@JessicaS interesting to hear about your second leafy tiger order going missing, they are supposedly the company who are to take over Peter Beales Roses, it doesn’t bode to well.
@Suesyn oh thank you. I’ve looked at blush noisette before, I can’t remember for which area but it sounds ideal. I would love something that’s long flowering as I find all my DA’s have very definite flushes apart from Wollerton Old Hall. Something that could be a shrub or a climber would be great. I like pale pink, I really liked St Swithun when I visited the DA gardens last year and that’s a pale pink too.
My Generous Gardener has been slow to obtain its current height around 8ft about 8-9 years to get to this size . Its flowers and scent are wonderful though not the most prolific has mainly two flushes .
I do have a spot for another shrub rose well its occupied by a Aucuba at the moment but that can soon be removed . I am just waiting for something special to come up like a munstead wood reincarnation. If a rose does come up my pergola area will be like a mini rose garden .
Thanks @Perki sounds like your GG is very healthy and happy. I’ve had mine since 2021 and it’s still pretty much a twig. I don’t want to be impatient because it is a beautiful rose, probably the one I was most excited to grow, but I don’t want to suffer rose replant disease and it’s been in that spot for nearly a year.
@JessicaS interesting to hear about your second leafy tiger order going missing, they are supposedly the company who are to take over Peter Beales Roses, it doesn’t bode to well.
Bells Horticultural has bought Peter Beales. They are a huge plant nursery. Their outlet is now called Leafy Tiger which is an online garden centre. It has good reviews on Trust Pilot.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
'Silas Marner' is a rose I like very much. My current plant is 'own root', so quite small. I've just ordered another, grafted. It has the most beautiful Spring juvenile foliage of just about any rose I know, and it has the scent that 'Olivia Rose Austin' does not have.
@purplerallim im near too, how funny! Ive missed it last few years due to clashes, oh dear used to be really good. Its saying more plant stalls than ever this time hopefully its back to being worthwhile as I can make it this time. I like it for fillers, a lot of my garden came from there originally, shame if its declined.
@Dasha im honestly pleased with penelope so far. Very heat and rain resistant, lots of flowers, good scent and even small young plants had plenty of flowers. Its holds its colour too. Ive put mine out the front with Desdemona for company.
@JessicaS, that sounds just perfect for my purposes. Thank you! I quite liked it as well last year but I got mine late in the season so wasn't sure.
'Silas Marner' is a rose I like very much. My current plant is 'own root', so quite small. I've just ordered another, grafted. It has the most beautiful Spring juvenile foliage of just about any rose I know, and it has the scent that 'Olivia Rose Austin' does not have.
Spring has sprung, although it doesn't feel like it here today..
Some foliage shots, ... we can enjoy roses without the blooms..
'Desdemona'.. ..always an early starter.. ..richly tinted 'Cornelia'.. quite similar to 'Silas Marner', perhaps it's in the lineage.. I think 'Penelope Lively' will have the same colourations.. 'Bring Me Sunshine'.. ..fresh spring green on 'Scented Garden'.. Geranium pratense 'Blue Thunder', striking spring colour.. Poppy, Daylily and Iris foliage..
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I do have a spot for another shrub rose well its occupied by a Aucuba at the moment but that can soon be removed . I am just waiting for something special to come up like a munstead wood reincarnation. If a rose does come up my pergola area will be like a mini rose garden .
Your pergola area sound gorgeous.
@JessicaS, that sounds just perfect for my purposes. Thank you! I quite liked it as well last year but I got mine late in the season so wasn't sure.
Could you show us a photo @Marlorena?
Yes of course... these are from either a first year grafted plant, or own root. I don't have photos of a mature plant.
..early spring foliage.. full of reds, greens, and golds..
..such lovely foliage and red stems..
.. feminine and beautifully formed blooms, with a sweet scent..
...this from a cutting..
..lovely red new vigorous growth..
Some foliage shots, ... we can enjoy roses without the blooms..
'Desdemona'..
..always an early starter..
..richly tinted 'Cornelia'.. quite similar to 'Silas Marner', perhaps it's in the lineage.. I think 'Penelope Lively' will have the same colourations..
'Bring Me Sunshine'..
..fresh spring green on 'Scented Garden'..
Geranium pratense 'Blue Thunder', striking spring colour..
Poppy, Daylily and Iris foliage..