Just wow! Your collection of roses are all fantastic, Eustacia Vye has incredible number of flowers and I can see huge difference of roses planted in pots compared to roses in the soil. Thanks for sharing!😍
Thank you for sharing your beautiful roses and your lovely view, Nik. I have The Generous Gardener climbing rose, which is in its 4th year. It has an incredible amount of blooms this year. I also have Eustacia Vye. It has a beautiful fragrance and form to its blooms. Unfortunately, mine suffers from downy mildew. Have you experienced it with yours?
Your roses are looking gorgeous Nik and I love the views of your whole garden. Your grass is looking so green and lush at the moment. I must get a "Blush Noisette" as fragrance is a huge thing for me and look at all those buds on her! I've got "Dame Judi Dench" but I think I prefer "Lady of Shalott" out of the two. I'm so pleased that my "Eustacia Vye" perked up as I thought I'd lost her earlier in the year. Mines not in flower yet but she's full of buds and I'll be well chuffed if she's even half as good as yours. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks Wendy. Green and lush grass can also be described as a soggy lawn! Eustacia Vye seems to be getting recognised as one of DA's best flowering shrubs now. Blush Noisette is meant to be a climber, but maybe it can be kept in bounds by a pot and a willingness to cut it back - it does go on flowering through the year. Lots of flowers and a fragrance DA describe as "strong musk" - I'm almost persuading myself to buy another, although I don't know where it would go!
Thank you so much for the lovely walk around the garden Nik, you have so many beautiful roses I do not know how you remember them all ! My blush noisette is crammed full of buds, it was a bare root last year so didn't do too much but this year if the rain could just go away perhaps the flowers will follow soon :) Emily looks so beautiful and Princess Anne is full of flowers, so pretty. They are all looking really happy and healthy. Eustacia Vye just stunning, it's definitely still on my wish list. So many on my wish list like everyone else :) Desdemona looks so pretty, really lovely. The clematis I believe is a texensis 'Princess Kate' I hope you are enjoying better weather there, sadly we have mostly rain again today, but things are set to brighten up thankfully, take care and thanks for the lovely tour. Wish we had smelly vision :)
Thanks Linda. Nice to have my garden appreciated by others. Yes, it is Princess Kate clematis - on a north facing fence, so I suppose I am lucky that it is producing anything. I am glad you have a Blush Noisette - I think you will love it for its fragrance. Fortunately, although it's been chilly and breezy here today, I have been able to get outside. I was potting up about 50 seedlings, which I find a strain on the back, but I will get my reward in a month or two when they start to flower. Having congratulated myself on having got the weeding more or less up to date, today I discovered hundreds of tiny new weeds... The weather must turn warm and sunny soon, although I do wonder if my roses have benefited from the weather and actually done better in the cool, wet conditions? Anyway, I am really happy with the garden now, and there are still 8-9 of the new bare roots which have yet to flower for me, which is something to look forward to.
When you said blush noisette smell good, it’s now another to add on my wish list for next year. I’ve just checked Eastcroft has it . I think I’m buggered😢. This year my roses are flowering at different times, some are already finished their first flush and yet others have only started. Great looking roses Nik
Thanks Ken. As @obiwankenobi6952 points out below, it's really a climber/rambler. But it did flower almost non-stop last year, and it may be one of those roses that with all those flowers pumping out the perfume at the same time actually spreads its fragrance around rather than needing you to risk a bee sting by sticking your nose in, but my sense of smell wasn't working very well last year. And if you decide to grow it as a climber, think how many fragrant flowers there will be. Yes, my Blue Eyes, the first rose to flower for me this year, is just starting its second flush, but I have 8-9 roses that still haven't flowered at all yet - I suppose that's good for us though, giving us something different to focus on every day? I am sorry to be responsible for adding to your "to buy" list, but just think how jealous it will make your sister!
Great stuff nik. Your sweet honey is racing along will do much better than mine this year. And I agree Eustacia Vye this year is going Berserk in my garden also. And that’s after such a brutal prune. I can’t see anything currently matching it, just more and more buds each day. Your Desdemona the pick of your roses for me today. That shot you captured earlier on yeah that’s Desdemona at her finest with that slightest of pink. Lovely. Cheers nik
Thanks Jay Jay. I really feel like the garden has taken off now. I am loving it! I still have 8-9 new bare roots yet to flower, so that's something to look forward to, and of course the bare roots which are already flowering will be growing taller and wider, hopefully with more flowers on them! I just hope I can find the space they will be needing to expand outwards.
Your garden is beautiful, so many roses to admire, and other plants - I think ' It's a wonderful Life' has stolen my heart this time, is it a reliable rose generally, with scent? I wonder if it will stand up to our westerly winds and wet here in Cornwall? Thank you for the guided tour😊
I can't tell you a lot about It's a wonderful Life. I bought it as a bare root 6 months ago, potted it and let it overwinter in the greenhouse and brought it outside a month or two ago. The one I have seems to have strong main stems, but I have noticed some new thinner stems have snapped/bent while remaining attached to the bush, and that is an issue I have not had with the other bare roots I bought at the same time. However, there are a lot of new stems (I have put some short bamboo supports in as a precaution) and for a new bare root it is flowering magnificently (about 30+ buds and good-sized flowers on it at the moment) and it survived the torrential rain and a hailstorm we had earlier this week with no real damage to the flowers as you can see. Unfortunately, it has no fragrance. I think it is the bare root I am most happy with so far.
Wow…love Elisabeth Colour, I didn’t know Blush Nioisette is a Bush, I only seen it as a Rambler 😮 can you keep it as a Bush ? 🤔How is the rain resistance on Gabriel Oak, keep him in a Pot but not sure if his Flowers withstand Rain…?…same Temperature in Germany and…lots of rain 🌧️ …❤ Lovely Garden…Best Wishes from Germany
I originally bought Blush Noisette a couple of years ago to have a fragrant rose which would grow around our door, but in a good-sized pot it did not achieve much height last year (although it did spread out width-wise - maybe looking for supports to grow on) and I cut it back to a foot or so in height last autumn. Whether it will continue to be manageable as a bush remains to be seen, but if you are prepared to cut it back I would think so. I can't remember how well Gabriel withstands rain, but I don't think it suffered that much and it produces so many flowers that any temporary damage will soon be forgotten. The problems I had with Gabriel in the ground were his tendency to spread out with long untidy horizontal stems, but they can be cut back and now he seems to be quite a tidy bush. I am sure Gabriel will feature in my future videos, so you can keep an eye on his rain resistance. Elizabeth is a rose with character - it's a rose that makes me smile when I see it, not a rose that leaves me staring at its beauty. Thanks for watching.
Just wow! Your collection of roses are all fantastic, Eustacia Vye has incredible number of flowers and I can see huge difference of roses planted in pots compared to roses in the soil. Thanks for sharing!😍
Thank you for sharing your beautiful roses and your lovely view, Nik. I have The Generous Gardener climbing rose, which is in its 4th year. It has an incredible amount of blooms this year. I also have Eustacia Vye. It has a beautiful fragrance and form to its blooms. Unfortunately, mine suffers from downy mildew. Have you experienced it with yours?
Your roses are looking gorgeous Nik and I love the views of your whole garden. Your grass is looking so green and lush at the moment. I must get a "Blush Noisette" as fragrance is a huge thing for me and look at all those buds on her! I've got "Dame Judi Dench" but I think I prefer "Lady of Shalott" out of the two. I'm so pleased that my "Eustacia Vye" perked up as I thought I'd lost her earlier in the year. Mines not in flower yet but she's full of buds and I'll be well chuffed if she's even half as good as yours. Thanks for the tour.
Thanks Wendy. Green and lush grass can also be described as a soggy lawn! Eustacia Vye seems to be getting recognised as one of DA's best flowering shrubs now. Blush Noisette is meant to be a climber, but maybe it can be kept in bounds by a pot and a willingness to cut it back - it does go on flowering through the year. Lots of flowers and a fragrance DA describe as "strong musk" - I'm almost persuading myself to buy another, although I don't know where it would go!
Thank you so much for the lovely walk around the garden Nik, you have so many beautiful roses I do not know how you remember them all ! My blush noisette is crammed full of buds, it was a bare root last year so didn't do too much but this year if the rain could just go away perhaps the flowers will follow soon :) Emily looks so beautiful and Princess Anne is full of flowers, so pretty. They are all looking really happy and healthy. Eustacia Vye just stunning, it's definitely still on my wish list. So many on my wish list like everyone else :) Desdemona looks so pretty, really lovely. The clematis I believe is a texensis 'Princess Kate' I hope you are enjoying better weather there, sadly we have mostly rain again today, but things are set to brighten up thankfully, take care and thanks for the lovely tour. Wish we had smelly vision :)
Thanks Linda. Nice to have my garden appreciated by others. Yes, it is Princess Kate clematis - on a north facing fence, so I suppose I am lucky that it is producing anything. I am glad you have a Blush Noisette - I think you will love it for its fragrance. Fortunately, although it's been chilly and breezy here today, I have been able to get outside. I was potting up about 50 seedlings, which I find a strain on the back, but I will get my reward in a month or two when they start to flower. Having congratulated myself on having got the weeding more or less up to date, today I discovered hundreds of tiny new weeds... The weather must turn warm and sunny soon, although I do wonder if my roses have benefited from the weather and actually done better in the cool, wet conditions? Anyway, I am really happy with the garden now, and there are still 8-9 of the new bare roots which have yet to flower for me, which is something to look forward to.
When you said blush noisette smell good, it’s now another to add on my wish list for next year. I’ve just checked Eastcroft has it . I think I’m buggered😢. This year my roses are flowering at different times, some are already finished their first flush and yet others have only started. Great looking roses Nik
Thanks Ken. As @obiwankenobi6952 points out below, it's really a climber/rambler. But it did flower almost non-stop last year, and it may be one of those roses that with all those flowers pumping out the perfume at the same time actually spreads its fragrance around rather than needing you to risk a bee sting by sticking your nose in, but my sense of smell wasn't working very well last year. And if you decide to grow it as a climber, think how many fragrant flowers there will be. Yes, my Blue Eyes, the first rose to flower for me this year, is just starting its second flush, but I have 8-9 roses that still haven't flowered at all yet - I suppose that's good for us though, giving us something different to focus on every day? I am sorry to be responsible for adding to your "to buy" list, but just think how jealous it will make your sister!
Great stuff nik. Your sweet honey is racing along will do much better than mine this year. And I agree Eustacia Vye this year is going Berserk in my garden also. And that’s after such a brutal prune. I can’t see anything currently matching it, just more and more buds each day. Your Desdemona the pick of your roses for me today. That shot you captured earlier on yeah that’s Desdemona at her finest with that slightest of pink. Lovely. Cheers nik
Thanks Jay Jay. I really feel like the garden has taken off now. I am loving it! I still have 8-9 new bare roots yet to flower, so that's something to look forward to, and of course the bare roots which are already flowering will be growing taller and wider, hopefully with more flowers on them! I just hope I can find the space they will be needing to expand outwards.
Your garden is beautiful, so many roses to admire, and other plants - I think ' It's a wonderful Life' has stolen my heart this time, is it a reliable rose generally, with scent? I wonder if it will stand up to our westerly winds and wet here in Cornwall? Thank you for the guided tour😊
I can't tell you a lot about It's a wonderful Life. I bought it as a bare root 6 months ago, potted it and let it overwinter in the greenhouse and brought it outside a month or two ago. The one I have seems to have strong main stems, but I have noticed some new thinner stems have snapped/bent while remaining attached to the bush, and that is an issue I have not had with the other bare roots I bought at the same time. However, there are a lot of new stems (I have put some short bamboo supports in as a precaution) and for a new bare root it is flowering magnificently (about 30+ buds and good-sized flowers on it at the moment) and it survived the torrential rain and a hailstorm we had earlier this week with no real damage to the flowers as you can see. Unfortunately, it has no fragrance. I think it is the bare root I am most happy with so far.
On the Eastcroft Roses site it says it has a medium fruity fragrance - and flowers nearly non-stop during the summer - and was Rose of the Year 2022.
@@nikkonch Many thanks for the info👍
Wow…love Elisabeth Colour, I didn’t know Blush Nioisette is a Bush, I only seen it as a Rambler 😮 can you keep it as a Bush ? 🤔How is the rain resistance on Gabriel Oak, keep him in a Pot but not sure if his Flowers withstand Rain…?…same Temperature in Germany and…lots of rain 🌧️ …❤ Lovely Garden…Best Wishes from Germany
I originally bought Blush Noisette a couple of years ago to have a fragrant rose which would grow around our door, but in a good-sized pot it did not achieve much height last year (although it did spread out width-wise - maybe looking for supports to grow on) and I cut it back to a foot or so in height last autumn. Whether it will continue to be manageable as a bush remains to be seen, but if you are prepared to cut it back I would think so. I can't remember how well Gabriel withstands rain, but I don't think it suffered that much and it produces so many flowers that any temporary damage will soon be forgotten. The problems I had with Gabriel in the ground were his tendency to spread out with long untidy horizontal stems, but they can be cut back and now he seems to be quite a tidy bush. I am sure Gabriel will feature in my future videos, so you can keep an eye on his rain resistance. Elizabeth is a rose with character - it's a rose that makes me smile when I see it, not a rose that leaves me staring at its beauty. Thanks for watching.