@PeterAberdeen I am sure other forumites will be able to give you good advice about your ideas. I'm very much a newbie even though I have quite a few roses. 🙂 I have a potted Roald Dahl and it is an almost continuous bloomer. It is now in its third flush this season. The flowers are smaller compared to the earlier flushes, probably because I haven't fed it since spring. I think @Athelas has a very good specimen of RD.
@PeterAberdeen, I bought a potted Roald Dahl for a pot in full sun in 2021 and I love it. I say full sun, but I have a tiny garden overshadowed by my house and other houses, so from May to July it gets 8+ hours of direct sunlight, and starting August only gets 4-5 hours (10am-3pm). That amount shrinks drastically in September to pretty much nothing by October, but it does keep blooming until November.
It flowered pretty much non-stop for me in 2021 and 2022, but it has had distinct flushes this year (and right now is in a green, new shoots phase), probably because of the relatively cool summer.
Very healthy with minimal blackspot (a few leaves here and there toward the end of the year) and no mildew; some sawfly activity but I squish the ones I find and this summer there weren’t many. The flowers last well both on the plant and cut, and are unfazed by rain or heat — and it does get hot in Cambridgeshire.
Roald Dahl has a nice low bushy habit, and I love the colour changing from orange buds to peach waterlily-like flowers to faded apricot. The only thing is, despite what the DA website says, it has almost no scent, or at least mine doesn’t, though I’ve been told it should develop later. A light tea scent.
Hardly any thorns, so that’s nice if you might be brushing past the pots a lot.
Just thinking though that if roses were to frame your front door you would want something very fragrant?
Apologies, some old photos below
This was taken last summer at the end of a 38C day during a very hot week — minimal crisping
Funnily enough @salo.daria I’m sat in my garden next to a Desdemona and I just watched a very fat bumblebee have a look and sniff around it but it flew off and went deep into my You’re Beautiful so perhaps it isn’t bee friendly.
@CatDouch thank you for the confirmation. I was secretly hoping DA just forgot to include it in their Good For Bees list. Oh well
thank you so much for that really detailed post on Roald Dahl
your description on sun mirrors quite similar to the position by the front door here.
All considered if I have to forfeit scent for all the other positive attributes then I think I am on a roll - I didn’t expect to get everything on my wish list.
Thank you so much for your thoughts and taking the time to let me know.
Definitely a contender.
Does anyone have thoughts on the pink options: Reine Victoria or her sport Mme. Pierre Oger?
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@Nollie, your RD is huge!
@PeterAberdeen, I bought a potted Roald Dahl for a pot in full sun in 2021 and I love it. I say full sun, but I have a tiny garden overshadowed by my house and other houses, so from May to July it gets 8+ hours of direct sunlight, and starting August only gets 4-5 hours (10am-3pm). That amount shrinks drastically in September to pretty much nothing by October, but it does keep blooming until November.
It flowered pretty much non-stop for me in 2021 and 2022, but it has had distinct flushes this year (and right now is in a green, new shoots phase), probably because of the relatively cool summer.
Very healthy with minimal blackspot (a few leaves here and there toward the end of the year) and no mildew; some sawfly activity but I squish the ones I find and this summer there weren’t many. The flowers last well both on the plant and cut, and are unfazed by rain or heat — and it does get hot in Cambridgeshire.
Roald Dahl has a nice low bushy habit, and I love the colour changing from orange buds to peach waterlily-like flowers to faded apricot. The only thing is, despite what the DA website says, it has almost no scent, or at least mine doesn’t, though I’ve been told it should develop later. A light tea scent.
Hardly any thorns, so that’s nice if you might be brushing past the pots a lot.
Apologies, some old photos below
@Eustace your translation is correct. Not sure though if this rose should be tasted and listened to but the other senses are surely pleased.
Welcome back @Fire really happy to see u back🙂
@CatDouch thank you for the confirmation. I was secretly hoping DA just forgot to include it in their Good For Bees list. Oh well
@Elbfee haha yes. Love your purples.
Two roses which I love the colours of: Trevor White's Lolabelle and DA's Jubilee Celebration.
And managing to rebloom in year two 🥳 - Perennial Blue (which only bloomed in June last year).
Roald Dahl looks a beauty, @Athelas!
Great to see you back @Fire, we missed you!
Vanessa Bell looking ghostly in the morning
thank you so much for that really detailed post on Roald Dahl
your description on sun mirrors quite similar to the position by the front door here.
thanks