Rose and some other things
Nov. 22nd, 2009 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithLast summer, two dry periods killed off almost all the container plants in my garden, including the rosemary and natives :( Four plants survived, a thyme that I can't remember what is (either T. vulgaris or officinalis), soapwort and my two "old world" roses.
If I'd made a list of which plants would survive a bad dry spell, soapwort and roses would not have been on it. That encouraged me to buy another one, so this spring I added Madame Hardy, which rewarded me with three flowers and more to come. Not bad for a new container grown rose.
This is a very lovely white Damask (introduced 1832), with a nice scent. It's supposed to be reasonably disease resistant too.
This is James Mitchell, a moss rose (so it has lots of tiny thorns along its stems) introduced in 1861. I've had this about four years. It's flowered the last two and had just one bloom each time. But it is a very pretty bloom (just past its best here). It's also disease resistant (no black spot on its lovely green leaves) and obviously quite a hardy plant.
My third rose is Cardinal de Richelieu, I missed getting a photo of it. It has rather untidy flowers but the colour is wonderful so I'll link to someone else's. It's a Gallica hybrid, introduced 1842 I think. It is scented, not strongly but it tends to linger. It seems quite hardy and fairly disease resistant, although mine has a outbreak of black spot on one branch, but it has been damp and I forgot to dust them this spring.
My two tea plants. The one on the right turned brown and died for no apparent reason. The left one is growing happily. The thing behind them is the soapwort, which has taken over its container. The orange nasturtiums are weeds. The more I pull them out, the faster they grow
Not my garden :) That's my mother with her Echium but it was a bit past its peak when I had my camera out there.
If I'd made a list of which plants would survive a bad dry spell, soapwort and roses would not have been on it. That encouraged me to buy another one, so this spring I added Madame Hardy, which rewarded me with three flowers and more to come. Not bad for a new container grown rose.
This is a very lovely white Damask (introduced 1832), with a nice scent. It's supposed to be reasonably disease resistant too.
This is James Mitchell, a moss rose (so it has lots of tiny thorns along its stems) introduced in 1861. I've had this about four years. It's flowered the last two and had just one bloom each time. But it is a very pretty bloom (just past its best here). It's also disease resistant (no black spot on its lovely green leaves) and obviously quite a hardy plant.
My third rose is Cardinal de Richelieu, I missed getting a photo of it. It has rather untidy flowers but the colour is wonderful so I'll link to someone else's. It's a Gallica hybrid, introduced 1842 I think. It is scented, not strongly but it tends to linger. It seems quite hardy and fairly disease resistant, although mine has a outbreak of black spot on one branch, but it has been damp and I forgot to dust them this spring.
My two tea plants. The one on the right turned brown and died for no apparent reason. The left one is growing happily. The thing behind them is the soapwort, which has taken over its container. The orange nasturtiums are weeds. The more I pull them out, the faster they grow
Not my garden :) That's my mother with her Echium but it was a bit past its peak when I had my camera out there.
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Date: 2009-11-22 05:11 pm (UTC)