@Nollie as mentioned Covent Garden is Cream Abundance and Sherlock Holmes is St Richard of Chichester. Hyde Park - Amber Abundance, Docteur Watson- Ruby 40th/ Carris and King Arthur- Fragrant Surprise
@Imprevu Good of you to do your mother in law's pruning... and your OH chose well with 'Julia Child'.. I wish I still had it, but it grows very big, and I did not like to prune it.
Actually, I did have Elbflorenz. Got it by accident. And it was nowhere near the colour I wanted. Removed it to my mother's deer invested garden. oops. BTW Elbflorenz is a nic for Dresden. I am from Hamburg. Both cities are on the river Elbe. Mine is nicer, of course
The hedge is Chamaecyparis. A pain as it grows wider and wider with age and starts to bulge. The northern part will go in October. Am already assembling wish lists.
I was going to flip your photos @ElbFee, but you've done it. You have a beautiful garden now.
@Nollie I got an email from Promesse de Fleurs about their rose offers. two years ago I bought 11 roses from them in their sale. I wasn't ready to plant them and they were tiny so I planted them in the vegetable garden then moved them the following year. They were bigger by then. The Darcey Bussell wants to be a climber and the leaves aren't right. I was in the UK when she flowered so I'll see it this year. I've planted her on an obelisk, spirally. They may have sent the wrong rose, I expect I'll be asking Marlorena in May/June!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Think it is time to stop lurking and say hello! I love this thread and it is my bedtime reading. We moved last summer and are hopefully moving into our permanent new home in a couple of months.
I brought with me from old house Tranquillity which is in memory of my Mum and my Dad dug out his Maid of Kent shortly before he died at the start of last year which is in a pot here. I left behind Mme Alfred Carriere, Ballerina, Harlow Carr, Crocus rose, Zephirine Drouhin, PAoK, Lady of the Lake, Fairy rose, Pascale and several Queen Elizabeth as they propagated well. Oh and a pretty new to me Kordes one, might have been something like Cinderella.
Couldn’t quite help myself and have been doing some shopping this year so ready to come with me are new Mme. A. Carriere and Lady of the Lake plus a dubious looking Zephirine Drouhin (excuse my spelling). I also have Lady Emma Hamilton , Kew Gardens and Joie de vivre. I think there are some at new house, there’s definitely one against the summerhouse that they are hopefully leaving. Very much looking forward to all your 2023 photos and hope to have some to add too.
@Wynken Hello, and another welcome to you too, great to see you.. sad you had to leave those roses behind, but now another opportunity presents itself for you.. We look forward to seeing your roses later on.. lucky you to have 'Lady Emma Hamilton', I hear it's now like gold dust..
This Knockout rose has a couple of dozen(!) buds already. My other one has maybe half that number. We are expected freezing temps overnight so I might lose the ones furthest along:
Scepter'd Isle has maybe a half dozen buds:
This is a Peggy Martin/Katrina climbing rose. I figure if it survived 20' of seawater for 2 weeks, it may stand a chance in my garden. This is its third year here, so I hope it truly "leaps" this season.
@ElbFee hello and welcome from another continental dweller 😊 I am English but have lived in Spain for many years and now garden in the North East, not far from the Pyrenees. I love the transformation of your garden, less grass more roses is to be highly commended!
And a warm welcome to @alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF and @Wynken. We love new people joining us, all the more roses and gardens to admire. Look forward to seeing them all later.
Thanks @rossdriscoll13, I already looked them all up on hmf, but it’s fortunate none particularly appeal since I have no more rose space! I’m sure some will magically appear by next Spring..
@Busy-Lizzie I had a Graham Thomas from them, never had a rose shrink-wrapped in a black body bag before! The roots were ok, but the rose never thrived, it was very wimpy and prone to black spot. That might’ve just been the rose in my climate though. That doesn’t sound like Darcy Bussell, at least mine has never shown any tendency to climb - we can compare notes when they are in bloom.
@SYinUSA congratulations you are the first to have a bud show colour. Slight climate advantage perhaps?!
Love all that fresh new foliage, mine have really leafed put over the last week, after a freaky warm spell and thankfully now some rain.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Interesting that Elbflorenz = Dresden, @ElbFee, and what a transformation you have underway. Nice to see lots of new posters. I am not going to post here till I have finished shifting ivy from an approximately 4m stretch of fence, so help me God, because I want a nicer backdrop for Susie rose and Lady Emma. Inspired by the hard work of PeterAberdeen, Nollie, and Imprevu. 🪥⛏🪚
Welcome to all new posters. We would love to see your garden photos and how is everything going throughout the season not just when in flowers.
@WAMS, please share how are you dealing with ivy. I also have that sort of ivy patch on fence but no Idea how do I even start. I don't mind if it will need hacking with saw or weedkiller. Just some way to get rid.
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Good of you to do your mother in law's pruning... and your OH chose well with 'Julia Child'.. I wish I still had it, but it grows very big, and I did not like to prune it.
Roses on wall looking great..
The hedge is Chamaecyparis. A pain as it grows wider and wider with age and starts to bulge. The northern part will go in October. Am already assembling wish lists.
I'll try again with smaller pics.
Edited so you don't hurt your neck anymore.
Same border from other side:
@Nollie I got an email from Promesse de Fleurs about their rose offers. two years ago I bought 11 roses from them in their sale. I wasn't ready to plant them and they were tiny so I planted them in the vegetable garden then moved them the following year. They were bigger by then. The Darcey Bussell wants to be a climber and the leaves aren't right. I was in the UK when she flowered so I'll see it this year. I've planted her on an obelisk, spirally. They may have sent the wrong rose, I expect I'll be asking Marlorena in May/June!
Couldn’t quite help myself and have been doing some shopping this year so ready to come with me are new Mme. A. Carriere and Lady of the Lake plus a dubious looking Zephirine Drouhin (excuse my spelling). I also have Lady Emma Hamilton , Kew Gardens and Joie de vivre. I think there are some at new house, there’s definitely one against the summerhouse that they are hopefully leaving. Very much looking forward to all your 2023 photos and hope to have some to add too.
Hello, and another welcome to you too, great to see you.. sad you had to leave those roses behind, but now another opportunity presents itself for you..
We look forward to seeing your roses later on.. lucky you to have 'Lady Emma Hamilton', I hear it's now like gold dust..
This Knockout rose has a couple of dozen(!) buds already. My other one has maybe half that number. We are expected freezing temps overnight so I might lose the ones furthest along:
Scepter'd Isle has maybe a half dozen buds:
This is a Peggy Martin/Katrina climbing rose. I figure if it survived 20' of seawater for 2 weeks, it may stand a chance in my garden. This is its third year here, so I hope it truly "leaps" this season.
And a warm welcome to @alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF and @Wynken. We love new people joining us, all the more roses and gardens to admire. Look forward to seeing them all later.
Thanks @rossdriscoll13, I already looked them all up on hmf, but it’s fortunate none particularly appeal since I have no more rose space! I’m sure some will magically appear by next Spring..
@Busy-Lizzie I had a Graham Thomas from them, never had a rose shrink-wrapped in a black body bag before! The roots were ok, but the rose never thrived, it was very wimpy and prone to black spot. That might’ve just been the rose in my climate though. That doesn’t sound like Darcy Bussell, at least mine has never shown any tendency to climb - we can compare notes when they are in bloom.
@SYinUSA congratulations you are the first to have a bud show colour. Slight climate advantage perhaps?!
Love all that fresh new foliage, mine have really leafed put over the last week, after a freaky warm spell and thankfully now some rain.
@WAMS, please share how are you dealing with ivy. I also have that sort of ivy patch on fence but no Idea how do I even start. I don't mind if it will need hacking with saw or weedkiller. Just some way to get rid.