@cooldoc that made me smile, that’s the closest I have got to growing moss roses so far. But with when the bare roots are out I am going to order at leat one
Thank you, Marlorena et al! Beautiful pictures. I will leave my Bathsheba on its obelisk and find another narrow climber for the spot I have in mind... or a tall slim shrub. "Cannot clash with purple" is the main criterion... as well as "not too wide." I will have a look around what passes for a GC here this morning. The spot is a bit too sunny for my usual favourite evergreens
I always admire other people's aquilegas and never seem to notice mine. Mind you I don't have a special one like Winky Wooh
I look forward to your riot of colour @AlliumPurpleSensation. It's my favourite kind of riot and I love a yellow rose.
Whoop! Blue for You is going to look fab for you as usual @purplerallim. My copycat B4U is starting it's second year in a pot. I would be glad if it was half as bountiful.
I've often looked at LD Braithwaite, colour looks fab there @Nollie
First bloom sighted yesterday and a stealth bloom at that. I have had this rose so long without any good flowering that I didn't even consider it as a contender. Although I understand it is an early flowerer, in past years the late frost knocked the buds off and then I moved it and set it back. Rugosa Agnes. It is a small flower, maybe 3 inches but very strongly scented in a good classic rosey way. Haven't noticed it wafting though. Might need more than one I have Harkness's Summer Sweetheart @Alfie_. It is unscented and some people don't like the pinky-orange effect but I really like it. Low maintenance for a decent sized plant, mine is coming into it's 9th year in the garden, is a little under 3 metres by 2 high. Nice relatively thorn free pliable canes, continuously flowers until around early October, then it gets nice little hips if I have given up deadheading. Some pics from last year in different lights if it helps.
I’m sorry it’s all frustratingly slow for most, but good to see a few coming through at last.
Marlorena, Marie Nabonnand is superb, can’t wait for mine to start growing.
Nothing new my end to share either. Of my three new white roses, so far only one bloom each on Boule de Neige and Souvenir de St Anne’s and Vichy is yet to bloom - that will definitely be the last.
Next out will be William Shakespeare 2000:
Ghislaine de Feligonde standard seems to be growing bushier by the day!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Question to growers of Mill on the floss: what is a good way to train it? Reading last summer's thread I learned that untrained it will be a mess with sparse blooms at the end of tall canes. Not very attractive. Mine is only 30cm and one legged so far but good to have an idea.
I have mine on an obelisk but it’s a bit unruly, I don’t mind that too much myself but it would be neater trained as a fan as Marlorena said.
Mme. Alfred Carriere beginning to bloom:
Mme. Lemoine lilac with The Mayflower in front:
The Ancient Mariner not fazed at all by being right up against an evergreen hedge:
@cooldoc I'm only really now starting to water regularly, Spring was so wet even the pots stayed soggy, I kept tipping out the saucers which I usually don't have to do. Even now it's only really the mature/older roses that are going dry. I am so confused by the apparent dryness of the top surface and the varying needs of the roses that I rely on a moisture probe to test before watering. I expect very soon though that my routine of watering pots every other day like last year will commence. As to terracotta I have only one rose in such a pot for a reason and that one was lined with plastic compost sacks before filling. My very first potted shrub rose (Charles Darwin) needed daily watering in that pot.
@WAMS Bathsheba is a great big bushy lump of a rose. Again this year I pruned it spread wide across the fence and already it has a lot of forward growth from laterals and below. Love this rose.
The Hype, countdown clock too Chippendale, the colour is very variable, currently coral. A very good rose for a pot, thanks to Edhelka for this recommendation.
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I look forward to your riot of colour @AlliumPurpleSensation. It's my favourite kind of riot and I love a yellow rose.
Whoop! Blue for You is going to look fab for you as usual @purplerallim. My copycat B4U is starting it's second year in a pot. I would be glad if it was half as bountiful.
I've often looked at LD Braithwaite, colour looks fab there @Nollie
First bloom sighted yesterday and a stealth bloom at that. I have had this rose so long without any good flowering that I didn't even consider it as a contender. Although I understand it is an early flowerer, in past years the late frost knocked the buds off and then I moved it and set it back. Rugosa Agnes. It is a small flower, maybe 3 inches but very strongly scented in a good classic rosey way. Haven't noticed it wafting though. Might need more than one
I have Harkness's Summer Sweetheart @Alfie_. It is unscented and some people don't like the pinky-orange effect but I really like it. Low maintenance for a decent sized plant, mine is coming into it's 9th year in the garden, is a little under 3 metres by 2 high. Nice relatively thorn free pliable canes, continuously flowers until around early October, then it gets nice little hips if I have given up deadheading. Some pics from last year in different lights if it helps.
Marlorena, Marie Nabonnand is superb, can’t wait for mine to start growing.
Next out will be William Shakespeare 2000:
Ghislaine de Feligonde standard seems to be growing bushier by the day!
Your 'Ancient Mariner' is looking very impressive.. not often one sees it at its best..
oh gosh so many roses again today,.. all lovely.. 'Agnes' is especially nice.. Monty Don has one.. or 3..