Hi all! I already have a thread to plan tall bearded irises in my garden. Because I already grow roses for the second year I thought it would be a good idea to share my short term experiences with them.
I got the first idea to grow roses a year after my beloved grandpa died. My mother - his daughter passed away a few years earlier and also a few years earlier my grandmother. What they left was a big house and mainly emotional pain to lost them all so early. Because I already lived away from home I thought about what could I take with me when we sell the property. A rose!
Especially my grandmother was a big lover of them, so I picked the biggest one, which I did know that was colored white and smelled beautifully. One thing went to another and after a year I bought about a dozen more. I had before zero experience in gardening but wanted a mini rose garden to have a beautiful memorial of my ancestors.
So my first presented rose is my grandmothers
I didn't know what cultivar it is, but from searching the web I think it's
Rose (Rosa 'Iceberg'). It's a really quick growing and blooming rose. The blooms smell sweet, fresh, very gentle. It's way smaller than it was when I replanted it, but silly me had zero experience so I didn't water it enough in the first weeks so it was quite damaged last year. Still, it fully bloomed the same season!
This is her second season on the new property and it's the first bloomer. If I remember correct it's a very very old rose so I'm really happy that she is doing so well
Photos a year before (her first year on the new property):
The second rose that I bought in the same season was
Rose (Rosa 'Sunsprite')
This is her second year and it grows like crazy! On the first photo, where I photographed my grandmothers rose, you can see it in the left upper corner. Her leaves are quite big and very disease resistant. The blooms are shortlived but that's not a problem because it blooms constantly in the summer. She has a nice, stronger smell that is a little soapy. It already, like grandmother's has cca. 10 buds and we even had a big frost problem a few weeks ago.
Photos of year before (her first year):
My third rose that I also bought the same season was
Rose (Rosa 'Caroline Victoria')
This one smells delightful and remembers me on lemons and raspberries. She has a very elegant bloom form. I see that she has here and there a little problem with blackspot.
Photos of year before (her first year):
More to come...
