Any bets on the new Austin name? All I can think of is Geoffrey Hamilton, or maybe Monty Don as really well known celebrity gardeners that they dont already have roses named for... Guessing the one we thinks yellow fromthecatalogue teaser pic will be released first. Im not excited by another yellow though!
I picked up a potted Ascot for £10 at a garden centre yesterday. Wonder if it will actually be the right rose this time?! I've left it at parents for now and collected the Abracadabra I left there last year (which flowered last year so IS correct!), will pick it up next visit.
Gardening express have some of the Babylon Hulthemia standards on sale, £20 for 2 if anyone fancies a bash at trying a cheap standard!
@Meomye apologies missed tag - I potter about at lunch and after work daily for a few minutes and dead head, and whenever I let the dogs out. I deadhead everything not just roses.
@Omori not settled next leg yet, other than into and out of Tokyo. I want to do Kyoto for sure. 2 fell weeks to play with + travel time on top, so hopefully can squeeze a lot in!
@JessicaS and @Omori enjoy your trips to Japan! We spent 5 days in Kyoto (including a day trip to Nara) and 3 days in Hakone in 2017 during cherry blossom time and thoroughly enjoyed both places; have also been to Tokyo separately
Here are some of the temples/gardens we saw — the zen and temple gardens were obviously great, but what was most fascinating was seeing glimpses of normal gardens and random pots people had outside their houses (see photo below) while walking around towns/cities. It is a lot of evergreen plants, moss, camellias, stone lanterns and simplicity; very refreshing.
Nara - Kasuga Taisha - Todai-ji
Kyoto - Philosopher’s Walk - Zen garden in Ryoan-ji - Tenryu-ji - Ginkaku-ji
@JessicaS I would suggest a day trip to Kawaguchiko as you are going when you have the best chance of a clear day to view Mt. Fuji, and it’s a very beautiful and scenic spot.
We are mainly visiting Tokyo with day trips out, but on our next trip we will be visiting Osaka and Kyoto.
Something's been munching away on my Scepter'd Isle and it looks just awful. I flicked away one tiny grasshopper but have otherwise not been able to find the offending pest.
The first few blooms on Bolero were spoiled. The tips of the buds were damaged, by weather or pests I'm not sure, and they opened up brown on the edges. Subsequent blooms seem better, though the heads are drooping under the weight.
I won't judge Bolero by its first year's performance. All my roses (except Julia Child) have taken a couple of years to settle in. Speaking of Julia Child...
And one last flower. New for me last fall, Pretty in Pink Eden, aka Cyclamen Pierre de Ronsard. Not sure if the stripes are typical since it's the first bloom since purchase.
Someone asked about Stanwell Perpetual. It is a messy, floriferous thing, not perpetually flowering for me. I wrap it around an arches' leg which it accepts gracefully. This is one rose, about 4 years old.
No moss roses here but mossy sepals.
I am a firm believer of more is more and suppressing weeds by planting way to much to close.
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I picked up a potted Ascot for £10 at a garden centre yesterday. Wonder if it will actually be the right rose this time?!
Gardening express have some of the Babylon Hulthemia standards on sale, £20 for 2 if anyone fancies a bash at trying a cheap standard!
@Omori not settled next leg yet, other than into and out of Tokyo. I want to do Kyoto for sure. 2 fell weeks to play with + travel time on top, so hopefully can squeeze a lot in!
'Cornelia' produced this beautifully scented bloom, very sweet..
Here are some of the temples/gardens we saw — the zen and temple gardens were obviously great, but what was most fascinating was seeing glimpses of normal gardens and random pots people had outside their houses (see photo below) while walking around towns/cities. It is a lot of evergreen plants, moss, camellias, stone lanterns and simplicity; very refreshing.
Nara
- Kasuga Taisha
- Todai-ji
Kyoto
- Philosopher’s Walk
- Zen garden in Ryoan-ji
- Tenryu-ji
- Ginkaku-ji
- Ninomaru Garden in Nijo Castle
- Arashiyama (including the bamboo grove)
- Chion-in
- Fushimi Inari Taisha
- Honen-in
- Kiyomizu-dera
- Yasaka shrine
The first few blooms on Bolero were spoiled. The tips of the buds were damaged, by weather or pests I'm not sure, and they opened up brown on the edges. Subsequent blooms seem better, though the heads are drooping under the weight.
I won't judge Bolero by its first year's performance. All my roses (except Julia Child) have taken a couple of years to settle in. Speaking of Julia Child...
And one last flower. New for me last fall, Pretty in Pink Eden, aka Cyclamen Pierre de Ronsard. Not sure if the stripes are typical since it's the first bloom since purchase.
No moss roses here but mossy sepals.
I am a firm believer of more is more and suppressing weeds by planting way to much to close.