The sun is shining and the plan was to read John Grisham's 'The Confession' while lolling about on the hammock/swing but this blasted wind and rain has created so much work in the garden that I keep spying little jobs that need doing out of the corner of my eye - dead heading blooms that should have had days left in them being one of the jobs - mowing a lawn that is now showing signs of turning to moss - shortening the raspberry canes that are whipping around like cat o'nines in the wind. Most annoying. And I just zapped about a trillion greenfly clinging to Prima Ballerina. How dare they!
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| Perfect Prima Ballerina |
I bought Prima Ballerina earlier this year and it has been doing fabulously except, now, it has started to do a very odd thing. It is sporting, on the same shoot, the typical coloured flower as well as a pale yellow one with flecks of pink, and is showing a deeper red rose on another shoot which is not coming from below ground level but above the graft, so cannot be from the root stock. I shall leave the plant alone as long as it is flowering and interesting. This is the second rose from the same nursery that I have had problems with though.
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| Odd flower colours - even a yellow bud like Arthur Bell |
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| A rose from my Prima Ballerina rose bush |
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| Prima Ballerina rose looking rather too red |
I cannot find out the parentage of Prima Ballerina except that I understand that Peace, a well known, strong growing and popular hybrid tea, is one of them.
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| Peace |
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