What a lovely vista of roses, you have created, @pitter-patter. I do like your arch too. I am looking for a similar arch. Does the arch need much maintenance?
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Pitter Patter's lovely rose arch goes to show, you don't need an Austin climber for superb effect.. you won't find it amongst their offerings..
To add to its merits, it has a half decent scent, good disease resistance, flowers in flushes all summer, and to top it all, virtually thornless. It can also be grown as a large shrub. A little known gem of a rose from Chris Warner.
In the U.S. it has taken the dreadful name 'Rise Up Lilac Days'.
My neighbour has mature DA roses he's happy to give me cuttings. Litchfield Angel is just budding up while Royal Jubilee has really shown good growth - some new branches are already 20cm long. I'm in SE England where it's mild (and wet at the moment.) Is it too late to take semi-hard wood cuttings from the former and/or too early for softwood cutting from the latter? TIA!
@pitter-patter thank you. Good, I did think so but wanted to double check. GO is one of my new ones for this year, so looking forward to it hopefully being as vibrant as yours!
Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
Some sites list "Lilace Bouquet" as a rambler. I'm very glad @pitter-patter did not have to leave his garden behind last year. I can't imagine the amount of work that has gone in since 2020.
I just took this photo for another purpose and have noticed these eyes staring back at me, from the fence slats. Looks like a horse to me. I expect the wind will blow holes in these before too long.
The purpose was to show a bit of science in roses as this is a good example of how roses follow the Fibonacci 2/5 fraction in leaf spiralling. Simply put, for every 5 nodes on a stem, there will be 2 sets of spiralling, so you can see node no. 1 is upward facing, nodes 2/3 and 4/5 spiral away from no. 1, before returning to the straight line at no. 6 This is useful to know if anyone has a lanky climbing rose that you want to notch in order to induce a lower shoot to develop from a node, as if you notch above node no. 1, but want to try a 2nd notch, you should avoid nodes 2-5 as they are not connected, so you put your 2nd notch above no. 6. Both should then break at some point.
Fibonacci spiralling is found in all forms of life from the patterns on snails and seashells, to spiral arms of galaxies.. I'm not claiming I know everything about it. I haven't notched any nodes on this stem below, they've all broken out naturally, as they usually do on an angled cane.
..whatever, the same rose is producing buds already..
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To add to its merits, it has a half decent scent, good disease resistance, flowers in flushes all summer, and to top it all, virtually thornless. It can also be grown as a large shrub. A little known gem of a rose from Chris Warner.
In the U.S. it has taken the dreadful name 'Rise Up Lilac Days'.
Lovely allium in the background too.
What is the deep pink rose? to the right of the dragon head in pic 1, please?
@clematisdorset I don’t do anything to the arch, but maybe I should?
@Fire This is how it looks today:
The purpose was to show a bit of science in roses as this is a good example of how roses follow the Fibonacci 2/5 fraction in leaf spiralling. Simply put, for every 5 nodes on a stem, there will be 2 sets of spiralling, so you can see node no. 1 is upward facing, nodes 2/3 and 4/5 spiral away from no. 1, before returning to the straight line at no. 6
This is useful to know if anyone has a lanky climbing rose that you want to notch in order to induce a lower shoot to develop from a node, as if you notch above node no. 1, but want to try a 2nd notch, you should avoid nodes 2-5 as they are not connected, so you put your 2nd notch above no. 6. Both should then break at some point.
Fibonacci spiralling is found in all forms of life from the patterns on snails and seashells, to spiral arms of galaxies.. I'm not claiming I know everything about it.
I haven't notched any nodes on this stem below, they've all broken out naturally, as they usually do on an angled cane.
..whatever, the same rose is producing buds already..