It is a really good, reliable rose, Golden Beauty, but I was never really in love with it and it was the only rose I got rid of because I couldn’t cope with the thorns, got me every time I went near!
@PeterAberdeennonsense claims about banana peel water have been doing the rounds on the internet for years and repeated as useless hacks ad infinitum. Mostly debunked now - it’s certainly no magic superfood for roses or anything else. Chemical analysis of banana peel gives an NPK of 0.1-0.1-2.3 so you could say it’s relatively ‘high’ in potassium, but steeping in water doesn’t extract much of even that modest K. Far better to chuck peel on the compost heap/bin as, along with any other plant material, it needs to fully rot down to be of benefit. Not ideal to strew around plants either, where it sucks up and deprives your plants of nitrogen during the decomposition process.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Hi all, loving following the various posts, I'm learning so much. I have a quick question. Would Lilac Bouquet be suitabe for training over a rose arch (will the canes be flexible enough to intertwine in an "s" shape)?
Oh là là. What's the repeat like please, @pitter_patter, and is it flexible enough to wind around a pillar? I think I saw a glowing recommendation of it on Facebook from a Mr C Warner, but possibly your review might be more balanced. 😁
Yes, it’s probably flexible enough for a pillar. I think @Marlorena is growing this on an obelisk. It’s taking its time before flushes, but I don’t mind that too much. It might do better in a garden with richer soil and being fed more often - I only feed roses once a year, unless they’re in a pot.
My 'Lilac Bouquet' is on a fence and so far remains as a shrub.. 2nd season.. but it was moved last winter.. Its first flush ended mid June, then a short gap during which it sent up basals full of new buds.. these started to flower at the end of June, and this 2nd flush is still going, edging towards late July.. I should expect another flush later, and perhaps it'll then also start climbing a bit ..
I think it's a fabulous rose, almost continuous in bloom.. not quite,.. with the added advantage that it's almost thornless..
9th June. ..same day, new basals.. 2nd flush started 28th June.. after a short gap..
.. nearly 4 weeks later, bedraggled after rain and coming to the end but enough buds to take me into early August I should think.. don't know what will happen next... I should know as it's the 2nd time I've had it, but I've lost my photos of the earlier rose..
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@PeterAberdeennonsense claims about banana peel water have been doing the rounds on the internet for years and repeated as useless hacks ad infinitum. Mostly debunked now - it’s certainly no magic superfood for roses or anything else. Chemical analysis of banana peel gives an NPK of 0.1-0.1-2.3 so you could say it’s relatively ‘high’ in potassium, but steeping in water doesn’t extract much of even that modest K. Far better to chuck peel on the compost heap/bin as, along with any other plant material, it needs to fully rot down to be of benefit. Not ideal to strew around plants either, where it sucks up and deprives your plants of nitrogen during the decomposition process.
Its first flush ended mid June, then a short gap during which it sent up basals full of new buds.. these started to flower at the end of June, and this 2nd flush is still going, edging towards late July..
I should expect another flush later, and perhaps it'll then also start climbing a bit ..
I think it's a fabulous rose, almost continuous in bloom.. not quite,.. with the added advantage that it's almost thornless..
9th June.
..same day, new basals..
2nd flush started 28th June.. after a short gap..
.. nearly 4 weeks later, bedraggled after rain and coming to the end but enough buds to take me into early August I should think.. don't know what will happen next... I should know as it's the 2nd time I've had it, but I've lost my photos of the earlier rose..