LOUIS XIV- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2000- BLUEBERRY HILL- LORRAINE LEE

LOUIS XIV

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 2000

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BLUEBERRY HILL
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LORRAINE LEE

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LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XIV, Yippee, LOUIS XIV.
What a beauty!
Blueberry Hill looks like Anger Face, doesn’t it?

it does jac .. but a bigger flower .. louis xiv is a beauty as long it doesnt burn in the sun jac

Thanks for that, Jordan, that was instant love when I opened this link, but if it’s not heat tolerant, it would be cruel to plant a LXIV here in Brisbane.
I’m quite happy with my AF, how’s BH’s fragrance?

jac , u can still grow LXIV , its beautifull dark rose one of the darkest that i have .. u can put it in part shade.. the funny thing is about this rose its called the sun king lol but it does burn in the sun . with part shade you will love .. its not a strong bush but holds its own .. as far as bluberry hill i like the fragrance it smells of sweet apple

I love it: the sunburned sun king. Maybe I should take it just for that. I’ll keep an eye on yours for a bit.
Sweet apple sounds nice, like a Sweet Brier …

yes u will like BH ITS nice and healthy bush too

Is the last pic WS2K?

it sure is jac

The colour is quite similar to Munstead Wood; do you have a MW, too?

lol yes i do

What a silly Q that was! What’s happening with your MW? I’m asking, because mine is still extremely slow. I’ve had some nice blooms, but the bush is an odd one out in my garden.

My MW is also very slow here. Last night the possums ate a cluster of 3 little buds. sigh. I will have to start putting out pepper again. They had left them alone for ages. One teeny bud left.

Jac2 wrote:What a silly Q that was! What’s happening with your MW? I’m asking, because mine is still extremely slow. I’ve had some nice blooms, but the bush is an odd one out in my garden.

mine has few buds at the moment jac . i agree its slow at start but it seems to be coming along now

silkyfizz wrote:My MW is also very slow here. Last night the possums ate a cluster of 3 little buds. sigh. I will have to start putting out pepper again. They had left them alone for ages. One teeny bud left.

sorry to hear that silky

Silky, what a shame for something like that to happen again, after your roses recovered from such a rude start this year. At least you know what to do now. I won’t mention what one of my friends did to the possums when they got into her vegie patch.
I think my MW may be a dud, Jordan. It started off in a luxurious 50cm diameter x 40cm high pot and made no progress beyond the canes it came with for 3 ½ months. When I put it into the ground, there were hardly any new roots; my god, when I moved Brother Cadfael from the same size pot into the ground at the same time, the root ball had filled the whole pot and was pretty solid, and I had to carefully tease out the gravel I put in the bottom to aid drainage. Even in the ground, MW has only reached 50 x 50cm where all my other Austins have surpassed their indicated height and Gertrude Jekyll is now 2m tall.
What’s happening with the other MW’s around Australia that haven’t been possum plagued? Mine doesn’t behave like its been described elsewhere.

Jac2 wrote:Silky, what a shame for something like that to happen again, after your roses recovered from such a rude start this year. At least you know what to do now. I won’t mention what one of my friends did to the possums when they got into her vegie patch.
I think my MW may be a dud, Jordan. It started off in a luxurious 50cm diameter x 40cm high pot and made no progress beyond the canes it came with for 3 ½ months. When I put it into the ground, there were hardly any new roots; my god, when I moved Brother Cadfael from the same size pot into the ground at the same time, the root ball had filled the whole pot and was pretty solid, and I had to carefully tease out the gravel I put in the bottom to aid drainage. Even in the ground, MW has only reached 50 x 50cm where all my other Austins have surpassed their indicated height and Gertrude Jekyll is now 2m tall.
What’s happening with the other MW’s around Australia that haven’t been possum plagued? Mine doesn’t behave like its been described elsewhere.

have to keep an eye on my MW.. i think i have two of them and ive noticed one is better then the other

jac an update on munstead wood

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Dan, my MW does’t look as nicely branched as yours. I have the two canes it came with and a couple of measly, spindly shoots growing in opposite directions of each. The bush doesn’t really grow up, but more sideways like this:
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You can see the end of the cane in the background, the spindly horizontal thing it is. It connects to the cane it came with (not very clear, but visible, and that’s it). Putting him in the ground hasn’t done much to improve vigor, and new canes are just like it; very nice blooms though.

yeah the blooms are beautiful jac.. wonder why is ur rose like this ... are the canes thick or really thin ?

The canes are very thin and spindly and SHORT …
I don’t think it’s MW the rose that is at fault here, I think it’s a dud bush. I’ve read lots of positive comments about this rose in different places and yours is looking much better.

yeah jac u may have a dud .. the two i have one is growing faster then the other but both showing strong canes . altho they were very slow to start with

maybe contact the supplier you got it from jac

Mines a very small bush too Jaci. I know mine had a big setback but the stems are quite spindly and short. I'll give it time but its disappointing so far.

I was going to wait a little longer to see what’ll happen in the ground, but it’s been on my mind to contact the supplier, Dan. It came with good roots, though.

Are your canes as spindly as mine, Silky? Mine has been painfully slow to grow. The other roses I planted into the same soil on the same day are making very good progress…