Friday turned out to be another lovely autumn day. Again it was a cool start to the day but even though it was less sunny than yesterday it didn't feel too bad in any afternoon sunshine.
I've written a few blog posts about plants attempting a second crop. These have included pears, grapes and figs. None of these attempts at second crops have succeeded.
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| Rose - White Cloud - 01 June 2015 |
While it's not a true second crop our rose White Cloud still has flower buds to come. It was in flower on the 01 June this year as you can see from the picture above. A few weeks ago I'm sure that there were no signs of any flowers to come and I thought flowering had finished for the year but I was wrong.
Today we have a couple of flowers out and plenty of buds. It's just a question of how long the weather will remain decent before the buds begin to rot rather than open. Still we can't complain when we have flowers at the beginning of October.
The forecast at the moment seems to be for high pressure to be in charge, possibly for the next couple of weeks, resulting in dry weather but with some pretty chilly nights.
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That's a really gorgeous rose, I love the ones with masses of petals like that. I have a different sort of rose down at the allotment, more of a shrub rose I think you'd call it, and it flowers into November, enormous bright pink flowers. But the rain seals the outer petals together sometimes. The foliage on your rose looks amazingly healthy. Is there a secret?!
ReplyDeleteWe've no rose growing secrets CJ. I think it's down to some carefully selected disease free varieties by Sue. Our roses on the plot suffer from black spot but they still seem to manage to put on a decent display.
DeleteI've got blossom open on my apple tree this week and cornflowers in bloom from seeds dropped by this summers cornflowers.
ReplyDeleteWe finished picking our apples today but I didn't spot any blossom. The trees are starting to loose their leaves quickly now. Sue is still managing to pick a few flowers for home from her patch of annuals on the plot.
DeleteWhat a lovely white rose! The petal have lessen a bit in 2nd page but still gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHas a nice perfume too.
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