Some photos from my garden, mostly single flowers now rather than clusters. Most of the plants are waiting for 🌧️, hope it rains heavily rather than a drizzle.
Wymondham Abbey The Lark Ascending Our Beth Marchenzauber Midnight Blue Wild Rover - much better colour in reality than the one captured by my mobile. Empereur Charles IV Walferdange - hasn't done well this year as it is shaded by overhead grape vines.
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
'Mme. Falcot'.. ''in commerce''.. likely not the original but I'm finding this quite stunningly beautiful, with these high centred Tea rose blooms.. ...proving weather resistant..
'Royal Philharmonic'.. from Harkness.. ..which should turn into this..
Below is my Cornelia rose. In its second year. Had a good first flush, then hit by black spot and has now almost totally defoliated itself. Should I leave well alone or prune back.
It’s rather soothing looking at roses with raindrops! I have been watering and deadheading like a demon to tackle the bloom-fried, leaf-scorched aftermath of our brief contact with Cerebus/Charon. Those north-facing, protected by the house awnings, under hastily erected parasols or with thick glossy foliage did better than the rest in the open and/or with delicate Austin foliage. Some escapees..
Violet Hood:
Darlow’s Enigma:
Avalanche Abricot:
But what to do about the burnt foliage that’s turned out to be the greater evil? Do I leave leaves to drop of their own accord so they still provide some shade at the roots or strip them off to encourage new leaves to grow? Decisions, decisions..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It rained yesterday, just enough for the ground to get soaked. I finished deadheading the remnants from the first flush only today Hoping that the second flush can get going now.
A few photos taken today and yesterday evening: Open Arms Summer Love Natasha Richardson Louis de Funes Eustacia Vye Ulmer Munster Crown Princess Margareta And a lonely Darcey Bussell, looks like a very late laggard from the first flush.
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
@Alfie. I really like Golden Beauty. I've had it in a pot since I bought it from Trevor White July 2021. It has a long blooming season starting in May and is very floriferous, almost never without a bloom and as now just about to have many again. The plant needs no support and makes a nice wide well shaped shrub about as high as wide 1 metre ish, the sturdy canes are very thorny. It is extremely healthy. The colour is an almost tipping into orange gold. It's only faults are little fragrance and those thorns.
I took this pic (as already posted) 2 days ago. The same bloom in the next pic today after high winds and driving rain yesterday.
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Wymondham Abbey
The Lark Ascending
Our Beth
Marchenzauber
Midnight Blue
Wild Rover - much better colour in reality than the one captured by my mobile.
Empereur Charles IV
Walferdange - hasn't done well this year as it is shaded by overhead grape vines.
...proving weather resistant..
'Royal Philharmonic'.. from Harkness..
..which should turn into this..
I should add it had a good mulch in spring followed by feed in late April.
Violet Hood:
Avalanche Abricot:
But what to do about the burnt foliage that’s turned out to be the greater evil? Do I leave leaves to drop of their own accord so they still provide some shade at the roots or strip them off to encourage new leaves to grow? Decisions, decisions..
@Pam285
No need for you to do anything to your 'Cornelia'.. it will soon sprout with fresh new copper leaves with bud clusters on the ends..
'Mme. Falcot'..
..pollen beetles 'Marie Pavie'...
A few photos taken today and yesterday evening:
Open Arms
Summer Love
Natasha Richardson
Louis de Funes
Eustacia Vye
Ulmer Munster
Crown Princess Margareta
And a lonely Darcey Bussell, looks like a very late laggard from the first flush.