What's flowering 2010/11

Great to see some happy roses. Most of mine are all mush with the rain. Dark Lady is a heart-stopper.

Beautiful roses. Can't wait to see your JTO to open. What do you feed them Oz?

The last couple of years Alee, not a lot of anything so this year I tried something called Sudden Impact , which didn't have an impact at all that I could see so I have gone back to my old NPK and chook manure regime .
Certainly easier on the hip pocket !

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your pictures are a bright spot in view of the ugly cold winterprospect here. Waiting now for the flowering jude...

cheers Bernhard

this is a rose I bred years ago and one of favourites , always full of bloom through the growing season

GLIMPSE

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I love your photo of Sweet Juliet, Ozrose. Well, they're all lovely of course.

this is a pic of ROSIE LOWING a charles austin X ht

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My wish list is getting longer and longer WOZ .

this is one of my favourites always loaded with flowers and has quite a strong scent as well

Floriferous, healthy, beautiful. You're a long way ahead of me!

A few more pics. Gotta get on top of this backlog I can take pix faster than I can post 'em.

Ballerina by morning.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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Best Friend[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Rae Dungan. Not looking her beautiful best I'm afraid ; the thrip have moved in with this horrible hot weather.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Royal Bassino . A new bush for me and it's first flowers. Still having trouble with those reds [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Long Tall Sally.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Dapple Dawn getting decorated with her big pink bows.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Not a rose I know , but a very important part of my bug fighting arsenal.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Julia's Rose again. This bush is very shy with it's flowers , so when it does flower I tend to be out snapping away at them.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

cheers. Rosalie

Wonderfully rosy, Rosalie! Julia's Rose is not a good performer IMHO but I do like the blooms when she gives them.
LOVE your little blue friend!

Rosalie, Julia's Rose has such intense colour in your shot, is it always so rich. Does it set hips, reason being one of our members named Damo thought it would make a great breeder. I have spoken to him about this and thought how it might cross with Just Joey or a couple of DA's.

I'll keep an eye on this crop of flowers and see what it does . I can't remember if I cut any off it at pruning time or not.

I have just been out and snapped a few more pics of it.
This is supposed to be the **Climbing** Julia's Rose. Please pardon my mirth but I can't imagine it ever being that vigorous. Admittedly it's growing in a tough part of the garden and tlc is scant , but not once have I seen a shoot on it that would make me think of a climber.
What I do find different to the "bush" versions that I have grown before , is that I do get more flowers off it and it does produce more than one flower at a time which was what I got from the bush roses.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Who knows , if she's a good girl I might shift her to a better part of the garden next winter for a bit of pampering.
While it has got a bit of BS on the old lower leaves , [as do a lot of my roses because they are not sprayed] the upper leaves are clean.

Two flowers for you , one on each side of the bush , one in the morning sun and one in the shade.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Seems to make a lot of pollen if that's of use to anybody.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
HMF lists it as a tetraploid ; what does this mean in relation to using it as a parent rose ?

cheers. Rosalie

howdy rosalie

what gives this rose its unique colour is, (i looked at it with magnifying glasses) it is yellow based with a layer of blue cells covering, i have never thought of using it a breeder in any way because would nt be transfered over, it however has dr aj verhage in it, so would get some thing of a nice shape.

tetraploid just means 4 sets of chromosomes as with a lot of modern roses today , just means if you cross it moderns you get a nice balanced chromosome count, as with a triploid you have 2 sets say in the ovary and 1 set in the pollen (unbalanced)

I would not use it as a breeder... nothing good can come out of it...

as i said , i have never used it , had one in my old garden but it was always a bit iffy, growth is shocking , no vigour at all

I thought you like challenges Simon , If Damo is reading this I hope chases his dream of breeding with and produces a bit of
If you do not mind Ozroz, could you with your experience of breeding give me/us some of what, Julia's Rose might go with please

A newbie for me ; introducing "Sky Tower"[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I fell in love with it's ruffles.

Very pretty, Rosalie. I love ruffles too. Does it have a perfume?

roseman wrote:I thought you like challenges Simon

Love a challenge David... but you can't spin a silk purse from a sow's ear can you

Oh You have a Jardin de Bagatelle looking just stunning...sob sob...possum killed mine...your photo's are striking and contagious. Roses look so very healthy n happy.

Love your puss walking around helping supervise you my ole girl use to do that..

That's our Louie MsMW . If she doesn't actually follow me outside when I pick up my camera , she'll come running to join me in the garden .
It's very hard to take a picture of a flower when you have got a cat underneath the bush scratchng her chin on a stem and wiggling the plant ![You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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I have two of these plants , both of which were bought at the same time labelled Climbing Cecile Brunner . One of them is, but this one I'm leaning more towards Bloomfield Abundance .[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
The mass of buds waiting to open[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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Irene of Denmark[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Perfume Delight.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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