My favourite overall (from all the plants in my garden) is still Boule de Neige, Nollie, though I have just this week planted Mme Antoine Mari after seeing your pictures of it. High hopes!
Today I got to spend an hour during lunchtime in my garden. As promised, here is my first instalment - DA roses which are the pride and joy of my garden
Munstead Wood
Darcey Bussell
Young Lycidas
Gertrude Jekyll
Olivia Rose Austin
Wisley - measly flowering
Queen of Sweden
Eustacia Vye
Perdita
Crown Princess Margareta
Summer Song
Lady of Shalott
Roald Dahl
Jayne Austin
Golden Celebration
Jude the Obscure
Charlotte
Vanessa Bell
Crocus
Desdemona
Susan Williams-Ellis
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Pilgrim
The Lady Gardener
Boscobel - limping along
Harlow Carr
The Lark Ascending
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Claire Austin
Charles Austin - new bareroot ordered
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
How much sunshine does your Stanwell Perpetual enjoy, @LateralBreaks?
I read somwhere that Stanwell needs full sun to be truly perpetual. So I've planted it in the sunniest sheltered spot in my garden and it seems to be enjoying it.
Don't grow up - grow sideways.
Gardening in the West Midlands on a mix of neutral loamy sand & Victorian building rubble.
@LateralBreaks and @WAMS I planted my Stanwell Perpetual where it gets a little shade from the sun in the afternoon in Dordogne, SW France. Peter Beales and David Austin said it was happy with part shade.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
MAM will probably do well for you WAMS. After a cracking first year (which was cooler), blooms and bloom frequency suffered in subsequent hot summers. Give it plenty of space, Marlorena advised me and she was so right. My BdN is a pathetic one-cane wonder, sadly, should’ve gone to Loubert!
Not a lot to choose between Blush Noisette and Marie Pavie, Tack, although I find the scent on MP wafts more.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Too many to mention re Old Roses, but these 2, once flowering, I think are more than worthy if one has the space.
R. sancta .. if correct, from ancient Abyssinia.. 'St. Nicholas'.. a modern hybrid Gallica, with a sweet scent.. flowers for one month with lovely stamens left behind..
@Tack Lots of lovely rose blooms this late, when I looked at 'Chippendale' I thought you might have a sport, but on checking I notice it goes darker for some people, depending on temps I suppose. Hardly recognisable though..
So I said I had no plans to buy any more roses....however.... My daughter is getting me a Blush Noisette (thanks to you lot praising it to the heavens.....) from Peter Beales to replace a past-its-best honeysuckle. Variously described as a small climber, a vigorous climber and a large shrub....which has left me wondering which is the best way to grow it? Does it lend itself to pillaring/obelisk training? There's the option of training it on the fence, or maybe just letting it do its thing as a shrub with a bit of support? Advice much appreciated!
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Not a lot to choose between Blush Noisette and Marie Pavie, Tack, although I find the scent on MP wafts more.
R. sancta .. if correct, from ancient Abyssinia..
'St. Nicholas'.. a modern hybrid Gallica, with a sweet scent.. flowers for one month with lovely stamens left behind..
@Tack
Lots of lovely rose blooms this late, when I looked at 'Chippendale' I thought you might have a sport, but on checking I notice it goes darker for some people, depending on temps I suppose. Hardly recognisable though..
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