Different image showing the bush

Lynn

I adore Young Lycidas. The darker color enhances the bloom depth.
Do you plan on keeping it in the pot?

Mauvegirl,
Unless I tire of working with this soil, at some point in the next couple of years it will be planted in the same spot. I have horrible clay soil that I've been amending for two years in different sections, and what's under that pot needs more time. If we move to a new city and home, it will go with us in the pot until that soil etc. Is ready for planting. I think it is a keeper:)

Lynn

I know what you mean. I think we have similar soil. That's a nice big pot.

Lynn

I love mine. As much complaining about its odd growth habits and strange leaves, the scent is wonderful and mine is loaded with buds and seems to try to stay that way.

Lynn, your rose is beautiful but is quite a bit lighter than my YL. On the other hand, mine is a very stingy bloomer so far in spite of the fact that it was an (expensive) bare root from Austin rather than a band. The flowers are quite gorgeous and very fragrant, though.

Ingrid

agree, my Young Lycidas has much darker blooms also. More on the violet red side

Ingrid & Mauvegirl,

Mine is a bare root rose from D.A. received in January. The blooms are the first for this plant. While I like its blooms, fragrance, and the color showing now, I purchased it hoping for the deeper colors described; which I do see in the center of some of the blooms. It is a wait and see at this pointâ¦..

Lynn

This post was edited by desertgarden561 on Wed, Apr 30, 14 at 23:23

Beautiful rose Lynn! Hopefully you'll give a report card for all your roses next fall after our looong summer. I have had so many roses received in the fall, potted up and grown through the winter, placed in the ground in the spring looking great just to have them fade away in our blast furnace of a summer. Of course you are in a cooler part of town so I wish you more success than I've had.

I hope your pot will be shaded this summer. I've always felt that the roots could be kept a little cooler in the ground with a good layer of mulch on them that in a pot and admit to losing a lot of plants of many kinds next to block walls which have a habit of collecting heat in the day and radiating it at night.

However your Jasmine, Cycad and lavender look happy so maybe that's a good spot.

Maria

In my hot hot summer climate I have pretty much given up growing much in pots, except bougainvilla which loves the heat. Last summer I had some bands I was holding to plant in the fall. I "double potted" them, putting the pot holding the rose into another pot with mulch around it. It worked ok and I didn't lose any of them but they sure looked miserable all summer (well, so did I for that matter!).

Putting roses next to concrete block walls can be a killer. The reflected heat just bakes them. So, you might want to move the pot when it starts to get hot (soon for us!).

If you have had success in the past keeping your roses in pots during the summer, I'd love to hear how you do it. I know some people in our hot climates are successful, but I haven't yet figured out how.

Hi Maria,

Thank you. I like the show that the Jasmine puts on annually, and am possibly going to add Arabian Jasmine near my RdV in the front yard.

All of my own root roses, with the exception of two (purchased as one gallon plants), were planted in September when it began cooling off during the night. YL is a bare root rose on Dr. Huey, planted during the winter.

The pot and roses in this side yard section; most of which are Austin's, all receive about two hours of early morning sun, and then thanks to the balcony and house, they are shaded or in open shade, then they receive about two to 2/12 hours of early afternoon sun. They are in total shade during the hottest part of the day.

At my last home, I grew a floribunda in a pot where it remained for 5 years and thrived. It only received about 4-4.5 hours of sun. I have only grown one rose in a pot long term and tried to replicate the conditions. The Young Lycidas was potted in late January.

Jaspermplants, I am purchasing a Bougainvillea today, for a pot I purchased yesterday:). I've read that they like cramped roots and do well in pots. I would not place roses in pots here either, except for the area in question. There's a large tree slightly in front but to the North of the area, plus a patio/ balcony and house to the east of it.

Lynn

This post was edited by desertgarden561 on Thu, May 1, 14 at 22:40

Very oddball growth habit here as well, but the flowers are lovely and frequent. I just moved the 2nd one right next to the first one--in hopes that together they will create a shrubby appearance.

Just an update,

Young Lycidas is having its second round of blooms. The new blooms are definitely deeper it has grown fairly rapidly and except for the leaf cutter bees chomping on its leaves, the bush is very healthy. I will try to snap and post images tomorrow and will be curious to see what it does next month.

Lynn

This post was edited by desertgarden561 on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 9:38

Rose Paris, your Young Lycidas was well worth the wait. The color is really rich and the petal conformation very old-rose and inspiring. I just had the thought that someone ought to paint this rose.

I agree. It is sort of a work of art! That color alone! :)

Is this rose nearly thornless?

If anyone loves this flower but has hesitated, or wants a second one, or has it on their bucket list--DA Europe just told me they will no longer be offering it in the EU. Don't know what that means for the rest of the world, but FYI... Sometimes when they cancel something, you can still snap up a last one somewhere as the remaining stocks are liquidated. Year 4, it smells like heaven and is still doing a brillant magenta, red, violet, dark reddish-purple color mix with large, gorgeous blooms...