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I really like this rose Joe. One of my favourites. A great scent and for my climate a pretty strong grower with good size flowers. Best of luck with yours :)

Arr thank you. We all inspire each other and that’s a great thing.

Hi Celin, I hope your well and thank you. Sorry I haven’t paid too much attention to RU-vid or your channel of late. I often miss the shorts videos it’s so easy to not slide sideways at the shorts section but I know you upload. Bliss Parfuma I look forward to seeing in your garden. In my humble a great rose. I’d love to know what you think about fragrance of it. It’s advertised as light but I love it. In my garden at least the flowers take heat pretty well and it’s one of my favourites. Best of luck. 🌹🌹

Haha “It’s only a rabbit”! Made me smile. Thanks for dropping by and glad you enjoyed the tour. :)

Thanks Linda I hope your well

Hi Cheryl and thanks. All credit to sweet honey :) I’ll pass it on :)

Thanks Rakesh it’s all a learning process for many of us I think. Many mistakes along the way but we share and people can see for themselves and make there own decisions. :)

Couldn't agree more! Keep up the good work!

Hi Linda. The moment I finished filming you know what went through my mind. I feel awful! Sorry. But gorgeous girl is doing well. So well in fact I’ve had to stake her. One of the stems is rising fast and I saw it blowing in the wind I gave it some support. Still no flowers as yet, still in bud but she is growing very well. Next time I will NOT forget to film her I promise. So glad I filmed this yesterday the rain came down overnight and smashed most of everything up as it’s been doing all year. Booo! :) I hope you get some calm weather soon.

@@Jay_Jay No worries Jay Jay when they are not in flower and you have a garden FULL of blooms it's easy to miss and your garden is crammed full of blooms it's wonderful to see after the year we've had! Nice to hear she's doing well for you, she's in good hands. She does grow tall as you know but she can take a hard prune well. I pruned mine back hard ( 2 to 3 ft ) after the first flush in an effort to get some decent sized cuttings for people and she's full of buds ready to go again 😀

Hi ronni and Ray :) Pomponella is doing very well for a year old. I was so lucky with it I think. :)

Thanks Tracey

Thank you

Lovely vintage. Yes. Either Cadfael is a rose I’m really drawn to. It’s a rose that got struck by rabbits early in the year and it was if I had a physical pain. The lovely new growth gnawed at but roses either side of it left alone. Wollerton old hall for a new rose is doing fantastic and flowering very well indeed for a baby rose. Earth angel to give a better chance I do have one planted in the ground at the front of the house so I’m keeping an eye on both. I’m glad your getting Madame Anisette. I’d love to know your thoughts on it. From that single day I spent at eastcroft I’d go as far as to say the most attractive scent I’ve smelt on a rose. Ever. And I didn’t know it was the famous Madame anisette. On that particular day it was gorgeous and powerful combined. I have asked Peter to reserve me on for bare root season. Please do let us know your thoughts. Best of luck with your new purchases.

Your nearly there lucky you!!! It must be spring there surely? Best of luck for your summer I hope you have a great one. Here it’s been…. A challenging summer :(

Yep last summer was terrible rain and more rain. Black spot was a nightmare 😤 Your videos give me hope and not to give up. Keep calm and carry on🤔

Thank you :)

Yes mate it needs picking up for sure. Thanks gav

Great rose. I said in this video one of my favourites but you notice I didn’t say it for the rose next to it. Sometimes some of our roses there is a bond, for good or bad we are drawn to them. Brother Cadfael is one of those roses for me. Great and attractive fragrance. It can throw out the most gorgeous flowers it’s a rose I’m close to. Like you say what’s not to like. :)

Oh it is indeed wonderful to find a kindred spirit!! Cadfael is my favorite too, but it just never caught on & I don't know why. I adore it & DA actually discontinued it for a while in the US. I had 3 but we had an awful summer & a hard winter here & they were in pots & 2 of them died & the one I have left is blooming but not growing much. But now DA tells me they are bacl in January & I plan to order 3 at least. There is no rose so huge, so fragrant, so gorgeous as the Bro! I think it's still available in the UK?

Sorry to hear that Barbara. We’ve had awful weather here aswell and I still don’t think the roses are as good as last year despite many of them being a year older. My Gabriel oak lark ascending and a few other Second flush just got wiped out completely pretty much. But the years not over yet :) let’s hope for a strong finish. :)

Yay well done. That’s how it starts!!! My roses have given me great joy and I hope yours do for you also. You can’t make more mistakes than me so I wouldn’t worry, just enjoy your roses :)

Oh 5beegardener, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who went a little overboard this summer & bought 20 roses! It's so hard to stop once you get started! So mant gorgeoous roses, so little space & time & energy!

Thank you. All credit to the roses :)

Hi Alice. Sweet honey is really shifting at the moment. Each day passes, more buds build. :)

Hi kevin and thank you. I’m gonna give it a go and see how I get on. It appears some people far more knowledgeable than I rate it so will see how I get on. Thanks

Hi Kim I was hoping you’d comment. Yeah I think I will try it. If it keeps that top 2,3 or 4 inches of soil dry that’s where the bloody moles like to tunnel and burrow right around the roots. Will see how I get on with it. :)

@Jay_Jay watering like this, the top soil remains totally dry. No problem 😊 you can't go wrong

Thank you lily is yours not looking wonderful ? In fact if I recall you have 2 now?

@@Jay_Jay Yes, i ve got 2 now. Both of them got buds, ready to bloom, probably next week. But they havent bloom since. Just love yours. The colour, the foliage, everything looks perfect. Brother Cadfael is also one of my favourite. I love your Amadeus as well. I dont have but always wanted. Unfortunately, dont have space for such a big rose but in future definitely gonna have one.

That’s a great idea. Mine is a baby of course but of all the roses I’ve bought this season I think it’s fair to say nothing impressed me more than with Wollerton old hall. I do like a nice climbing rose and yours going up an arch I think will look gorgeous. I agree a lovely colour and mine has been in flower forever I think. Best of luck with yours ;)

Thanks potager yes Wollerton old hall is looking fine at the moment and only bought this year. She’s gonna go in the back garden I need her to grow just a couple more feet first:)

Thank you. All credit to the roses :)

Cheers Jason I hope your garden is doing well.

@@Jay_Jay It's getting there video of it is coming soon hopefully, How is the living legend Shunie doing good I hope :D

Not as beautiful as your garden Ruth not by a long long way!!!! You will get Penelope lively next year I hope. I honestly think it will be a top performing rose.

Hi there yes Pomponella doing well now. First flush got hit with torrential rain storms right at the wrong time but I think this second flush doing much better. Wedding piano budding nicely for its second flush. Poets wife has had a terrible year I think. First full year so only a baby but in the ground and in position A. Chippendale is one of the roses that I’m really pleased with but in a surprising manner. Not overly keen on the colour of the actual flower in isolation but one of them roses when seen from a distant in a bed the overall picture very satisfying. That ..orange? Coming through draws the eye of that makes sense. I have said before non fragrant for me but occasionally I do get a light scent from her. A light scent that is nice. Mine is only Tiny but hope in a couple of years when more established it will be more of a spectacul. Yours in a row will look awesome I’ve no doubt :)

Best of luck for your visit. It’s late in the season now so many of the roses will be beyond their absolute best but I hope you still have a magnificent show. Some of these gardens are still getting tip top displays. Thank you.

When are we all gonna see your lovely garden lovely Wendy???:) The yellow flowers are evening primrose. We didn’t plant them there at the front of the bed they have self seeded. And I’d be in trouble if I pulled them up:) the daisy like flower is flea bane (not sure of spelling) but a lovely low growing plant that can spread pretty wide but still lovely.

First I’ve heard of that but it makes sense. The day I went to Peter beales it was tipping it down with rain and uetersen was very fragrant. We are due rain here any moment :)

Hi David yes I did have a look. It’s really odd because I honestly believe this rose could fly in the states. When we’ve had heatwaves or heavy rain it seems to hold its weight. The one I have in my front garden will be getting dug up I’ll see the possibility if I can get it stateside bareroot. Maybe have a competition come giveaway. Thanks David

Hi, sorry I don’t have the heritage rose, and sorry for not remembering your name when I added your correction regarding kiss me Kate. ;)

@@Jay_Jay its Lazarus. I love the heritage its a perfect rose but drops its petals way to quick.

Some great points as always nik I’ll try and grab them all if I can recall all the points. Yes it’s well known, prune out all the older and damaged stems but always scary for newbies like me when you see a great strong cane coming up from the base. But fact is especially when you have new growth like that, is the older ones don’t flower as much. Especially as the season draws on. So a mental note of what stems aren’t doing so well at this time of year, and so much easier when you have leafdrop as it’s much easier to see. Then come January I will have zero anxiety cutting that stem right back at the base. That in itself will encourage new basal canes for next year. The most consistent flowerer. Hmmmm. I will be doing my best performing rose in the next couple of weeks I reckon, but I have some new roses or only a year old doing very well on that front. Madame Alfred, absolutely fabulous, bliss, Penelope lively what a cracking performer that is! I don’t think she’s been without flower and she’s brand new. Summer romance flowered very well and long lasting. Spicy Parfuma. Olivia of course. For me Eustacia Vye hasn’t been prolific. But you ask for the most consistent flowerer and I think that goes to the most naked rose in my garden today. Rosemary Harkness. Only 2 flushes but they last. Sometimes only a couple In Flower, sometimes more. And they last well. But if I were to recommend a single rose I think Penelope lively will be a top top performer nik. Flowers aren’t the most gorgeous for me but it’s a little similar to Gabriel oak, Top performer. I hope that helps nik.

Advice and suggestions are always welcome! Thanks!@@Jay_Jay

Hi there, yes I have said on numerous occasions in previous videos that this was an experiment with no feed this year but I didn’t mention that in this video. All of the roses where mulched in spring but the roses in the ground received no feed this year. The results so far are not as clear as I would have liked because of very poor weather we’ve had. But I will be feeding next year :)

Hi there, it’s called deep root watering. The top surface soil remains dry and I’m hoping the top 2,3,4 inches of soil remaining dry, that’s where the moles transit and they love abit of wet soil. So I’m hoping it will discourage them from surrounding and invading the rootball whenever I water. I do hear it’s good for the plants also. Timeless purple is bred by NOACK, a German rose breeder. :) thanks Abhilash

@@Jay_Jay oh ok ok ... That's fine.. i can understand the challenges we face while gardening.. by nature 😅

@@Jay_Jay that's very beautiful colour infact all the timeless you have is beautiful 😍

@@naturessidewithabhilash9380 thanks mate. Timeless purple the most fragrant of the timeless collection. This year it appears timeless charisma is the most floracious. :)

@@Jay_Jay oh woww 😍 thats nice Rose performs different every year as per my experience. Some times they do great .

Hi Kyla, 100 percent I will feed next year. I will mulch all of them of course but they will all get feed. I’m not entirely sure what feed yet but I’m currently thinking as I’ve said before liquid seaweed once fortnightly on the potted roses, possibly the planted roses also. But either way they will all get fed. I just don’t think my soil is good enough for no feed. :)

Wow nik I’ve paid your question some time and thought but still a difficult decision. Ok, first of all Madame Alfred. Remember mine is only a year old. I have seen a few mature ones growing up stately type homes and they are magnificent. The canes I’ve seen as wide as my forearm. Does well in the part sun I’m told, and will take a north facing wall. My spare one id like to get a couple of feet higher before potentially relocating in a part shade position. It’s scent is 7 out of 10 a good medium fragrance in my garden. Deadheading is not a problem this will repeat regardless. Self cleaning they call it in Russia. I’d wish I had grown this up the front of my house where maid of Kent is. One of mine, the one at the front of the house did get heavy blackspot but it has regenerated its foliage. But I have seen the mature ones with blackspot It is an old English rose. The flowers are attractive but not as attractive as the photos i see of starlight symphony. My Madame Alfred is seeing 3rd flush, if it gets sun it will flower very well. Mine hasn’t been laden with flower as yet but it continues to pop them out. The flowers don’t last particularly long. 3 or 4 days max. To grow up a conifer difficult mate but I’d honestly lean toward starlight symphony a rose I know nothing about but the choice is yours. Madame Alfred could work very well. I do believe Madame Alfred would grow through it which could be spectacular. When I have a small stem from maid of Kent (another vigorous grower) grow into and behind a peg tile, that small stem doesn’t die. It grows bigger and more powerful at the tile, and I suspect Madame Alfred will grow THOUGH the conifer in a similar fashion but a difficult choice nik but Madame Alfred as you know it will grow big. I can’t help you more. My Paul’s Himalayan musk I am considering planting at the base of the Norwegian Christmas tree in a baseless pot. I’ve seen that elsewhere and it looks fab. (Although not in a baseless pot)

@@Jay_Jay Thanks for giving it so much thought. From what I'd read I thought MAC had a very strong sweet/fruity scent, but you aren't finding that so much (of course we know how smell is a personal and situational and weather-related thing). I want something growing strong enough to get in amongst the conifer but don't want something that gets difficult to manage with strong growth, so I think maybe you're right that the less vigorous SS is the safer option. Your saying that the SS flowers look more attractive to you than the MAC's (in the photos, which always show them at their best!) is reassuring - if you had said that MAC's blooms were really beautiful I would have been tempted. So, probably the final decision is to go with SS and see how that goes over a few years. I'm getting quite excited at the thought already. I see that Jparkers are selling packs of two at a reduced price ... I wonder ...?

Haha yes “for me” this is something I’m aware of using too often. But I don’t wanna upset people with my opinion so I do try and exaggerate/emphasise it’s just my opinion, my take, what I find, for me!:)

Hi yes indeed and thank you. The mistake has been pointed out and even at the time of edit I wasn’t entirely sure. Lazy editing I’m afraid. Thanks once again.

@@Jay_Jay no worries …It gets us engaging and that’s good ;) I’m here for the roses. Thank you for the videos.

Hi Kyla I lucked in. I got mine from eBay out of desperation. But for me it worked out very well. It was tiny when I got it and the roots miniscule but thankfully it worked out for me but not something I recommend. That place in the Netherlands I would try the name escapes me but they deliver to the U.K. if you need it I will get the name for you. Them or Eplants Ireland. :)

@@Jay_Jay thanks so much 😊. I don’t have anywhere to put it and I just added three more roses 🤣🤣🤣. Can it go in a 40cm pot?

Hi alfakkin, I’m really sorry but I don’t know that rose. Have you contacted Jason from Fraser valley farms he has a pretty vast collection of roses . The only RU-vid channel that I’ve seen own it is called KCW plants you could reach out to them but I don’t know who they are.

​@@Jay_Jay Thanks for your quick reply, I'm going to contact Jason tonight. Great idea!

Thank you I wasn’t aware of that, but I know a few people get fragrance from this variety of sweet honey. I think it’s described as light or medium from the sellers, but it’s something that doesn’t register with my brain very sadly.

are you sure tho? They look very similar in color and shape , I know some people ordered the new sweet honey but received the old one as they are easy to mix up. Anyway, i've got exactly the same one as you have and mine doesn't have any scent whatsoever, so you're not alone:)@@Jay_Jay

@@vorong2ru wow first I’ve heard of this. I’ll try and find out but I was certainly of the impression there was just the one sweet honey. Sounds odd two roses, different roses but with the same name that look indentical. I’ll have a look into it. Thank you

Hi Kent. You have to remember different people different days different noses etc. But I’m gonna say dee-lish and summer romance. Deep secret and or dark desire. Jasmina climbing rose and Mum in a million both are best at radiating and projecting fragrance in my garden. Boscobel and Gertrude. Bliss Parfuma they say is light fragrance but I get more than that and it’s wonderful. The new one from DA Penelope lively. There’s a good few there all very fragrant on there day.

@@Jay_Jay thanks👍

Hi there and thank you. Like most of my potted roses, my Westerland is in a baseless pot. Its roots are free to drop into the soil beneath Ive mentioned this before many times in previous videos, I may not have mentioned it in this one. I hope it will be happy there it just needs some time under its belt. ;)

@@Jay_Jay Yes, fingers crossed, it's a beautiful one 😉👍🏻

Hi Debbie, I’m trying. When you see it on form it’s lovely as I’m sure you know. Seeing it elsewhere I’m so jealous but sometimes things aren’t meant to be. She will get next year then I will make a decision. That will be 3 and a half full summers. :)

@@Jay_Jay exactly.