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Blooms in November
Sharon Brattle
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Anyone else out there enjoying roses flowering in November? My patio roses are still giving me lovely perfumed flowers despite the horrible endless rain we've been having! I pick them and bring them indoors before they get spoilt. What a pleasure these dark miserable days - it lift my spirits.
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Yes we are too (Swansea). Dahlias have finally finished flowering this week.
I notice you bring your flowers indoors, we've been doing the same but seem to introduce caterpillars, earwigs etc at the same time. Any ideas on how to prevent them from entering the house with the flowers?
Sounds perfect
Some of my roses are still blooming but quickly get ruined by the rain 
I don;t have Dahlias, so no earwigs or caterpillars in my house! But I guess that a little inspection of the flowers before putting them in a vase would do the trick?
My patio rose is flowering better now than it did in the summer!
I give the flowers a gentle shake before bringing them indoors.
My Roses seem to be still blooming their heads off
Although today's rain has given them a bit of a beating.
In Bristol I can usually pick a nice bunch of roses from my garden on Xmas day. The best usually are the old Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother rose. I have eight very old bushes of those. Still blooming now are antirrhinums,cornflowers, marigolds,Californian poppies,roses,lots of shrubs,hardy geraniums,phygelius, sedums,polyanthus, and just coming into bloom Iris unguicularis,winter flowering pansies, early snowdrops, primroses.
Verdun - I'm not sure it was the roses themselves Christopher Lloyd disliked, I thought it was just the formal rose garden he inherited with the house that he thought was such an awful waste of space.
I still have one or two isolated roses in flower, but I have been cutting back to prevent wind rock so probably lost anything that might have come.
..I don't think Mr Lloyd was ever a rosarian as such, although a custodian of a rose garden for a long time... he did the right thing in getting rid of it as they were apparently full of disease and tired old things...''miserable shrubs'' as he called them... but you either like them or you don't.... he didn't like Agastache's either... and we all have our preferences... and that's all they can be...I think it's personal don't you?...
One rose he was fond of was the old hybrid tea 'Mrs Oakley Fisher''... which is a single buff coloured rose with a fine scent...and flowers over a long period... I really ought to get one...instead I have 'Kew Gardens' which is similar, thornless but without the scent...but you can't have everything... it's the single yellow/white at the top here taken early October... but still full of bloom...