Beautiful photos, Athelas. Olivia is a really pretty one, isn't it? Do you think it would make a good standard?
Hi @WAMS I’ve no experience with standards, but I do think Olivia Rose Austin would look good as one. The first flush in spring it was really covered in blooms, with a break during the hottest (well by UK terms) part of the summer, and now the number of flowers is quite respectable too.
Just picked a bunch of roses before they get spoilt by the rain. They are either New Dawn or the old HT Queen Elizabeth, not sure which. Unfortunately I can't detect any perfume but the shape is exquisite. .
@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.
@Nollie Yeah, I guess I already knew cutting back to be the only action, but we live in hope sometimes eh? I’ve removed all of the dead and dying yesterday and there is very little left lower down now. I’ll hope for it to reshoot with some flowering laterals next year. I don’t really want to cut it all right back down to base and restart…
Swooning @pitter-patter after seeing your garden photos.
A few photos taken today:
This HT rose is growing taller and taller. Marie Curie Another orange - Super Trouper The Lark Ascending Sweet Honey Susan Williams-Ellis Peach Melba Blush noisette
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
'Iceberg'.. full of blackspot but worth it I think.. 'Bring Me Sunshine'.. with Alonsoa 'Rebel' and.. a red brick wall.. 'Sally Holmes'.. should be better known.. makes a very large shrub or climber.. 'Forever Royal'.. 'Mutabilis'.. 'Royal Philharmonic Orchestra'.. this will be 2nd flush, I only got it a few weeks ago.. I do love the foliage on this rose so far..
And now I crash the party, with some not so lovely roses! After the sawfly attack on Madam Alfred Carriere and Gertrude Jekyll (after her first flush) The second flush is trying to happen. The buds are a bit deformed, but the plants are now super healthy and I look forward to 2024 for them both as super-stunners.
My enthusiasm for these two, knows no bounds!
If anyone has helpful suggestions for them, please feel free to chip in. That way I can learn and care for them appropriately.
But at least my second lot of White trumpet lilies turn out to be actually white and scent is intoxicating and lives up to their name - Heaven Scent:
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Susie just at nightfall tonight. Such a beauty.
Yeah, I guess I already knew cutting back to be the only action, but we live in hope sometimes eh?
I’ve removed all of the dead and dying yesterday and there is very little left lower down now. I’ll hope for it to reshoot with some flowering laterals next year. I don’t really want to cut it all right back down to base and restart…
A few photos taken today:
This HT rose is growing taller and taller.
Marie Curie
Another orange - Super Trouper
The Lark Ascending
Sweet Honey
Susan Williams-Ellis
Peach Melba
Blush noisette
'Bring Me Sunshine'.. with Alonsoa 'Rebel' and.. a red brick wall..
'Sally Holmes'.. should be better known.. makes a very large shrub or climber..
'Forever Royal'..
'Mutabilis'..
'Royal Philharmonic Orchestra'.. this will be 2nd flush, I only got it a few weeks ago.. I do love the foliage on this rose so far..
Harlow Carr
Opening buds on Falstaff
And a very wet and soggy Gentle Hermione this morning
But at least my second lot of White trumpet lilies turn out to be actually white and scent is intoxicating and lives up to their name - Heaven Scent: