Hello Everyone. I am still here. I feel a bit guilty as my garden and roses have had a great year and many are still going strong. It was a huge amount of work and no matter how much watering and shading I did some roses could not cope but overall it was a good year with little pest and disease damage. I have started culling too, just to get the numbers down, my only purchase for this whole year was SirDB and there will be no more.

I am so sorry that many of you had a ghastly rose season, so dispiriting. I think a lot of what has helped this year was selecting plants that you on this forum had road tested for me. Thank you so much for sharing.

So I am prompted to do a bit of a photo dump, I took all these just now but the low sun meant they are not great pictures. I won't get the rush of blood to do them again so here you are

White Meidiland

Eufemia

You can see Kew Gardens and Rhapsody in Blue there

Eden

Love Song

Pear

Penelope Lively

Frilly Cuff

Eustacia v, LEH, Charlotte, CdeV and Champagne Moment

Bathsheba. I agree that this rose loves the heat Marlorena

Mutabilis has been cracking too, finishing now

I've had to quickly bunch Strawberry Hill up, too many laden canes waving about

Twilight Zone