Readers' Roses: The Rose appreciation and ideas thread

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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?

All these ^ are all at the front of my house- some in a bed with a few rugosas mixed in, and some (Red & blush pink) climbing the front wall of the house, underplanted with lavender.

Agree a rose without scent is a sad thing- I have Rambling Rector in the back garden and it smells gorgeous...

Lots of lovely ones on that thread too GlitterKitty.

How could I have forgotten Mme Alfred Carriere? One of my favourites. Also Rosamundi and Rosa Glauca.

The Paul's Himalayan Musk looks really lovely. I have New Dawn growing into the Oak tree, and a really lovely white rambler over the trellis called either Alfred Carriere or Alberic Barbier I've forgotton which it is. Then there is Dr du Jamain whom I adore because he is growing against a tricky shady north facing wall and loves the shade! Munstead Wood was planted by DC on mothers day into a humungus pot and I'm really looking forward to it flowering.
I have never forgotten the scent of the old French roses in Giverney in May- heady and heavenly.
David Austin's catalogue is very restful and pleasant reading. The photos are otherworldly.

Another rose fan here! I have my favourite rose, Albertine, on a trellis at the bottom of my garden, love the scent & colour but the flowering season is very short, I only really get the best out of her in mid-June.

I have recently planted The Wren which is a gorgeous apricot colour - I had been wanting a rose of that shade ever since I saw Gloire de Dijon in a garden, which is the most heavenly colour & smell but apparently quite disease prone. Hoping the Wren will be a good alternative.

I also have a yellow rose which was in the garden when I moved in, have never been able to identify it. The petals have a pinkish tinge & there is a lovely smell, foliage is dark green. If I can manage to post a photo perhaps someone can tell me what it is!

I have a canary bird.
Sooo excited now that I know it's name !!!!

Ohh, I want Himalayan Musk, it sounds lovely.

jumped - mermaid grows to house-height in my parents garden, it is a proper big rambler, but you could keep it smaller for a few years as I don't think it grows all that fast? It's ok with shade but if you want something that really likes shade the little white-flower ramblers all do.

For cut flowers I really like Sweet Juliette and Jayne Austin - they are both apricot-y colours (doesn't sound appealing maybe but they look great against purple foliage, it's that kind of apricot). They smell really good.

I am curious to know what the yellow/pink one is now, Maryz.

I have recently decided to accept that, although many plants suffer in my clay soil, roses thrive and so I've planted several this year

Falstaff
William Shapkespeare
Winchester Cathedral
Buff Beauty
Rosa Mundi
Glory of Edzell
Anonymous pink, white and yellow climbers from the 99p Store and Lidl

::waves to some of MN's Usual Gardening Suspects::

I usually just lurk on their board but the mention of roses has teased me out of lurkdom.

We moved this winter and our new house has a rose garden. I have no idea what they are yet but all this rain has bought them on a treat and i have added 2 new prince willaim roses as they are my favorites.

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Which rose would anyone recommend to climb the back of our house? I want something highly scented, preferably apricot/pale pink, rapid growing? This area gets sunshine from early morning till about 3pm.

Does Himalayan musk only flower once? Im looking for something to climb into treee and trail down - white or yellow or apricot. I'd like it to smell.

Blog- do you want it to flower repeatedly? This narrows it down quite a lot- ramblers only flower once (but look lovely) climbers flower repeatedly (allegedly!)

I want Buff Beauty- I notice a couple of people have this. Does it smell gorgeous?

Yes it only flowers once. And it is pink. White- rambling rector is white isn't it? Bit of a bugger re the thorns though.
I have Buff beauty and I LOVE it.

Blogonthetyne -

Lady Hillingdon Climbing is a beautiful apricot and i have it all over my old redbrick wall.

Madame Jules Gravereaux is a strongly scented double flowered medium vigour climber.

Ghislaine De Feligonde is a repeat flowering rambler with medium musky sweet scent. The flowers are double and fade from apricot to cream.

Leander Climbing has a strong fruity scent, is vigorous with deep apricot double blooms.

Vicomtesse Pierre De Fou is an old climbing tea rose with a strong scent and copper-pink blooms. It repeat flowers.

The Garland is an old rambler rose with a good strong scent, semi double blooms which form in sprays and are daisy like. The colour is salmony peach. It has that lovely 'old rose' look about the foliage.

Lordflasheart -

If you want a really vigorous climber/rambler for a decent sized tree then try Rosa Filipes 'Kiftsgate'. It is extremely vigorous to 35 feet plus with single white blooms, a sweet medium fragrance and loads of gorgeous hips. here's the link and all the roses I've mentioned should be on this site-

www.davidaustinroses.com/english/showrose.asp?showr=169

If anybody loves old fashioned violet/purple roses I highly recommend La Reine Des Violettes. I have it growing through the Russian sage; Perovskia Atroplicifolia 'Blue Spires'. The flowers look glorious emerging through a haze of indigo blue sage spires. The silvery green sage foliage suits the rose foliage too.

www.davidaustinroses.com/english/showrose.asp?showr=169

Another lurker inspired to post.

Have been steadily adding to my rose collection since we moved here and inerited a few hybrid teas but also now have:
the Alnwick Rose; beautiful flowers but very heavy and tend to flop and get raib damaged
Paul's Himalayan musk; only young but aiming for it to ramble into a poplar tree. Its taken a couple of years to settle in but has put out lots of new growth this year.
the Generous Gardener; wonderful, vey few thorns loads of pale pink repeat flowers, v healthy.
Lady Hillingdon; again, only a couple of years old and just getting going to ramble up and over a shed.
Ernest Morse; beautiful velvety petals and lovely scent.
Rosa gallica; in the hedge, comes up randomly.
Golden Celebration; yellow, lots of flowers, nice scent.
Harlequin; buds start yellow and trun red as the flower ages. Terrible for black spot.
China Girl; very vigourous, yellow, highly scented, a good do-er.
Old blush china, pretty little pink flowers but has never really thrived.
Leo's eye - a tiny bright orange pink rambler from a local garden.

Also have another 12 I don't know the names of! Can't believe I've got that many , my garden's not that big! They are all interspersed with other things.
I particularly like the little bright pink pompom one that always seems to grow in the hedges of old gardens and the scotch rose that appears on our hedge bank, suckers everywhere and only flowers once. It has lovely big pale pink single flowers and nice hips and I've been told its over 100 years old.

at long post, and its rain damaged

Buff beauty looks lovely, hmm another to add to the collection? The really reliable climber I have is the Generous Gardener which I got from David Austin 2 years ago. I bought it online, bare root as it was cheaper. They are pricey though, but I would say this one was worth it because it has grown quickly and flowered all summer long.

Don't know Rosa Nevada but in my experience the roses I've pruned hard have come back with more vigour than the ones I'm gentle with!

I'm so thrilled that there's so many of us.

Has anyone tried the rose bud tea you can buy? I've had the rose petal black tea from Taylor's of Harrogate but not tried the rose bud tea you can buy.

I've got a party wall just outside my kitchen door. Door faces north and wall faces west. It's a big wall that in the evening gets reasonably good light. I'd love to have a rose grow there. Any suggestions?

Maryz they are about £20 up here in garden centres in Scotland but the choice is limited. I tend to just buy them by mail order and that turns out much more reasonable.

Chix Your collection sounds wonderful. I was tempted to get the Alnwick rose it's a shame to hear that it is vulnerable to flopping although no doubt still beautiful.

They have gorgeous names, don't they?

I have made rosebud tea sometimes with actual rosebuds, but didn't know you could get it made. I will investigate this. Though the rose-petal scented one Twinnings does just tastes like perfume to me.

If anyone has one, you can make really nice rose vinegar with Tuscany Supurb - it goes raspberry-pink overnight and it smells great. Also it is mega-poncey, of course.

I have just seen the first ever flower on my Banksia rose - it's a little yellow one and it is so pretty.

Chix....The pink tiny flowered rose you mention sounds like 'The Fairy' which I have on my allotment shed.

I dump Horse manure on mine in the late winter to allow the frosts to break it down so worms can drag it down into the soil. I then apply blood, fish and bone as and when I remember. i do plant them well; deep, deep holes well prepared with home made compost and well rotted manure. keep them well watered if planted bare rooted.

I always buy my roses from the growers. They are better cared for as garden centres are just 'holding bays' and rarely am I happy about the plant care there. Plant nurseries, I am not including in that harsh judgement.

I buy from Peter Beale and David Austin.