Thank you for the photo @Nollie Your rose is lovely and just what I would like. The stone wall behind makes it very attractive. It is a great colour too. Almost no chance of a hot summer here (north of Glasgow). Probably why I am attracted to the bright orangey colour!
It’s funny, having being initially very ambivalent about LEH because it goes pink, spotted and streaked in hot weather, I now very guiltily admit to a surfeit of it! My original trio, a potted one received as a gift and now the standard. For an orange/apricot rose, the fragrance is unbeatable imo and it was a travesty to discontinue it.
@Meomye I gave it a liquid seaweed feed and added a small amount of powdered, sequestered iron to combat the chlorosis. I find they green up again in about a week with that.
@daisym you’re welcome, others say it’s shade tolerant too, so should be no problem in the misty north! I have great memories of summer holidays in Tarbert, north of Glasgow, during my student days..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Edhelka, I love that pretty colour you painted your obelisk. I am mulling over whether to stain or paint my new trellis in a sensible natural colour or something a bit more outrageous. Tending towards the latter!
I bit the bullet and bought a rose that may or may not be A Shrophsire Lad- won't know till it blooms, if then- but the foliage looks right and the pot has the correct tag. It was a one-off from someone selling locally and might be a pig in a poke. If I've been a mug, I will update here.😁
@Nollie I really envy that you have got many LEH. Hope they all do well and your garden will be filled with unbeatable scent. I am really looking forward to see more of your standard LEH. I wish I can get the standard and very likely I'll get it from Lens if they have it in stock next time. If anyone in UK interested in their roses, willing to combine orders in order to minimise the cost for certs etc please let me know.
@WAMS I was after the Shropshire Lad for a long time and managed to get the last 5l potted rose from Ashridge Nurseries recently and I am looking forward to its flowers. I should have got it long time back. Does your "local shop" sells any other discontinued DA roses?!
Just to show Antike's shiny bronze leaves. I never sprayed on this rose and no disease at all except aphids.
For Comparison: Eden is on the right side. This was the very first rose caught my attention and moved me towards 'roses!'. Got it from Trevor White in 2019 winter and this was the second rose I have planted in the garden. Eden is very slow in growing and taking way to long to establish. I nearly tried to get rid of it, I pushed the fork in to the ground then I just couldn't as because of this rose I've got many more in the garden! Constance spry is on the left side which was planted afterwards. Those who has Eden in the garden please let me know how yours doing?
@Rojas I had read on other forums that some find Eden frustratingly slow to establish. There is a huge, mature specimen growing over a rose walkway in a hotel garden near me, it is mightily impressive when in full bloom. Maybe it grows faster here.
It was sort of accidental I ended up with so many LEHs 😆 Although TCL and one or two others break the rules on occasion, as far as I know, EU nurseries are still not allowed to ship roses to the UK under their new DA licensing rules. I doubt very much you would get Lens to break the rules, sadly..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@owd potter You should always peg a cane like that... stick a bamboo cane into the soil nearby and tie it, so the stem is diagonal rather than upright.. careful not to break it, but it's usually flexible enough on roses like these..
I made a minilisk as there are potentially more than 1 cane making a break for the sky... As always, many thanks for your advice M
@Nollie Thank you for reminding and I have completely forgotten about it. Ahhh...curse you 'new DA licencing rules' . I will try my luck for sure. Fingers crossed!
Heavy rain last night and now a torrential thunderstorm... this prolonged wet Spring has produced huge leafage on roses and the only rose I have out, is showing blooms which appear larger than I've seen before on it.. Otherwise, all looking very green..
'Forever Royal'.. 'Cornelia' .these Dahlias were planted out a week ago, they're growing at a rate of knots..
..oh goodness I've got a flash flood.. horrendous conditions..
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Almost no chance of a hot summer here (north of Glasgow). Probably why I am attracted to the bright orangey colour!
@Meomye I gave it a liquid seaweed feed and added a small amount of powdered, sequestered iron to combat the chlorosis. I find they green up again in about a week with that.
I bit the bullet and bought a rose that may or may not be A Shrophsire Lad- won't know till it blooms, if then- but the foliage looks right and the pot has the correct tag. It was a one-off from someone selling locally and might be a pig in a poke. If I've been a mug, I will update here.😁
@WAMS I was after the Shropshire Lad for a long time and managed to get the last 5l potted rose from Ashridge Nurseries recently and I am looking forward to its flowers. I should have got it long time back. Does your "local shop" sells any other discontinued DA roses?!
For Comparison: Eden is on the right side. This was the very first rose caught my attention and moved me towards 'roses!'. Got it from Trevor White in 2019 winter and this was the second rose I have planted in the garden. Eden is very slow in growing and taking way to long to establish. I nearly tried to get rid of it, I pushed the fork in to the ground then I just couldn't as because of this rose I've got many more in the garden! Constance spry is on the left side which was planted afterwards. Those who has Eden in the garden please let me know how yours doing?
As always, many thanks for your advice M
Oh very well done, you should get plenty of lateral breaks from that.. might flower this year even..
Otherwise, all looking very green..
'Forever Royal'..
'Cornelia'
.these Dahlias were planted out a week ago, they're growing at a rate of knots..
..oh goodness I've got a flash flood.. horrendous conditions..