Thanks you @Alfie_ I will definitely shared photos! It has been a really quick grower, I planted it at the same time as Albrighton and it’s much bigger. The canes are very stiff though, so I’ve found it harder to train and wish I’d known about pre-training! It’s also very thorny, so I’m glad it’s tucked away in the back corner. I don’t remember it being so bad for black spot, so maybe it’s just this year?
@owd potter my Blush Noisette is similarly in a corner at the junction between trellis with hedge. I’d like it to grow big, we shall have to compare progress..
@agnasia my Darcy Bussell is doing better now it has more space to breathe. I’ve removed an adjacent shrubby salvia that was crowding her out. I do like DB but I have other reds/purples that are superior in health, bloom form and fragrance.
Soul looking and smelling good, having rescued a hefty, laden cane that came loose from it’s moorings:
Gertrude Jekyll - this always beats MW for fragrance for me. I know what you mean about the complexity of MW though cooldoc:
I usually keep a list of my top five favourite roses for fragrance, but as my collection expands I’m finding it increasingly difficult to keep to that number! Based purely on fragrance and disregarding all other faults and attributes, I now have a top three in three categories. Many others just missed out, but here are the finalists:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena, Success! One slightly battered Daniel Deronda which didn't like being bounced around in a trolley during the Malvern show yesterday and I also bought a pink Rhodanthemum, the first I've seen on sale anywhere. We had a lovely day out and the sun shone.
@Lizzie27 ha.!.. I've just answered you on the clematis thread.. I thought I'd seen that plant before, the Rhodanthemum I mean, as I have several.. Hope the clem does well for you, nice of them to bring one along especially..
I am looking for a rose for an east-facing fence on my sheltered patio. It is for a pot and preferably a shrub rose or a short climber, long-flowering and fragrant. The pot has an inside diameter of 36 cm tapering to 30cm and is 40cm tall. The fence is 1.8m high and the wall is 300cm. Many thanks for any suggestions re rose or suitability of pot. (I can always get a different pot if necessary).
Two disfigured buds of GJ but scent is amazing.. Colour seems to be a bit darker to Nollie's..
And a fully opened velvetty Munstead..
La France has opened by another 0.5cms.. but the fragrance is ❤️ Worth the wait.. have been eyeing that one since last year.. Remember Marlorena picked one up before it went out of stock again.. too early to say about the rose as such.. but fragrance 10/10..
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So close @cooldoc!
Gertrude Jekyll - this always beats MW for fragrance for me. I know what you mean about the complexity of MW though cooldoc:
I usually keep a list of my top five favourite roses for fragrance, but as my collection expands I’m finding it increasingly difficult to keep to that number! Based purely on fragrance and disregarding all other faults and attributes, I now have a top three in three categories. Many others just missed out, but here are the finalists:
ha.!.. I've just answered you on the clematis thread.. I thought I'd seen that plant before, the Rhodanthemum I mean, as I have several..
Hope the clem does well for you, nice of them to bring one along especially..
Chandos Beauty
Scepter'd Isle
The non-Heritage
Back-ups are Blue For You and Prince Jardinier
Luckily I got all but 3 from that list @Nollie
Two disfigured buds of GJ but scent is amazing.. Colour seems to be a bit darker to Nollie's..
And a fully opened velvetty Munstead..
La France has opened by another 0.5cms.. but the fragrance is ❤️
Worth the wait.. have been eyeing that one since last year.. Remember Marlorena picked one up before it went out of stock again.. too early to say about the rose as such.. but fragrance 10/10..