I know it is flowers again this week, but it's spring and I so much love the roses. The only one I planted myself is this climber on the corner of the garage, it is getting taller and going so well this year.
I find it almost impossible to get a good photo showing the rose garden at the font of the house. This panorama captures most of them but not the feeling of Wow I get when I open the bedroom blinds each morning.
Your roses are beautiful. I am doing something wrong with mine as I only have two roses on each plant. I can't blame the red soil as a friend has them growing like yours 🤔
ReplyDeleteDon't give up Chel. There is a story behind that climbing rose. I planted it at our bush block and after 2 or 3 years it hadn't grown and given no flowers. So I dug it up and moved it to its current location where I could look after it better. With regular watering and fertiliser (Sudden Impact for Roses) it began to grow. The first year it had two flowers, the next about 20 and the next this explosion. So sun, water and fertiliser might do the trick for your rose too. I also prune the other roses at the end of winter and that seems to bring on lots of buds.
DeleteI like the variegated colours of the rose bush, Joan. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteIt has a light fragrance too.
DeleteI can fully understand your 'wow' feelings as you open your curtains each morning. My 'wow' feeling is when I spot that my 2 stunted bushes produce unexpected buds.
ReplyDeleteI had an awful time with roses in my mountains garden but since these were well established (so planted in an ideal position) and I didn't want to lose them I thought I had better learn how to look after roses better, with great results thus far.
DeleteI gave up on roses when I lived in the Mountains, but now we live in Penrith I have some beautiful standard roses in our tiny garden and they are doing really well. I can't say I look after them any better, I just think the climate is better suited here than in the Mountains. They are in the sun all day.
ReplyDeleteI agree that having sun all day is very important. That was the trouble in my mountain garden. The next door neighbour had a sunny spot and hers seemed to do well.
DeleteBeautiful flowers.
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