I’m sure my Golden Celebration will recover with all you guys willing it on, not worried about the foliage dying but the instant yellowing and dieback of the canes is more of a concern. Oh well, if it doesn’t pull through, I’ll just get a new one!
In my experience this happens fairly regularly as the plant 'realises' that it's lost a good bit of root and pulls back resources from the top to develop more of a root base again. So I'd give it a season or two at least. They can go almost dormant up top while developing the roots soon after planting. For some reason this has happened to me more with yellow roses.
Just posting my earliest-flowering rose, 'Morletii'. I think I have raved about this before. Normally it flowers at the end of April but the cold weather may have delayed things a bit. It is only once-flowering but has red young growth and then scarlet autumn colour, so a real three-season beauty. Good for covering sheds without swamping them.
Everyone seems to be talking about rose buds, but I haven't a one yet. Lots of lush bronze and green growth, but here I wouldn't expect buds for another month. So I have to make do with my Spring garden. I know alot of people don't like bulbs, but unlike others mine come back every year without help. Like these Darwin red tulips on their third year, never moved, but seem to like the spot, I added some white last year ( an odd yellow seems to have popped up) but this colour keeps me going until the roses start.
Hi @Cambridgerose12, my GC is not new, it’s about 4-5yrs old, just dug it up and moved it to a pot when reorganising a border and it’s having a serious hissy fit, see p.56. No worries, it’ll either make it or or won’t! Lovely to see your first bloom.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I have buds on about twenty roses now, including Munstead Wood (perhaps the sparrow was pointing it out to me!). Are you somewhere chilly, @purplerallim? Love your tulips! I am sure I am not the only person reading this thread who has made a diary note to buy more bulbs this autumn (esp hyacinths, tulips, snakeshead frittilaries and crocuses in my case. Got daffodils out the wazoo!).
Hi @Cambridgerose12, my GC is not new, it’s about 4-5yrs old, just dug it up and moved it to a pot when reorganising a border and it’s having a serious hissy fit, see p.56. No worries, it’ll either make it or or won’t! Lovely to see your first bloom.
Ah yes--I see now. Same thing applies. I have moved one rose in full leaf but it went soil and all, so scarcely turned a hair ('Mayflower'). If its feeder roots have been damaged it will retract lots up top, but should revive fully by the end of the growing season, don't worry.
I'm in Lincolnshire @WAMS 😁 and the temp can go up and down considerably! We had frost last week, and now full sun and 12°🤷♀️ If you like tulips how about this one? New to me this year, wish I knew the name, but it came in a mixed bag of small patio ones with the stripy leafed one, which I know as Red Robin. The hanging bells came out when they were only half the height, and are a dark mauve with yellow lip. I'm still not sure if I like them or not! 🤷♀️ The rose is Ruby Wedding.
I was gone for over a week so missed a lot. Came home to one Knockout smothered in blooms.
Even more exciting than the flowers was the long cane developing on Julia Child.
Scepter'd Isle has perfect blooms but they're fragile and the stems are weak. The whole plant has "elegantly nodded" right into the liriope. I suspect I need to be less gentle in pruning to overcome this.
The shattered bloom.
Peggy Martin/Katrina rose has a few open blooms (very small, only 2-3 cm diameter), lots more clusters of buds developing.
Lots more happening in my garden (clematis, peony, lilacs) but that's all for roses.
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Lovely spring garden... if you want a Rambling Rector, you go for it.. you have a way of making it all work..
Fingers crossed for some warmer weather next week in the south.. perhaps the long awaited 70F..?
If you like tulips how about this one?
New to me this year, wish I knew the name, but it came in a mixed bag of small patio ones with the stripy leafed one, which I know as Red Robin. The hanging bells came out when they were only half the height, and are a dark mauve with yellow lip. I'm still not sure if I like them or not! 🤷♀️
The rose is Ruby Wedding.
Even more exciting than the flowers was the long cane developing on Julia Child.
Scepter'd Isle has perfect blooms but they're fragile and the stems are weak. The whole plant has "elegantly nodded" right into the liriope. I suspect I need to be less gentle in pruning to overcome this.
The shattered bloom.
Peggy Martin/Katrina rose has a few open blooms (very small, only 2-3 cm diameter), lots more clusters of buds developing.
Lots more happening in my garden (clematis, peony, lilacs) but that's all for roses.
@SYinUSA your Julia Child is beautiful and so much going on in the garden!
I did spy my first baby rosebud on Desdemona, I wouldn’t have looked for it if I hadn’t see everyone else’s!