@Allyblueeyes id cut back by at least 1/3, I make sure mine are no taller than 3 or 4ft other than climbers over winter or they get whipped about. Mine all have green coated steel supports too. -------- I took some rose pictures at a local glass museum in Hakone, Japan for you all. Im not sure what they are as no labels! ...some might be imposters This smelt lovely, I want it... Spotted an austin!
@Allyblueeyes id cut back by at least 1/3, I make sure mine are no taller than 3 or 4ft other than climbers over winter or they get whipped about. Mine all have green coated steel supports too. -------- I took some rose pictures at a local glass museum in Hakone, Japan for you all. Im not sure what they are as no labels! ...some might be imposters This smelt lovely, I want it... Spotted an austin!
Jessica, how magical. Aren't the glass ones stunning?
Did everyone get the ecowashing printed paper mailer from DA this week? Interesting they are so heavily promoting Dannahue- two huge colour spreads on it in something consisting of two sheets of paper! Is it selling less well than anticipated?
I have 8 coming from TW, 1 from C&K Jones, 4 from DA, and I don't know if the TCL order of about 10 is coming or not as I never had confirmation of the cancellation. Panic about where to plant them starting in 5, 4, 3...
The Shepherdess... smothered in buds again. This has been an unexpectedly good bloomer. Arthur Bell Pure pure white John Paul II Starlight Symphony Boule de Neige
Dahlia Rhubarb and Custard😍. I need its salmon-pink cousin, Strawberry Bon Bon. The Sun and the Heart
That one is a bit too happy! It survived in the ground fine but I might dig it up and try and splitting it this winter.
My record one year was 26 bare roots, WAMS - total panic-inducing ridiculous lack of restraint. Just as well a fair number don’t make the grade 😆 I have weaned myself off TCL but still have 12 on order.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The TCL ones would definitely require TLC in pots before going to the grounds.. Ordered them for the first time last year.. some have really grown vigorously.. others are slowly catching up now.. plus the added issue of whether they have mixed up the roses..
Finally got around to do some dead heading and pruning off dead canes.. again I am tempted to leave the dead canes on the plant as I feel if I cut them now to a healthy cane, then the healthy cane would have some die back in winter..
@Dasha 'Kew Gardens' is my favourite rose, but it's a personal choice. I like single white flowered roses.
I found another pic of The Generous Gardener whilst still a shrub..
@Marlorena, your Kew Gardens is really pretty! I only started with roses this year and in my impatience I bought all sorts of fancy ones from DA. But now I am finding myself drawn to simpler flowers and varieties that produce hips... My garden is like an extension of nearby woods and it brings me great joy to watch wildlife enjoying it as well.
Given how overgrown and wild my surroundings are I think a large TGG shrub will fit right in
As you would expect - up here in the far North everything begins to slow down sooner than the South. Even the grass is slowing and the wet & windy weather has started to flatten the dahlias and cosmos. I think I will be lifting the dahlias within the month - but it has been a good year for them.
Now, to the roses. They are hanging on, just, and giving their last hurrah...
Princess Anne giving way from her second flush (which was much bigger than her first)
My last bloom on our beloved Gertrude Jekyll.
Goujard, before being transplanted, used to give us one bloom a year. This year we have had ten! ... and still going strong.
Meanwhile in the Hot Border The Poet's Wife and Lady of Shalott are fading in their second flush.
Also in the fading stage is The Lark Ascending, but what a blooming good year she has had:
Round in the Rainbow Border the 1st year climbers are giving us one last gasp of a bloom:
Bucking the trend is Our Molly - still pumping out her single flowers and the following hips also bring joy.
I think this will be my last posting of blooms for the year, but it has been a great year for planting new roses and learning so much, thanks to all of you.
Here's to the next 12 months as I wait for the new 7 bare root roses to arrive.
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I took some rose pictures at a local glass museum in Hakone, Japan for you all. Im not sure what they are as no labels!
...some might be imposters
This smelt lovely, I want it...
Spotted an austin!
Did everyone get the ecowashing printed paper mailer from DA this week? Interesting they are so heavily promoting Dannahue- two huge colour spreads on it in something consisting of two sheets of paper! Is it selling less well than anticipated?
The Shepherdess... smothered in buds again. This has been an unexpectedly good bloomer.
Arthur Bell
Pure pure white John Paul II
Starlight Symphony
Boule de Neige
The Sun and the Heart
Julia has been a real laggard this year, must pay her more attention in future!
Blue for You, needs a part shade position here:
Harlow Carr wins my ‘healthiest Austin’ award:
(Unhealthiest goes to Roald Dahl - smothered in severe BS since midsummer)
Love Song, reliably good despite early sawfly devastation and then a torching:
Forgot 2 roses coming from Dicksons, too. If TCL do send that order, I'm royally in the muck with regards to pots and compost.😃
Finally got around to do some dead heading and pruning off dead canes.. again I am tempted to leave the dead canes on the plant as I feel if I cut them now to a healthy cane, then the healthy cane would have some die back in winter..
Dioressence..
Scepter d'isle..
Munstead wood..
Eustacia Vye..
Stephanie d'ursel..
Boscobel..
Elizabeth..
Louis Odier.. what a fantastic blooming season for an old rose..
Princess Anne giving way from her second flush (which was much bigger than her first)
My last bloom on our beloved Gertrude Jekyll.
Goujard, before being transplanted, used to give us one bloom a year. This year we have had ten! ... and still going strong.
Meanwhile in the Hot Border The Poet's Wife and Lady of Shalott are fading in their second flush.
Also in the fading stage is The Lark Ascending, but what a blooming good year she has had:
Round in the Rainbow Border the 1st year climbers are giving us one last gasp of a bloom:
Bucking the trend is Our Molly - still pumping out her single flowers and the following hips also bring joy.
I think this will be my last posting of blooms for the year, but it has been a great year for planting new roses and learning so much, thanks to all of you.