I am getting very envious of all of your lovely roses, mine still only have tiny buds/aphids on them! At what point do I start the fortnightly feeding? is it once they are in flower? I know I have to the do the 'proper feed' after the first flush. tia.
I was just wondering the very same thing @Meomye … so many differing opinions on the web. Be interested to see what @Marlorena and others have to say 🌹
Thank you @Discandied. I spent ages looking at roses online then you kindly posted your picture! I am so looking forward to hopefully getting the keys on Friday and getting going on the garden.
We’re also suffering with aphids and rust. I’m out there daily, crushing them. I’ve now made a spray of bicarb and a tiny amount of washing up liquid in hopes I can stifle the rust. I also pick off and dispose of the infected leaves. Not sure what else I can do. There are however buds on the infected roses, that’s a good thing right?! Black Baccara is in the lead here.
Great to see other roses coming through, it seems a long wait for many. How do you find your Stanwell Perpetual @Busy-Lizzie? I’ve read really good things about it.
Marlorena, you were interested in ongoing observations between Mme. de Sévigné and Mme. Isaac Pereire. Here is a bloom comparison with a few others. I couldn’t match stages of opening exactly but MdS and MIP are accurate in terms of size and colour. MIP has really upped her fragrance this year and I couldn’t now choose between the two in strength, but there are subtle differences. More raspberry/violet notes in MIP compared to classic old rose for MdS..
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So many blooms today and from far and wide... great to see the differences..
.. a nice comparison Nollie, I like it when it's done that way.. looking at your photo against the obelisk, I think my jury would still be out, but it's more important that you are confident in what you have.. clearly a very beautiful rose indeed.
A pleasant change to see roses in a French garden..
'Bridge of Sighs' going to look fabulous for sure..
Oh not confident at all Marlorena, I’ve never seen either of them in the flesh elsewhere so it’s perfectly possible one or even both are mislabelled. There are sufficient differences to be reasonably sure they are not the same rose, that’s about all I can say..
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Mme. de Sévigné, bourbon, moody in morning sun:
Palais Biron, modern shrub, some blooms going over now..
But several enormous clusters in waiting - I counted 27 buds on this one!
Jacques Cartier
Louise Odier
Cornelia
Stanwell Perpetual, will fade to white.
Arthur Bell
Buds on Lady Emma Hamilton
Marlorena, you were interested in ongoing observations between Mme. de Sévigné and Mme. Isaac Pereire. Here is a bloom comparison with a few others. I couldn’t match stages of opening exactly but MdS and MIP are accurate in terms of size and colour. MIP has really upped her fragrance this year and I couldn’t now choose between the two in strength, but there are subtle differences. More raspberry/violet notes in MIP compared to classic old rose for MdS..
@Nollie I love the bloom comparison so helpful and also so lovely to look at.
Desdemona is finally starting to open
Albrighton rambler
.. a nice comparison Nollie, I like it when it's done that way.. looking at your photo against the obelisk, I think my jury would still be out, but it's more important that you are confident in what you have.. clearly a very beautiful rose indeed.
A pleasant change to see roses in a French garden..
'Bridge of Sighs' going to look fabulous for sure..