Tuesday 24 May 2016

The Key to Growing Roses



I assume the keys are to make the rose droop attractively.

Etoile de Hollande, one of my favourites.

These photos were taken in Chédigny on 9 May, when the roses were just starting to come into bloom. Their rose festival is the weekend of 28-29 May.

5 comments:

Le Pré de la Forge said...

And...yet again ....the forecast for the w/e is dire!!
Dire I tell you.... Dire!!

Carolyn said...

Susan, we won't get to Chedigny, but we are enjoying the roadside flowers in the Orne. I wish we had you with us to identify some of the plants. I always think I'll look them up when we get home, but I never do. We were told of a small patch of purple orchids with black-spotted leaves and dark stems. I was sure you would be able to cite chapter and verse for this plant. No white orchids have appeared yet but we will check back in a few weeks. The roadside hedges are full of hawthorns and laburnums in bloom. And in every yard, lilacs at their peak. I always like a long cool spring because flowers last so long...but this is a little too long and too cool for me!

Susan said...

The purple orchids with spotted leaves are undoubtedly Early Purple Orchid Orchis mascula (Fr. Orchis mâle). There is nothing else that has that combination.

the fly in the web said...

If you can draw down the branches roses bloom more abundantly. Those keys are a lot more attractive than my Heath Robinson arrangements of stones and string...

Susan said...

I guess that's the same idea as training fruit tree branches horizontal because they send up more fruiting spurs that way.

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