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Roses blooming Winter
Lady Rosemary
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Walking to work in Didcot, Oxfordshire every day I see yellow roses in bloom. Are they Autumn flowering or some amazing Winter flowering roses? I woner if someone can recommend a very hardy rose for me? Thanks
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I suspect it's still in flower as the South East has had little really hard frost. Later in the month lower temperatures are forecast to be widespread including the SE. Minus 6 here in wales has stripped all but my Mdme alfred carrie it's my hardiest rose but a rampant climber. In Didcot you'll get away with anything you want. Most roses will continue to flower until winter pruned if temperatures are mild enough.
How lovely
We've had a long and very warm autumn - it's stimulated a lot of summer/autumn flowering plants to carry on and on and on, particularly in sheltered spots. As Dave says, as the weather gets really wintry they'll get discouraged.
When I was a child Ma had a sheltered southwest facing rose garden - most years there were usually a few blooms for the table on Christmas Day!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Here in Bristol I expect and usually get some Queen Elizabeth roses at Xmas . These red patio roses I pick
ed 2nd January this year.
..I try not to let roses flower at this time of year, preferring them to have a rest.. and rely on evergreens for my insatiable plant fix... but they're nice little patio roses above from Marion, and I picked these from my garden around Christmas.. the buds.. they opened nicely indoors... but I called a halt after that.. I hope you like them too..
Those are lovely Salino - are they Falstaff?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
..thank you Dove, I'm glad you liked them... it does look a bit like Falstaff, and a few others too like 'Young Lycidas', but it's another Austin called Thomas a Becket... rather thorny, but it has a fine old rose scent, during the summer...
Thanks Salino - don't suppose it likes a bit of shade does it?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
....doesn't seem to mind it at all... mine is in permanent shade during the winter, and only gets sun from the West in summer, from about 3pm.... no tree shade though, - wouldn't know about that... just a north facing site due to house wall... I grow it up an obelisk as I don't have room for it to spread outwards...
...I've got about a dozen Austin's and this is my favourite so far... might be different next year...as some are new....
...I've just planted 'Octavia Hill'... this isn't an Austin, but similar... quite looking forward to that one too....