Winter Roses

Still getting the odd flower or two despite the cold. I think we are going to start pruning next week-end.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Rosalie, I guess the apricot is a DA, can you tell me it's name please.

Knew I forgot something .... things are a bit frazzled here atm.

The top one quite rightly is a D.A "Grace" and the bottom one is the H.T "The Lady"

I should take a pic of their foliage , quite amazing for this time of the year , no B/S

Yes the "The Lady" is amazing, I think it would make a lovely breeding rose, I have not checked, but I think it is out of 'Granada'.
What is "frazzled about WA

I'm with you Rosalie...just came back from doing a pruning workshop at the old mayor or Fremantle's place and will start to prune mine next weekend as well

Ideal time is after frosts have gone but before the sap starts to flow.
That's almost impossible as we always get those late frosts after a spell of early spring weather.

I'm going to do mine in the next 2 weeks.

I can see your photo of The Lady, a beautiful rose photo and amazing that you still have a few roses. It seems forever since I have seen a rose here. I have The Lady ordered from Treloars, so thanks for showing it.
I don't get many photos come up because I am on a cheaper plan and my daughters down load alot of things.

I can see Grace now, just had to wait a bit longer. Lovely ! I have ordered that one too. I hope mine grow as well as yours, Rosalie !

Live in Perth and I'm still getting the a few rose's blooming also. We have always waited till the beginning of August to prune our roses.

Last year we started a bit earlier and managed dodge the worst of the frosts . It's minus 2 here this morning and I bet Jack Fost has been walking around ; just not game to stick my nose to far out past the wood barrow on the patio to take a look.

The Lady is a wonderful picking rose too and the cold has made the flowers hang on even longer.
I first photographed that bloom on 1/7[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] and then again on the 6/7[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] , then again on the 9/7 which is the pic in the first post and the yesterday when I was walking around the yard I saw that it was just dropping it's petals. The wind and rain that we had on friday probably battered it around a bit but there are two new equally lovely flowers now to replace it.

Despite this being one of the coldest (in terms of number of cold days (below 5C which is cold for here)) that I can remember some of the teas are defying the southwesterlies.

Souv de Madam Leonie Vernott usually doesn't flower until late September but here is a photo that I took with my phone (sorry about the quality) this morning.

Others including the Noisettes (Rev d'or has not stopped flowering since I rebuilt the pergola nder it last spring. It has been a mass of flowers)Chinas are doing the sameand even some of the geraniums are flowering.

Really weird!

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