Marlorena I agree, it is fun and I trial quite a lot of old roses out of curiosity. I want to see what they look like in the flesh and how they do here. It’s why I want to try ‘maybe Maggie’ even though I absolutely do NOT need another rose of that type and colour! Since I can’t keep them all, I often pit one against the other in a rose beauty parade. MdS won out over Catherine Guillot which I probably won’t keep. Currently Indigo and Yolande d’Aragón are going head to head..
BTW Loubert replied to my email about ‘not Crépuscule’, apologised for the mix-up and offered to replace it in autumn. However, they were mystified as to what it actually is!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Trying to get the garden back under control after my vacation proves to be a challenge. I could live a very healthy life on chickweed and goutweed. But I won't. Crawling around I found these two, way too early and hardly 20cm tall.
Could you please help me to identify this rose? It has the most intense fragrance like rose water or rose soap, blooms in a huge flush and then continous with bits here and there, grows to a substantial bush of more then 2m.
My Wisteria will certainly flower this year. Maybe not all my pruning was wrong.
Currently the whole garden is purple and blue, Forgetmenots and Lunaria.
Just starting are my Rhododendrons. Can I plant a rose after a Rhododendron? The soil was never right for a Rhodo in the first place. Just wondering about rose root desease.
Weather is still grey skies and single digit temperatures but way too dry.
Thank you @bullfinch @WAMS I suppose I could. But it is of the boring lilac type. And why would I use a pot for something that only looks nice 2 weeks per year when there are roses to be had
To be fair some of the Thai and Californian gardeners I am friends with on Facebook seem to get rose blooms every month of the year and I get "well jell" as the English say so poetically.
Here it is wet and rose buds are still waiting for the 🌞 to open. Olivia rose Austin opening up slightly. Elsewhere in the garden, this is Clematis early sensation. Only a few branches bearing flowers this season, probably because I didn't deadhead properly last season and it has set seed. Azalea geisha red below, looking wet and sorry in the 🌧️.
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
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BTW Loubert replied to my email about ‘not Crépuscule’, apologised for the mix-up and offered to replace it in autumn. However, they were mystified as to what it actually is!
Could you please help me to identify this rose? It has the most intense fragrance like rose water or rose soap, blooms in a huge flush and then continous with bits here and there, grows to a substantial bush of more then 2m.
My Wisteria will certainly flower this year. Maybe not all my pruning was wrong.
Currently the whole garden is purple and blue, Forgetmenots and Lunaria.
Just starting are my Rhododendrons. Can I plant a rose after a Rhododendron? The soil was never right for a Rhodo in the first place. Just wondering about rose root desease.
Weather is still grey skies and single digit temperatures but way too dry.
but the roses are light years away yet.
@WAMS I suppose I could. But it is of the boring lilac type. And why would I use a pot for something that only looks nice 2 weeks per year when there are roses to be had
Loads of foliage and buds here too — not many aphids and thankfully no sawfly yet
Here it is wet and rose buds are still waiting for the 🌞 to open. Olivia rose Austin opening up slightly.
Elsewhere in the garden, this is Clematis early sensation. Only a few branches bearing flowers this season, probably because I didn't deadhead properly last season and it has set seed.
Azalea geisha red below, looking wet and sorry in the 🌧️.
Soft apricots and yellows are getting going..
Alister Stella Gray:
Avalanche Apricot:
Mrs Oakley Fisher flowering in a coronet-style ring around the outside:
Lady of Shallot looking quite romantic as she fades: