Peace planted last year in front garden has finally produced a bloom. Ingrid Bergman still producing lovely flowers and they last a long time. Arthur Bell in the front garden is really suffering from black spot, anyone else find this with AB.
The end of July / start of August is not the best time to leave the garden to its own devices for a week or so. Getting back from holiday and family visits to a lot of weeding and black spot. Here's my best looking roses at the minute.Claire Marshall with a wonderful sherbert scent.
Mocha Rosa
Doris Tysterman. She has turned out a lot more varied in colour than I was expecting.
Rosa Rugosa. A nice simple flower and great old rose scent.
Rosa villosa flowered late May into early June. Now the hips are ripening nicely.
Don't grow up - grow sideways.
Gardening in the West Midlands on a mix of neutral loamy sand & Victorian building rubble.
@PeterAberdeen I have an evergreen escallonia and a honeysuckle , not really in view to the left, behind my TLA. The honeysuckle is bicolour apricot and dark red so ties the dark red escallonia with the rose. All quite accidental. The escallonia seems fine in a shady spot even though I’ve read it likes sun
Thanks @Tack I loved the idea of this combination, unfortunately I do not think the Escallonia would be too happy North facing. So back to the drawing board and eventually settled on a Loropetalum (Black Pearl). Thought the dark green/purple evergreen foliage would show The Lark Ascending off a treat. As it flowers March, April & May we will get its flowers and then TLA can kick in. (I have a honeysuckle on the other side of the garden - South facing - and may give it a rose chum next year. It is planted through a quince and I think I might get a purple/lavender shrub rose for in front of them.
Let's hope it all works!
NB TLA is about to give it's second flush. We are quite excited, as we have never had a rose give a second flush in all the years we have been in the house (56 Years, since you'll be wondering).
Amazing what all the feeding and watering regime has achieved. Mum asked me yesterday, what I had most enjoyed with the garden this year. Without hesitation I said:
1. The Roses - I never realised how tough and forgiving they can be.
2. Followed by the new lilies - the perfumes have been delightful. thoroughly recommend Harts for Lilies.
Also wanted to say thanks for all the information when I had to dig out my Madam Albert Carriere. Once in the pot I started emergency care in the Rose Hospital (behind the greenhouse) and she has fought back from both blackspot and the dreaded Sawfly Rose Leaf Curl Maggot. Now covered in verdant leaves, throwing out shoots and becoming quite the star of her own pot.
I would probably plant it in the autumn if in my garden here Peter.. also I lost a Loropetalum, I don't think they're terribly hardy but I didn't try again..
@LateralBreaks Your Claire Marshall is a wonder.. beautiful hips on the villosa too..
@Discandied I saw Oxford Physic at Peter Beales, nearly picked it up.. quite a nice shape isn't it?..
@PeterAberdeen I have ‘Black Pearl’, it’s one of the hardier loropetalums. It copes fine with my winter freezes down to -8c, but you may need to fleece it in longer Aberdonian winters. It hates my alkaline soil though, where it turns a dirty olive green but stays purple in potted in ericaceous.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Munstead Wood just starting its next flush. The flowers seem to have lesser count of petals. 🥺 Is that even possible? Desdemona, also starting. Sorry about the angle of the photo, can't go to the front of the plant as that space is filled with tomato plants and a thuggish aster which is yet to flower. Golden Beauty Our Beth - love her. Wymondham Abbey
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And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
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Ingrid Bergman still producing lovely flowers and they last a long time.
Arthur Bell in the front garden is really suffering from black spot, anyone else find this with AB.
Let's hope it all works!
NB TLA is about to give it's second flush. We are quite excited, as we have never had a rose give a second flush in all the years we have been in the house (56 Years, since you'll be wondering).
1. The Roses - I never realised how tough and forgiving they can be.
@LateralBreaks
Your Claire Marshall is a wonder.. beautiful hips on the villosa too..
@Discandied
I saw Oxford Physic at Peter Beales, nearly picked it up.. quite a nice shape isn't it?..
https://www.rozenlottum.nl/en_GB/a-58168581/david-austin-roses/jude-the-obscure/#description
Not my kind of rose at all but I think some here are after it. @Oliya maybe?
Arthur Bell is one of my very healthiest, @Vh72.
Desdemona, also starting. Sorry about the angle of the photo, can't go to the front of the plant as that space is filled with tomato plants and a thuggish aster which is yet to flower.
Golden Beauty
Our Beth - love her.
Wymondham Abbey