No, you do not talk too much. Enjoy your commentary because you are so enthusiastic about your garden and I learn so much from your experience with the different roses.. Love.
Thank you Peggy for your kind comment. Comments like this really gives us amateurs like myself little confidence . I may lack experience but have passion.
Hi Ken. I am getting addicted to your videos. Your joy is highly contageous. I would like to be able to smell all your roses while watching and listening. Or even better to transfer them to my own garden. But at least your videos give me a lot of inspiration. Thank you from Czechia.
Thank you Jana for your kind comment. It’s true I’m truly passionate about roses especially the ones with good fragrance. They really gives me so much pleasure. I’m lucky to have this opportunity to share this passion with so many people.
@@kenvoong5977 Then, it is great for both sides. We are happy you do share the pleasure with us and you are happy you can share it with us. I love your videos.
Hi Ken, thank you so much for the magnificent video. Such a vast array of roses and colours. Stunning ! I wish we had smelly vision for all these wonderful garden tours of roses. Your garden is looking very healthy, so many beautiful blooms, thanks again for the look around your collection, hope you are having a lovely weekend, take care.
Hi Linda, thank you so much 😊 where have you been? Haven’t seen your garden for ages!!! We’d love to see your garden Linda .. and no excuses as they should be in flower. My sis and I are constantly bombarding RU-vid with videos, I ain’t suprise everyone isn’t sick of us..lol
@@kenvoong5977 Hi Ken, we never get sick of garden videos please don't worry about that ! My wish list just grows and grows though after watching your videos :) The weather here hasn't been bad the last couple of days, by that I mean it hasn't been throwing it down haha which it has done a lot of lately :( Roses are just starting to bloom. A video is uploading at the moment, glad I did it yesterday as it's showery and very blustery again here today ! Hope the weather is better where you are, take care.
@@soulgirlktf yes my tour was Also delayed due to constant unsettled weather, like you said it isn’t hurricane Treena but bad enough for making a tour. As you we all know roses won’t wait around for good weather to bloom. Can’t wait to sit down and enjoy your garden tour.
Everything is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your beautiful roses and experience, Ken. It is such a big help to us who are learning and such an enjoyment to walk through your garden with you!
Excellent rundown. I watch these while I eat after a long day of planting. I bought Raspberry Cupcake yesterday and put it in a pot. It reminds me of Gabriel Oak in looks and fragrance. The nursery also had an Emily Bronte which I grabbed and I hope mine looks as impressive as yours eventually. I also got a Roald Dahl which i will probably put in a pot since yours did so well. Molyneaux went into a pot. I may grab Beverly and Bathsheba tomorrow even though i am out of space.
Hi Howard, we both have very similar taste in roses. Really good to hear raspberry parfuma bear similarity to Gabriel oak. Oh don’t buy Bathsheba Howard, her blooms have the tendency of balling up. Buy wollerton old hall if they have it in stock. WOH has the most wonderful scent.
Thank you. I think it’s important to let others know the negatives and positives of certain varieties and not to show just the flowers itself. Growing habit, disease resistance , how long blooms last etc .. is equally as important . We all know most roses are beautiful but nothing is perfect.
I was so excited to see another garden video from you! Thank you for sharing your garden and rose growing experience with us. It is very helpful and entertaining to watch. Looking forward to see more!
Thank you! I like to say everything is beautiful but that isn’t always the case. Sharing my own experience is equally as important. Thanks for showing your interest and comments.
Thank you for such a lovely tour of your garden. I have Summer Song and I am glad that you didn’t get rid of it as you have mentioned last year. Molineux is a great performer for me. Also allow me to suggest Princess Anne from DA though it has no scent but it will definitely flower more abundantly than most roses. I had it in flower from top to bottom for 2 months continuously last year. Melbourne.
Hi Carmen, yes molineux does well at the back end of my garden. I have 2 summer song one of which I dug up and gave it away leaving just the 1. I have princess Ann in the middle of my rose border which is doing fine. I will be showing her on part 2 of my tour. Like you said she does flower well. Her lack of scent is really her downfall.
Genuinely passionate garderner. I appreciate your brutal and honest comments on Penolepe lively. I'm almost about to get it, but dont think I want a leggy and floppy rose despite of 3 recommendations by D.A (best for health-Best of flowering-Best of fragrance). I can really relate to your euphorical reaction when you sniff the roses. It just spell out hapiness. All the best to you. Glad you decided to film this video. The bright and sunny weather is gone again for the rest of this week.
Hi Soli, yes Penelope lively was ok first year, but I could almost guess what her growing habit would be . This second year is even worse than the first. The ones I saw at da HQ was just as awful. If you want something similar with good scent, you can’t go wrong with Gabriel oak or James Austin. The on my next garden tour you will see them. I use to be passionate, now it’s more of an obsession.
@@kenvoong5977 I already had Gabriel Oak.I bought it last year along side with Princess Alexandra of Kent. It is very intoxicating fruity scent. I absolutely love it.
@calittlegarden-3311 🤭 if you speak in English you will lose all your Chinese viewers. Your passion for roses is unimaginable and your rose garden is one of the best I’ve seen.
@@kenvoong5977 you are so kind. I am very enjoying your video and looking forward the next one. O well, My families said it will limited my audience if I only speak in mandarin 😅. My friends around me, none of them understand what I am saying in video 🤣. It is kind of twisted in someway. Thank for your in put as well. 🥰
@@calittlegarden-3311 😂 at least you tried. Some times we can only choose one or the other and can’t have both. You should stick to what you are good at don’t listen to other people’s opinion.
Lovey video, Ken! We have been in Albrighton few days ago, left with totally different roses, that we originally thought we would leave with!) Came after Princess Alexandra and Queen of Sweden, left with Gabriel Oak and Charles Darwin. I was smitten by Charles Darwin size, shape of the flower and the most amazing tea scent. Next will be Summer Song for this incredible apple scent (although site claimes it smells by bananas, lol). Another unexpected few went into the Wish List: retired Shropsire Lad (where to find it now!) Wildeve and Desdemona. Not to mention that we still want Princess Alexandra and Queen of Sweden (what a straight posture of the last one!). I was completely put off by Batsheba scent (sorry to all admirers), it turns my stomach by earthy, cellar kind of aroma) But everyone's nose is different, thankfully! What sort of soil do you put into the containers, Ken, and what feed do you use?.. I just noticed some roses were unusually thin, woder if it is the "type" or they need something.
Hi Molly you have really time your visit to perfection as most of the rose would have been in flower. My trip to the gardens was purely a visit and see some of the rose that I haven’t seen before so didn’t end up buying anything. My sister has Shropshire lad in her garden and it smell lovely. I just had a look at Trevor white as they normally stock a few retired da roses, unfortunately they haven’t got them. I did put an order for Evelyn and Abraham Darby. Gabriel oak would be a good choice not so is queen of Sweden. Bathsheba’s fragrant is not to everyone’s liking, has a damp myrrh scent which I really like. I remember seeing Darwin but don’t recall having a strong scent . I feed I roses with top rose twice a year. Liquid feed my potted roses with boost ( liquid fertiliser) and spray all my roses with Uncle toms tonic, which they will obsorbes the nutrients through their leaves. My potted roses have been in the same soil for few years, I remember they were mixture of multi purpose compost and John inns No3.
Your roses all all Very pretty. I received my first three Bascobel bare root from DA in Feb because potted ones wasn’t available at the time, I can’t believe they’re all blooming profusely in May-I am so impressed by them, I am thinking I will only go bare root going forward, none of my potted roses bloom the first year after planting.
Hi liz yes I thought potted rose are always more established, I suppose in most case I would say yes. Like you I’m not wasting my money on potted anymore. Yes boscabel is a fantastic rose which a sweet fruity fragrance unmatched. She will probably be in my top 5 this year for fragrance.
Oh dear what’s going on with your Penelope lively. Mine is looking more like the second one thankfully. My mum in a million is a darker pink but agree the scent is gorgeous. Thanks for a wonderful garden tour 💕
Hi Kyla, yes Penelope is really floppy, don’t know why it does this, I think it’s just how it grows. I just had to buy another and fortunately the second bush has a been pretty good so far. Thank you for watching
Your garden is looking wonderful Ken. I bet it smells amazing too. I saw Elizabeth in the garden centre yesterday and was tempted to buy her but I really don't have the room for any more roses in my garden. Seeing yours has made me wish I'd bought her. Hasn't it be lovely weather? I've been in my garden for most of the day planting containers with bedding plants. I always sow too many seeds thinking they won't germinate and then they prove me wrong. On top of this, I get carried away and buy loads of summer bedding plants from the garden centre then get them home and think where am I going to put them! Looking at the amount of buds on your roses, I think you are going to have beautiful flowers for a very long time. Love the story about New Dawn. She is my favourite rose as my grandma had it and I have wonderful memories of her.
Hi Wendy, yes today’s been a wonderful day sorting the garden and planting. Don’t be like me Wendy Be yourself ! My obsession will eventually get me in trouble one day , for the time being I can just about manage. Often I do feel little guilty ( just a little ) spending too much time in the garden and not enough time with my teen age daughter and not to mention the wife. Negligent does often come in mind. My time spent at work putting food on the table makes up I suppose? Elizabeth is a fantastic rose, but eustacia vye , Gabriel oak, Emily Brontë and destemona, Gertrude and not to mention wollerton old hall would be my recommendation if you’ve not already have.
Lovely Ken. Your garden is looking fab. Great spread of colour and a wonderful collection. Your poets wife is looking better than mine. Mine has gone spread eagle. You had a wren singing in your garden also, always lovely to hear. Oh and it’s pronounced Japanese Enema.
Hi Jay Jay, how did you and Peter got together today ? What a coincidence that you two met up. lol 😂 yes I totally forgot how to pronounce Japanese anemone , it looks different to how it sounds. Now I remember it’s “ an enemy “ . I took you advice and dug most of them out so it doesn’t spread any further. 😝 My poets wife has wings like yours Jay, I just tie them down to stop it spreading like an eagle.🦅 .. wren? You’re so talented, just by listening you can tell which bird species 🐦, I’m impressed. I’m just lucky you didn’t say I sounded like a crow when I started singing 🎶
Thank you Naomi, if only I have the garden as big as yours, my roses won’t have to suffer from over crowding. Yes golden celebration seems to be a unhealthy variety. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
About Chippendale: Strange! This rose is actually has quite some fragrance, but sometimes it also has frilly petals and sometimes it doesn’t . Maybe next year it will have some scent.
Hi Calvin, I’ve not had much experience with the rose. In terms of scent , I’m only detecting a very light scent. We can’t have it all, her beauty and long lasting flowers makes up for lack of scent. Perhaps once she is more established she might smell better. At the moment I’m very pleased with this new rose😊
Loved the trip around your garden Ken. Everything looking really good. Certainly good descriptions of each rose. You have a Pilgrim, I have a Pilgrim. If you'd like to see what it can grow into look at my latest video. It starts with the Pilgrim. It's been flowering for sometime now and still looking good. I shall now start watching your Part 2 of your garden. Cheers, P.
Hi Peter Yes I’ve see your pilgrim and it seems all your climbing roses are magnificent. Mine are tucked away at the back and struggle To thrive. The problem I have is , I want them all but lack of space. I just bought 2 potted blush noisette yesterday and i still thinking where I should grow it, perhaps close together for a bigger impact.
@@kenvoong5977 Thanks for the reply Ken. Re the Blush Noisette. I don't know the answer to the question you're asking yourself. All I can say is the one at the top of my garden near the 'Little House' all just grows from one stem. The other one nearer the house and garage I think, but I'll check tomorrow, come from two stems. I'll let you know tomorrow. How many stems do yours have?
@@kenvoong5977 I took a look at the 2X Blush N's Ken. On one everything comes off one main stem. On the other, two main stems although it did send out a new basal stem last year - quite small as yet - and there's another one coming now which I was unaware of. All looking good. I shall look at your Part 2 video in the next day or two. Cheers, P.
@@peterhaymaker7562 Hi Peter. That’s pretty amazing so many blooms coming from 1 main stem. It’s really the fragrance and masses of flowers that sold me this roses . Thanks for your update
Thank Gavin, really glad the first tour is out the way. Been impatiently waiting for a decent flush of flowers and so glad the weather finally held up.
You must be very pleased with how good the garden is looking now - the result of a lot of hard work on your part, and the sunshine helps! This weekend I forced my wife to walk around and sniff all the David Austin roses in a garden centre - do you think this counts as marital abuse? Of the ones we don't have in the garden (yet?) Wollerton Old Hall impressed us both with its strong fragrance, which we agreed was like liquorice, and we also liked Sceptered Isle's strong myrrh scent. Mum in a Million as you say has a beautiful fragrance too. Did you see the Blush Noisette in Jay Jay's video today? - backs up my opinion/recommendation I think. Your Penelope Lively duo demonstrates that performance can vary greatly between two of the same rose, and we should be careful not generalise too rigidly based on our experience with one example in one situation. It's always interesting to see your garden, particularly to see roses I don't know, or how roses I do know cope in different situations, and maybe pick up ideas and recommendations. I think we all have to be careful about getting too obsessive about our "preciouses" though - people might think we are fanatics who've lost the plot. We know we are qute sane, but other people can be a bit odd, don't you find?
Hi Nik, yes I’m pleased with how the garden has turned out. All the time and money has been well spent. I always thought you were the victim of roses abuse. I love my life more to even consider enforcing such a thing. If only I knew WOH was fragrant, I would have bought more, yes the fragrance of WOH and sceptre truly is another level of potency but not to everyone’s nose pallet. Yes how Jay Jay and Peter connected is pretty unbelievable, his Blush noisette is stunning like you said. And I have finally managed to get hold of Abraham Darby and few others for next year, my list is now truly complete .
