I'd like my 'PL' to look like yours @tack.. I think there's an ants nest in mine unfortunately.. Incidentally, are you getting some repeat on your 'Canary Bird' rose? I noticed yesterday, near me, a very large one that's been there for years, showing some repeat bloom.
I hope my Forever Royal will look like yours Marlorena, it has a pretty good garden spot so fingers crossed. I have had sporadic blooms on Canary Bird through the summer, they make me smile. Nothing right now though.
It does make you feel better @Tack and plants are so remarkably resilient, on the whole. Everyone’s roses seems to have suffered this year from unpredictable weather, disease and/or dieback. OH has asked me to get a Poet’s Wife after seeing it and loving the fragrance, so that’s all the excuse I need to conveniently forget and press buy. Where I will put it is another matter.
As well as my planned fragrant Guillot order, Kordes has some new orange and lemon floribundas which, although not fragrant and likely thorny, should be healthy bloomers. I quite fancy these two. Spotlight is meant to be as heat tolerant as Golden Beauty but has a more attractive bloom form I think. Don’t know if they send to the UK..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks @Marlorena, that's interesting. I could do them the other way around with GO in the patio pot, but the pot will be in full sun whereas the border space will get a bit of shade. I assumed the GO blooms were more likely to fry in the sun than Desdemona or Emily B, as they're darker.
Given @Tack's experience, something to think about...
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
Yes, I assume it's a very bad year for disease as one of the newbies I bought from Styles arrived with rust all over it, the other had a bit of blackspot. They are usually pretty good, aren't they?
Tack, I have two Penelope Livelys too (we both had one broken on delivery, didn't we?)- one is quite good, one droopy and irritating. Yours look great! I love the blooms... I don't have anything else this exact pink (or array of pinks).
Jess G.O. thrives in full sun; mine didn't frazzle even in the 40° heatwave last year.
The leafcutter bees have been at Starlight Symphony- but sadly I haven't caught them in flagrante delicto yet. Arthur Bell... so healthy. William Shakespeare 2000... smaller now but still very fragrant.
Your pelargoniums look great, Mr Vine Eye. They are wonderful as houseplants over the long dreary winter.
@Tack your Penelope L in the pot makes me want to buy it...........
@pitter-patter did your Sweet Honey flower as well as it did last year? I bought that rose purely from your photos of it from last year.
Champagne M with larger blooms of different shades in this second flush; more orange/pink instead of the usual coffee colour. Going to be a strong second flush (100+ blooms easily).
Jacques Cartier growing very fast and healthy for a new rose. Scent is lovely........
Scent from Heaven. Decent fragrance (as it should be with that name). I would say top end of medium though; I wouldn't personally class it as a strong scent. It is new though so maybe it will get better with age. Foliage is crazy healthy.
Wizard of Oz. Impressed with this as once it has got going to always has at least a dozen flowers per plant.
Dahlia crazy love. I can't seem to keep up with deadheading the sweet peas. Seems to constantly produce pods..........
Chandos beauty standard, it really is a beautiful rose. It is just behind my fave double delight, my wife and I disagree over which has the better scent. Second is all my loving, a really stunning cerise colour but not much scent, I don't care though as I love this rose.
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Incidentally, are you getting some repeat on your 'Canary Bird' rose? I noticed yesterday, near me, a very large one that's been there for years, showing some repeat bloom.
'Forever Royal'..
As well as my planned fragrant Guillot order, Kordes has some new orange and lemon floribundas which, although not fragrant and likely thorny, should be healthy bloomers. I quite fancy these two. Spotlight is meant to be as heat tolerant as Golden Beauty but has a more attractive bloom form I think. Don’t know if they send to the UK..
Given @Tack's experience, something to think about...
Tack, I have two Penelope Livelys too (we both had one broken on delivery, didn't we?)- one is quite good, one droopy and irritating. Yours look great! I love the blooms... I don't have anything else this exact pink (or array of pinks).
Jess G.O. thrives in full sun; mine didn't frazzle even in the 40° heatwave last year.
The leafcutter bees have been at Starlight Symphony- but sadly I haven't caught them in flagrante delicto yet.
Arthur Bell... so healthy.
William Shakespeare 2000... smaller now but still very fragrant.
Your pelargoniums look great, Mr Vine Eye. They are wonderful as houseplants over the long dreary winter.
@pitter-patter did your Sweet Honey flower as well as it did last year? I bought that rose purely from your photos of it from last year.
Champagne M with larger blooms of different shades in this second flush; more orange/pink instead of the usual coffee colour. Going to be a strong second flush (100+ blooms easily).
Jacques Cartier growing very fast and healthy for a new rose. Scent is lovely........
Scent from Heaven. Decent fragrance (as it should be with that name). I would say top end of medium though; I wouldn't personally class it as a strong scent. It is new though so maybe it will get better with age. Foliage is crazy healthy.
Wizard of Oz. Impressed with this as once it has got going to always has at least a dozen flowers per plant.
Dahlia crazy love. I can't seem to keep up with deadheading the sweet peas. Seems to constantly produce pods..........
New Desdemona gearing up can't wait!
Unknown Pink
Strawberry Hill, hoping this will be better in it's second year.
Silver Jubilee, more vibrant in real life but I think it's for the job.
And lastly my beautiful Eglantyne.