Good year for your roses?

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Good year for your roses?
« on: July 01, 2014, 16:13 »
My Jubilee and Golden Celebration roses have been better than ever this year - treated no differently from other years,  which means a handful of Growmore per plant in spring then old used MP compost dumped on top!

They were better than this when I arrived back from holiday last Friday, but quite a few have had to be dead-headed since then - they are mostly Jubilee Celebration, the yellow ones at the bottom are Golden Celebration which got tied up with the others by mistake!

How have yours been? (with pic if possible of course!  ;))
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2014, 17:26 »
I've noticed it round here, the roses seem to be better than usual.  The yellow with pink tips one has 4 blooms per stalk instead of the normal 1 or 2. I was racking my brains to remember if I had done anything different with mine, but I don't think I did.  It's just a good rose year.
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2014, 18:44 »
Both of mine appear to have reverted to wild rose  :(

One, completely I think.  The other has a couple of pink roses with large leaves, and lots of branches with small white flowers and small leaves.

I think they'll have to come out.
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2014, 20:22 »
Ours have been great so far: yellow Pilgrim and pale pink Sharifa Asma in the garden have given a great show, with dark pink Zephirine Drouhin, and Queen Elizabeth on an arch at the plot.

Photos will follow!

Bearing in mind that the roots of the those at the plot spent several days under water this winter, I am impressed they even survived  :D
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2014, 12:45 »
I have a large semi-circle of Felicia and, although they are about three weeks behind compared to other years, they are absolutely covered in flowers, and their perfume is to die for!  :)
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2014, 11:13 »
I only have one rose (apart from the Rosa glauca out the front) a climbing Paul de Noel.  My first rose, I planted it last year.  It has flowered quite nicely but is covered in mildew.

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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2014, 13:18 »
This is what my rose circle has done this year!
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2014, 16:21 »
Wow I love that rose circle  :)  Here in Lincolnshire our roses are better than I can ever remember them, masses of blooms. 

We planted a climber (can't recall the name) about 5 years ago and it hardly every had any flowers on it, done nothing different this year and its smothered.

Seem to spend half our time dead heading.
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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2014, 11:36 »
Thank you Dilly. Tell you what else, usually by this time the leaves get some blackspot and I also lose quite a lot that go yellow and drop off. This year - all look as healthy as anything. All I did was to give them some chicken manure pellets in spring - done that before. Saw some greenfly earlier on and even those have vanished - so dunno what's happening.

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Re: Good year for your roses?
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2014, 22:18 »
Great so far this year. In early spring I planted quite a few HT varieties not so well known, or ones I hadn't come across before  and they are faring very well. I particularly like this one - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - no blackspot so far, blooms withstand rain and they have a wonderful scent.
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