Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2017

Gardener´s Propagation week June 2017: My rose cuttings are blooming!


Dear readers,
I have been waiting for long, but finally my self-propagated roses opened their buds! I took many rose cuttings in spring and summer 2016, hoping they would produce roots and develop into plants. I must admit, propagating roses turned out to be quite a challenge. Many of my rose cuttings failed due to rotting. Nevertheless, it is such a wonderful feeling to see how some cuttings are little rose plants now. Six of them even produced buds this year and four are in bloom at the moment. Since I could´t remember which cutting is from which rose, it was a lovely surprise to see them flower for the first time. I am so pleased with their flowers and find it fascinating how such tiny plants can already produce such perfect looking flowers!

Gardener´s Propagation Week
As propagating roses was such a lovely experience for me, I would love to initiate a week every month in which I´d like to encourage other bloggers to post about the plants they propagated in their gardens or try to propagate at the moment. This, of course, could be about any kind of propagation such as taking cuttings, sowing seeds, dividing plants, or maybe some plants have self-sown in your garden. I´d be very happy if you were to participate in Gardener´s Propagation Week, which will take place in the first week of every month from now on. I´d wanted it to be a week rather than just one day as this hopefully gives you more time to participate. After participating, please share the link of your post on plant propagation in a comment. I am sure there is so much to share about plant propagation and it would be lovely to hear about your tips and tricks and results. In case you would like to try yourself in propagating roses through cuttings, now is a great time to do so. After the first rose flush is over, we will probably all be busy cutting back our roses and I am sure friends, and neighbours as well as other gardeners will be happy to share some rose cuttings with you.
If you like the idea of Gardener´s Propagation Week then please participate and share with other bloggers and gardeners.
I am looking forward to seeing your posts on plant propagation and hope you enjoy seeing my self-propagated roses!
Best wishes,
Lisa









Rose No 1: This was the first self-propagated- rose to open its buds.

Rose No 1: Here a picture of the whole plant. As you can see, the branches are very long and I am thinking of cutting them back a bit after flowering so it might grow more compact.

Rose No 1

Rose No 1

Rose No 1

Rose No 1

Rose No 1: As you might see in this picture, the colour fades from light pink to almost white.

Rose No 2: This rose is a very vigorous one. It is almost unbelievable how much it grew.

Rose No 2

Rose No 2

Rose No 2

Rose No 2

Rose No 2

Rose No 2

Rose No 3 - my absolute favourite

Rose No 3

Rose No 3


Rose No 3

Rose No 3

Rose No 3


Rose No 3
Rose No 3

Rose No 3

Rose No 3

Rose No 3

Rose No 3

Rose No 4 - a moss rose

Rose No 4

Rose No 4

Rose No 4

Rose No 4

Rose No 4

Rose No 4

Rose No 4












Mittwoch, 24. Mai 2017

May Roses

Dear readers,
for me this is truly the most wonderful time of the year! Every day a new rose opens its buds and transforms the garden into a beautiful sea of colour. And then there is also this wonderful rose smell, just lovely! One of my roses, "Captain John Ingram", a moss rose, I am especially happy about this year. I bought it two years ago and the first year it only had two blooms as it was still a rather small plant. The next year, last year, I was looking forward to seeing more blooms of this beautiful rose. However, I was very disappointed to see that the rose had only one flower. I was pondering about what I did wrong. Doing some research on old roses, I realised that being a once blooming rose I should´t have pruned it back in spring as once blooming roses only produce flowers on old wood. This year I didn´t prune Captain John Ingram and it produced many buds, some of them already in flower. There is another rose, which I especially enjoy - Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche. I bought the rose last year in autumn. I had never seen the rose in any garden before, just saw a picture of it´s bloom in the online-catalog. Seeing its pretty peony-like blooms for the first time this spring, I am very happy I  bought it. Its smell is delicious too.  I would love to know which roses you like best and which roses bloom in your garden at the moment!
Enjoy this wonderful season of the year!
Best wishes,
Lisa

David Austin Rosa Princess Anne
Princess Anne on my mum´s terrace
Princess Anne
Rosa Louise Odier
Rosa Reine des Violettes
Rosa Reine des Violettes
Rosa Reine des Violettes
Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche
Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche
Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche

Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche
Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche
Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche



Rosa Rosa Archiduchesse Elisabeth d´Austriche
Rosa Captain John Ingram
Rosa Captain John Ingram
Rosa Jacques Cartier
Rosa Jacques Cartier

David Austin Rosa Harlow Carr
David Austin Rosa Harlow Carr

Rosa Variegata di Bologna
Rosa Variegata di Bologna
Rosa Variegata di Bologna
Rosa Mme Boll
Rosa Mme Boll
Rosa Heidi Klum

Rosa Heidi Klum
Rosa Heidi Klum


Lychnis viscaria Plena

Lychnis flos-cuculi Petite Jenny
Gypsophila repens





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