@Daniel Rutherford You have some of the best Austin's Daniel.. seemingly grown with ease.. we don't see 'Wildeve' often enough..
@Alfie_ I get that too... heat stress.. those big many petalled blooms demand a lot of water to keep them looking good, which is why it can take them some time to get established in gardens, until they get those roots down.. You cannot overwater a rose during summer dry spells..
@Vh72 thankyou, I believe this is the 4th year for my poets wife. It gets quite wide and will probably need a bit of support as well as it gets bigger.
Superb roses @Daniel Rutherford; lovely sight to behold. It must be a truly scented garden too.
You have done wonders in your new border bed @tack. Looking forward to seeing more pictures as the plants grow. Are they mostly perennials and roses?
Here are some of my rose photos. Most of them are now past their first flush. Wymondham Abbey - a bit unruly and needs to be attached to the fence as it is a climbing rose and I haven't found a proper spot yet. Super Dorothy Another look at Sweet Honey. Westerland - looking pink🥺 Tess of the d'urbervilles Othello
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
You’ve created a fantastic rose garden there @Daniel Rutherford and it’s great to see it and you back. Enjoy it while it lasts - are you moving on to pastures new?
@cooldoc, at least Grafin Diana is honestly classed by Kordes as a Hybrid Tea. Delbard OTOH are rather too fond of classifying their roses as shrubs (Guy Savoy) or floribundas (La Rose de Molinard, Folle Courtisane, Souvenir de Marcel Proust) when their growth and flowering habit screams HT. I found you can prune the outer canes of LRdM hard to get a better overall shrub shape with blooms lower down and would’ve kept it if it were not for rain-spoilt blooms. It’s rare to get a dry summer here so rain, heat and disease resistance are all key.
I am quickly falling out of love with Delbard actually. Avalanche Abricot is a success but SdMP is probably going to added to my shovel list. The blooms were lush, scented and stunning last year, but this year I’ve had only four sparsely-petalled blooms to date and it’s now a straggly, BS-prone disappointment.
I knew there was a good reason why I trial them in pots first!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Does your WS 2000 smell like Poets wife (or citrusy)? My original WS 2000 which was a shriveled twig on arrival did survive and has better fragrance than the non -scented replacement they sent me.. but smells like Poets wife.. it does have a own root PW nearby and having a honey suckle next to it does not help either in identifying a scent.. but did not get an old rose kinda scent..
Jubilee celebration..
Theo clevers.. was removed to the ground for lack of scent..
Sweet delight.. intensely fragrant and good bloomer for a HT..
Finally a Lady Emma bloom..
Crazy fashion..
Fragrant Cloud..
How NOT to grow a Strawberry Hill.. better suited as a climber.. thin lax canes..
Everything seems to be recovering after the recent storms.
Gruss an aachen looking very nice and retaining it's delicates colours a bit longer now the heatwave is over. I'm still loving the delicate blooms of 'Windflower'. And it's turning out to be very floriferous. Loosestrife just beginning to come out, mixing with 'Buff Beauty' and 'Ab Fab'
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You have some of the best Austin's Daniel.. seemingly grown with ease.. we don't see 'Wildeve' often enough..
@Alfie_
I get that too... heat stress.. those big many petalled blooms demand a lot of water to keep them looking good, which is why it can take them some time to get established in gardens, until they get those roots down..
You cannot overwater a rose during summer dry spells..
You have done wonders in your new border bed @tack. Looking forward to seeing more pictures as the plants grow. Are they mostly perennials and roses?
Here are some of my rose photos. Most of them are now past their first flush.
Wymondham Abbey - a bit unruly and needs to be attached to the fence as it is a climbing rose and I haven't found a proper spot yet.
Super Dorothy
Another look at Sweet Honey.
Westerland - looking pink🥺
Tess of the d'urbervilles
Othello
@cooldoc, at least Grafin Diana is honestly classed by Kordes as a Hybrid Tea. Delbard OTOH are rather too fond of classifying their roses as shrubs (Guy Savoy) or floribundas (La Rose de Molinard, Folle Courtisane, Souvenir de Marcel Proust) when their growth and flowering habit screams HT. I found you can prune the outer canes of LRdM hard to get a better overall shrub shape with blooms lower down and would’ve kept it if it were not for rain-spoilt blooms. It’s rare to get a dry summer here so rain, heat and disease resistance are all key.
I am quickly falling out of love with Delbard actually. Avalanche Abricot is a success but SdMP is probably going to added to my shovel list. The blooms were lush, scented and stunning last year, but this year I’ve had only four sparsely-petalled blooms to date and it’s now a straggly, BS-prone disappointment.
I knew there was a good reason why I trial them in pots first!
Jubilee celebration..
Theo clevers.. was removed to the ground for lack of scent..
Sweet delight.. intensely fragrant and good bloomer for a HT..
Finally a Lady Emma bloom..
Crazy fashion..
Fragrant Cloud..
How NOT to grow a Strawberry Hill.. better suited as a climber.. thin lax canes..
Gruss an aachen looking very nice and retaining it's delicates colours a bit longer now the heatwave is over.
I'm still loving the delicate blooms of 'Windflower'. And it's turning out to be very floriferous.
Loosestrife just beginning to come out, mixing with 'Buff Beauty' and 'Ab Fab'