ROSES - Spring/Summer 2023...

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• sandown Posts: 2

  May 2023

  The (usually white) rockrose in our garden has produced a pink flower.  Its like the colour has run in the wash.  Anyone seen this before?

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• Marlorena Posts: 8,705

  May 2023

  @sandown
  Hello... this thread is really for Roses but I love Cistus so let's try and sort out what you've got there..
  
  I think your white one is Cistus purpureus 'Alan Fradd'.. would that be right?  a stem has reverted to its parent Cistus purpureus... either keep it, or cut it out, ... up to you..
  If you keep it, eventually it could produce more of the same and become dominant..

  East Anglia, England

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• Marlorena Posts: 8,705

  May 2023

  @ElbFee
  So many bare roots, so late?  I'm not used to that.. but they all look good.. 

  East Anglia, England

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• sandown Posts: 2

  May 2023

  Thank you for replying.  I've no idea which type we've got.  I think we'll keep it.  The flowers are so delicate, it will be gone by tomorrow.

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• edhelka Posts: 2,351

  May 2023

  'Wild Monster in the wrong spot'... sorry, 'Narrow Water'
  lots of buds, will be a good show
  
  'Mrs. Herbert Stevens, cl.'
  Slowly unfurling pointy buds are typical for this rose
  
  
  

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• Discandied Posts: 84

  May 2023

  Odorata is my first rose to flower of the year. It's a malformed bloom, but it is a start. I thought Gertrude Jekyl was going to beat it.
  
  
  

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• LateralBreaks Posts: 53

  May 2023

  Today's rose pictures. 1. Stanwell Perpetual 2. Julia's Rose 3. Claire Marshall
  

  
  

  
  

  Stanwell Perpetual

  
  

  

  Julia's Rose

  
  

  

  Claire Marshall half-standard (well the right hand side of it. Left hand side got a bit wind damaged and is now sulking).
  

  Don't grow up - grow sideways.

  Gardening in the West Midlands on a mix of neutral loamy sand & Victorian building rubble.

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• ElbFee Posts: 161

  May 2023

  Marlorena said:

  @ElbFee
  So many bare roots, so late?  I'm not used to that.. but they all look good.. 

  Indeed, very late. Blame this forum with all the droolworthy pictures. I couldn't keep my fingers off the check-out button. 

  Hamburg, Germany, Zone 8a

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• agnasia Posts: 154

  May 2023

  @Tack I can’t believe DA mixed up a new rose launch like that! My Desdemona arrived without a tag from DA, so I wasn’t sure if it was definitely her until she flowered!
  
  @Nollie thanks, I will have a look, although it may have to wait until morning now.
  
  @cooldoc there isn’t a sticker, but I will double check just to make sure. 

  
  

  Thank you all for your help!

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• Eustace Posts: 2,290

  May 2023 edited May 2023

  @cooldoc To water the potted roses, I plunge a small terracotta pot inside the bigger pot with it's drainage hole closed, either with cement mortar or sealant. I fill up the terracotta pots with water once a week if it doesn't rain. I have attached a photo below to show the arrangement. BTW, the rose in the picture is a Renaissance rose, Cecilia. Funny that a wimpy branch that I left unpruned is the first to bear a flower. Also this pot needs topping up of soil/compost and mulching - another pot I seemed to have missed out.
  
  

  Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
  

  And then my heart with pleasure fills,

  And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
  

  
  

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