picking.
Purple Lodge/Palais Biron as the first one was just opening in late May. It's a little more purple in real life than the camera picks up.
Just the most perfect rose at this state.
Purple Lodge on June 5th. I love this rose. It smells like Turkish delight when I stick my nose in it, and I'm so impressed with how many blooms it has, considering it's its first year. I also find it interesting that it has a mix of single stems and floribunda branches. My only complaint is the blooms shatter within a couple of days. No idea how it'll do as a cut flower (I'm not cutting from them until they get older/bigger) but I assume not great.
Have you ever done a general post about some of your favourite roses out of all the ones that you have ever grown, @Marlorena? Are they ones you grow now (like beautiful Cornelia)? Are there favourites that you can't get anymore? And what were the ones that you had had high hopes for that turned out to be absolutely rubbish?
@ElbFee I do love all your roses (and spend time looking up the unknown ones on the interwebnets) so perhaps that is true!
Thankyou @WAMS for the congrats on anniversary, 41st . @Tack I am at a loss to tell you which either. Blue Moon was sent by mistake, so dug it out of the spot I wanted Twice in a BM when they sent a replacement. Potted it up till I decided what to do with it, it's still there. It has put on a long cane with the rose on top, but little else. Two Twice in a Blue Moon are now not doing well in the front garden. Weak, with little growth. I am tempted to dig them up and pot them. Maybe a rose does better grown on in tubs first before being put in the ground. 🤔 The trouble is it's a difficult spot to replant in, and wouldn't be easy to replace soil without killing other plants.
@zugenie, @Marlorena I bought Leah Tutu when I visited Peter Beales garden, I couldn’t resist the rich colour and flower shape. To my nose it smells very similar to Bring Me Sunshine. Today, I kept going back and forth between the two and couldn’t notice much difference. But don’t take my word for it. It’s still a very short rose for me (approx 60cm), but last year it didn’t do very well because of an ant nest and lack of water. I would love it as a climber!
My GdF has started to bloom and the back garden roses are all looking good. The laggards are Jasmina (just coming out) and my much loved HT Royal William (still in bud). Margaret Merrill - the best it's ever been. GdF (2 pics) My new rose Winchester Cathedral - looking good, delicate scent. GJ - everybody's favourite, even I can smell the perfume.
@pitter-patter what did you do to move the ants? They seem to be positively everywhere. I wouldn't know where to move them. And they are digging up my house too.
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'Belle de Crecy' is a gallica rose, or I should rather say hybrid China from 1829. Once-blooming and easy to grow.
The blooms are reddish purple, shaded with violet, small for today's standards and often irregularly shaped. It is supposed to be strongly fragrant but I can only detect a light to medium scent. I have this problem with most gallicas and albas though, I think my nose doesn't pick their fragrances well.
'Purple Lodge' is a modern shrub or floribunda. Probably one of the best modern purples. Lovely old-fashioned blooms in clusters. Fragrant with the typical complex scent of purple roses with hints of fruit/berries.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, it is not available in the UK. I can't understand why no one introduces it yet, given how rare and demanded purple roses are.
Nollie also has it.
I think between Nollie and me, we tried almost all purple roses on the market
@Edhelka, I too find rose history very interesting. Liked the reviews you found from the olden days. To my knowledge, the dark version of Reine des Violettes is the original. The lighter version has appeared as a sport and is sold by various dealers and breeders in Germany. I read about it on roses.shoutwiki.com. It doesn't say much though. But I dare say, we both have the original. I am not going to get the lighter version for comparison.
@ElbFee I do love all your roses (and spend time looking up the unknown ones on the interwebnets) so perhaps that is true!
@Tack
I am at a loss to tell you which either. Blue Moon was sent by mistake, so dug it out of the spot I wanted Twice in a BM when they sent a replacement. Potted it up till I decided what to do with it, it's still there. It has put on a long cane with the rose on top, but little else. Two Twice in a Blue Moon are now not doing well in the front garden. Weak, with little growth. I am tempted to dig them up and pot them. Maybe a rose does better grown on in tubs first before being put in the ground. 🤔 The trouble is it's a difficult spot to replant in, and wouldn't be easy to replace soil without killing other plants.
Margaret Merrill - the best it's ever been.
GdF (2 pics) My new rose
Winchester Cathedral - looking good, delicate scent.
GJ - everybody's favourite, even I can smell the perfume.