..pretty collage, looks good... Hot week ahead.. July weather isn't it..
Rather early for a new thread I think, more the end of the month, it'll make the winter shorter..
'Bienvenue'.. 'Lady of Shalott'.. 'Scented Garden'.. 'Sophie's Perpetual'.. disappointing during July/August.. now trying to redeem itself.. Anthemis 'E.C. Buxton'.. Salvia 'Royal Bumble'.. Aster 'Monch'..
Summer is back, really sunny, hot and dry. Roses love it. Trying to keep up with watering pots and newly planted ones. Rewarded by blooms on almost all my May bare root purchases.
The two faces of Grande Classe. The blooms are huge, on par with Chandos Beauty's. Scent is good too.
Various stages of Eisvogel / 20th Anniversary. The blooms last really long but still no scent.
Scepter'd Isle is very healthy this year. Last year completely naked in August. I like the honey myrrh scent very much. The bees are regular visitors. This one is suitable as standard imho.
There is nothing like retail therapy... This is how Havanna ended up in my shopping cart. The colour is a bit lighter than Hot Chocolate but definately in the same brownish range. Not easy to match. I am still looking for a suitable spot in the garden to plant it.
Roses, Phlox and Dahlia, pink August garden view. Front is Odyssey, standard Scenpter'd Isle scratching the sky. Way in the back is standard Chandos Beauty.
No holiday club for last 10 days of school holidays and I am far behind in todo list for garden and work. In fact my list is looking meaningless now. I will start with a new list tomorrow once school starts. Thank goodness no concrete nightmare in this school.
Enjoying all your roses whenever I get a chance to see my phone.
They went back today here, newbie77.. a grand moment. 😆 My garden is a neglected wreck too. Def going to reduce the number of containers and probably cancel my Lottum order- saw Cymbeline in "the flesh" last week and didn't like it after all (also Judi Dench, did not like the scent at all!). Going to start a big autumn clean-up once all the administrative things you can't do with kids underfoot get done. And a few are getting the old heave-ho (roses, not kids).
Hi @purplerallim, all fine up north thanks, it’s sunny and in the 30’s here! The flooding was in Tarragona in the far south of Catalunya.
The garden is gradually greening up again after decent rain, hard on the heels of the last scorchio. Some roses are still looking very bare and sorry for themselves but others are picking up..
The Prince on the road to recovery:
My trusty Flamenco Rosita, rarely without blooms:
Royal Celebration, looking like a red semi-double:
Falstaff, this fries in the heat and bull-noses a lot:
Lady Emma Hamilton (standard), slightly munched blooms but staying healthy so far:
Roald Dahl, sprawling and floppy in part shade so I may consider moving it:
Alister Stella Gray, growing into a lovely rambler with fast repeat:
Last but not least, the super healthy, continuously blooming Avalanche Abricot:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
So much to catch up on and too many gorgeous roses to remember to comment but the apples and late summer appleblossom picture stands out.
I would have wept if my, now adult, children's school had announced a closure right at the end of the summer hols, glad this didn't happen to WAMS and Newbie77
Gosh Avalanche A is a good rose @Nollie. I am really keeping an eye on your roses as once again the patio here is too hot. The Prince was about to have a huge flush and one day of heat and lots of crisping. I've dragged it into the shade now, maybe the remaining buds can be savedRose de Rescht is on my culling list, it is exquisite but so sparse on blooms, just one or two at a time with none too often.Heidi Klum copes with the heat, of all the roses it has the most ordered petalsCutie Pie and Joie de VivreWilliam Shakespeare 2000 is one of my best bare roots this first seasonPink Martini, healthy and reliable. The out of favour Boscobel is behind with its BS and manky old bloom
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Hot week ahead.. July weather isn't it..
Rather early for a new thread I think, more the end of the month, it'll make the winter shorter..
'Bienvenue'..
'Lady of Shalott'..
'Scented Garden'..
'Sophie's Perpetual'.. disappointing during July/August.. now trying to redeem itself..
Anthemis 'E.C. Buxton'.. Salvia 'Royal Bumble'..
Aster 'Monch'..
I have an aster which has grown to a 5x2 ft monster. There are lots of buds, very few open now.
The two faces of Grande Classe. The blooms are huge, on par with Chandos Beauty's. Scent is good too.
Various stages of Eisvogel / 20th Anniversary. The blooms last really long but still no scent.
Scepter'd Isle is very healthy this year. Last year completely naked in August. I like the honey myrrh scent very much. The bees are regular visitors. This one is suitable as standard imho.
There is nothing like retail therapy... This is how Havanna ended up in my shopping cart. The colour is a bit lighter than Hot Chocolate but definately in the same brownish range. Not easy to match. I am still looking for a suitable spot in the garden to plant it.
Roses, Phlox and Dahlia, pink August garden view. Front is Odyssey, standard Scenpter'd Isle scratching the sky. Way in the back is standard Chandos Beauty.
Roses, especially red ones like Proper Job, Pure Poetry, Papa Meilland and Dame de Coeur are already showing burnt edges in this hot weather.
Enjoying all your roses whenever I get a chance to see my phone.
The garden is gradually greening up again after decent rain, hard on the heels of the last scorchio. Some roses are still looking very bare and sorry for themselves but others are picking up..
The Prince on the road to recovery:
My trusty Flamenco Rosita, rarely without blooms:
Royal Celebration, looking like a red semi-double:
Falstaff, this fries in the heat and bull-noses a lot:
Lady Emma Hamilton (standard), slightly munched blooms but staying healthy so far:
Alister Stella Gray, growing into a lovely rambler with fast repeat:
Last but not least, the super healthy, continuously blooming Avalanche Abricot:
'Bienvenue'..
'Frilly Cuff'.. / Angelonia..
Salvia 'Blue Merced'..