Hooray, first rain since April last night and a good 10 ltr too. Highly motivated to finish my rose feeding today while the soil is wet.
Huddersfield in cornfield with totally shattered peony in the back after last night's rain.
Pierre de Ronsard / Eden 85 (what where they thinking?) has the loveliest buds white with a pink rim. Lives in the vole invested area. Please, please go away. I want my roses to survive.
@Marlorena, you are very much invited to help my one leg wonders grow some more. This is another one, but so lovely.
Can't decide if I prefer huge single blooms like Chandos Beauty or clusters like this. Actually, don't have to choose :-)
@Marlorena too early to tell. It has no mildew although the garden is full with it. The oak is affected with it, and I have mildew on other roses. First impression though, it is a difficult rose so also living up to that expectation. Die back , shoots immediately dying off this spring … a slow starter . My first flush is finished for all the roses and it only opened yesterday with only one other bud in development .
They state semi shade but just wondering if I do not need to move it to a fully sunny position .. Time will tell. Will give it no matter what another year.
We finally got some rain yesterday ! Hurray Need to start feeding and deadheading the roses so will do this maybe this evening since they are predicting rain on Thursday . Out with the ladder…
@Alfie_ I use metal half hoop plant supports for floppy roses in pots, two or three pushed into the outside of the pots, joining up to form a circle. The 49 or 74cm ones are the handiest and I use the bigger ones for tall perennials..
@WAMS if you could see the whole defoliated mess of Mme. Antoine Mari you might not be so keen! To be fair, the heat and high humidity here is causing severe BS for many of my roses. MAM always looked clean and healthy for Marlorena in her drier climate. Blooms are rather pinker than usual for some reason:
I also have a problem with ‘bullnosed’ blooms including on my much awaited second flush on Yolande d’Aragón. Nights haven’t dropped lower than 13c for weeks now, currently nearer 20c, so a bit of a puzzle why I’m seeing this now. Here’s Falstaff, also showing the characteristically tiny, deformed, flat-topped blooms:
I have acquired 2 new roses... I know @cooldoc has one.. and the other needs no introduction..
We stopped off at a garden centre today, for coffee.. with a table next to the window, right outside was the display of roses, all very colourful.. One caught my eye and had to go and investigate... I was surprised by the sweet scent on one of the blooms.. got a trolley and popped it in.. 'Odelia'.. I really wanted a strong colour for my hot border..
..whilst scanning the other fabulous roses on display.. this one was calling to me, so I had no choice. 'Climbing Iceberg'.. this is replacing 'Tall Story' which I'm fed up with..
Interesting to read how all the roses are fairing with the difference in the weather and some great pictures and useful questions coming in.
Here is an update from Aberdeen. We too had the deluge and I am really impressed with how Gertrude Jekyll stood up to it. Only the blooms that were going over shattered and the rest are looking even straighter and holding up well: (picture with the indulgent Agatha shot included)
Princess Anne is really coming into her own now. But after the deluge the straps on one of the standards slipped and she was bent double - but with a rearrangement you would not know (it was the one on the left):
And finally, not to be out done, the tribute rose to Agatha's predecessor has started to bloom for her second season (after a hard prune at the beginning of the year):
Some of the roses are showing blemishes on the leaves (see Our Molly) not sure if it is fungal, so any advice would be welcomed.
@PeterAberdeen You can see the culprits on the 10 and 1 o'clock leaves on Our Molly. They start tiny but you know they're there from the damage. I look for the freshest still green scars and they are usually right there underneath the leaf, then I squish em.
If the leaf is very damaged I remove it with caterpillar on and put it on the bonfire heap. I have bonfires extremely rarely so maybe the critturs survive, but they are a long way from the roses there.
@Nollie Salma ES Said fragrance was nice, fruity and strong this afternoon. It was stronger than William Shakespeare 2000, may be it's because I have never detected much from WS2000. How is your LEH standard doing?
@Nollie thank you so much for that link about plant supports and the video on bullnosing. I have ordered plant supports, better value that in the GCs here. I never knew why I sometimes got bullnosing on my roses in Dordogne. Now I know that it's because we can get hot days and cold nights in SW France.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Very nice roses @Marlorena — and thank you for the reminder last week about putting down fertiliser for roses before the big rain!
I must confess to the new purchase of a 1.5 gallon Haws Cradley Deluxe watering can. Before this, I just had a dodgy old (also plastic) can from 9 years ago.
My roses did ok during the heat south facing, full sun) and thunderstorms. I need to get to deadheading Wollerton Old Hall but it involves placement of a rickety ladder on a bed of cotoneaster…
Flower Carpet Pink
Pheno Geno Draga/Hallie
Vanessa Bell
Olivia Rose Austin and Roald Dahl are down to a final few flowers before taking a rest — they’re in pots in full sun
Someone dug up two plants from my six-year-old lavender hedge outside the house 😠 — good luck to them getting the most out of a couple of straggly, woody plants 😂
Love the Agatha pic and pink roses @PeterAberdeen! Interesting video @Nollie, thanks for sharing that. I don’t think I’ve seen that happening to my few roses.
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Huddersfield in cornfield with totally shattered peony in the back after last night's rain.
Pierre de Ronsard / Eden 85 (what where they thinking?) has the loveliest buds white with a pink rim. Lives in the vole invested area. Please, please go away. I want my roses to survive.
@Marlorena, you are very much invited to help my one leg wonders grow some more. This is another one, but so lovely.
Can't decide if I prefer huge single blooms like Chandos Beauty or clusters like this. Actually, don't have to choose :-)
First impression though, it is a difficult rose so also living up to that expectation. Die back , shoots immediately dying off this spring … a slow starter . My first flush is finished for all the roses and it only opened yesterday with only one other bud in development .
Need to start feeding and deadheading the roses so will do this maybe this evening since they are predicting rain on Thursday .
Out with the ladder…
https://www.plantsupports.co.uk/p/border_restraint_selection_pack_0003_14_supports
@WAMS if you could see the whole defoliated mess of Mme. Antoine Mari you might not be so keen! To be fair, the heat and high humidity here is causing severe BS for many of my roses. MAM always looked clean and healthy for Marlorena in her drier climate. Blooms are rather pinker than usual for some reason:
I also have a problem with ‘bullnosed’ blooms including on my much awaited second flush on Yolande d’Aragón. Nights haven’t dropped lower than 13c for weeks now, currently nearer 20c, so a bit of a puzzle why I’m seeing this now. Here’s Falstaff, also showing the characteristically tiny, deformed, flat-topped blooms:
Explanation from Jason, Fraser Valley Roses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kf-mpeQDo
We stopped off at a garden centre today, for coffee.. with a table next to the window, right outside was the display of roses, all very colourful.. One caught my eye and had to go and investigate... I was surprised by the sweet scent on one of the blooms.. got a trolley and popped it in..
'Odelia'.. I really wanted a strong colour for my hot border..
..whilst scanning the other fabulous roses on display.. this one was calling to me, so I had no choice.
'Climbing Iceberg'.. this is replacing 'Tall Story' which I'm fed up with..
Princess Anne is really coming into her own now. But after the deluge the straps on one of the standards slipped and she was bent double - but with a rearrangement you would not know (it was the one on the left):
And finally, not to be out done, the tribute rose to Agatha's predecessor has started to bloom for her second season (after a hard prune at the beginning of the year):
Some of the roses are showing blemishes on the leaves (see Our Molly) not sure if it is fungal, so any advice would be welcomed.
I must confess to the new purchase of a 1.5 gallon Haws Cradley Deluxe watering can. Before this, I just had a dodgy old (also plastic) can from 9 years ago.
My roses did ok during the heat south facing, full sun) and thunderstorms. I need to get to deadheading Wollerton Old Hall but it involves placement of a rickety ladder on a bed of cotoneaster…
Flower Carpet Pink