No bareroot orders yet, very tempted to get Penelope Lively seeing all your photos.
A few photos taken today, hopefully we'll get the ⛈️ forecast for this afternoon.
Lambada Bonica Natasha Richardson Octavia Hill Super Trouper La Rosa de Molinard Prague Othello Pure Poetry Dame de Coeur Blue Moon Perdita - typical DA with flowers looking down. Summer of Love Last but not the least, Queen Elizabeth grandiflora, towering at 8-9'. Disappointed with Royal Celebration this year - blackspot ridden, has lost all its leaves and a measly second flush.
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
how is your Rose de Molinard @Eustace I had almost got rid of it once but saved again, but not happy with it yet.. balling and not good in flowering yet.. only saving grace is scent.. I have a strong feeling it might end up in the skip this year..
Ha so its not just me.. I am sure there will be more itchy fingers here soon @Nollie interested in your plan with the 2nd Soul...
Fab selection of roses as ever @Eustace, every time I think I’ve got a handle on your inventory you surprise me with a few more! I was rather disappointed with Royal Celebration too, a few semi-double blooms earlier, bad blackspot and not much rebloom. I will give it another year and see, but my hot summers are not ideal for many purples.
@cooldoc, La Rose de Molinard is, like Soul, a firm favourite of mine in terms of health, bloom form, colour and superb fragrance. However LRdM spoils even in light rain and Soul got so badly burnt in flamethrower heat and wind it may not recover. I plan to move both LRdM and the best Soul under the greater shelter of the east wall eaves. So the extra one is backup really.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Eustace, Interesting to see your last photo in particular (amongst so many lovely ones). My so called 'New Dawn' looks exactly like your Queen Elizabeth - Marlorena and I had surmised I'd got the wrong rose a year or so ago.
My Soul is fabulous, the only problem is it is in a pot and nearly up to the first floor. I must find an in-ground spot. I blame Nollie for this unwise purchase. Talking of whom I have the same dilemma with The Prince, it is surviving here with faults that other roses are shovel pruned for, as is Dames de Chenonceau. I could cancel my frivolous TCL order and devote a bit of TLC on these roses instead.
It is finally raining a decent amount, just popped out to grab a single pic in time. These look lovely from inside, Anniversary Rose, Gruss an Aachen and EufemiaI found this the other day on Berry-Bush Aurora, shared with HMF, the site had no pics of this lovely little Rugosa.
@cooldoc@Nollie I too like LRdM's scent; so it is right by the doorway. It has flowered well, this year and last. The flowers get easily spoilt by rain though. Rain has arrived here 😁, I'll take a picture tomorrow to see how it has affected the flowers. And it has those long canes that need support. 😔
@Lizzie27, the QE rose was planted in 2016 when we moved here. It's a shrub rose, every year I prune it to about 3 ft high so that it is just above the level of the paved driveway; it puts on another 5+ ft growth. The flowers do ball up in the wet weather; and you will notice the pink/red splotches on the petals. Still it is very reliable, will flower till November. I do not have New Dawn, so unable to compare with that rose.
I'm loathe to remove even an underperforming rose. So I have lots of one-legged wonders, mostly senior citizen HT roses in pots, at the road-end of my front garden.
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
Apart from when it’s good it’s really good, part of my dilemma with The Prince, Tack, is that it’s no longer available in Europe. There’s no going back if I dump it..
I think I escaped Soul’s sky-reaching tendencies because I trained the canes horizontally when green and young - it does produce flowering laterals very freely that way.
A WAMS-inspired purchase, my one cane wonder is newbie Boule de Neige. The 3 sickly canes it came with are no more, but in it’s death throes a lusty new basal appeared:
Cute 1 1/2” blooms, like Madame Hardy in miniature:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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A few photos taken today, hopefully we'll get the ⛈️ forecast for this afternoon.
Lambada
Bonica
Natasha Richardson
Octavia Hill
Super Trouper
La Rosa de Molinard
Prague
Othello
Pure Poetry
Dame de Coeur
Blue Moon
Perdita - typical DA with flowers looking down.
Summer of Love
Last but not the least, Queen Elizabeth grandiflora, towering at 8-9'.
Disappointed with Royal Celebration this year - blackspot ridden, has lost all its leaves and a measly second flush.
Ha so its not just me.. I am sure there will be more itchy fingers here soon @Nollie interested in your plan with the 2nd Soul...
@cooldoc, La Rose de Molinard is, like Soul, a firm favourite of mine in terms of health, bloom form, colour and superb fragrance. However LRdM spoils even in light rain and Soul got so badly burnt in flamethrower heat and wind it may not recover. I plan to move both LRdM and the best Soul under the greater shelter of the east wall eaves. So the extra one is backup really.
How long have you had it?
@cooldoc @Nollie I too like LRdM's scent; so it is right by the doorway. It has flowered well, this year and last. The flowers get easily spoilt by rain though. Rain has arrived here 😁, I'll take a picture tomorrow to see how it has affected the flowers. And it has those long canes that need support. 😔
@Lizzie27, the QE rose was planted in 2016 when we moved here. It's a shrub rose, every year I prune it to about 3 ft high so that it is just above the level of the paved driveway; it puts on another 5+ ft growth. The flowers do ball up in the wet weather; and you will notice the pink/red splotches on the petals. Still it is very reliable, will flower till November. I do not have New Dawn, so unable to compare with that rose.
@Tack nice rose hip there. 😊
I'm loathe to remove even an underperforming rose. So I have lots of one-legged wonders, mostly senior citizen HT roses in pots, at the road-end of my front garden.
I think I escaped Soul’s sky-reaching tendencies because I trained the canes horizontally when green and young - it does produce flowering laterals very freely that way.
A WAMS-inspired purchase, my one cane wonder is newbie Boule de Neige. The 3 sickly canes it came with are no more, but in it’s death throes a lusty new basal appeared:
Cute 1 1/2” blooms, like Madame Hardy in miniature: