Lovely pictures this week - as always - of all your blooms giving us mere mortals something to aspire to.
Same blooms as last week so I am not posting pictures and spamming you all with yet more Gertrude, Shalott, Lark Ascending or Poet's Wife and Princess Anne!
The relaying of the gravel paths continues - with three tons of new gravel arriving today, and I will not burden you with the before pictures of the paths either - it literally looks like the Battle of the Somme out there at the moment.
Quick question - when does everyone stop feeding their roses - is it about now or do I continue till after the second flush. Greatly appreciate your wisdom on this so I am not continually to feed the pots etc un-necessarily.
I have not fed them for months this year, as was busy with many things.. But I normally stop by September.. Given the warm temps in recent times, I would be tempted to feed till end of September, but not sure up north @PeterAberdeen
Not pruning late in the season also plays a part.. to prevent the young stems from having frost damage..
I stopped feeding mine for a while because they needed some me time (post-heatwave crispiness) to recover on their own without me force-feeding them. I did recently give them a boost of tomato feed with added nitrogen but that will be it for this year. It is very much a judgement call based on your climate dependent Peter, as cooldoc says.
If I continue to feed too late or prune too early, mild sunny days will induce lots of new growth, just in time for them to get severely zapped by overnight frosts!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I missed out on summer feed for the roses, still they've done well with the spring feed and farmyard manure mulch alone. Twice in a Blue Moon The Oddfellows rose Evelyn May The English Miss
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
I also missed out on feed for summer. I will not feed now and next feed will be in spring. If I had roses in pots, I would have given liquid feed till end of September.
I usually mulch in autumn but this year I have mulched in summer so wont be doing that either.
@cooldoc sorry for the late response. I have Sweet Juliet.. I love the scent and the soft yellow colour outside and the peachy egg yolk shade inside. It is still recovering but doing a lot better than last year. @Nollie I had Madame Anisette for more than 2+years. But only got four blooms in total. The packed petals were really soft, struggled to open after rain even with a strong sunlight so they ended up as moulded grey balls (@Marlorena clarified the name as bortrytis) most of the time. It was worse than La Rose de molinard in my opinion. I have got rid of it last August.
Redoute: Strawberry Hill: Pretty Jessica: Eden: I don't think I am going to get rid of any this year🧐
The Lady Gardener: Nice strong scent .. similar to Sweet Juliet
Eustacia Vye: Fragrant old purple: A perfect half bloom. And this plant produces a lots of it. Anyone knows the reason please?
Evelyn: Queen of Sweden: Gabriel Oak: I am finding the colour is lot better in person and this rose is not at all photogenic! Molineux: Ebb tide:
Have an order in place for Scarborough Fair. I have Shepherdess in a wishlist for a long time and probably that would go as well.
@Rojas what a gorgeous selection of roses, and thank you so much for the Madame Anisette feedback and for saving me from yet another rain-intolerant rose! Now unceremoniously bumped from the list. I had to look up Fragrant Old Purple (beautiful colour) I didn’t realise that was a synonym for Wise Portia. Could something be nibbling on the buds before opening? I do get those half/deformed blooms occasionally. Earwigs can often be the guilty party and I’ve had pollen beetles do it this year as well.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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The relaying of the gravel paths continues - with three tons of new gravel arriving today, and I will not burden you with the before pictures of the paths either - it literally looks like the Battle of the Somme out there at the moment.
Not pruning late in the season also plays a part.. to prevent the young stems from having frost damage..
Twice in a Blue Moon
The Oddfellows rose
Evelyn May
The English Miss
I usually mulch in autumn but this year I have mulched in summer so wont be doing that either.
Lolabelle, Penelope, Eustacia, Deelish. Eustacia is the prettiest rose of the lot of them IMO (Evelyn aside).
@Nollie I had Madame Anisette for more than 2+years. But only got four blooms in total. The packed petals were really soft, struggled to open after rain even with a strong sunlight so they ended up as moulded grey balls (@Marlorena clarified the name as bortrytis) most of the time. It was worse than La Rose de molinard in my opinion. I have got rid of it last August.
Redoute:
Strawberry Hill:
Pretty Jessica:
Eden: I don't think I am going to get rid of any this year🧐
The Lady Gardener: Nice strong scent .. similar to Sweet Juliet
Eustacia Vye:
Fragrant old purple: A perfect half bloom. And this plant produces a lots of it. Anyone knows the reason please?
Evelyn:
Queen of Sweden:
Gabriel Oak: I am finding the colour is lot better in person and this rose is not at all photogenic!
Molineux:
Ebb tide:
Have an order in place for Scarborough Fair. I have Shepherdess in a wishlist for a long time and probably that would go as well.