Catching up on all the beautiful roses. So glad I do not have rose mosaic, Blue for you with identity crisis, sawfly or any of this. Voles are enough.
This forum really makes me rethink my expectations. I am no longer contend with one legged one bloom species. My ditching list grows. My want list too thanks to all of your pictures. Totally agree with you @WAMS, not sure how many roses I have but not enough yet. And not only keepers.
@Alfie_ I couldn't pass Scepter'd Isle without taking a pinch of scent. It is really strong myrrh with a lot of honey, really unique. It does not rebloom much, maybe because it is a standard. I am tempted to plant it as a normal rose too. Just added your Winchester Cathedral to my wish list.
@Tack your Rambling Rose is fantastic. As well grown as your Strawberry Hill.
@HarryWhite Thank you for asking about Lichfield Angel. I have the same situation. Will get the stakes out.
@Rojas, you are to blame for me adding more and more DA's to my list although I have seen a lot of them in adulthood and know they will be huge. Any suggestion who stays on the slim side? Thank you.
Jubilee Celebration Vanessa Bell Great Expectations (McGredy)... I love this. Def one of my favourite new ones this year, along with Fragrant Plum, Liliana, Sweet Jessica and Marchenzauber / Bliss (at the moment).
A bit of luck finding Jude, @Alfie_... a lot of people are desperate for that rose now.
@Rojas, such a lovely pic of Leander in particular.
Wedding Piano grows a lot of clusters. So far no scent and starting only now, rather late in the season. Stays white when aging.
Tried and tried but the true colour defies my camera. It is more of a buff brown. And what a great marketing person. How could I not buy a rose called hot chocolate with zero calories?
Planted last autumn. Blooms 2, 3 and 4 in one picture.
Ghislaine is a substantial plant in a very shady spot. Flowers willingly nevertheless and the bees love it. No thorns but nasty, tiny barby always catch me.
Eva Marie from German breeder Weihrauch. Very tough one finding its way through the root work of a massive rhododendron. Hopefully tough enough to survive the tunnel system and attacks of the voles. How I hate them!
Katie shot up one long cane with this cluster of buds in its 3rd year. Another transplant. I need to dig out the overview pictures, maybe for the winter thread.
Another first bloom, planted last autumn. So far I did not smell much scent. Lives infront of the hedge to go. I'll be interested to see how it perks up when this competitor for water is gone.
TCL has some roses that I just buy for their names. Like Lovely Green. Which is actually quite white.
Now Jacques is scented. Lily scented.
Orange Dawn is supposed to be the, well, orange sport of New Dawn. It doesn't know it should be a climber. Which is a shame as it sits in the only flower bed which has a fence to train it up on.
Julie Andrieu is sold as climbing Claude Monet. In year 3 I am not convinced to have a climber.
Do you find lilies have any bad effects on rose blooms, ElbFee? Last year the petals of one of my roses were full of insect holes and I wondered if the lily beside it might have attracted them (as they do flies). The lily is out now but the rose has already finished its flush (untroubled by insects), so I can't check if it happened again.
Some call Rosa Hot Chocolate a hybrid tea, some a bush rose and some a floribunda. Do sellers just make this stuff up or is there some deciding factor as to what a rose is? I would image a floribunda would usually have more blooms than a regular hybrid tea. Has modern breeding got to the point where the labels don't mean much any more?
@Marlorena Thank you. Although Eden was the first one to caught my attention towards roses.. I must say that I fell facedown...the moment I saw a group of LEH hedge at the DA entrance. Most of my old DA roses are from TCL pre-brexit. I have literally gone crazy, planted well over 70 roses in to the ground during Covid 2021-2022 lockdown with a toddler around and DH was abroad. I don't know how I did it .. my only intention were to save all roses! I have prepped most of the planting holes during summer, but I did get frost bites after the winter planting. I have managed to get some of the older Austins this year and will post pictures hopefully soon. I am not keen to try the newer Austins but Scarborough Fair and Mary Delaney are in my list.
@ElbFee Have you got any old DA roses in mind? The compact versions so far are Pretty Jessica, Fair Bianca, Chaucer, Kathryn Morley. They are over 3 years old.
If anyone ordered a rose from Harkness last year, they were having trouble with the labelling of “some” of their roses. So if you received a different rose to the one you ordered, that’s why. Unfortunately they seem to also be having the same trouble this year as people are still receiving the wrong roses.
I am quite disappointed. Our new rose, ( Golden Wedding Anniversary) got two buds on which flowered. Now the flowers have gone off already and no new buds to be seen. Is this normal in a rose's first year I wonder? First bud opened on 17/6 so hasn't lasted long.
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I would say so, yes, now you've remarked about the scent...
The foliage and other features seem to match as well.
.. a couple more pics, that better match what you're seeing there now..
This forum really makes me rethink my expectations. I am no longer contend with one legged one bloom species. My ditching list grows. My want list too thanks to all of your pictures. Totally agree with you @WAMS, not sure how many roses I have but not enough yet. And not only keepers.
@Alfie_ I couldn't pass Scepter'd Isle without taking a pinch of scent. It is really strong myrrh with a lot of honey, really unique. It does not rebloom much, maybe because it is a standard. I am tempted to plant it as a normal rose too. Just added your Winchester Cathedral to my wish list.
@Tack your Rambling Rose is fantastic. As well grown as your Strawberry Hill.
@HarryWhite Thank you for asking about Lichfield Angel. I have the same situation. Will get the stakes out.
@Rojas, you are to blame for me adding more and more DA's to my list although I have seen a lot of them in adulthood and know they will be huge. Any suggestion who stays on the slim side? Thank you.
Unknown white rose again showing some beautiful blooms.
Vanessa Bell
Great Expectations (McGredy)... I love this. Def one of my favourite new ones this year, along with Fragrant Plum, Liliana, Sweet Jessica and Marchenzauber / Bliss (at the moment).
A bit of luck finding Jude, @Alfie_... a lot of people are desperate for that rose now.
@Rojas, such a lovely pic of Leander in particular.
Tried and tried but the true colour defies my camera. It is more of a buff brown. And what a great marketing person. How could I not buy a rose called hot chocolate with zero calories?
Planted last autumn. Blooms 2, 3 and 4 in one picture.
Ghislaine is a substantial plant in a very shady spot. Flowers willingly nevertheless and the bees love it. No thorns but nasty, tiny barby always catch me.
Eva Marie from German breeder Weihrauch. Very tough one finding its way through the root work of a massive rhododendron. Hopefully tough enough to survive the tunnel system and attacks of the voles. How I hate them!
Katie shot up one long cane with this cluster of buds in its 3rd year. Another transplant. I need to dig out the overview pictures, maybe for the winter thread.
Another first bloom, planted last autumn. So far I did not smell much scent. Lives infront of the hedge to go. I'll be interested to see how it perks up when this competitor for water is gone.
TCL has some roses that I just buy for their names. Like Lovely Green. Which is actually quite white.
Now Jacques is scented. Lily scented.
Orange Dawn is supposed to be the, well, orange sport of New Dawn. It doesn't know it should be a climber. Which is a shame as it sits in the only flower bed which has a fence to train it up on.
Julie Andrieu is sold as climbing Claude Monet. In year 3 I am not convinced to have a climber.
Your garden is gorgeous.
@ElbFee Have you got any old DA roses in mind? The compact versions so far are Pretty Jessica, Fair Bianca, Chaucer, Kathryn Morley. They are over 3 years old.