Balcony roses: a powdery mildew festival!
Flower Carpet Scarlet rose (that white fuzz on the leaves and bud is powdery mildew) We're five for five so far out on my summer balcony....
Carolyn Thomas
the novice
Can we grow roses on a small balcony? Roses are so beautiful - yet so fussy and hard to grow.
Or are they? Let's find out together!
Balcony roses: they're finally in bloom!
My row of four Drift roses (clockwise: apricot, pink, coral and red) that I planted out on the balcony in March (over three months ago)...
Balcony roses: new buds AND Black Spot?!
At last! The first blush of colour on my Coral Drift rosebuds! But what's this? Looks like the dreaded Black Spot fungus on the same...
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Carolyn Thomas
- Jul 4
- 4 min
Balcony roses: they're finally in bloom!
My row of four Drift roses (clockwise: apricot, pink, coral and red) that I planted out on the balcony in March (over three months ago)...
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Carolyn Thomas
- Jun 24
- 4 min
Balcony roses: new buds AND Black Spot?!
At last! The first blush of colour on my Coral Drift rosebuds! But what's this? Looks like the dreaded Black Spot fungus on the same...
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Carolyn Thomas
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Balcony roses: so far, so good!
Barely four short weeks ago, I planted my first four Drift® roses (one each in red, coral, apricot and pink) out on my small balcony....
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Carolyn Thomas
- Mar 6
- 4 min
Roses: who do you love?
I was bitten last summer by the Rose Bug - and in one lovely afternoon of browsing the Russell Nursery full-colour rose catalogue with...
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