Hi New to rose growing

[cyndyp]

Mellie,

Your roses look wonderful! I agree with Chris and Hannes on the combination of Purple Skyliner and GDF....looks terrific. You did a great job capturing the colors of the roses in your photos. I wish my roses were as healthy as yours. Thanks so much for posting the pictures.

Cyndy

[MaryG]

Originally Posted by Mellie

I have planted Purple Skyliner and Ghislaine de Feligonde quite near each other and I wanted to know if they looked alright. I thought they might look okay if they mingled together I will post the picure to see what you think.
Mellie

Hi Mellie,

They look wonderful, wonderful, wonderful together. They also look healthy. As if you knew what you were doing in growing roses! You could have had me fooled! Ummm, are you the same Mellie who posted such a short while back:

Originally Posted by Mellie on 2009-05-17

I am the worse to killing off plants really Mary I am trying very hard to get a wonderful garden, I am spending a fortune on plants but not getting very far, I see so many beautiful gardens on the forum but mine is not one one those. I could never post a picture of my garden as every one would laugh at it

Mellie??? I do think you are a bit too humble!!!

Congratulations on the extreme beauty of what you've created here.

Best wishes,
Mary

[Mellie]

Mary You are to kind. I think I have wasted so much money trying to grow plants that aren't suited to my garden, it is clay, waterlogged in winter and baked hard in summer that many plants didn't survive. I read roses like this type of soil and as I had a few roses in my garden that were surviving without any attention at all I started looking into roses, the only problem I didn't like the Hybrid Teas that I grew up with but when I ordered the Peter Beales catalogue I was so intrigued with the old garden roses and then found this forum I was hooked.
I am learning about colour combinations I must admit never actually thought of this before so my garden is beginning to take shape and I am beginning to experiment with mixing rose together growing roses up trees My roses are still babies but I am delighted with the results so far, I have learnt that you cant tell in the first year how a rose is going to be and patience is needed, I am amazed at the difference from last year to this how the roses have come on you can see this with my arch I was so depressed last year when I realized that my arch was being shaded by a Silver birch tree in the summer and I thought I should remove the roses but I thought hang on lets see how they do next year and they have been a picture I don't know if they will repeat but I will keep my eye on them.
Mellie

[fog_rose]

Hi Mellie,

Your photos look great. Glad to see your Crepuscule growing so well with shade. I always read how much sun it wanted but took a chance and planted her in my shady garden. Am also getting blooms with nice repeat.

Diane

[Mellie]

Diane Thanks for that I was devastated last year when I realized how little summer sun they received and I was very tempted to transplant them. I am so relieved to see them flowering so well this year they have had a fantastic first flush of flowers so I hope mine will repeat like yours.
Mellie

[prudencel]

Hello Mellie

I loved the photos and thought your colour combinations look great. I think the purplish colours bring out the best in so many other colours, especially the pale yellows. Until recently I had never given a second thought to colour combinations etc, but ever since the rose bug was contracted I've come to realise how important it is to getting the 'atmosphere' I want (...but am a long way from getting!).

I'd love to hear how your with Purple Skyliner progresses - it is high on my wish list. At the moment Ive nowhere left to plant any more roses.

My sister planted the Rambling Rector about ten years ago. He has been beautiful this year - especially his scent.

Unintentionally - but somewhat comically - his companions of the last 2 years have been: Madam Hardy, Madame Legras Germain and Madame Pierre Oger. Scandalous! He does look different from your Rambling Rector in that he is slightly double, but we never saw his flowers in the early years. (cows and rabbits ate them!)

Prudence

[Mellie]

Prudence I only took the photo because I only planted RR bare rooted the week after Easter I wasn't expecting any flowers this year but I have noticed blooms do change as the mature so they will look different next year.
I know what you mean about colour combinations I used to just put in a plant where they was a space and hope for the best I have learned from Maribel and Rachel from New Zealand, they are the Queens of colour combination. Rachel hasn't posted for a long time another person I miss on the forum. They really made me aware of colours and I have started to put in a few purple and blue colour plants with the pink roses usually I end up with pink and yellow flowers and that really didn't go well but some areas are now looking better and I think I am on my way on creating a garden I have been striving for.
I brought Purple Skyliner from the sell off at Hampton Court Flower show last year and she is doing very well I just love her colour so far I would recommend her.
Mellie

[Maribel]

hi Mellie
Gorgeous pictures you posted today :) :) I fell instantly in love with Perennial Blush, what a beauty. Off to HMF to check it! you temptress you
Perennial Blue and Aloha are lovely too.
maribel
ps I just took a look on HMF and there are hardly any pics of P. Blush - shame! You could post yours?

[Mellie]

Hello Prudence, You have set me googling and researching Rambling Rector it does seem that Rambling Rector has got double petals and mine are single I hope I have the right rose. Kiftsgate seems to have single flowers, I will have to wait and see what appears next year. I really wanted Rambling Rector as everybody is writing about his beautiful scent.
Mellie

[hannes]

Hello Mellie,

I second Maribel, gorgeous pictures! And thank you for posting the photo of 'Perennial Blue' :). All the roses of the "Perennial series" are lovely. To make matters difficult for choosing, those of the "Skyliner series" are lovely too. Not to speak of two more recent German introductions, 'Kirschrose' and 'Unschuld' (both by the amateur breeder Franz Wänninger) ...

greetings
Hannes