Excellent how exciting. You’ll have to tell us what you got. :)

Thank you. All credit to the roses ;)

Thank you and Thanks for dropping by. sorry for the delay in replying

Cheers mate :)

@@Jay_Jay Welcome mate :D

Yeah sorry if I could have opened it trust me I would have ;)

Cheers mate.

Hi sv glad you enjoyed it.

Yes Chandos beauty is lovely Hailey. So far very impressed with it. Iceberg has gone now sadly. Replaced with Chandos and I’ve no regrets I have to say. Yes the timeless collection are kicking butt now for sure. Very impressed with them. All in third flush as of now except timeless cream which is giving me its 2nd flush. Please let me know if you get fragrance from yours as cream is the only one I get little to nothing from. The second flush on mine I had some weird discolouration on all of them but that’s now cleared up and this flush is great. Sweet honey is a lovely rose but I think mine were both pick of the crop. Selected from my local garden centre that I could see where gonna do very well. It has no fragrance but a great performer when it comes to flowering.

Wow summer moon garden thanks for dropping by and welcome to my Channel. I’ve spoken about your roses on my channel I think a few times. Still the best rose I’ve seen on KZfaq is by your driveway in your front garden! That summer romance I’m sure is the baby father of many roses all around the world including the summer romances I now have in my garden:) yes the wife was in the back garden she doesn’t share my love of roses :) I blame you! It was a summer romance!:)

In case you were curious what I was talking about! Your summer romance gets a mention here. I think a couple of minutes in. The footage is a little shaky but it was live. :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/erxhg9l90LS8e4U.html

@@Jay_Jay Aw thank you! It’s amazing to me how far and wide our videos can reach people and the impact they can have on all of us! I’m thankful, grateful, and blessed to be able to share the love of gardening with so many and appreciate the bond us gardeners have together!

@@summermoongarden yes indeed and thank you. Best of luck with your husband and hope you can pursuade him more roses is always the answer!:) when I get chance I will of course sit down and watch your latest video I just need that spare time but as always I’m looking forward to it.

N Ga USA Enjoying your videos

Haha yes that was off the cuff. You could see she was in the back garden at the time :) I do apologise for not replying sooner :) take care

Oh bless you AM R. I am hoping I will start making fresh content at some point but at the moment I don’t wish to make any promises. There are a ton of great channels out there you won’t go without :)

I understand Jay. I really enjoy your channel as a relatively new rose grower. Enjoy your beautiful roses and I hope your mum ( who I saw in your "no dig roses" video ) is doing well xxx

Hi mate. I’m all good thanks and hope your well. The roses are all fine in my garden, a few are in flower now. But not as many as yours! Mums garden is doing fanatically well. So pleased with it. I’m not sure when I’ll make more videos mate in all honestly. KZfaq can be a strange place you may or may not have found that out for yourself. I’m happy to make, or not make videos for me the garden is what’s most important. Hope your well my friend and I do watch your content a friend asked me to watch one of your videos only this evening. :)

@@Jay_Jay Yes, gardening is important and happy to learned that plants are doing well at mother’s home. I am sure blooming and fragrant roses greet you in June onwards may change many things. Many viewers and friends here watched your channel and are curious about. I am with you mate. Bye.

Thanks Lucy

Thank you Elizabeth. Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks manon I hope so.

Yes we do indeed :) and thank you.

That’s awesome thank you. I’ve learnt something today :)

Hi lily that’s excellent to know I said ivy but it’s actually hedging although ivy is growing amongst it and is growing. Yes that makes total sense. The roses I guess are 18”-24” from the hedging/ivy I did wonder when I planted but thought I’d be ok. Very very annoying to know that but sometimes the truth hurts. I will leave them in situ for this year and reassess in the dormant season. I imagine it is compelled by the fact I fed and water the roses. That’s of course gonna attract even more attention beneath the surface of the soil. I may talk about this in a future video at my expense but that’s something I never shy away from, for me it’s all a learning experience so thanks so much for pointing this out.

@@Jay_Jay Yes...i just said to myself just to inform you as that was an ordeal for me...My Graham Thomas dd not survive with that anyway as the feeds and hydration i gave to the roses propelled the growth of my Ivy.It is not so noticeable at an early stage and up in the surface but its beneath that they compete the roses' roots like to go deep and so does the ivy...Since getting rid of my ivy could cost so much...the solution i made was,i got a big plastic pot buried it in the ground and planted another DA this time it is the Lady gardener. As space is of an essence to me as my garden is tiny.it is easy to wiggle and keep track of the ivy roots from beneath. I still bought another GT rose.🤭

@@lilyrose5612 yes thanks lily. I have a bottomless pot elevated next to the ivy this side with lady of shalott in. Let’s see how it goes 🥸🥸 thank you

I hope yours will too. I’m sure it will they are robust plants. Best of luck and sorry for the delay in responding

Thanks iris

Hi there sorry to hear about your problems. I have very quickly looked at your channel (I wasn’t sure if we had the same Rose on our profiles:) and I see you put out content I will take a look later this week of your videos. I won’t be able to help I’m pretty sure but I will take a look and if I see anything I’ll let you know. Thanks for dropping by.

My Gabriel Oak died too! :( Too much rain in the winter did it in)

Cheers mate

Haha I just see your edit. I’ll show you what’s in the box when you show us your garden :) 😂😂😂

@@Jay_Jay Haha. Your SH is amazing mate! First flowers for me today. My Chandos looking good now. I agree re G Oak, I swapped mine from the border to a pot for this year and it's thriving in it! Flowers galore. BC at it's best in 5 years also. YOUR SUBS ARE FLYING! 1K V SOON. :-)

@@gavinparry5426 my BC is lovely mate. Today a strong fragrance and a lovely flower opening up. I can see him being a large Rose mind. The 1k subs mate I think will happen but I don’t want my channel growing more than that. That’s an audience and manageable with the comments I think. I don’t want it to become unmanageable or lose the feel I’m trying to create. :)

Yes thanks nik. The bloody box! I promise you I’d have opened it if I had scissors to hand but I knew time was way way over already. There won’t be an unboxing I really don’t think I will do those anymore. But of course you will find out what I purchased. Yes the John innes number 3 is no secret I have seen many videos advising it’s use and gardeners have of course been using it for decades. I stopped using it because it became scarce during covid and have to say I didn’t notice any change above ground they still seemed to perform well. But it’s been recommended for decades I believe.

P.s yes I forgot. Of course always better to have a staggered first flush to extend the season for ourselves. But in terms of sharing for video purposes it would have been nice to deliver in one neat package but we both know it doesn’t work like that I should have been clearer there.

Thanks Gemma. It’s more overcast now but was boiling for a good 3 or 4 days this week. Yesterday we had rain. Hope you have a nice Sunday evening ;)

In UK its usually wet this summer has been a scotcher

Yes naffy i cut a load of my roses off just to try and encourage more growth earlier, and I know the roses look great in the house. Not sure if it’s gonna work but I’ve no doubt they just need time under their belts to then stretch its legs.

Thanks PB. What do you plant your roses in as in what matter goes in your pots?

@@Jay_Jay Well I use Miracle Gro potting soil, and I add compost and bone meal to the mix. What do you think ? Am I doing things right? Thanks. (PB).

@@patrickbowen5398 you will know better than I PB by the sounds of it:) keep doing what your doing if it works well for you and it obviously is. I have found that a mix of top soil in the pots lead to a blend of the thicker and stronger roots together with the finer roots. And a neat compost medium even over time leads to just the finer roots that don’t fill the containers as quick as I’d have imagined. That’s what I’m seeing anyway. But do what works for you. ;)

@@Jay_Jay Well, I'm actually trying to find a new method of planting roses in pots - typically in the past, all I've done is add a little bone meal to potting mix and left it at that. As a result, the David Austin roses I grew did not really grow well at all - the blooms were small and so was the plant - so I guess I'm looking for some advice on how I can get my potted roses to perform better than they have in previous years .....because I think my roses need more than I have been giving them in previous years. (PB from the USA)

Nice English. Hopefully I get to see and hear about them on your channel

@@Jay_Jay I am trying to film the ramblers and some other bits and pieces right now. Have a nice weekend, you live in an amazing place!

@@englishwithanerudite thank you English. And best of luck with your garden and filming. I will look forward to footage on your channel.

@@Jay_Jay Thank you!

Yeah funny thing is I tried filming this in the morning and a good 10 mins in and the couple staying next door they came around to hand me and the Mrs a bottle of wine. I had to abort filming to thank them etc. I got it all on video. I may use the footage at some point. So when this interruption happened no way was I stopping. I will check out ethelburga :)

Interesting mate. Does it bleach out? It says full sun is that full morning sun? A hybrid tea, How many flushes do you get from her?

I took delivery of this rose today mate. Fragrant it is thank you. How big has yours grown?

Sorry Jay only seeing these now, I had her last year in a pot full sun and she got to 4ft with 3 main flushes but almost always had at least a couple of blooms right through until October. This year I have planted her in a bed(done it in Dec) and she is now almost 5ft in her first flush, getting 6 hrs of morning sun. Have noticed a little bit of black spot along the bottom of the canes but I have a lot of perennials around her so next year will move them a bit further out to improve airflow. One of my cuttings of her from the autumn has taken too and is putting on good vigorous growth🙂

@@rgb_6698 awesome info thank you. As you probably know not a lot of info online for this Rose but very happy. Fragrant indeed. And lovely flowers she’s arrived with :)

Thanks mate, no I haven’t started experimenting as yet I’ve never been one for cutting and bringing indoors. Until now I very much prefer to leave them in the garden. But I can see issue with this. I didnt really want to experiment as many of these roses are new and won’t be giving me gazillions of flowers. I wait patiently for every single bud to appear so experimenting I’d like to have a clue to work from rather than suck it and see. So your saying I need to wait until the sepals are all fully folded down exposing the closed flower? But different roses can have a different outcome.

He does have nice rose to do trial and error

Yes mate. I’m gonna hack that back in winter. Its mainly a Bush there but ivy growing in it. I guess if I chop it back it will grow back stronger not sure what to do there. But I’ll see in winter. Very very impressed with bc mate have to say. 4 flowers now and I’m finding it very fragrant. Does the colour hold?

@@Jay_Jay Sure does mate! I think BC is so under rated it deserves it's own JJ productions video to bring it to the attention of others! :-) Look how much off at Peter Beales now!

@@gavinparry5426 haha no mate no more Unboxings and I don’t think I’ve ever done an actual Rose review. I did pick up a rose today. Went to rumwoods rose nursery and hunted down the most fragrant rose in the entire place. Came out with Audrey Wilcox. The most enormous flowers. And scent... different league. Even fragrant cloud, Gertrude Jekyll Arthur bell don’t match it

@@Jay_Jay Don't believe you. Need video evidence again :-))))))

The first bloom was disappointing me but once it got stronger I was like wow

Hi Linda thanks. I just had a look, not for last 13 days but you can see on his page.

@@Jay_Jay OK thanks.

Hi I bought mine from a local garden centre called rumwoods. I think they trade under British roses online. I’m not sure where you are in the world I have asked kordes for the American and European names but they have failed to get back to me. Thanks

Really even when they are fully closed? Sorry I am so stupid I know. I rarely cut flowers I only ever spend my time patiently waiting for them to flower in my garden.

Thank you. Do you know when it’s safe to cut sorry it’s such a stupid dumb question I know. Can the sepals be completely shut. Start to fold down, completely folded down or when the petals start to unfold. Sorry I know a dumb question but I can’t find this particular answer. And new roses I’m not gonna have many flowers as is!:)😃😃😂😂

@@Jay_Jay My limited experience is that you cannot cut flowers too early, so I think it's best to wait until the petals have started to unfold. Sorry I can't be more helpful but I mostly prefer to leave the flowers on the bush.

@@jjjddd231 yay a man after my own heart :) glad I’m not alone. But some of these I’m gonna have to cut I think :) cheers mate

Hi zhanna yes 100 percent is brother Cadfael. The flowers just opened today. Looking at them tonight they are peony like which I didn’t notice this afternoon. Strong fragrance yes and lovely.

I agree, mine too are globular and with a lovely scent.

Thanks zhanna I see your edit no I have not heard of Annapurna rose I will take a look. Thank you for letting me know.

@@Jay_Jay it is good transfarmation. Your garden very beautiful und made with love.

Hi hina. Sweet honey is a lovely rose. It might be my favourite is certainly one of them. I’ll do an end of year favourite and I’ve no doubt this will feature heavily. She appears t be very happy here that’s for sure.

I would love to try it too but alas no more space

Hi stu, I never spray my roses with insecticides etc . Only this year I’ve sprayed some with neem oil and eco soap. Joy vieli was not one I sprayed. Despite atrocious aphids this year they haven’t found that rose as yet. For me it’s early days but a lovely rose for my garden. I feel a little awkward what I said about the others the expert Rose judges are the ones to listen to, but for me in my garden I’m very happy with Joy Vieli so far.

@@Jay_Jay Thanks very much for that info, I appreciate what you mean about commenting on how a rose has performed in your particular situation and feeling you may be 'treading on experts toes' but it really is helpful for those of us trying to find roses that might do well in a similar high rainfall and no spray envinonment. Think I may well take a chance on Joy Vieli.Cheers.

@@lonesomeStu I hope you’re pleased mate. The petals on joy vieli they seem that harder texture if you know what I mean. I was looking at her and it’s a wonderful life yesterday and there wasn’t a huge difference look wise, but joy has less thin petals and I imagine that’s the difference. Best of luck

Hi Netty. Yeah sorry I did look for the tear off strip bit, but I couldn’t see it. Queen of Sweden was my favourite Rose in my garden last year. A beauty of a flower. Pretty long lasting. And does reasonable in wet weather. But this year spoiler alert I think she’s gonna struggle to make top 5. Not a huge display from her this year First flush was kinda short lived. but I guess the season is still young. Growth for second flush is under way.

@@Jay_Jay Thanks for the info. I have ordered her and fingers crossed will do well. I think some can be really fickle and do well one year and not so good another. I also meant to ask if you had seen Bunny Guiness' talk with David Austin's son at Chelsea. He mentioned the leaves on Elizabeth and said they were really please as they were the closest to those of old roses.

@@nettym659 yes I agree 100 percent Netty. Last year the rose that flowered first in my garden it flowered first last year of all my roses. This year it flowered LAST! I think there is much to be said about this. Different years can be hugely different for different roses and how they perform. At time of writing I really don’t think the silver bullet rose exists. But I patiently wait to be corrected :) No I haven’t seen the video as yet. But I’m glad they are proud of the foliage as am I. I tried to explain before it’s just a tiny bit different and that’s cool right there. :)

I dont know about that. Timeless charisma is looking fine. But yeah the mrs, she’s gotta be up there. 😂😂😂

Hi Marilyn. It’s an easy process, I did do a video last year. It does have many benefits and now I have probably a dozen roses in baseless pots. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q91daMuBuZmniXU.html

@@Jay_Jay Thanks Jay. Will take a look.

Hi Sahfqat yes a reall shame I’ve only had mine for a year and very impressed with it.

Hi Karla, it’s not so easy thankfully there is a place near me called rumwoods rose nursery, I think they trade under the name British roses . Co. Uk something like that. They have a decent selection of roses from all breeders and the beauty of it is its local to me so I can handpick the best Rose from maybe a dozen. Some of the quality is so so, but some is very good. I also use Peter beales, they often have great deals. I used a company just recently the one that the delivery man appeared in this video “English roses” they were very good. Jones the Rose have been very good for me. Always good quality. I’ve had a couple from Trevor white roses both times very very happy.

@@Jay_Jay Thankyou 🙂

Hi mate sorry I haven’t got him. I’d try Darren hardwood he has many David Austin roses.

@@Jay_Jay I will thanks If you want I'll give you a review on him once I have him :D

Hi I’ve had my oldest Olivia for three summers. This is the first summer with summer romance. Summer romance for me here I think is the better Rose. But that’s an early call.

Olivia loves to flower. I would say as close to continual flower as you can get from my DA roses. Exceptional health. No real fragrance, Maybe a tiny bit. Growth seems relatively upright and reasonably strong. The pink bleaches to an almost white in the direct sun. But now my older Olivia is bigger there is always fresh new pink flowers coming through. My Summer romances are very young. But colour seems to stay much more pink. Seems to do better in wet weather. I’m seeing stronger more upright growth than Olivia. Flowers not as abundantly as my new Olivia but this could change with age from what I’ve seen from others. Much better fragrance from summer romance. Anywhere between medium to strong. Another couple of years of summer romance I’ll have a better picture. But so far over the moon. Health of summer romance “seems” totally solid. But it’s only June.

@@Jay_Jay thanks they look so alike to me. I have one DA Olivia but I’m thinking of getting summer romance as the flowers seems abit stronger and more fragrant

@@lynguyen6019 that’s exactly right mate. Flowers last longer also.