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Thanks Peter. The two Dublin Bays are at least 5 years old now and they seem to top out at somewhere between 6 and 8 feet each year - as I mentioned they are different shades of red but they are very similar and were bought as Dublin Bays (although that's not a guarantee these days). They do carry their flowers for a long time and repeat well, so I like them for the splashes of red in the bed which last a good while. Yes, I find the tall Verbenas add variety and texture to the bed. As I said, this is a difficult bed to keep in order since there are so many large shrubs and groups of various flowers packed in together, but I quite like the natural look. I'm afraid the nameless rose will probably remain nameless.

@@nikkonch Hi Nik, Interesting about the Dublin Bay, I wasn't sure how well they repeated. They're obviously a small climber; Peter Beales roses says approx. 8 feet. I did see one, years ago at D.A's Rose Garden but it wasn't looking at all good - not impressed. Yours look good. I love Verbeana Bon'sis. There are more nameless roses around than any other; they are very popular but rather frustrating too. Good luck with that one.

Hi Wendy - yes, I had a look online and those flowers may well be Rudbeckia. I can see the advantage in time saved of just cutting off clumps after all the roses have faded, but I don't like having unsightly dead roses hanging about too long, so I will stick to the individual deadheading. I suppose I have the time. The jay disappeared around the corner of the house when I disturbed it with my watering, and when I looked for it a few hours later it wasn't there any more, so I am hoping he had justed needed time to recover and flew off. We have a couple of badgers in front of the kitchen window at dusk at the moment - they came because of the seeds and nuts I leave out for the birds, but I have now added badger biscuits (yes, that is a real thing!). Despite sticking up black bird outlines on windows and the greenhouse to deter the birds, we still get lots of hits. The scariest thing was when a pheasant flew inside the greenhouse - birds just don't seem able to see the open door to fly out and they fly into the dirty glass once they are inside. Hearing a pheasant banging against the glass repeatedly was scary!

Thanks Peter. I could not resist posting the Ancient Mariner at the beginning of the video - I just thought it looked gorgeous fluttering in the wind.

Thanks Peter.

Thank you - I don't think my wife appreciates the pots as much as you seem to. Many of the roses in small pots were supposed to be put in the ground this spring, but the weather wasn't favourable. The large potted roses are just there because I wanted large rose bushes but haven't really got space in the garden for them.

Thank you. 5 or 6 years ago that Ancient Mariner was in a pot and performing so badly that I wanted to throw it away, but my wife suggested giving it another chance in the ground, and that was just what a big bush like that needed - space! I shudder when I think how close I came to losing him!

So, only a few more days and you will be enjoying your garden to the full again, Linda. That must be a relief. And you still have the best of summer to come. I have probably mentioned my poor sense of smell before, which means I prioritise colour, shape and quantity over scent, but this week I was in a garden centre and stuck my nose in a Bathsheba and got a lovely hit of scent, and the same with Arthur Bell, but I have Bathsheba in my own garden and can rarely smell much at all - was it just the still air in the enclosed space or just a lucky combination of warmth and moisture in the air? My Mum in a Million (which I can smell!) had a brief first flush and I've been waiting weeks for her to start up again. Anyway, glad you enjoyed seeing the video. Start planning moving your plants back into position!

Last year Eustacia seemed to be in flower nearly all the time, but the big Ancient Mariner took a very long break (about a month) between flushes, so I am enjoying the Ancient Mariner to the full while it's flowering. The second flush was not as impressive as the first last year, so, although the individual flowers will still look great, perhaps the overall display won't be as good.

@@nikkonchBTW, forget to write, the opening with the Ancient Mariner blown by the wind but still had a very clear colour looks really cool!

@@rosegardengems I thought so too - I was really keen to show the AM in particular - to show it is still flowering and to show its beauty.

You had me walking around the garden with my tape measure in semi-darkness for this Jay Jay! The Ancient Mariner, Eustacia Vyes, Golden Celebration, Lady of Shalott and Desdemona are all 36-48 (about 42 average) inches apart, the ones at the left end (Gabriel etc). had to be packed in a bit tighter due to lack of space (and I also planted a Gabriel cutting late, next to its parent). That large Eustacia Vye "cutting" I have in a pot has presented me with a problem since ideally I would like them all in the same bed - but where?

@@nikkonchyou can cram them in nik if you wish. One thing I learnt looking at some established rose gardens is it’s possible. I think what they do is prune back hard. And a reduced number of stems. Roses that I see no more than 7-8 inches apart usually have 1,2 occasionally a max 3 stems rising from the bud Union. There is an amount of counter production there but all energy and flowering goes into those one or two stems and of course balanced by cramming them in. I think that’s how they do it from what I’ve seen. Personally I think your getting every inch of rose from that bed there and I think it looks great.

No, Wendy, it's not your pruning, quite a few (most?) DA roses seem to get floppy as they get bigger. There's never a dull moment here - a young Jay flew into our patio door this evening. He lay upside down on his back for about half-an-hour and then righted himself, then he staggered behind a pot and he was there for at least another half hour. He may still be there. I don't know if he will actually survive. Panicking birds seem to hit our windows every few days, sometimes fatally, despite the stickers we have put on the glass. Badgers tend not to survive long in front of our house - they cross the road from a field and eventually get hit by a car. I had to lift a dead one into the ditch on the other side of the road, which was a mistake because the stench of his decomposing body could be smelled in our back garden for a week or two.

Thanks, Gav, but it would be easier to keep them healthy if we had warmth and sunshine though. wouldn't it|?

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I think Eustacia Vye and to a lesser extent Lady of Shalott are two of my best bloomers Wendy. I took several cuttings of each a couple of years ago, but only kept one of each myself, and both have been on the decking but are now beginning to take up so much space that I have had to move EV away (I don't know where she will end up) and LoS is "octopussing" her arms out all around herself, so she needs to be moved too. Like you I am less keen on hot weather these days, but I like the fresh air - we were on holiday in Mallorca a few years ago when the weather turned chilly and blustery - there were 3 hardy souls (me included) sitting on sunbeds wrapped up in sweaters and coats. I took a nice photo last week of a male chaffinch feeding its baby on the roof of the birdfeeder - the "baby" was about the same size as the father and stood patiently on the roof while dad flew down, picked a seed off the table and flew it up to "baby", and that happened about half-a-dozen times. A couple of years ago I got a photo of a woodpecker feeding its young on our feeder, and again, just by size, knowing which was the parent and which the child was near impossible - you just had to watch who was feeding who. Let's both hope for a bit more warmth over the coming weeks - but not too much!

I don't know if you saw the photo of AD I posted on my community page 3 months ago? That shows AD at its glorious colourful best, much better than in this video - although its scent is always amazing. I'm making a greater effort to stop AD from getting blackspot and rust this summer.

I think it's a Black Rose (what else?) Aeonium next to the AS. I'd like to straighten up, separate and tidy the two Sweet Honeys, but their thorns are too vicious for me to risk it!

Thanks Linda. I'm still hoping for Abe to really shine - that's when the colouring turns to a sunset mix and the petals go wild, but unfortunately that doesn't always happen. It's a bit like hoping for a white Christmas. We enjoy sunsets over the hills to our west from our living room - but the bird feeders give our kitchen interesting views too. I think I've achieved a fair amount in the garden this weekend, so that's been good, even if I'm suffering a little now!

Yes, Gav, you don't need to spend a fortune to get beautiful roses. JParkers has been a great find for me - letting me try a whole variety of roses in my garden. I'm hoping they will be offering a few new ones this autumn. But sometimes you just have to dig deep into your pocket (yes, DA, I am looking at you!) to get that one rose you just must have!

@@nikkonch 'Eternal' is another one i've been pleased with from JP Nik. I bought 2

That's strange, Peter, I was going to invite you to come and help with my deadheading!

@@nikkonch I guess we'll have to toss a coin to see who goes where. I've still got plent to do, my Rural England in particular.

I think my wife regards my rose-growing addiction as mischief, Peter!

@@nikkonch If that's the only mischief you get up to Nik she's got nothing to worry about.

Yes Wendy, I was quite surprised to see that unusual spider - it was lucky that I didn't just casually pull that rose off since the petals were all beginning to drop - also lucky that I was wearing my glasses! There always seems to be something new to discover in the garden.

Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Enjoy your day!

Thanks, Peter. I don't think the video captured the 10 p.m. lighting well, but it gives you an idea.

Thank you. I half regret giving away my 4 or so other Eustacia cuttings last year! Meteor is a Kordes rose, so yes, German, named Korzeigar - Rose of the Yar 2024.

I thought you were going to say videos coming in thick and fast. - maybe too thick and fast. I started off making the video because of the spider and then got carried away. But at least there were a few new developments to show you all. I have just spent the afternoon deadheading and pruning and actually noticed bits of rust and blackspot appearing, so that needs to be tackled. The potted QoSweden was wilting and turning brown at the top - I am hoping that this was just due to inadequate watering (and lots of sun and wind) and not disease. Potted roses with lots of foliage do need a huge quantity of water.

You seem to be planning to buy a lot of roses Gav! Scarborough Fair was not a DA I had ever looked at - it reminds me of Blush Noisette, but on a much larger scale. It's not a rose that jumps out on the screen - but we all know that seeing a rose in real life is a totally different kettle of fish. Glad I don't seem to have bored you all ... yet. Or, if I have, you're all too polite to say so! I've just done some major deadheading and pruning today, so the garden is looking a bit different.

@@nikkonch yes Nik I agree. Emily Bronte was not on my list 2 years ago until I saw that one at Bodnant Gardens. So glad I bought it. Some 70 buds/flowers this year. SF stood out to me in real life last week.

Thank you - there's always someone on RUclips who can identify unusual things for the rest of us!

Thanks for that Linda. Those first flowers on Meteor were not very attractive at all, but the recent ones have been totally different and really attractive - I'll have to wait and see how she settles in this summer. Ken Voong was saying he has Meteor and thinks it a very impressive bush, so I am optimistic. Just about to do the evening watering - pots dry out so quickly in this heat, don't they? And I still have seedlings in the greenhouse I must plant out - if only to make room for dwarf beans to go on the ground in the greenhouse. The Philadelphus is browning and less fragrant and Ancient Mariner's and some other roses' - including Desdemona's - first flush is coming to an end, so I'll miss June, but I'm sure there will be other things to look at and enjoy. it's a good job the roses don't all come out at the same time.

I have tried to buy part of that field, but the owner doesn't want to sell. On the positive side, we do see sheep there for several months each year, so that is something interesting to look at.

@@nikkonch True about the fields...maybe dont ask to buy part of the field maybe you take the approach of beautifying it temporarily for him/her. Lol . They just need to keep the sheep away from your hard work afterword.

Thanks Lin, but I don't think a 100% failure rate of my cuttings last year makes me royalty! And this week I lost a cutting to a blackbird who decided to pull it out. It's a good job I just do it for the fun of it - although I really would like another Desdemona this year and I have a request for an Alpine Sunset!

I kept that one EV cutting but last autumn I gave away 4 or so, as well as some Gabriels and Shalotts (kept one of those on the decking too, it's about to flower) - the cuttings I took in 2022 were amazing, but last year's all failed - I think I planted them too late. But it was just for fun anyway. I think my Sweet Honeys are getting too densely packed now. QoS is a lovely-looking rose, isn't it?

Hi Wendy. I did some heavy digging yesterday (finding 3 bricks and gravel in one bed I was clearing of unwanted deep-rooted achillea), and pulled or dug out all our foxgloves this morning to add to the carful of bags of garden waste I drove to the dump. I was pleased to be able to relax after that with this heat. Watching the birds is a pleasure - we have a house martin's nest this year. Walking down the side of the house I often encounter a shocked squirrel who runs up the wall in panic and makes a very loud angry chattering noise. Yes, I do spend a good amount of time watering the pots each evening, and I do water the plants in the beds sometimes too, maybe unnecessarily. Another scorcher in store tomorrow - after longing for sunshine and warmth for months, now I just want it to cool down!

I feel like a drug-dealer who has wafted some tempting drug under an addict's nose ... I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight😈

If I had enough space in the garden I would plant all my roses in the ground. Roses in pots cannot grow as large as roses in the ground, and they need to be watered frequently, sometimes every day in hot weather, and I think they need feeding more. Last winter I bought a lot of bare-root roses because they are cheaper. My plan was to grow them in pots over the winter and then to plant them in the ground in early spring, but weather conditions made that impossible. But I will plant a lot of those potted roses in the ground at the end of the year. I grew my rose "The Ancient Mariner" in a pot for 2 years, and it was so disappointing that I was going to throw it away, but my wife said I should plant it in the ground, and she was right! In the ground it has become a spectacular rose. so, yes, there is a difference between roses in pots and roses in the ground. A big rose like The Ancient Mariner needs space for its roots in the ground and space to spread out above ground. Small roses do not do badly in pots, but they need watering. Roses in pots have the advantage that you can move them to see them better when they are flowering - and you can surround yourself with roses. Also, if you grow roses in pots first you can see if you really like them enough to plant them in the ground! You can see perhaps that I plant the large David Austin roses in large 50 litre pots to give them more space to grow, while the smaller roses are in 15 litre pots.

I've just had a quick look at those roses in my garden - they look good, quite perky, but I think most roses look best out of glaring sunlight, and the paler roses "glow" against a darker background. Roses of course tend to bleach and dry a lot faster in hot, sunny weather and need more water then, so their blooms won't last as long. A lot of my roses of all types are blooming and shattering or drooping quite quickly in this heat (rather than the sun) and I don't think the DA roses are worse in that respect. But that's just my opinion.

Mine is on its 2nd summer - flowered abundantly last year, so I am looking forward to seeing these buds open - I had a couple of early flowers, but the main show is imminent.

That's two interesting pieces of information, thank you for that.

@@nikkonch that’s ok happy to help.

Neither has a particularly strong scent. I enrolled my wife's nose, which is more sensitive than mine, for this comparison, she prefers The Ancient Mariner and finds that slightly stronger, although she says it has a myrrh scent which is maybe not everyone's preference. I find there is not much to choose between the two in terms of scent. PA tends to bloom more consistently, but both roses have flowers which are very attractive in their different ways.

Many Thanks for that info!​@@nikkonch

It's Belle Etoile - thoroughly recommended. We did once have a double flowered version, Virginal I think, which used to get covered in blackfly - I don't know if that was a one-off or a general problem with that variety, but BE has been trouble-free and a delight.