falstaff

RosyTeesh wrote:I only have 4 on my list I had to really cut it down hehe.

Jardins de Bagatelle - If I can get it here I haven't checked yet
Holtermann's Gold or Gold Bunny
Fire & Ice
Brindabella Swirl

I love striped roses. If you have any suggestions I am open!

jardins de bagatelle ive heard good stuff about it.. was after it for a while didnt manage to get it
gold bunny i have .. and it does have a soft nice perfume .. but it takes forever to open be patient lol

fire & ice dontknow much about
brindabella swirl seems like a nice rose


okay
ferdinand pichard
commandant beaurepaire

i have few others .. just gotta remember their names

Ooh FP Looks a lot like Scentimental but pink - Very pretty.

Commandant Beaurepaire IS GORGEOUS!

yeah if u like the striped roses ,, they are both nice .

silkyfizz wrote:thanks Jordan. Didn't realise yours was a grown up. Could you post a pic of the whole plant to give me an idea of it's general shape?

there you go silky

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Seems to have the same stems as mine. Not as thick as the HT's. Is it supposed to be like this?

yeah rosy , if u dont prune it hard .. u will get thick canes .. this winter coming i wont be prunning it so hard ..

I pruned it hard this last Winter and it's coming back better. But it spreads out like a spider it's very odd lol

really ? i actually have two mine dont spread they shoot up high
try not to prune it so hard this coming winter rosy .. just get rid of some of the older canes .. get rid of the dead wood

The top ones are up high and then the bottom canes shoot out on the ground, I'll have to get a photo

okay rosy when u get the chabce upload a pic

Photo front left it's 1.2 high but can you see it's branched out on the ground?

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Rosy,
Falstaff grows sort of like Constance Spry. I call it a semi climber. I cant give you a pic of ours yet as our roses have only just got leaves, but after seeing your pic I went out to look at ours and with those thorns we have not got the same plant. Ours has no where near the amount of thorns that yours has. So one of us must a mislabled plant.
Jordan maybe be able to solve the problem by his thorns.

Hi Carole, if you're looking at the very front plant with the pink flowers that's a cactus. It's the plant just behind it. I can't see the thorns from this photo?

Oooops sorry, I just looked at the front plant with pretty flowers :I'm embarrass

Hahahaha that's ok

RosyTeesh wrote:Photo front left it's 1.2 high but can you see it's branched out on the ground?

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hi rosy ,

i can see how urs branches out on the bottom.. not sure why .. mine hasnt done that before .. sorry bit confused

It's weird right? Lol

RosyTeesh wrote:It's weird right? Lol

yeah not sure what other people think rosy .. but i have two of them anf they never done that

First off - make sure it isn't the understock.

I've had canes of several roses (HTs) that seem to go up and then they flop down and grow horizontal. It's like they went all weak near the base of the cane. Most were eventually pruned off because they were in the way.
Of course, Falstaff is supposed to be a semi-climber, as Carole pointed out, so flexible canes are most likely to be expected.

Thanks Autumn, that would make sense. It was one of my very first roses so I didn't research it as much as I would do now. It has room to spread out at the moment so I'll just let it haha

Rosy and Jordan could you please take some close ups of young leaves which are fully formed. Yours from the long running canes please Rosy. Check that these are not coming out below the graft to Rosy.
Rosy, go to the David Austin site and read up on his "Leander" group, it is what he has placed the taller/climbers in.