Beautiful photos, Athelas. Olivia is a really pretty one, isn't it? Do you think it would make a good standard?
Some non-DA spam to even things up.
Liisa from Trevor White (again... sorry) Fragrant Plum from RV Roger... a lot of second flush buds and new basal growth on this one. Sweet Jessica from C&K Jones Ferdinand Pichard... very fragrant Chandos Beauty... so pretty at every stage. For newbie77 and Marlorena... a snail nursery inside gladiolus Butterfly Belinda. From Wilko. I hope so much that they save it.
Ayup all, it’s been a while. Toyah appears to be suffering from a lot of dieback this year. Most lower branches and stems are affected but it is still blooming and producing new buds on top. I will cut back all dead and dying stems but this is going to leave this side of my pergola bare. There are only 2 old main stems and a rather spindly 3rd. Any ideas of possible cause for this, and how I might encourage new growth?
Photos from yesterday, before the current ‘weather event’. It’s been absolutely pouring down for nearly 24hrs. A welcome relief from the scorched, tinderbox conditions.
Few roses escaped the prior heatwave unscathed, mostly those sheltered from the worst of the sun in north-facing positions.
Avalanche Abricot continues to impress. The foliage seems impervious to heat and it blooms on whatever the weather:
Standard Lady Emma Hamilton benefits from patio shade and after deadheading dozens of fried blooms looks fairly presentable:
Many roses in open ground are blowtorched, like this poor Munstead Wood!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Oh dear @Nollie, poor Munstead Wood looks very much the worse for wear. Hope it survives, it would be a disaster to lose it now.
I took two tiny cuttings from a friend's rose last weekend, which I'm hoping was Munstead Wood (she didn't know the name) and I've never seen it in the flesh so to speak. Fingers crossed the cuttings take.
@owd potter No solution to offer particularly but I’ve had the same problem with a huge amount of cane dieback this year, plus a reluctance to grow new basals. Here I’ve put it down to yo-yo weather which keeps inducing mini heat dormancies and causing cane scorch. I doubt that heat can be the cause of your dieback though, unless you have surreptitiously relocated your garden to my neck of the woods!? All I’ve done so far is cut out the dead and dying bits, but one or two short climbers I will have to hard prune in winter and start again.
@Lizzie27 finger’s crossed they are MW too! I expect mine will bounce back, but I plan to take cuttings of it and a few other favourites as insurance.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
On the subject of Munstead Wood… bellow are a few photos I took yesterday. Such gorgeous blooms! I’ve tried taking cuttings last autumn but I guess they froze in our unusually cold winter. I tried again earlier this summer - again no luck:( I’ll keep trying…
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Some non-DA spam to even things up.
Liisa from Trevor White (again... sorry)
Fragrant Plum from RV Roger... a lot of second flush buds and new basal growth on this one.
Sweet Jessica from C&K Jones
Ferdinand Pichard... very fragrant
Chandos Beauty... so pretty at every stage.
For newbie77 and Marlorena... a snail nursery inside gladiolus Butterfly Belinda. From Wilko. I hope so much that they save it.
Thunder showers here today, quite heavy rain..
'Dr. O'Donel Browne'..
'Pirouette'..
'Sally Holmes'..
'Mrs. John Laing'..
'Mutabilis'..
Beales have 35% off roses and 20% off Clematis at the moment..
Toyah appears to be suffering from a lot of dieback this year. Most lower branches and stems are affected but it is still blooming and producing new buds on top.
I will cut back all dead and dying stems but this is going to leave this side of my pergola bare. There are only 2 old main stems and a rather spindly 3rd.
Any ideas of possible cause for this, and how I might encourage new growth?
Few roses escaped the prior heatwave unscathed, mostly those sheltered from the worst of the sun in north-facing positions.
Avalanche Abricot continues to impress. The foliage seems impervious to heat and it blooms on whatever the weather:
Standard Lady Emma Hamilton benefits from patio shade and after deadheading dozens of fried blooms looks fairly presentable:
Many roses in open ground are blowtorched, like this poor Munstead Wood!
I took two tiny cuttings from a friend's rose last weekend, which I'm hoping was Munstead Wood (she didn't know the name) and I've never seen it in the flesh so to speak. Fingers crossed the cuttings take.
@Lizzie27 finger’s crossed they are MW too! I expect mine will bounce back, but I plan to take cuttings of it and a few other favourites as insurance.