It has been steadily raining here all evening. @cooldoc I do love your Dioressence the colour and ruffles are a wow for me, but then anything on the purple range catches my eye.😁
It is cloudy but no rain here in Oxford. Only drizzles which disappears as soon as they touches the surface. I have managed to deadhead some today.
Pretty Jessica: Strong pleasant scent, stays small and petal packed blooms might struggle to open in wet weather. Nahema: Chandos Beauty: unspoiled pretty blooms due to no rain.
Sweet Juliet - Poor specimen from dewilde.nl. Still struggling to grow but seems to be improving. I like the pleasant fragrance.
Ascot:
Collette: Thorny, Lots of flowers but they all shatter quickly.
The ingenious Mr.Fairchild: Lovely flower form and nice fruity scent.
Roald Dal: Teasing Georgia: Cymbeline: Blooms stays fresh for a very long time, this was the first to flower on the 24th May and still covered in flowers.. I only wish the scent not myrhh. Wild Edric: Loving the dry weather.
@cooldoc Amazing Day has been normal looking so far for me, all blooms like this: The first flush is still just about going on... the last bud has just opened... but my plant couldn't cope with the sudden heat increase at all and crisped up the moment it got above 25deg a week or two back (when it jumped 12 deg). It looked as though someone had gone all over the blooms with one of those little blowtorches chefs use to finish off crème brûlée. 😬 During the second flush last year during the heatwave the blooms were warped, too. Hope that doesn't happen again. I moved it last winter but it's still in full sun. Overall it is doing OK so far considering that a volunteer sweetpea is using it as an obelisk.
We had torrential rain and thunderstorms in waves last night, so everything is a mess this morning.. petals everywhere... an opportunity to prune off the first flush.. it feels good to have a tidy up. 'Bathsheba' held up well..
No rain. And major construction, noise, dust in the house. Out go oil tank and heating, in goes fancy air/water heat pump (wonder if this is a correct translation). Seeking refuge in the garden.
Standard Scepter'd Isle and no name rose blurry in the back.
Eyes for you in the bottom left corner but mainly rose companions. Linaria purpurea, the tall spire, is a happy self seeder but not intrusive.
Left to right, La Rose Du Petit Prince, Love Song and Renée van Wegberg in pots, Huddersfield Choral Society next to them and Reine des Violettes in the back.
Poppies all over, fluffy, puffed or single petals, love them. Mind Games Standard in the back, unknown pinkish in the middle, Jacques Cartier white to the right, Sangerhauser Jubiläum bottom left. And, no, it is not how I framed the photo, everything is really close together. Too close. It just doesn't look like this when I plan and plant in early spring and I get carried away by the options the bare soil provides. Seems to provide I should say. Upside is, there is no weed.
I have some cornflowers about to flower and actually popped into the shop yesterday for some more seed for a late extra sowing, but Fothergills have rebranded cornflowers in special "wildflowers" packaging and they were nearly £4. For cornflower seed. Hahahahahahhhahahaha no.
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@cooldoc I do love your Dioressence the colour and ruffles are a wow for me, but then anything on the purple range catches my eye.😁
I have managed to deadhead some today.
Pretty Jessica: Strong pleasant scent, stays small and petal packed blooms might struggle to open in wet weather.
Nahema:
Chandos Beauty: unspoiled pretty blooms due to no rain.
Sweet Juliet - Poor specimen from dewilde.nl. Still struggling to grow but seems to be improving. I like the pleasant fragrance.
Ascot:
Collette: Thorny, Lots of flowers but they all shatter quickly.
The ingenious Mr.Fairchild: Lovely flower form and nice fruity scent.
Roald Dal:
Teasing Georgia:
Cymbeline: Blooms stays fresh for a very long time, this was the first to flower on the 24th May and still covered in flowers.. I only wish the scent not myrhh.
Wild Edric: Loving the dry weather.
Took some photos yesterday afternoon just in case it all went to mush.
but my plant couldn't cope with the sudden heat increase at all and crisped up the moment it got above 25deg a week or two back (when it jumped 12 deg). It looked as though someone had gone all over the blooms with one of those little blowtorches chefs use to finish off crème brûlée. 😬 During the second flush last year during the heatwave the blooms were warped, too. Hope that doesn't happen again. I moved it last winter but it's still in full sun. Overall it is doing OK so far considering that a volunteer sweetpea is using it as an obelisk.
first blooms on BMS, they are very droopy not sure if it’s the heat, given it a water this morning
and the first desdemona is here, this one smells really lovely, super strong
'Bathsheba' held up well..
Standard Scepter'd Isle and no name rose blurry in the back.
Eyes for you in the bottom left corner but mainly rose companions. Linaria purpurea, the tall spire, is a happy self seeder but not intrusive.
Left to right, La Rose Du Petit Prince, Love Song and Renée van Wegberg in pots, Huddersfield Choral Society next to them and Reine des Violettes in the back.
Poppies all over, fluffy, puffed or single petals, love them. Mind Games Standard in the back, unknown pinkish in the middle, Jacques Cartier white to the right, Sangerhauser Jubiläum bottom left. And, no, it is not how I framed the photo, everything is really close together. Too close. It just doesn't look like this when I plan and plant in early spring and I get carried away by the options the bare soil provides. Seems to provide I should say. Upside is, there is no weed.
I have some cornflowers about to flower and actually popped into the shop yesterday for some more seed for a late extra sowing, but Fothergills have rebranded cornflowers in special "wildflowers" packaging and they were nearly £4. For cornflower seed. Hahahahahahhhahahaha no.