@ciaranmcgrenera I live in a gale prone area and every Spring I will lose buds to wind.. it roars through just as the buds are developing, they are soft and tender and they get dislodged from the sockets.. one Spring the most exposed rose was totally decapitated and I lost the first flush.. It happens... with repeat flowering roses they will soon recover..
I think this might be what’s happening. I’ll have to have a think about positioning.
@cooldoc I have 8 roses, 2 are in pots and the rest are in the ground. I will have to give it a go and see how it works practically. All of mine are from DA except one, so will be interesting to monitor which ones are worst affected.
@Mr. Vine Eye that’s so interesting, I guess it’s in a sheltered position so that could make the issue worse. I will keep squishing as well!
@Tack thanks for clarifying, I have a dish next to the kettle where I dump my tea bags already so I can just open them out instead. Will have to see how it works!
@Lizzie27 thanks for the insight, sounds like a good way to try it.
@Mr. Vine Eye I guess the sheltered bit makes sense, but rose variety seems to play a part as well I think.. Lyda rose hardly gets any aphids and can be squished.. the DA next to it will be covered in aphids..
@agnasia as Tack said, you will need to empty them every couple of days or they would go mouldy..
Agree with Marlorena on the leaf/bud damage @ciaranmcgrenera with all the winds we have been having lately, been seeing a lot of broken stems/ shredded leaves especially on thorny varieties..
@agnasia as Tack said, you will need to empty them every couple of days or they would go mouldy..
I really hate he way quote works on iPad...it doesn’t! It’s such a faff no matter how I try and do it.
anyway I just found these in my cupboard. I was collecting tea bag leaves. No mould, still smells very strongly of tea. Two years old these I think, possibly. I kept the tea bag on the edge of the sink until it was dry, then cut open and emptied into this container. i obviously started collecting, after the original discussion on here, and then never got round to using them!
Using the quote function rarely works on ipad for me either Mr. V. If I try to selectively quote, the quoted text disappears as soon as I hit ‘post’.
It does seem to be a combination of location and rose variety re bugs. Sawfly damage is generally worse on roses against my front wall, yet they mostly ignore Marie Pavie there. Love Song is in an open position but has suffered the worst, while others nearby are largely untouched. Or maybe there is absolutely no logic to it at all!
Some new acquisitions..
Buds on Marie Nabonnand:
Ouch, Indigo is very well armed. Even the leaves and pedicels are out to get you!
It’s growing well though and needs reporting already. I deliberately left the graft above soil level because I want to control growth, not battle a thorny thicket:
Yolande d’Aragón has grown away the most and also needs potting on:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Yey, it's great to be back and not have missed too much of my springtime garden. I returned from my work trip in time to see my mid flowering daffs and the established tulips.
Your old house rose drive looked spectacular @newbie77, I don't think I've seen that pic before, smashing stuff.
More remarkable dog-fluff art, nicely done @Nollie, but I wasn't tricked this time Your Mrs Oakley Fisher is looking very well. Mine was lovely for the first two years but last year was unimpressive. I chopped it back but so far it hasn't leapt forward The Jolly Smudge is looking like a masterpiece of engineering, well done
Glad to hear Agatha was recovered, muddy but ok.
Your Chaenomeles and daffs are looking very striking together @Tack.
Rose wise, I had a good start but then had some late frosts which caused some damage, also to some of my new clematis, two of which are looking dead-dead. I will have a walk round and do a rosebud check in between the showers today. I cut back quite severely where seemed appropriate though so am not hopeful.
A recent perennial delivery from Elizabeth MacGregor, fine looking beasts:
@Tack - beautiful Srawberry Hill you have and definitely secured my decision for my DA climber for an arbour.
@MMflower - peach Melba would definitely fit the bill for pinky orange and, although I don’t have this one, it gets very good reviews and another Rose of the Year award winner.
@Marlorena - your inspired rose-clematis-geranium obelisk has now become a relaity:
Tulips have exploded this week for me. To such an extent that my Wollerton OH bare root I got in the winter to climb this wall is completely swamped!
Gerty has started to grow nicely above the pearl bush. Last year I got an early flush of Gerty whilst the pearl bush was still in flower. Hoping for the same this year:
I'm wanting to plant a rose hedge behind a nice corner box hedge I have. I've worked out with spacing I need 18 roses though to get the effect I wanted. Trying to do this in an affordable way I have found J Parkers sell Queen Elizabeth hedging packs at £35 per 10 roses. Does anyone have this rose and could they share their thoughts on it/as a hedge? Thanks
@Victoria Sponge I'll steer clear of Jparkers for bareroot roses. I bought some ages ago, and none of them survived. I have Queen Elizabeth grandiflora and it does make a nice hedge with it's upright growth. Nice cut flowers too with their long stems.
No rose photos as of yet, as I'm away from home. But would like to share photos of nice juicy flower buds on tree peonies I had planted a few years ago, when we lived in Cambridge. I think I need to go again in 2 weeks time to see the flowers in their full glory.
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
@Alfie_ Exciting projects with your obelisks, going to look really good I think, given a bit of time.. Lovely garden photos, I wish I had those walls to play with..
I've only had Queen Elizabeth as an individual plant, not a hedge.. my hedge choice back in the day was 'Iceberg'.. before David Austin's really came along..
..my neighbour at the time - who did not grow a single rose - peered over the fence and said ''too much white !!''.. ..perhaps my old dog thought the same.. I loved it..
Welcome back @Victoria Sponge, sorry to hear about the late frosts. My last frost date in the past has been April 18th, so I’m cautiously celebrating missing a bullet there.
All looking good @Alfie_, but failed to spot your WOH! Parkers do have mixed reviews on here but if they are bare root I think it’s getting a bit late so wouldn’t risk it, personally and would wait until Autumn. As a comparison TCL also had QE @ €3.50 each (OOS at present, but doubtless back in the Autumn) with postage €27.50 for up to 25 roses. They have a huge range to choose from. Numbers required would depend on the individual variety but whatever you decide, I would buy a couple of spares and pot them up just in case..
Well, don’t try this at home folks.. breaking all the rules I’ve planted my orphan Mme. Alfred Carriere in a 60cm2 pot. Not a long-term solution for such a vigorous rose but it should be fine for a good few years. The ground underneath got very rooty due to an invading wild plum from the verge outside the north fence, which scuppered my original rose bed plans for here:
I bought three of these pots and will space the others 2m either side. MAC can grow up and along the top of the 6m long fence if it wants to. The leading candidates for the other two are Violet Hood and Darlow’s Enigma.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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@Mr. Vine Eye that’s so interesting, I guess it’s in a sheltered position so that could make the issue worse. I will keep squishing as well!
@Tack thanks for clarifying, I have a dish next to the kettle where I dump my tea bags already so I can just open them out instead. Will have to see how it works!
@Lizzie27 thanks for the insight, sounds like a good way to try it.
@agnasia as Tack said, you will need to empty them every couple of days or they would go mouldy..
Agree with Marlorena on the leaf/bud damage @ciaranmcgrenera with all the winds we have been having lately, been seeing a lot of broken stems/ shredded leaves especially on thorny varieties..
Some new acquisitions..
Buds on Marie Nabonnand:
Ouch, Indigo is very well armed. Even the leaves and pedicels are out to get you!
It’s growing well though and needs reporting already. I deliberately left the graft above soil level because I want to control growth, not battle a thorny thicket:
Yolande d’Aragón has grown away the most and also needs potting on:
I just finished catching up on the 90 pages of posts
Your old house rose drive looked spectacular @newbie77, I don't think I've seen that pic before, smashing stuff.
More remarkable dog-fluff art, nicely done @Nollie, but I wasn't tricked this time
Glad to hear Agatha was recovered, muddy but ok.
Your Chaenomeles and daffs are looking very striking together @Tack.
Rose wise, I had a good start but then had some late frosts which caused some damage, also to some of my new clematis, two of which are looking dead-dead. I will have a walk round and do a rosebud check in between the showers today. I cut back quite severely where seemed appropriate though so am not hopeful.
A recent perennial delivery from Elizabeth MacGregor, fine looking beasts:
@Marlorena - your inspired rose-clematis-geranium obelisk has now become a relaity:
Tulips have exploded this week for me. To such an extent that my Wollerton OH bare root I got in the winter to climb this wall is completely swamped!
Gerty has started to grow nicely above the pearl bush. Last year I got an early flush of Gerty whilst the pearl bush was still in flower. Hoping for the same this year:
I'm wanting to plant a rose hedge behind a nice corner box hedge I have. I've worked out with spacing I need 18 roses though to get the effect I wanted. Trying to do this in an affordable way I have found J Parkers sell Queen Elizabeth hedging packs at £35 per 10 roses. Does anyone have this rose and could they share their thoughts on it/as a hedge? Thanks
No rose photos as of yet, as I'm away from home. But would like to share photos of nice juicy flower buds on tree peonies I had planted a few years ago, when we lived in Cambridge. I think I need to go again in 2 weeks time to see the flowers in their full glory.
Exciting projects with your obelisks, going to look really good I think, given a bit of time..
Lovely garden photos, I wish I had those walls to play with..
I've only had Queen Elizabeth as an individual plant, not a hedge.. my hedge choice back in the day was 'Iceberg'.. before David Austin's really came along..
..my neighbour at the time - who did not grow a single rose - peered over the fence and said ''too much white !!''..
..perhaps my old dog thought the same.. I loved it..
Well, don’t try this at home folks.. breaking all the rules I’ve planted my orphan Mme. Alfred Carriere in a 60cm2 pot. Not a long-term solution for such a vigorous rose but it should be fine for a good few years. The ground underneath got very rooty due to an invading wild plum from the verge outside the north fence, which scuppered my original rose bed plans for here:
I bought three of these pots and will space the others 2m either side. MAC can grow up and along the top of the 6m long fence if it wants to. The leading candidates for the other two are Violet Hood and Darlow’s Enigma.