Liisa (a Poulsen Renaissance rose from Trevor White)... very pretty.
Dee-Lish / Anniv... etc etc
Queen of Denmark (keep writing Queen of Sweden, a rose I don't have) is ageing disgracefully. I like it. Sad the show will be over soon.
The Ingenious Mr Fairchild. And I thought Jubilee Celebration was droopy... how do you grow yours, @Rojas?
Lady Emma Hamilton
Sweet Jessica
Pretty Jessica
Also... we had a heavy rain and high winds last night, but no one told Arthur Bell, pictured early this morning. Such a resilient and wonderful rose. My favourite.
All the pictures have been glorious, thank you to everyone. @Elbfee wonderful, moody, brooding garden. @JessicaS your roses are always a treat.
Enjoying everyone’s roses and beautiful gardens in lieu of mine at present. So many roses producing just a desultory bloom or are full of buds on the cusp of reblooming. Nothing seems in a particular hurry.
@ElbFee your garden is a delight. So sorry to hear about your vole problem, it’s very frustrating when you work so hard to create your paradise, only for it to be undone by some burrowing or munching critter.
@WAMS and @Alfie_ blooms do get smaller following and during a spell of hot weather could that be it? Increasing the watering does help, but here even that is not always enough.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Is this a sucker growing from my rose bush? I thought it 100% was but it's got the same thorns all down the cane. Currently growing my first 2 rose bushes so complete novice! Thanks!
@samm.barrsr_orBvHZ id say sucker yes with the amount of leaflets per stem and the paler pointier leaves - dig out a bit below it, is it coming from below the graft? (Knobbly bit at base of stems). Cut it right out at base if so.
@WAMS I think you have meant to ask The ingenious Mr.Fairchild. it's only two years old. Heard it grows tall, the multi pettaled blooms are heavier at the top and would need a support. I am thinking to add garden stakes similar to dahlia stakes.
@Nollie - thanks that's good to know. It is still strange the Chandos standard is pumping out big blooms but there are only a few and it doesn't get full Sun so maybe that's why. The Chandos shrub still looks very pretty:
Hamilton Princess:
Hoverflies love it!
Thank you @Marloerna for your suggestions on DA roses. Coming home to this was a real treat. Scent on Desdemona is awesome and the right kind of scent I like too.
This bee was determined to get into Desdemona:
He got stuck at the back:
Gabriel Oak. Really nice blooms.
I planted two together and one has immaculate foliage and the other has this:
Circled the worst bits. Any ideas what this is and how to fix it. It is also on WOH which is in a border the other side of the garden. Good thing is that it doesn't seem to be affecting the blooms.
First Dark Desire bloom:
Champagne Moment hardwood cutting taken in September has flowered:
Queen of Denmark:
@Marlorena Bienvenue looks awesome - has it met your expectations? The scent?
@WAMS I think you have meant to ask The ingenious Mr.Fairchild. it's only two years old. Heard it grows tall, the multi pettaled blooms are heavier at the top and would need a support. I am thinking to add garden stakes similar to dahlia stakes.
Thanks, @Rojas... sorry, I wasn't very clear at all there and I did mean TIMFairchild, not JC. I have mine (first season) on some dahlia / plant frame semicircular things and have already had to put in bamboo stakes outside those. Already noticed flowering sideshoots as well, so can it really be a climber? I wonder if a short obelisk would be good for it. All questions I should have asked before planting, lol. The only discussions I found of it online though were on Houzz and I can't make head or tail of that forum tbh.
Sugar Moon, Princesse Charlène de Monaco, Prospero, Princess Alexandra of Kent. Scent A+++
Thank you @Eustace , yes very many perennials in the border only just beginning to bloom and fill some space. I bought bidens and a few ageratum to take up some of the front gaps, 8 roses in there but mostly pretty small still. It is fun watching things develop but having bought everything online some of my colour choices are not right, Am having a stern word with myself to wait till after the season to move stuff.
Some mini roses for you
Ruby MellaCutie PieUnknown, was part of a Christmas gift basketNot mini but a small one that I really like so far, early days though. Eufemia
Thanks WAMS, am resisting but it is tempting. Are the canes able to support the blooms?
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Dee-Lish / Anniv... etc etc
Queen of Denmark (keep writing Queen of Sweden, a rose I don't have) is ageing disgracefully. I like it. Sad the show will be over soon.
The Ingenious Mr Fairchild. And I thought Jubilee Celebration was droopy... how do you grow yours, @Rojas?
Lady Emma Hamilton
Sweet Jessica
Pretty Jessica
Also... we had a heavy rain and high winds last night, but no one told Arthur Bell, pictured early this morning. Such a resilient and wonderful rose. My favourite.
All the pictures have been glorious, thank you to everyone. @Elbfee wonderful, moody, brooding garden. @JessicaS your roses are always a treat.
@ElbFee your garden is a delight. So sorry to hear about your vole problem, it’s very frustrating when you work so hard to create your paradise, only for it to be undone by some burrowing or munching critter.
@WAMS and @Alfie_ blooms do get smaller following and during a spell of hot weather could that be it? Increasing the watering does help, but here even that is not always enough.
Hamilton Princess:
Hoverflies love it!
Thank you @Marloerna for your suggestions on DA roses. Coming home to this was a real treat. Scent on Desdemona is awesome and the right kind of scent I like too.
This bee was determined to get into Desdemona:
He got stuck at the back:
Gabriel Oak. Really nice blooms.
I planted two together and one has immaculate foliage and the other has this:
Circled the worst bits. Any ideas what this is and how to fix it. It is also on WOH which is in a border the other side of the garden. Good thing is that it doesn't seem to be affecting the blooms.
First Dark Desire bloom:
Champagne Moment hardwood cutting taken in September has flowered:
Queen of Denmark:
@Marlorena Bienvenue looks awesome - has it met your expectations? The scent?
Sugar Moon, Princesse Charlène de Monaco, Prospero, Princess Alexandra of Kent. Scent A+++