@Marlorena Thank you. Not what I wanted to hear! Any idea why it has failed? It was so lovely last year and the other two are currently in full leaf, one with a tiny bud. I just don't understand what has happened to it. I suppose it means I will have to find a replacement! Thanks for your reply.
@dabolem, the foliage on some of my roses have been consumed by sawflies too, my poor Love Song is the worst and is having to grow all over again! Regarding your Desprez, these bugs.. .. are Oxythyrea funesta, the White Spotted Rose Beetle. I pick them off and squish them when I see them because they do ruin blooms by burrowing into them to get to the pollen. They are said to like pale blooms the best but I find them on all colours.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
How lovely @Littlegarden. The big blowsy blooms might command more attention but delightful things can come in small packages 😊
My new Violet Hood blooms are barely an inch across:
Another newbie with small blooms, Darlow’s Enigma:
Both of the above are Hybrid Musks.
This is a polyantha, Excellenz von Schubert, which suffered terribly in last year’s summer heat. I nearly shovel pruned it but decided to give it another chance and moved it into a pot in a shadier place:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@daisym I don't know really, maybe the rootstock has died, they do sometimes... whatever, there isn't much life left in the rose, so up to you what you do there.. I always think Spring is too nice to put up with failures for too long..
I really love your Violet Hood, @Nollie. Is there any point googling it, or are you yet again taunting us with beauties only available on the Continent?😁
@Alfie_ all my camellias are in containers at the moment (because I suppose the chalk layer under my garden would hurt them eventually, though the ones I had in the ground previously did bloom). My biggest challenge seems to be the sun. It's a sunny garden so it isn't easy to find a spot for them where the leaves don't get scorched, browned in the middle. It's so ugly. For this reason, I still haven't settled on a garden spot for a potted hydrangea (which absolutely hated the heatwave last year). So many finicky plants. Another reason to love roses! I *think* I only have one that hates hot direct sun (rosa Souvenir du Dr Jamain) and that has been given what I hope is the darkest, shadiest corner... 🤞
@Eustace pretty please, lots more pictures of Masquerade as it opens.
Thanks @Nollie I will pick them off, I don’t spray anything in the garden because I don’t want to hurt aquatic, wild life and strays living around here.
On another note, I decided to get rid of my Phyllis Bide. After 3 years I see that it blooms only once in early Spring, its flower last not eve a week and it’s full of little prickly thorns that catch my clothes every time I pass near it. I’ve become to kind of hate it. On that arch I need a rose with few thorns, that blooms all over the season, and it’s shade tolerant (there is sun only in the morning) like Mary Delany.
Thanks @Marlorena It's just that I was so looking forward to seeing it. Gardening certainly keeps you grounded with its expectations, disappointments and unexpected joys! I think I will remove it from the pot and look at the roots while also deciding on a replacement. I would like a shrub rose of maximum height 1-1.5m, longish flowering and a cheery orange colour. Also that does well in a west-facing pot (or a southeast aspect but planted in the ground). I am sure there are a few on this thread! Thanks again for your always helpful advice.
@daisym if it helps at all, henri delbard, wildfire, and super trouper are all orange roses that I saved as potential front garden roses thanks to gorgeous pictures on here!
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I suppose it means I will have to find a replacement!
Thanks for your reply.
.. are Oxythyrea funesta, the White Spotted Rose Beetle. I pick them off and squish them when I see them because they do ruin blooms by burrowing into them to get to the pollen. They are said to like pale blooms the best but I find them on all colours.
My new Violet Hood blooms are barely an inch across:
Another newbie with small blooms, Darlow’s Enigma:
Both of the above are Hybrid Musks.
This is a polyantha, Excellenz von Schubert, which suffered terribly in last year’s summer heat. I nearly shovel pruned it but decided to give it another chance and moved it into a pot in a shadier place:
@daisym
I don't know really, maybe the rootstock has died, they do sometimes... whatever, there isn't much life left in the rose, so up to you what you do there.. I always think Spring is too nice to put up with failures for too long..
@Alfie_ all my camellias are in containers at the moment (because I suppose the chalk layer under my garden would hurt them eventually, though the ones I had in the ground previously did bloom). My biggest challenge seems to be the sun. It's a sunny garden so it isn't easy to find a spot for them where the leaves don't get scorched, browned in the middle. It's so ugly. For this reason, I still haven't settled on a garden spot for a potted hydrangea (which absolutely hated the heatwave last year). So many finicky plants. Another reason to love roses! I *think* I only have one that hates hot direct sun (rosa Souvenir du Dr Jamain) and that has been given what I hope is the darkest, shadiest corner... 🤞
@Eustace pretty please, lots more pictures of Masquerade as it opens.
On another note, I decided to get rid of my Phyllis Bide. After 3 years I see that it blooms only once in early Spring, its flower last not eve a week and it’s full of little prickly thorns that catch my clothes every time I pass near it. I’ve become to kind of hate it.
On that arch I need a rose with few thorns, that blooms all over the season, and it’s shade tolerant (there is sun only in the morning) like Mary Delany.
Gardening certainly keeps you grounded with its expectations, disappointments and unexpected joys! I think I will remove it from the pot and look at the roots while also deciding on a replacement.
I would like a shrub rose of maximum height 1-1.5m, longish flowering and a cheery orange colour. Also that does well in a west-facing pot (or a southeast aspect but planted in the ground). I am sure there are a few on this thread!
Thanks again for your always helpful advice.