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A Good Year for the Roses?

Posted by Colin Hunt on July 3, 2013 at 12:48pm in Plants

What plants/shrubs have actually seemed to have benefited from the harsh winter and spring? I couldn’t help noticing this week that the Roses around our way(S E Essex) are superb – even those that are often neglected are stunning.
Rhodos flowered at least a month later and for longer – some are still in bloom.

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  • Alan Hannah July 5, 2013 at 11:00pm
    Yes Roses are shaping up to be very good here! At the garden I work the Rhodo's were indeed slow to show but have lasted well. One thing I noticed driving to work was the hawthorns on verges had a fantastic display of flowers. Really lovely to see beside roads.
  • David Benson July 5, 2013 at 11:27pm

    look like the black thorns will have a good crop,it was a good year for snow drops, and dandelions

  • Jez Young July 6, 2013 at 12:09pm

    The Rhododendrons have been superb, all the rain last August helped form the buds, (that is the positive slant on last year)

  • Michèle Martin July 6, 2013 at 1:07pm

    Peonies have been fabulous this year. I've never known them flower for so long.
    But the record for me has to go to snowdrops. The cold spring meant we still had them flowering in early April - ie 3 months.

  • Heike Perry July 6, 2013 at 10:00pm

    I agree about roses flowering their socks off, my Gertrude Jekyll roses are a mass of pink, I have never seen anything like it, ditto Paeonies, except Paeonia luteus which has unaccountably died this year. Can't relly comment on Rhodos as my soil is alkaline and I only grow 2 in a tub in ericaceous soil

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    Phil Voice July 9, 2013 at 2:37pm

    We planted rosa Pierre de Monsard in late spring. It was already in flower but the heads were a touch heavy.

    A second flush is on its way and hoping the flowers are no less lovely but a little lighter on the stems.

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