Gardening: Hints and Help!

The photo of the white & red/pink striped rose that TDA posted reminds me of a rose that we had at a previous home called Handel.

I have heard of Handel, but never seen one impy. It looks very nice though.

I always wanted a stripy rose. I used to look after Rose Garden at an EH property, and there was a very old Rose there, called Rosa Mundi, an old fashioned Gallica. It’s origins were unknown, perhaps back to  time of Henry II, as there’s a myth linking it with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford. It’s a nice Rose, but prone to more disease than a modern Rose, so I opted for Scentimental after seeing it in a Cornish Rose Garden. It’s very healthy, flowers again and again, rather than just the once, and it smells lovely. There are some very interesting stripey roses, but you don’t see a lot for sale.

Now that is what I would want in a rose TDA , a repeat flowerer with a lovely scent/fragrance and disease free (as far as possible), I too have a liking for striped roses also those which are two toned. 

Just arrived, I’m really pleased with condition and size.

It's beautiful 😀. Place it somewhere that you can see it and get full pleasure from it.

We have been given a rose for our recent Golden Wedding Anniversary,  called (wait for it!) Golden Wedding.  We hope it flowers this year as it would be lovely to see it.  It looks very healthy and there was one bud which, rightly or wrongly, I removed as I remember Monty saying always let new plants get strong roots before asking them to use energy to flower.  Fingers crossed we shall see another bud soon. We have another rose called Brother Cadfael which is a beautiful pink, the rose flowers resemble peonies, and has it has a good fragrance.  It was transplanted from our previous house and has always done well. 

Let it flower next time Heddlo, roses are tough plants. Nice to hear about them on here! They are such lovely plants for memories.

I have another multi coloured, however it’s not doing too well so far this year for some reason. It’s called Baron Girod de L’ain. Unusual petals, and the colour contrast is all around the edge of each petal. Good scent.

Looks a lovely healthy rose. May it flourish with love😁

Brother Cadfael caught my eye when I was leafing through a Rose book the other day. I like the Cadfael books as well👍

That is nice TDA, love the colour and the "frilly" edged petals   You obviously love your roses and they perform well for you too.

Heddlo, we were given Golden Wedding Anniversary rose for our 50th anniversary a couple of years ago, this year is its best flowering year yet, the first year we got just one or two blooms, last year looked very promising until the fox jumped the fence and broke a complete branch along with buds off so again we only had a few blooms.