My favourite type of rose has to be the rugosa rose. Often scented, beautiful orange red hips and fairly low maintenance
OHH!!!! Hmmmm My fav rose??? I love teas!! But the one in my garden that just couldnt do without is the Crysler Imperial. My Blue Girl comes in close second. One rule in my rose garden... It has to smell good.
I don't have very good luck with roses!! I planted an old-fashioned climbing tea rose I dug up at my dad's house.They were planted by a family relative about 50 years ago!! It's the only rose I've planted that hasn't died. It has the old-fashioned rose smell with tiny pink blooms in a cluster I think they are sometimes called seven sister roses.
I think maybe that is the rose that is climbing up the fence between two of my yard sections. It has clusters of little pink flowers. We had them in our yard when I was a kid. I couldn't remember what they were called until I read the post. Seven sisters. They will get new roots if you bend a branch over and cover it with dirt. DR likes Joseph's Coat because it changes colors almost every day. They smell good, too.We have a lot of rose bushes here but I didn't plant any of them so I don't know the names. Well, I planted two. A Queen Elizabeth and a Tropicana. Both are climbing. Dooley
My Joseph's Coat and Tropicana arent growing. :cry: I think I may end up losing them. Those and two others I have, the Perfecta and Irish Creme. :cry: :cry:
Im absolutely hopeless with roses, so havent tried to grow one for a long time.My mum visited yesterday and for easter she bought me a climbing rose (uh oh).I dont know what it is, i havent looked, but i will give it a go.Would be grateful for any tips. Catkins
Thanks for all that info, i intend to plant today, so i will read before i start.Thanks again.This site is priceless!! catkins
Last year, after acquiring 4 white trellis planters for the garden, I made the decision to put roses in all of them . I never thought they would grow as quick as they did . Looked great . Kept having to dead-head and tie back , or else they would have been out of control . Pruned them all a couple of weeks ago. C.J.
Oh, i hought roses were sort of slow growers, does this mean im gonna have my work cut out?? I planted them this afternoon, the weather has been glorious here all day!
When I obtained the roses in their pots for to be transferred into the planters, they were the most unhealthy, pathetic looking examples . I mean, as I knew nothing about roses, planting, caring for them, etc. :? I thought they'd never last, especially with me in control . How wrong I was . I expected them to not flower until this year, but they thrived . I don't know if it was because they were positioned well in the garden, the compost, the watering, but they were alive! I'll have to put it down to my new expertise in rose ownership C.J.
