@peteS - only just noticed your Buff B post. I totally agree with @Nollie - that BB is in a very good state. Half of mine is currently right on the floor and it doesn't look great (it is young though). I would be very happy if mine looked like yours and your pictures have given me hope!
@Nollie - ah that's interesting about Roald Dahl, thanks. I will have to study the blooms carefully. Looking online it could be either as some pictures of both look very much like my shot from last year. Yeh I guess it is quite secret in that it leads to the actual garden (lawn) which is not overlooked. There are only two ways to get to it; a walled arch in the courtyard and that gate. I'm just working really hard to make the 'garden' bit worth going through the gate for The gate is the better entrance currently as it has Champagne M. as you enter:
@ElbFee sorry only just seen your post. Yes DD is definitely fragrant. I have so many fragrant roses that when I have time to smell them I don't have time to smell them all normally but DD would be one I wouldn't skip. What about tour Sceptr'd Isle? How is the fragrance on that?
So much deadheading to do in the heat over the weekend with blooms just not lasting. Lovely and cool now so these roses can enjoy a good flush for longer. Heidi KlumEbb Tide, such a great scentFrilly CuffNewbie VeilchenblauRambling Rosie
I love these inspiring roses and rosarians! I am only on page 309 so need to catch up. I do have a question re pruning though. I mostly grow DA repeat-bloomers. Some flowered in June a little, some have not at all. Regarding those that have not flowered and do not show buds even now, would you advise pruning back in order to stimulate growth? I have added bagged manure with J.I no 3 compost and am feeding with liquid tomato feed weekly. Does anyone else prune these sorts of roses back after the first flush (I don't just mean dead-heading). Thank you in advance!
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@clematisdorset I prune mine back to a healthy leaf node. If it's been a hot, dry spring like last year that can be quite a long way down.
On another tangent, I have been checking thru my "nursery" in search of plants desperately in need of planting out or potting on before I go post-op lame for a few weeks and have found a very healthy but floppy, sprawling rose - Blanche Moreau - given me as a scrawny cutting a year or so ago.
Advice please on whether to pot on and wait till autumn to find her a permanent home and that will depend on the best planting situation - full sun (fierce here) or partial shade, soil and drainage. I know people here tend to grow roses that can cope with well-drained soil. Is she one of them or do I need a good, rich bed for her?
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I love these inspiring roses and rosarians! I am only on page 309 so need to catch up. I do have a question re pruning though. I mostly grow DA repeat-bloomers. Some flowered in June a little, some have not at all. Regarding those that have not flowered and do not show buds even now, would you advise pruning back in order to stimulate growth? I have added bagged manure with J.I no 3 compost and am feeding with liquid tomato feed weekly. Does anyone else prune these sorts of roses back after the first flush (I don't just mean dead-heading). Thank you in advance!
For some to not even be showing buds by the end of June is highly unusual! How are you roses looking generally? Do they have lots of strong, leafy growth or are they diseased and dropping yellowing leaves? If the former it’s possible you have overfed them with too much nitrogen-rich manure etc. to encourage leafy growth over blooming. If the latter, it could be moisture levels in your soil are very low and/or it’s been unusually hot - you may have not been giving them enough regular deep drinks to compensate.
I would not normally feed tomato food until after the first flush to encourage re-bloom but not at all if a rose is poorly.
As to pruning, a little light pruning to reduce height is fine. Plus, I often prune back individual long, wayward canes by up to half in summer. However, I would be more inclined to lay off the liquid feed, give them a proper slow-release rose food with micronutrients instead and water, water, water heavily to induce growth and blooms.
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@Alfie_ Thanks for that...mine is in it's 2nd year and in a very large pot. The growth and flowering this summer has been exceptional really. It has had an excellent large diameter circular support round it which has stopped it from flopping and has been large enough to allow it to do it's own thing...at least for this year anyway, but I suspect that won't be big enough next year. @Busy-Lizzie Mine clearly has a long way to go then to come anywhere near yours, but after seeing what it can look like with a bit more patience, I've decided to give it a reprieve and give it at least another summer.
@Alfie_ not sure how many... added quite a lot since last October.... not enough though. The secret gate arch is a great touch. @Elbfee you have an endless array of beauties there (and amazing about H.P... God save the rave!). Thank you @Busy-Lizzie. Penelope sounds excellent.
Just a couple... Evelyn holds onto its blooms for a long time despite wind and rain!
The Unphotographable Mr Fairchild (too droopy), Charles Rennie Macintosh, Princess Alexandra of Kent, mislabelled dahlia, Jubilee Celebration, Love Song
Giardina... lovely name, not remotely like a gastric infection. Popular with insects.
Lolabelle still throwing out some beautiful blooms (it is not staked- that is an allium)
And yes, @Nollie, all the reds are coming out magenta. Here's Munstead Wood, not far off its current colour. Still smells great, though!
Meant to say earlier Tack, your Rambling Rosie is terrific and that’s the best Ebb Tide I’ve seen. Still, ET is not what you would call a graceful rose, at least mine isn’t.
WAMS, funnily enough Munstead is holding it’s colour the best for me but otherwise it’s magenta overload here.
@Obelixx the moss rose Blanche Moreau is a martyr to mildew according to one of my rose books. Only one comment on helpmefind:
Hopefully someone will have grown it and can offer more constructive advice, but I would pot it on if necessary and plant out in the Autumn when it’s much cooler.
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@Nollie - ah that's interesting about Roald Dahl, thanks. I will have to study the blooms carefully. Looking online it could be either as some pictures of both look very much like my shot from last year. Yeh I guess it is quite secret in that it leads to the actual garden (lawn) which is not overlooked. There are only two ways to get to it; a walled arch in the courtyard and that gate. I'm just working really hard to make the 'garden' bit worth going through the gate for
Your Julia C is awesome. I'm so glad I bought it.
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On another tangent, I have been checking thru my "nursery" in search of plants desperately in need of planting out or potting on before I go post-op lame for a few weeks and have found a very healthy but floppy, sprawling rose - Blanche Moreau - given me as a scrawny cutting a year or so ago.
Advice please on whether to pot on and wait till autumn to find her a permanent home and that will depend on the best planting situation - full sun (fierce here) or partial shade, soil and drainage. I know people here tend to grow roses that can cope with well-drained soil. Is she one of them or do I need a good, rich bed for her?
I would not normally feed tomato food until after the first flush to encourage re-bloom but not at all if a rose is poorly.
As to pruning, a little light pruning to reduce height is fine. Plus, I often prune back individual long, wayward canes by up to half in summer. However, I would be more inclined to lay off the liquid feed, give them a proper slow-release rose food with micronutrients instead and water, water, water heavily to induce growth and blooms.
Thanks for that...mine is in it's 2nd year and in a very large pot. The growth and flowering this summer has been exceptional really. It has had an excellent large diameter circular support round it which has stopped it from flopping and has been large enough to allow it to do it's own thing...at least for this year anyway, but I suspect that won't be big enough next year.
@Busy-Lizzie
Mine clearly has a long way to go then to come anywhere near yours, but after seeing what it can look like with a bit more patience, I've decided to give it a reprieve and give it at least another summer.
@Elbfee you have an endless array of beauties there (and amazing about H.P... God save the rave!).
Thank you @Busy-Lizzie. Penelope sounds excellent.
Just a couple... Evelyn holds onto its blooms for a long time despite wind and rain!
The Unphotographable Mr Fairchild (too droopy), Charles Rennie Macintosh, Princess Alexandra of Kent, mislabelled dahlia, Jubilee Celebration, Love Song
Giardina... lovely name, not remotely like a gastric infection. Popular with insects.
Lolabelle still throwing out some beautiful blooms (it is not staked- that is an allium)
And yes, @Nollie, all the reds are coming out magenta. Here's Munstead Wood, not far off its current colour. Still smells great, though!
WAMS, funnily enough Munstead is holding it’s colour the best for me but otherwise it’s magenta overload here.
@Obelixx the moss rose Blanche Moreau is a martyr to mildew according to one of my rose books. Only one comment on helpmefind:
https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.726&tab=32
Hopefully someone will have grown it and can offer more constructive advice, but I would pot it on if necessary and plant out in the Autumn when it’s much cooler.