A Rose for to day

Just to brighten things up a bit:WINK1:

Oranges and Lemons

 

I love roses with a mix of colours in their petals. I have rose "Crazy for You" a mixed red and white of petals, which my wife and I saw at the Tatton RHS Show and "went crazy for it". I might just be tempted by "Oranges and Lemons", although where I can plant it is another matter:D

 

Hi Angelina, yes that looks it. Here's mine as it was last year:





I really do love this rose and it must be special as my wife and I always used the old maxim of "a rose is not a rose unless it's scented". "Crazy for you" has a very light scent but on the occasion of seeing and buying it we forgave it:D

 

Good afternoon Armand11 and Angelina thanks for waking this thread up:WINK1: The members Rose thread is really worth looking at this time of the year,

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/roses/31592-members-roses-2011-a.html

 

Good afternoon, WOO, always good to hear from you. As usual your posts are inspiring and bring that good feeling to the day...................but please don't tempt me so much with such lovely and desirable roses:nono::D

 

Hi Armand11 "surely everyone has room for just one container with a Rose in it":WINK1:from about £8-£15 and beautiful blooms of your own chosen colour and scent for 15 /20 years and more what value for money:yess:

 

Hi Woo, you're right, once bought a rose will give you colour, scent and value for years.

Hi Angelina, well, if your "Crazy for You" was planted last Spring then it's roots should be nicely spread into the soil. It's sounds like you're putting all the right things into the growing area and the rose should be okay. I did find that, like most roses, it was a heavy feeder and so I was giving alternate weekly feeds of Miracle Grow and Tomato feed and it seemed to leap ahead on that.

Although my wife and I liked roses we were not fanatics with them. We only had one rose bed but after a couple of seasons abandoned that theme as it was bare of colour for too long in parts of the year. So now it's a case of a rose of special liking dotted here and there in the borders or specifically planted to grow up a feature. Having said that I did a bit of a mental "double take" when I went through the names of the ones in the garden now..............19 varieties in all!! That came as a bit of a surprise to be honest, but this is what's in the garden:

Climbers: Shrub/Floribundas/Minature

Alchemist / Uncle Walter
Compassion / Trumpeter
White Skyliner / Regenberg
Bright Future / Rosemoor
Madam Alfred Carriere / Crazy for You
White Cloud / Cindrella
Leverkusen / Pour Toi
Masquerade /
Veilchenblau /
Albertine /
Francois Juranville /

That's a real surprise to me............and to make matters worst I've just succumbed and bought "Oranges and Lemons" from Style Roses. Now I've got to find a place for it!!

 

Hi as it is a special year for the Queen I thought this Queen Elizabeth Rose of mine would be appropriate

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Hi Dim I find that David Austin Roses are great ,no worries there, each to their own,but I have never purchased any,just to expensive for me personally and my clients ,I use lots of different growers,all over the British Isles and have done for 50 years, especially when I sometimes have to order 50 Roses for the big houses(the smaller growers give a better discount and it keeps them trading):WINK1: