Readers' Roses: The Rose appreciation and ideas thread

[Birthhippy9]

I realise many of us appreciate a beautiful rose. I thought it would be nice to share our ideas here. I've no one to talk to about roses at home. My poor DH rolls his eyes (though he does his best to hide it) when I start to talk about them. It'd be lovey to talk to others who would like to grow/ talk about roses.
Is there anyone there?

Love the Canary Bird Maryz and I know just what you mean about the black spot and the older ones which seem to have no immunity at all to it. I was once wandering through York and I saw the most amazing huge roses in a terrace front garden. When I say huge I mean side plate diameter, really my eyes were on stalks. They looked like hybrid tea shape but the size made me feel like I had fallen down a rabbit hole. I very almost knocked on the door to find out what they were and how on earth they managed to get the blooms so big. :D
LRD & Headfairy if you're here I planted up a Wedding Day rambler last year so I'm hoping this year it's going to grow :)

My favourites are -

Lady Hillingdon Climbing - a fragranced apricot double;
Rosa Mundi - a gorgeous pinky red and white single striped shrub rose;
Variegata Di Bologna - another stripy beauty;
Comte De Champagne from the David Austin English Rose Collection;
Tea Clipper- English Rose with a gorgeous scent;
Francine Austin- a white/cream spray rose crossed with an old Noisette type;
Teasing Georgia Climbing - yellow/apricot double;

This is my latest beauty called 'Leda' -

www.davidaustinroses.com/english/showrose.asp?showr=520

I adore the old double Bourbon's like Boule De Neige and the 'Canary Bird' large shrubs because it heralds the rose flowering season. I have 'The Fairy' growing all over my allotment shed but by god are those thorns lethal!

Lovely thread.

I agree about Canary Bird, it is such a lovely thing with a great smell. Mermaid is also nice in that sort of colour, though it'll get huge if you let it go. Of the moderns I think Goldfinch is quite nice - it's got quite frothy foliage so not as elegant as Canary Bird but I think it is more resistant to black spot, and it has a nice smell, though not an old-rose smell.

I think the one I miss most are Rambling Rector or Longicuspis - I love the way they smell slightly spicy as well as rose-y.

Btw this thread is not helping prevent me from buying Wedding Day! Am I right it's just a slightly larger-flowered, less wild version of Rector?

I think the Wedding Day one grows even taller than the Rambling Rector!

Atreegrows you have me very tempted to buy a Boule de neige It is indeed snow white :)

Wow
Fab and poetic names

I have a rose walk It is three years old now, and it is going to look really nice this year.

I have Constance Spry, William Lobb, Rambling Rector, New Dawn, Blush Rambler, Debutante, Blau Magenta, Blush Noisette and lots of clematis mixed in.

I love roses

Now all I need is a castle to grow it over ...

Olivia, do you mean to say MN towers are not covered in exotic plants?

I always had this image of you lot being all, well, rural in Towers ...

LDR - I am really tempted by Mermaid - how huge is huge?
I have a big space on a pergola but it's quite shady so I'm not sure if it would thrive

Not a poetic name, but I have a beautiful Alan Titchmarsh in my garden - and it is the centre piece of a beautiful border! I have it surrounded by lavender and it is a gorgeous rose - a deep pink double bloom. I adore roses - no garden is complete without one! (I am also a closet Alan fan, say no more!)

My granny had those huge side-plate sized roses in her garden, I don't know how to get hold of a variety that large, or maybe it is the way they are cared for? Hers were yellow, that's all I know!
I have quite a few roses but they don't really do well in my garden. I've just planted Cecille Brunner and hope that will do well climbing up into a tree. (it has lots of small pink scented blooms). I have a Gertrude Jekyll rose, and that is always covered in blooms and smells amazing. (a brightish pink).

Ooh, I forgot about the Paul's Himalayan Musk in the cherry tree. Give it another 5 years and it is going to be amazing.

Love the Canary Bird.

Olivia Please could MNHQ brook a discount with David Austin?

Also I bet you could find some that would suit you. What kind of space have you got?

skips away to look up Himalayan Musk

it smells divine

MIL has one, it has been in the apple tree for fifteen years and the tree is COVERED with roses. It looks fabulous.

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Humphery Does it weaken the tree or is it reasonably symbiotic?

It doesn't appear to weaken the tree at all. It is heavenly.

Hellymelly Yes the York Roses of legend were all bright intense colours.

Humphery I think the himalayan bloom even looks similar to the cherry tree blossom. It's a perfect choice as i would imagine it would bloom at the end of the flowering for the tree itself and give the impression of a much prolonged spring. I'm tempted to get one in autumn to grow next to our cherry tree. Great idea :)

Oooh- I am here!

I started this thread last September.

Must say all mine are coming up beautifully- but I have mulched and fed and generally pampered them this year- I'd like to say it will last but...!

I planted the follwing David Austin Roses in September.

Deep reds: Tess D'Ubervilles, Falstaff, L D Braithwaite & William Shakespeare 2000 & Souvenir du Doctor Jamain.

Deep Pink: John Clare & Lady of Megginch

Blush Pink: Shropshire Lad, William Morris, Redoute, Wildeve, Mayor of Casterbridge & Eglantyne.

Going to post pictures when they flower!

Go for it. It grows really fast too.

We are making a new and large garden from scratch, and are in the pleasant situation of having space for a fair few more. So will be watching this thread with interest.

My best bargain - 5 Paul's Scarlet from the pound shop. Bought last year and growing really well along a fence.

I have no salmon pink roses in the garden

Also no yellow ones, but I actually want some of those.