@ElbFee Thanks for the photos of 'Othello'.. very lovely indeed, apart from the obvious.. I do have thorny roses but I've chosen for size, and there's always worse, like your rather lovely red one, but these days I'm more on the lookout for lower thorn types and I've seen it in gardens, it throws up huge basals.. it's not for my garden here, so I've put it in a pot in the greenhouse where I can enjoy the scented blooms this summer..
I was very grateful and delighted to receive it - just with some trepidation which I hope didn't show too much.. they weren't to know.. I would rather have had an HT like 'Fragrant Cloud' if I'm honest..
@PeterAberdeen Glad to see you back... I've not received my Lilies yet, so you're ahead of me there..
@Lizzie27 Lovely foliage on your Alissar, I've often looked at that one, of the Hulthemias it was one that appealed most I think for some reason..
@Mr. Vine Eye Initially I agreed with Marlorena about them being spider eggs because of the place they were disturbed from, but following some more 'research' I now know slugs/snails do lay their eggs at various places above ground as well as under it. If they were spider eggs I was going to try and protect them, but it's highly likely they'll now get the size 9 treatment.
I confess: I have Othello and Queen Elizabeth grandiflora. I like the rose blooms, so I conveniently forget the thorny side. 😊
I would gladly have Othello, too... perhaps in the front garden where the Gertrudes and Lochinvar have been put to try to put off non-rosy visitors. Hopefully @Elbfee can dodge them all when she visits. Of my new ones, Sarah (Meilland), Kathryn (Ronnie Rawlins), Munstead Wood, Great Expectations and the Lark Ascending all promise a lot of painful entanglements.
@Busy-Lizzie gorgeous roses... it's a nice passion to share with your daughter. @Marlorena beautiful clematis. @ElbFee I love your pictures!
New buds for me on LoS, Gertrude Jekyll, Gruss an Aachen((?) and Amazing Day, and this on my new Princesse Charlène de Monaco (a freshly-potted bareroot bought this winter).
I don’t mind thorns and it wouldn’t necessarily stop me buying a rose. They come with the package, mostly, although two get me every time - Golden Beauty (deliberately deceased) and Harlow Carr. HC I find much worse than GJ.
I fear I might have done for my Golden Celebration, having recently dug it up when in full leaf, because I’m reorganising a bed..
I cut about a third off during the move to allegedly reduce stress. I didn’t get a clean rootball, all that lovely friable soil I treated it to fell off and I had to cut one or two large roots. I expected sulking and leaf droop but canes also began to yellow and die back:
Emergency surgery performed today. Crossing my fingers:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Hello, I know there's a lot of experienced rose growers on this thread, hope someone will know what is affecting my Roald Dahl rose. Is it the start of blackspot or some other problem? It looked perfectly healthy a few days ago.
@Honeywort No not blackspot but there's evidence of either nutrient deficiency or toxicity going on there. Have you fed this rose at all? if so what with and how much.. Have you sprayed this rose with something?
@marlorena Thanks for replying. I haven't sprayed it (or anything nearby). I haven't fed it either, I was intending to feed it this weekend. It was planted last autumn.
@Honeywort ok, nothing to worry about... feed your rose with a fertilizer that contains trace elements - very important... water in then mulch with compost of any sort... I would then snip off those manky leaves with scissors... they will soon regrow and your rose will recover... it's a bit stunted at the moment.. Roses get all sorts of blemished leaves from time to time, not always easy for anybody to pinpoint exactly what it is but with good cultivation and warmer weather, they soon get over it..
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Thanks for the photos of 'Othello'.. very lovely indeed, apart from the obvious.. I do have thorny roses but I've chosen for size, and there's always worse, like your rather lovely red one, but these days I'm more on the lookout for lower thorn types and I've seen it in gardens, it throws up huge basals.. it's not for my garden here, so I've put it in a pot in the greenhouse where I can enjoy the scented blooms this summer..
I was very grateful and delighted to receive it - just with some trepidation which I hope didn't show too much.. they weren't to know.. I would rather have had an HT like 'Fragrant Cloud' if I'm honest..
@PeterAberdeen
Glad to see you back... I've not received my Lilies yet, so you're ahead of me there..
@Lizzie27
Lovely foliage on your Alissar, I've often looked at that one, of the Hulthemias it was one that appealed most I think for some reason..
@Busy-Lizzie
You have 5 of the best there don't you?.. of the older types..
the pages have got shorter again..
Initially I agreed with Marlorena about them being spider eggs because of the place they were disturbed from, but following some more 'research' I now know slugs/snails do lay their eggs at various places above ground as well as under it. If they were spider eggs I was going to try and protect them, but it's highly likely they'll now get the size 9 treatment.
'Mme. Falcot' has a long way to go, just thankful it's still alive..
Clematis 'Avalanche'..
@Busy-Lizzie gorgeous roses... it's a nice passion to share with your daughter.
@Marlorena beautiful clematis.
@ElbFee I love your pictures!
New buds for me on LoS, Gertrude Jekyll, Gruss an Aachen((?) and Amazing Day, and this on my new Princesse Charlène de Monaco (a freshly-potted bareroot bought this winter).
I fear I might have done for my Golden Celebration, having recently dug it up when in full leaf, because I’m reorganising a bed..
I cut about a third off during the move to allegedly reduce stress. I didn’t get a clean rootball, all that lovely friable soil I treated it to fell off and I had to cut one or two large roots. I expected sulking and leaf droop but canes also began to yellow and die back:
Emergency surgery performed today. Crossing my fingers:
No not blackspot but there's evidence of either nutrient deficiency or toxicity going on there.
Have you fed this rose at all? if so what with and how much..
Have you sprayed this rose with something?
Thanks for replying.
I haven't sprayed it (or anything nearby).
I haven't fed it either, I was intending to feed it this weekend.
It was planted last autumn.
ok, nothing to worry about... feed your rose with a fertilizer that contains trace elements - very important... water in then mulch with compost of any sort... I would then snip off those manky leaves with scissors... they will soon regrow and your rose will recover... it's a bit stunted at the moment..
Roses get all sorts of blemished leaves from time to time, not always easy for anybody to pinpoint exactly what it is but with good cultivation and warmer weather, they soon get over it..