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This is a rose you have to appreciate for its weirdness. It looks like a bubblegum pink version of Tuscany Superb, and the fragrance is fantastic.
Gotta have faith...
Jun. 6th, 2013 11:54 am
After two years of struggling to grow taller than 6 inches, Prairie Sunrise has finally come into her own, bushed out and produced an honest-to-goodness flush!
Lesson Learned: Unless the rose is a disposable piece of crap like Sunny Kordana, don't be so quick to give up on it. Even Margo Koster and Julia Child have finally overcome their bug damage and filled out their pots. Phew!
Centifolia Rose "Paul Ricault."
Jun. 5th, 2013 07:39 pm
Paul is a very healthy and vigorous rose with an amazing resistance to insect damage! Unfortunately, he already has a little blackspot...
He's got a great fragrance...
An underappreciated rose.
Jun. 5th, 2013 07:34 pm
Simon Estes looks lovely in his spot next to Bartzella!
He was one of our first roses, and now that he's established he's a very generous bloomer with good disease resistance and is very cold-hardy. Maybe a double medium-pink rose is boring for some people, but they look nice paired with white or yellow flowers!
Waiting for the other shoe to drop...
Jun. 4th, 2013 11:27 am
...with this rose. It has a bad reputation for being a disease-riddled octopus that drops its flowers in 24 hours, but right now it seems like such a pure-hearted little thing. And that flower has been on the plant for 48 hours, LOL...
I joked about this one being pokey, but it's blooming before most of our roses. And such a gorgeous color. It's Carding Mill!
Fragile Heritage.
Jun. 3rd, 2013 02:27 pm
This flower looks like it could blow away with the slightest breeze but it really is the loveliest color!
Sunny Charlotte.
Jun. 2nd, 2013 02:53 pm
We have her planted next to Bartzella, and she looks to the whole world like Bartzella's Mini-Me!
We somehow ended up with two of these. It's a good thing that we like Charlotte a lot! She somewhat resembles Jude the Obscure, but lemon yellow as opposed to apricot, and with a strong tea fragrance. Thankfully she doesn't attract beetles like AUSjo!
Paul Ricault is another rose that doesn't seem to attract insects. The bugs really have it out for Folksinger and Siren's Keep.
I think that we'll probably be seeing flowers from Simon Estes, Paul Ricault, Gallicandy, Heritage and Crown Princess Margareta soon.
For some reason, Marianne #2 (the band we got this year) is growing like mad and has beautiful foliage, while Marianne #1 is having a hard time pulling herself together.
I'm usually the one who does the impulse rose buying, but Kristen has been keen on the centifolia rose Village Maid and alba rose Chloris. She ordered them both from RVR and while VM is just a good-sized band, the gallon-sized Chloris is about 4 feet tall!
I Love Paloma Blanca.
May. 23rd, 2013 07:34 pm
That's not my hand this time around, LOL. Kristen and I went out walking in the rain and she was kind enough to pin down PB so I could take a better picture.
Paloma Blanca is absolutely gorgeous and looks a lot like Prairie Star. I know that I've been obsessing over Austin roses, but frankly, a great Buck rose is worth 10+ Austin roses in my opinion. If PB continues to produce flowers like this and doesn't get mauled by thrips, she's be worth 50 Austins!
The only Austin roses I have that aren't mildewed are the ones I've had in the ground since last year, boo hoo...
Bloomin' Mad!
May. 22nd, 2013 01:11 pmI don't know if it's normal for roses to increase so much from one year to the next. I planted Quietness last June as a band and by the end of the year she had given me two flowers. This morning I counted seventeen buds for her first flush of the year. Seventeen! Chapeau de Napoleon did two flowers last year and so far this spring I count fourteen little tricorns. I don't doubt there will be more. Is it the Neptune's Harvest? Or do roses really grow this fast?
Madame Hardy has finally started setting buds. There are eight so far. Konigin von Danemark has one bud. Gallicandy has seven. I heard that both Gallicandy and Chapeau de Napoleon can bloom for six weeks, and I believe it!
Both Evelyn and Jude the Obscure are setting out clusters of buds. The pokiest of last year's Austins continues to be Scepter'd Isle. Maybe I'm judging her too harshly, because her offspring Carding Mill is just as pokey.
Honeycomb is not dead. Crown Princess Margareta has only been in the ground for a week and she already looks like she's going to be the largest rose in our garden.
Madame Hardy has finally started setting buds. There are eight so far. Konigin von Danemark has one bud. Gallicandy has seven. I heard that both Gallicandy and Chapeau de Napoleon can bloom for six weeks, and I believe it!
Both Evelyn and Jude the Obscure are setting out clusters of buds. The pokiest of last year's Austins continues to be Scepter'd Isle. Maybe I'm judging her too harshly, because her offspring Carding Mill is just as pokey.
Honeycomb is not dead. Crown Princess Margareta has only been in the ground for a week and she already looks like she's going to be the largest rose in our garden.
Nice AUScat.
May. 21st, 2013 01:32 pm
Winchester Cathedral is one of those rare modern roses that improves with age! This is a three-day-old flower. Look how fluffy it got!
A Lovely Princess.
May. 20th, 2013 11:57 am
This is one of the two flowers I cut yesterday before the big rain. When I clipped it yesterday afternoon it had only started to open.
It looks like a peony, doesn't it?
Rain for a week.
May. 19th, 2013 03:56 pmSo I had no choice but to cut those flowers off Princess Alexandra of Kent, along with a big bloom from Paloma Blanca, which I don't believe I've ever photographed. AUSmerchant has two more medium-sized buds on deck and another flush in the making. Such a beautiful, prolific rose! The only points it received low marks for from the ARS were for its size (it's small) and its fragrance (pleasant and fruity, but not particularly strong). I like strong-smelling roses, but as someone with allergies sometimes I wonder if it'd be better to grow some roses that don't waft like a perfume factory.
I brought the little potted Alchymist and Belle de Crecy inside when it really started to pour. BdC looks like she's going to open very soon. What a crazy, gorgeous color she is! Alchymist has begun to unfurl, and looks like a less-pastel version of Marianne. I cannot believe that Alchymist will someday be a twelve-foot climber. Right now she's about six inches tall, and I hear she's a very slow grower.
Sometimes I feel weird about assigning genders to my roses. I just figure that unless the rose has an obvious male name like Paul Ricault or William Shakespeare 2000 I'm calling it female. Speaking of which, Paul Ricault definitely seems like the kind of rose that would need to be pegged. He's growing clusters of buds from the tops of his canes, and that's it!
We ended up planting Reine Victoria in the front yard with a fan trellis. She's grown pretty big over the past six weeks; I wish I could say the same of Reine des Violettes! We also planted Charlotte #2 and Paloma Blanca near Simon Estes. After we do Marianne #2 and Claire Austin we'll probably break for awhile. The rest of the roses are too small to be planted and making those cages is a huge pain in the ass.
I'm really charmed to see the two main canes of Chapeau de Napoleon covered with tiny, embryonic tricorns. Last year he was too young to do the hats and I was worried I had received another mislabeled rose. I also found an official bud on Duchesse de Montebello, and another on Madame Hardy. The other roses seem like they're later. Oh well. Quietness is putting out seven flowers for her first flush of the season, and I've barely been paying attention to her.
I brought the little potted Alchymist and Belle de Crecy inside when it really started to pour. BdC looks like she's going to open very soon. What a crazy, gorgeous color she is! Alchymist has begun to unfurl, and looks like a less-pastel version of Marianne. I cannot believe that Alchymist will someday be a twelve-foot climber. Right now she's about six inches tall, and I hear she's a very slow grower.
Sometimes I feel weird about assigning genders to my roses. I just figure that unless the rose has an obvious male name like Paul Ricault or William Shakespeare 2000 I'm calling it female. Speaking of which, Paul Ricault definitely seems like the kind of rose that would need to be pegged. He's growing clusters of buds from the tops of his canes, and that's it!
We ended up planting Reine Victoria in the front yard with a fan trellis. She's grown pretty big over the past six weeks; I wish I could say the same of Reine des Violettes! We also planted Charlotte #2 and Paloma Blanca near Simon Estes. After we do Marianne #2 and Claire Austin we'll probably break for awhile. The rest of the roses are too small to be planted and making those cages is a huge pain in the ass.
I'm really charmed to see the two main canes of Chapeau de Napoleon covered with tiny, embryonic tricorns. Last year he was too young to do the hats and I was worried I had received another mislabeled rose. I also found an official bud on Duchesse de Montebello, and another on Madame Hardy. The other roses seem like they're later. Oh well. Quietness is putting out seven flowers for her first flush of the season, and I've barely been paying attention to her.
Oh, my AUSmerchant...
May. 19th, 2013 01:02 pm
Princess Alexandra of Kent got a 9.2 rating from the ARS and I can see why! She's still relatively new, so I don't know if she's widely grown.
I got her as a 3 gallon rose so I feel a little like I cheated. This flower isn't even open all the way, and it's huge! According to the patent information, the Austin rose she resembles the most is Jubilee Celebration, a rose I've always desperately wanted but unfortunately isn't available for sale in the US.
Well, here you go.
May. 11th, 2013 03:27 pm
It's Marianne, and my pasty hand.
I'd rather keep all parts of myself out of my photos, but these flowers have a tendency to droop.
It's funny that now that I've managed to land so many apricot roses I'm desperate to find a David Austin rose that's pure pink without a hint of apricot. Unless they're red they all seem to have an apricot cast. I guess that's what the albas are for, right? And Quietness is pink...
I'd like to see Princess Alexandra of Kent bloom soon. She just seems to be contemplating her buds...but I don't think she's balling. I'm pretty sure her flowers are supposed to be very large.
As for the troubled roses, Margo Koster seems like she's doing better. Julia Child might take awhile. Never give up!
