Deal DA-Friends,

Here mit Pat Austin high Trunk. May 31. 2023 8.40 p.m.

Sorry , I mean Dear Not Deal

A beautiful rose bush. So healthy!

And this is Lady of Shallot high trunk too.

Both growing in Lower Saxony , Germany.

Which do you think is the Apricot -Queen on high trunk ?

Sorry , I have forgotten to introduce myself.

I am a DA-Rose-Grower in Lower Saxony in the North of Germany.
Especially a favoured the High Trunks. In yellow -apricot there are growing besides Pat Austin and Lady of Shallot

Crown Princess Margaret
Lady Emma Hamilton (great Fragrance)
Golden Celebration

As Climbing Roses I have Shropshire Lad
As Bushes Gertrud Jekyll , one of the greatest roses ever created
The Pilgrim
Teasing Georgia
And others

by the way, writing is not easy with this writing-program. When i Write a Word , another comes out. So i have to try several times before i get the Right Word.
When i Write an englisch Word, a German Word comes out for example.

What do I wrong ?

This is Lady of Shalot on Christmas eve 2020 , 24. December 2020 1 p.m.

This is Pat Austin at 2. January 2021 3 p.m.

Nothing was blooming on this day, exept my Pat Austin "The Winter-Rose"

I live in the mountains of northern California and yes, the temps for summer are in the high 90s to low 100s.

I only grow one Austin, 'Perdita'. Even with regular deep watering, the rose just kind of puttered along. Never failing, but also not thriving.

Three years ago, I found that if I added chelated iron to all of my roses, ALL of them performed much, much better.

Back to 'Perdita', the rose is now thriving. It has more foliage than it has ever produced in prior years and is covered with buds.

My roses are just starting to pop. We had a long, snowy spring and everything is behind schedule, but as I look at the roses, I am totally awed by their performance.

My soil had tested just slightly alkaline and should not have needed the additional iron, but I did a bit of research and found that the iron that was already in my soil was "locked up" and not available to the plants because of this slight ph variance.

The iron is needed to help plants produce chlorophyll which is needed for photosynthesis.

Something to think about.

Smiles,
Ly

Lady of shallot ist also blooming on late September , close to harvest
25. September 2021

I grow my DA-Roses as follows

Planted in special rose-earth

Using special mineral fertilizer for roses in March and after first blooming in July .

Cutting by a professional Rose-Cutter in early spring.

In the last winters no sheltering of the high trunks.
This was the reason why my HT Pat Austin nearly died in the winter 2021/2022.
But it survived and the dead shoots were cutted away in the following Spring. The still living two shoots above the grafting saved the rose.

Pat Austin on HT is not availible anymore , because it must not be grafted any longer.

Next winter I will shelter the Rose again.

Cherusky, your roses are beautiful, and welcome to the forum!

thank you very much,
porkpal

and greetings from lower Saxony

The Rose-Season has just being started in my Garden .
Winchester Cathedral , as a bush ,nearly drowned in Lavendula , is just coming out for blooming.

Herzlich willkommen! Deine Rosen sind wunderschön!

@Cherusky , you really do have some beautiful roses there.

[quote="Cherusky"] Sorry , I have forgotten to introduce myself.

I am a DA-Rose-Grower in Lower Saxony in the North of Germany.
Especially a favoured the High Trunks. In yellow -apricot there are growing besides Pat Austin and Lady of Shallot

Crown Princess Margaret
Lady Emma Hamilton (great Fragrance)
Golden Celebration

As Climbing Roses I have Shropshire Lad
As Bushes Gertrud Jekyll , one of the greatest roses ever created
The Pilgrim
Teasing Georgia
And others

by the way, writing is not easy with this writing-program. When i Write a Word , another comes out. So i have to try several times before i get the Right Word.
When i Write an englisch Word, a German Word comes out for example.

What do I wrong ? [/quote

You're doing just fine. We all ( English speaking ) sometimes spell something wrong, but, in the context of the sentence, it's usually easy to understand, so, don't worry about it.
Welcome to the forum, Cherusky!

It sounds as if perhaps the auto-correct is over zealous.

porkpal said: It sounds as if perhaps the auto-correct is over zealous.

That's probably what's going on.