Still waiting for the flush and rain, too. Huddersfield looks fine. Reine des Violettes is promising glory. And Gertrude opened the first bud. To which I cannot get before erasing a field of forgetmenots. Jacques forgot that it is the white version. Late April frost caused all kinds of weird behaviours. Oh, and a shorter alternative to daucus carota, Orlaya. Less foliage, too.

Looking at your Malvern Hills @Tack, I question my decision to put up with a one legged, 30cm Ilse Krohn superior who should be a climber. Why don't I just start afresh? It's not even any special memories. Anyone else knows this stubborn clinging and hoping beyond reason?

To answer Peter's Q. I would load one picture under 1mb and wait for it to load. The pic will unveil and go full colour when the pic is loaded. I would then save that pic before adding a comment or another pic. I have realised that I am being too impatient and am trying to 'save' before the pic has properly loaded. I do have to wait carefully before saving or I tend to lose the post. I would also not use a phone to upload anything.

thanks for the clarification @Marlorena Because I could see a bit of green in all blooms I assumed it might be similar.. Now the pictures of Houdini is something else.. as in more like a 'Foot ball' eye..

Now Vanessa bell vs Country Parson.. growth, flowering, fragrance.. could your opinion on those? depending on how my existing yellows perform, I might think about buying another yellow..

@Tack UK I think the mention of delicate fragrance is not inspiring much confidence.. as Marlorena said, all those seedlings (which they boast about every year) and not one single rose which is different..

and that Obelisk looks awesome...

I think even Kordes has not released any in their Parfuma collection last year (I could be wrong).. may be it is not easy to breed one that ticks all the boxes..

@Nollie I was tempted by Marie Ducher, but the discussion seemed to suggest mix up with another similar rose and it looked more pink on HMF..

Ventilo seems to be much larger comparitively..

WAMS- Archiduc Joseph seems to be having a well shaped bloom compared to Clementina..

@Cooldoc

As good a rose as 'The Country Parson' is, continuous bloom and lovely scent, better than 'VB' on both counts, but it's almost impossible to handle. It did well for me in a pot too, which I know is how you grow some of yours.. but I stick with 'Vanessa Bell', which I think fits into my garden better..

Just a personal opinion.. but if scent and continuity of bloom are your main considerations, then The CP is recommended, but as is typical, the yellow quickly fades to creamy white, so overall it's mostly that colour.

I wish my 'PL' was like Tack's, it's a bit behind.. I think there were ants in the root system earlier.

The foliage on this rose is very similar to 'Silas Marner' although the flower is a different colour. I feel sure they're bred along the same lines, and it's a line I like very much.

All lovely roses earlier.. huge variety going on here.

'Cornelia' in the rain this morning..

'BMS' soon be busting out all over..

Gertrude Jekyll, colour is quite fluorescent today:

I forgot to say that my PL in that (huge) pot is 2 plants! I hope yours does well soon Marlorena. Interesting observation re Silas Marner which I also have. I agree it also has attractive and colourful foliage, but mine is a bit floppy.

Thanks Marlorena..

I too had got Penelope Lively as bareroot by end of last year.. I am pretty happy with it so far, for a 1st year rose.

@Ross13 thank you for sharing the new DA with us. I really like the colour! It’d be nice if it was scented… but then Elizabeth was advertised as strongly scented and I’m still struggling to get any scent from her, let alone a strong one…

It looks like I had a visit from a deer last night as some of the new shoots on my roses in the front garden have gone. I’ve never seen deers on this side of the road before but I can’t think of anything else that could’ve caused such damage.

@Nollie in Spain Zone9 I really like your Guy Savoy. But I guess it needs a lot of sun since it’s thriving in your climate.

Tack,..

Re Silas,

I have a couple of these strategically placed..

.. and for the future..

I'm enchanted by this 'Pastella'..

'Malvern Hills' just great either side..

'Arch. Joseph' an interesting rose to see.. Sarah, Pitter Patter is on the other site..

Elb Fee.. I think 'Ilse Krohn Superior' is best on a wall for climbing purposes, that's the only place I've ever seen one here.. in a garden not far from me actually..

Oh agree, that's a great pic of Nollie's.. black backgrounds do something for roses..

I was excited to receive my first ever potted rose in flower! I had a weak specimen from TCL and I was eyeing for a while and finally managed to get it from Trever White! Hopefully this grows better..

Evelyn:

Cymbeline:

Kathryn Morley:

The Prince:

Chippendale:

Leander:

Olivia Rose Austin:

Constance Spry:

Redoute:

One good thing about smaller pictures - less on my wish list!

Fire....I'm intrigued with the size of your images you describe. You say you upload photos of under 1mb...how do you get them so small. Mine are uploaded from my phone, straight into a Windows photo app, then uploaded onto this site at between 2-3mb's. It sounds like I might be doing something wrong.

@Peter straw - Do you have any problems posting photos? 1mb isn't a magic number, but the large the file the long it can take to load. I was suggesting that if people are having problems posting, they could try reducing the file size. I'm not sure how Windows / Android offers file resizing.

@Peter Straw, I upload from my mobile, Android. Size is more than 1 MB each and I have no issues. That's one of the advantages of this forum. I do not need to downsize or host and link etc. The only mystery so far is how to upload, type and upload next pic. The pics all cluster at the bottom. And when I choose from albums I have to do it one by one. If they are still unsorted I can simply click on as many as I want. I do have to refresh to see my post and sometimes a couple of times. Editing only works on the website for me.

Superb roses @Rojas. I think, I need them all 😁.

I just tried to load a large image file and it took three minutes to load. It got there in the end (on a laptop)

Fire... I've just checked the file sizes coming off my phone to my PC and they range from 2.5mb and 3.6mb, which seems rather large and not ideal. I'll have to do some investigating into how I can reduce the file size using Windows own editing suite (Viewer, I think it's called). If I still had Adobe Photoshop all this would be a doddle to do. Ditto with the loading times, but a lot of the time it just times itself out and disappears.

Stunning rose photos coming in today. I especially like:

• @Nollie in Spain Zone9 's Palais Biron, there is something about that colour! & Ventilo.
• @Marlorena in England 's Sophie's Perpetual (and Freddie!).
• @Tack UK 's Obelisk - magnificent training of Malvern Hills.
• @showa_omori 's Gertrude Jekyll - last year mine went fluorescent too, it was magical.
• @Rojas 's Constance Spry - lovely chalice/cupped shape.

@Marlorena in England - forgive the bad photograph, but here is Tulipa Cairo doing it's 'blaze' in full sun, and yes that is one of my Madam Alfred Carrieres on the back wall:

Very nice Peter, I like bright cheery colours... your Mme AC is stupendous.. Everything seems to grow so well in your northern garden.

Rojas, great to see those old Austins.

'Scented Garden'..

'Bienvenue'..

'Pastella'.. rather like a dwarf Eden rose..

'Lilac Bouquet'..

..first bloom on 'Iceberg'.. this spring..

'Lucky' with Aquilegia 'Blue Barlow'..

Thanks all, that black granite worktop does come in handy for rose portraits!

Not everything in the rose garden is a triumph…

I thought I had got rid of them, but the ants seem to be back in my Avalanche Abricot pot, unfortunately. It does seem to be affecting general health and the blooms, which are emerging shrunken and distorted. Drastic action required!

Some others in casualty…

Alister Stella Gray and Blush Noisette - both seem to have stalled in growth and both (like the Teas) hated the recent heavy rain - buds refusing to open, a balling, mouldering mess. I’ve deadheaded ASG but this is BN:

Mme. Isaac Pereire, no problem with vigour and it was reaching an impressive first flush - until the rain did this:

Oh and that beastie is my new rose munching nemesis, the White Spotted Rose Beetle.

One of the pleasant surprises for me this year has been 'Windflower'. Full of vigour and not even a hint of BS. I've had it a number of years now, but I've never seen it so healthy. No blooms as yet but it is full of buds, and it's a bit wispy so needs support.

I thought I will take a few photos in the hot sun - roses drooping in the heat. Only 21 deg C though.

Belle de Jour

Cornelia - first season, purchased after seeing @Marlorena's.

Fully opened Twice in a Blue Moon

First of my herbaceous peonies

Smaller flowers on Susan Williams-Ellis.

Think this is Lili Marlene

An unlabelled HT

Weg der Sinne

Wonderful re-growth on the big red climbers that are rocketing away. Cutting to the ground feels like such a high-risk strategy but looks like it has paid off. Putting on about two inches a day.

Rojas- I saw Evelyn in stock but did not want to double up as I was hoping that my specimen will improve with time.. next day I checked again and it was gone.. now I know who got it.. an impressive specimen indeed.. Is the bloom holding up or has it sloped over?

Heard Bienvenue is strongly scented.

Like the colour on Belle d J, Eustace.

That kinda pruning looks scary, Fire.

Tagging is hopeless in this forum :(

Cornelia

GJ

Both new pink standards starting well

Belle de Jour

Lolabelle

Archiduc

Boule de Neige

Tranquillity

Amazing Day

Rojas congrats on Evelyn. Your photos show off the Austin charm so perfectly!

You really do have the most exquisite blooms @Rojas, can't wait for the full Contance Spry wow moment.

Lovely Lilac Bouquet Marlorena, will watch that one with interest.

I am tempted too Eustace by Cornelia, very pretty indeed. Edit and now yours too WAMS, it's going to be too much!

Great to see those lovely red triffids @Fire zone 8, north London, UK, that is quite a growth rate, hope they behave as you wish now

Not at all great there Nollie, hopefully conditions better now and you don't lose too much but I feel for you

Purples tonight, Heidi Klum and first blooms of Purple Lodge/Palais Biron and Eufemia

Ah, slobber, Amazing Day is soo lovely. And impossible to get after Brexit, sigh.

Love it how 'Belle de Jour' changes from deep buttery yellow to a much more gentler yellow, tinged with orange as the blooms age.

Aaand it's letting me type again.

ElbFee, Amazing Day is perfection, but I haven't a non-wonky second flush. In the heat of summer it is hideous here! But it is lovely, yes, like raspberry ripple. I am most likely to be back in New Zealand at the end of this year and it is one of the roses unavailable there-- and the thought does sadden me. On the other hand, you can get pretty much all the discontinued Austins ever over there. So Kathryn Morley and all of Rojas's other beauties will be mine! *rubs hands* Did you make up your mind what to do with that rare rose you saved but which wasn't behaving itself?

Love your purples, Tack. 😍

PeteS, I also love the colours of that rose. It's almost like a watercolour painting. Henri Delbard has the same effect. Love the look of Marlorena's Scented Garden, too.

@Sarah WAMS - do you have a garden in NZ?

Not yet. Land is freakishly expensive there now but we shall see what's available! I would be content with a shed in a field with no internet, but the teenager may disagree.

We could do with a southern hemisphere contributor as it's difficult to keep a winter thread going. All your roses will be blooming in January, so we shall need warming up.

Yes, @Wams, as I was strongly encouraged by you, I got rid of Micolas Ales. I moved, I think, James L. Austin in that spot and it is already starting to bloom. Yeah, success and identification coming up. I will be vistiting Europa Rosarium Sangerhausen at the end of the month and will say hello to a sibling of Micolas there.

Oh, you are moving and leaving your garden. Out of curiosity, would you be allowed to import your roses, although probably not the most convenient way to start a new garden.

Todays pics:

Souvenir de St. Anne's

Clg. Mrs. Herbert Stevens

Gertrude Jekyll

Rhododendron 'Percy Wiseman'

I normally treat Welsh poppies as weeds but decided to let them grow this year (which means I'll drown in them in a couple of years and any resemblance of a colour scheme will be ruined but whatever... they are pretty)

Lovely pics all..

May be you can take a cutting? try to root one now or after flowering WAMS..

Quite a good collection of old roses there @ElbFee My fist bloom on Yolande is also having a proliferation problem.. but the resin from bud smells awesome..

It was such a joy today.. got early from work and straight away started sniffing roses..

Munstead wood with Nepeta..

Twilight Zone

Julio Iglesias

Louis Odier

Emily Bronte

Scabiosa with Crimson glory in the back ground

new bloom on Gruss an Coburg

Amour de Marie Jo.. another new bareroot this year.. not strong scent yet..

Gertrude J

WAMS, I don't think you would be allowed to leave NZ with plant material

Wow! So many gorgeous roses in flower! I’m still waiting for the most of mine to start blooming…
A few more got their first flower today:
Boscobel, For Your Eyes Only, Elina and Souvenir de St Anne’s (smells delicious!)

@Cooldoc As you can see it on the picture Evelyn came without any support and stem holds the big bloom nicely. It didn't even touched the card board box. Hahaha.. I had similar experience, I have subscribed for the potted roses notification, before I reach it will be sold out. Seems I've managed to nick yours in time ! No basal growth on the other Evelyn so far and I'm giving root drench with Empathy feed. Hopefully thats helps! Love the colours of Julio Iglesias. Twilight Zone is in my wish lis for a long time and that bloom looks really reddish!

@Sarah WAMS (England, Zone 8a). Ahh I envy you a bit as you can get hold of some of the rare old Austins that I'm hunting for! As I've promised earlier, I took Kathryn Morley cuttings for you last autumn and then I came to know about your move! I was sad that I would not be able to get chocolates from you for Kathryn Morley! Just kidding...it was a shocking news. Looks like both cuttings rooted and i'll post the pictures tomorrow. Please try to acquire as many old Austins as possible and share pictures with us!

@Tack UK Constance Spry is nearly there!

Wild Edric - Mostly in Full flush

Cymbeline - Coffee tones

Wellbeing:

Mme Isaac Pereire rose: This rose just doesn't work for me! Got rust badly although I have sprayed multiple times already! The colour looks much faded in person. I should let this go! @Nollie in Spain Zone9 Indeed yours is beautiful and doing much better!

Boscobel:

Crown Princess Margareta:

Eustacia Vye:

Radio Times: Love the scent

Emily Bronte:

I was hunting for a very rare old Austin for a long time and by god's grace I found it. I really wanted one badly but I've ended up with 4! What a blessing :-) I just can't wait to see the blooms. I will post pictures once I know it's a true rose!

@Rojas you have the national collection of DA roses! 👍 Looking forward to seeing your Constance Spry this season. 💕

Lovely pics @Edhelka (North Wales, UK) (Just realised that I missed your post...) @Oliya and that Constance spry is something @Rojas

A few more have started to bloom.

Sidonie.

Reine de Violettes.

Sombreuil

Mme Zoetmans

Rosa cristata is not open yet, but looks as impressive in bud.

..superb array of roses Rojas.. oh gosh and all the others I've only just seen..

'Lavender Lassie' opened today..

'Comtesse Andre d'Oultremont'..

'Loyal Companion'..

'Sophie's Perpetual'..

'Cornelia'..

Salvia 'Royal Bumble'..

So many lovely roses!
Love song opened this week

@rojas

Hi Rojas...how old is your wonderful Constance Spry. I've got one, but it's only in it's 3rd Summer.

I've just got to get these for next year. A wonderful clump of Iris's growing in my local park's garden.

The picture doesn't do them justice really. Stunning fresh greens and blue/purples.

Spectacular roses everyone!

Gloire de Dijon

Lady Hillingdon - quite orange today

@peter straw

I have planted Constance Spry between 2019 to 2020. So this is 4th summer in the garden. Hoping yours will do well this summer.