June. Top pergola [ATTACH] Generous Gardener & Toyah. [ATTACH] Falstaff. I love the colour and fragrance but it does not produce many blooms....
Overall of cottage bed, end of May [ATTACH] Munstead Wood foreground left, other roses in this bed yet to bloom.
Some random photos. May Lower pergola. AdO; Clem Early sensation [ATTACH][ATTACH] Rose bed. [ATTACH] First in bloom this year, Arthur Bell...
That Chevy Chase is my kind of colour @Busy-Lizzie
Oh and this little beauty has made an appearance Adelaide d’Orleans [ATTACH] DA state light musk. It’s light for me so I guess so
Interesting, about fragrance. Here’s some of this morning’s new faces that I detect. Generous Gardener [ATTACH] DA state strong old...
I was hopeful for that but haven’t found it to waft. I find the scent to be quite light, but I think I don’t have a nose for rose fragrances...
Thank you @Mrs H, I’m pleased with BN. It’s only in it’s 2nd year and has filled out well. It’s vigorous and I find needs reigning back to the...
Munstead wood [ATTACH] & Rose de Rescht [ATTACH]
And here they are, [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Having just spent an hour or so deadheading and tidying Kew Gardens & Blush Noisette, for those that have these or other similar cluster flowering...
You always take lovely photos @pitter-patter
Lichfield Angel, [ATTACH] Blush Noisette [ATTACH]
Desdemona leading the line ahead of Vanessa Bell and Lady Emma Hamilton [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Heavily laden Roald Dahl & Ghislaine de Feligonde...
@ViewAhead ‘Hammerite’ would be my suggestion. Hard wearing, available in about 10 basic colours last time I used it and in either smooth or...
1st time for me. Was just about to give it a cut. The cobwebs and what I presume is caterpillar frass is extensive throughout the bush, as is the...
Oh dear ! I suspect I know what this is likely to be. Can it be defeated or should I just admit defeat and hoik it out now?.. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Me too @Athelas Thanks @Mrs Hillard it can stay then. There are plenty of other buds on Roald Dahl
This is a new one for me, [ATTACH] happily munching away on a Roald Dahl flower bud. Anyone ?
Pestilence season is upon us. Squadrons of sawfly in the air here, and I’ve just dispatched my first lily beetle
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