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kimmyDkimmyD Posts: 5
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Hi 

Iam wondering if anyone can help me ??

I have purchased over the past couple of years around 70 different roses - mostly english roses, I have researched alot about form and where to plant etc...

but low and behold our Uk weather seems to not want these beauties to bloom - with the dreaded rain for up to two weeks none stop now - all my roses have either snapped or balled Or look like like they have some sort of speckled measles ... A total rose washout !!

Has anyone any tips on keeping them from braking or balling or getting wet ?? 

Thanx from a very upset rose lover 

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 16,661

    Polytunnel.?

    All those lovely roses we buy in the florists are grown inside.

  • B3B3 Posts: 25,171

    I think it's also a matter of which ones you choose. Some of mine have been ruined by the rain while others have withstood the heaviest downpours. Unfortunately I can only remember the names of the weaklingsimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 21,887

    IT HAS BEEN RAINING NON STOP HERE FOR SEVENTY TWO HOURS AND IT IS STILL GOING STRONG. MANY OF MY ROSES ARE WRECKED (AND MANY OTHER THINGS TOO).

    I SEE THAT THE DAVID AUSTIN ROSES WITH THEIR MANY-PETALLED, THIN-NECKED FLOWERS ARE THE WORST PERFORMERS, AS USUAL.

    imageWHILE THE MORE OLD FASHIONED, HYBRID TEA ONES ARE STANDING UP WELL BECAUSE THEY HAVE THICKER STEMS AND FEWER PETALS

    imageAS ARE THE RAMBLERS AND SHRUB ROSES WITH THEIR SMALLER FLOWERS

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    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,271

    David Austin roses have a tendency to droop whatever the weather so I have let the Buff Beauty ramble through the hedge and that keeps the blooms visible. The rain is certainly not helping the many petalled varieties but that is gardening for you......one year good, next year disasterous. Short of giving every rose bush an umbrella, there isn't much you can do.

  • kimmyDkimmyD Posts: 5

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    Thankyou for your replies

    i like the individual umberella quip :)

    And yes it is mostly the thin DA roses that loll and droop the worse - such an anomoly with the damn things ,my best performer out of all my roses is boscobel - its canes seem quite thick and no balling - so i have this prime specimin in the middle - surrounded by its floppy relatives steadily eating their way into the ground :( i did try tying them to a cane - but still no look ... The rain beat them down with an iron fist - some havent flowered yet as well so hoping they do ok . My worse is crown PM and Pat austin- very floppy :(  theres this one rose i have - its called Mandarin - a patio / ground cover type bush - done amazing ! Blooms its head off - no balling no flopping - think i should have bought 70 of these instead !!  Iam  hoping to keep on with rose growing .. But it is not easy growing them - i thought it would come so natural and be a breeze - looks like its a work in progress and its most definitly a hit and miss in the UK . 

    ive attached a few pictures of some roses - some ok some a little sad looking and rain ruined .

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    Thanks everyone 

  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

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    trying to save a double peonyimage

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Julie LanteriJulie Lanteri Posts: 133

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    I'm growing Crown PM up a wigwam. It's doing really well despite the monsoonish rain we've been having (i've got Gertrude growing the same way but it seems to have stronger stems anyway). Poor Darcy, however is struggling...  

  • B3B3 Posts: 25,171

    I have one DA rose and had been wondering what I was doing wrong to have heavy roses flopping on spindly stems. Now I know it's a design faultimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 7,835

    Just to say, please be patient with Austin roses. They often take 3 years to look the way they are meant to look, and often disappoint in their first season, with floppy canes and weak growth. After 3 years they can seem like entirely different roses to when first planted.

    Also, I have found that anything with a 4 foot or above measurement can be grown on a short obelisk, with some tying in, it holds them together.

    If you like apricot coloured roses, try 'The Lady Gardener', I find it to be outstanding, and upstanding..

    East Anglia, England
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