@Tack I shear off the spent flowers a couple of times during the summer, choosing my moment when there are more hips than flowers showing.. a little snipping or pruning here and there.. doesn't take long and it improves for doing it..
I have high hopes for WS2000 Nollie, supports are at the ready!
That is doable, thanks @Marlorena. I think it is interesting comparing rose progress across the country, you and I seem similar but in contrast to MP my Desdemona is way behind yours.
My very first Rugosa opened Chippendale is fun close to.
@edhelka Unfortunately I had to move her to the ground after a hard prune.. so not sure how big she can get in 3 years.. reasons being fried blooms in full sun, looking sickly for me (that could be just my watering/ feeding issues), do not remember her to be very fragrant even in 2nd year...
habit was more floribunda than shrubby.. pics below show her habit and blooms being fried in summer sun..
you could see the edges being a bit crispy.. now that could be just me reaching for pesticide.. this year I am not going to use any pesticide.. should be reasonably healthy as most others had blackspots by October when I stopped spraying for a month.. hope this was helpful..
I sprayed the potted roses with SB invigorator once and dilute milk several times when mildew appeared early this month. The rugosa had pristine foliage and I suspect those spots are due to drift. The new foliage is perfect again.
@cooldoc Thank you. I will think about it. Maybe I'll get her later in summer, maybe not, possibly depending on how much I like 'Lovestruck' (new to me this year). I like red roses and red and fragrant is a good combo. My ideal rose would be red (scarlet or crimson, not too pink), strongly fragrant, vigorous and healthy, and with old-fashioned blooms (flat cup/rosette over deeply cupped)... I know, a unicorn rose.
Anyway, I don't have space in the ground and I am out of love with roses in pots, so who knows how this will go.
Roses in pots is a task.. especially the terracota ones.. most of the terracota roses are doing poorly, which I have put down to drying up quickly and possible leaching out of essential minerals? I was about to tip out LEH and two other to refill with fresh compost.. but LEH is going crazy now.. dropped all the buds (PW also did the same).. was looking like s!#t and suddenly 5 basals on it... will see how it goes.. not expecting much.. plus the hot and dry weather would mean that it is less than ideal for any drastic measures..
Regarding the colour of Trish, it was proper blood red.. no tinge of orange or purple IMO.. but shaped more like floribunda than old rose..
Wow, some eye-popping colours there @Tack, Chippendale looks like a kaleidoscope!
Bush and arial shot of WS2k to better show it’s current habit. If it develops flowering shoots all along the horizontal canes I’ll be tempted not to prune back:
Just had to show you this, I deadheaded Astronomia completely just after 11am, leaving only buds. Seven hours later.. what an extraordinary rose!
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I shear off the spent flowers a couple of times during the summer, choosing my moment when there are more hips than flowers showing.. a little snipping or pruning here and there.. doesn't take long and it improves for doing it..
Your Marie Pavie is well ahead of mine..
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habit was more floribunda than shrubby.. pics below show her habit and blooms being fried in summer sun..
you could see the edges being a bit crispy.. now that could be just me reaching for pesticide.. this year I am not going to use any pesticide.. should be reasonably healthy as most others had blackspots by October when I stopped spraying for a month.. hope this was helpful..
..sensational colour on your Chippendale... just out of curiosity, do you spray your roses? in particular that lovely rugosa..?
Anyway, I don't have space in the ground and I am out of love with roses in pots, so who knows how this will go.
Regarding the colour of Trish, it was proper blood red.. no tinge of orange or purple IMO.. but shaped more like floribunda than old rose..
Bush and arial shot of WS2k to better show it’s current habit. If it develops flowering shoots all along the horizontal canes I’ll be tempted not to prune back: