@crighton03 Hello, great to see you... I have found that these types of roses improve significantly with age, as those roots go down into the soil, the whole bush gets larger and the blooms with it, sometimes the scent improves too... occasionally a rose has developed out of all recognition from year 1 to year 3 or 4.. However, for the prices we pay, I think most people expect to be 'wow'd' a little sooner than that... cultivating in a decent sized pot with good compost speeds things up considerably..
I can be impatient, and don't always give them the time... I hope you will though.
I rather like the lavender pink of this rose..
@WAMS I meant to comment on your replacement... I find it odd that anyone could send out a rose so badly pruned and with dead wood remaining... standards not so great these days it seems..
Oh bother. As Darcey Bussell turned out to be American Pillar I was going to order another red rose from David Austin. Heard that they aren't doing Darcey Bussell anymore, was hoping for another red.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thought I'd try to put pics of my Penelope Lively here to see if you think she's rather on the meagre side? The blooms are actually due to be snipped off and nowhere near as fresh as they look there, which leaves me with no new buds at all.
Personally, I wouldn't worry about the current buds as long as the plant looks strong and healthy. Buds will come.
Hello @Marlorena, yes I've only grown roses for a couple of years and know next to nothing, but my Austins are the sulkiest of the bunch! Every one of mine are in pots as I expected to move house, and 70+ roses later I'm still looking to buy more...
@Crighton03 hello! You buy a brand new rose the week it's released, potted, and get no buds? Yes, really, I would be disappointed. Fingers crossed it is as floriferous as they say and sets lots more buds for you quickly. And are all the leaves healthy? DA are replacing those with rust- again, they seem to have sent out a substantial number that way.
@Marlorena yes... and it's not really the highest commendation when I was just thinking "ah, well, at least this one isn't rust-addled" lol. I have had such excellent potted as well as bareroot DA-bred roses from Style and Jones... it's a shame DA don't take the same pride in their plants, isn't it? Especially when their goodwill is not at an all-time high after they killed off so many favourites in one fell swoop last autumn.
@rossdriscoll13 I apricate your reposting those barely literate weasel words.
Ironically the two they name - MW and WS2k are far healthier and more extreme rain and heat resistant for me than many others so are passing the climate resilience test with flying deep and lovely colours! Darcy Bussell is a blackspot magnet however.
@Discandied that’s good to hear about your Yolande, look forward to seeing how it does for us both next year.
One newbie I have dumped unceremoniously without a proper trial was ‘Indigo’. The blooms were wizened and dwarvish, sulking low amongst the foliage even in early, milder weather. Then it got mildew. Not just any mildew. Within 24hrs the whole plant was blanketed in fuzz and all the foliage collapsed. The top growth was vigorous, the graft looked fine and roots had grown away strongly so I can only assume it strongly objected to my yo-yo climate.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Lavender Ice. I just totally stripped rusty Heritage behind it and might prune it a bit, do you think?... Have done the same to Gruss an Aachen and Great Expectations, as neither of them could quite shake off that spring blackspot attack. The scented stocks are pretty at the moment.
I thought this was a pansy but think it might be an alonsoa, inspired by Marlorena- in which case it is from seed scattered more than a year ago!
30 degrees and still warming up . Perfect condition to remain in the shade and compile my shopping list. Thanks a lot @WAMS for the list of soon to have been DAs. Plus the info on not soon will be DAs regarding deep reds. Which made me change my list of course.
Here is one rose that survived @Nollie weather. We had rains and storm Wednesday and Thursday. Then 30 degrees Friday, Saturday and today. The upper bloom started before all this. The lower one opened today.
While researching I learned that @Alfie Champagne Moment is sold as Lions Rose here. I wonder why they adapted a name that was already in English.
Here is how my Louis XIV arrived. From memory @cooldoc, as this one has not opened the buds yet, the scent was strongest in morning but always detectable.
Mutabilis, purchased bareroot this May, after all the pics from @Marlorena, starts to show its multi coulourednessishnisim thing.
One candidate for severe summer pruning is standard Musquée Sans Soucis. The idea to train it into a weeping standard has failed. It just looks like a big green blob on a spindly leg with very few blooms. Nope, dislike.
@crighton03 70+ potted roses- that sounds like a serious work-out when watering.
I have another bloom on the standard that was abused by a squirrel. Sort of. Squirrel stole the winter protection and rose suffered from frost bite.
Look at the luminosity (had to look that up, hope it makes sense. If DA can be creative with spelling, so can I...) of Mind Games. Only two red blooms and they are very visible in all the other plants.
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Hello, great to see you... I have found that these types of roses improve significantly with age, as those roots go down into the soil, the whole bush gets larger and the blooms with it, sometimes the scent improves too... occasionally a rose has developed out of all recognition from year 1 to year 3 or 4..
However, for the prices we pay, I think most people expect to be 'wow'd' a little sooner than that... cultivating in a decent sized pot with good compost speeds things up considerably..
I can be impatient, and don't always give them the time... I hope you will though.
I rather like the lavender pink of this rose..
@WAMS
I meant to comment on your replacement... I find it odd that anyone could send out a rose so badly pruned and with dead wood remaining... standards not so great these days it seems..
..best of luck with your move @cooldoc
Every one of mine are in pots as I expected to move house, and 70+ roses later I'm still looking to buy more...
@Marlorena yes... and it's not really the highest commendation when I was just thinking "ah, well, at least this one isn't rust-addled" lol. I have had such excellent potted as well as bareroot DA-bred roses from Style and Jones... it's a shame DA don't take the same pride in their plants, isn't it? Especially when their goodwill is not at an all-time high after they killed off so many favourites in one fell swoop last autumn.
@rossdriscoll13 I apricate your reposting those barely literate weasel words.
@Discandied that’s good to hear about your Yolande, look forward to seeing how it does for us both next year.
One newbie I have dumped unceremoniously without a proper trial was ‘Indigo’. The blooms were wizened and dwarvish, sulking low amongst the foliage even in early, milder weather. Then it got mildew. Not just any mildew. Within 24hrs the whole plant was blanketed in fuzz and all the foliage collapsed. The top growth was vigorous, the graft looked fine and roots had grown away strongly so I can only assume it strongly objected to my yo-yo climate.
Blue for You from Peter Beales
Evelyn from Trevor White
Eustacia from Styles
Lavender Ice. I just totally stripped rusty Heritage behind it and might prune it a bit, do you think?... Have done the same to Gruss an Aachen and Great Expectations, as neither of them could quite shake off that spring blackspot attack. The scented stocks are pretty at the moment.
I thought this was a pansy but think it might be an alonsoa, inspired by Marlorena- in which case it is from seed scattered more than a year ago!
Yes it is.. Alonsoa 'Salmon Beauty'.. funny how they just appear isn't it..
..lovely selection of roses.. it's nice to know from whence they came too.
Here is one rose that survived @Nollie weather. We had rains and storm Wednesday and Thursday. Then 30 degrees Friday, Saturday and today. The upper bloom started before all this. The lower one opened today.
While researching I learned that @Alfie Champagne Moment is sold as Lions Rose here. I wonder why they adapted a name that was already in English.
Here is how my Louis XIV arrived. From memory @cooldoc, as this one has not opened the buds yet, the scent was strongest in morning but always detectable.
Mutabilis, purchased bareroot this May, after all the pics from @Marlorena, starts to show its multi coulourednessishnisim thing.
One candidate for severe summer pruning is standard Musquée Sans Soucis. The idea to train it into a weeping standard has failed. It just looks like a big green blob on a spindly leg with very few blooms. Nope, dislike.
@crighton03 70+ potted roses- that sounds like a serious work-out when watering.
I have another bloom on the standard that was abused by a squirrel. Sort of. Squirrel stole the winter protection and rose suffered from frost bite.
Look at the luminosity (had to look that up, hope it makes sense. If DA can be creative with spelling, so can I...) of Mind Games. Only two red blooms and they are very visible in all the other plants.