Oh!!! I love your Carding Mill, especially against the blue flowers!

Carol

One of my favorites. Love this rose. Great shot! Judy

New for me this year. Love it!

The blue is gorgeous with it, by the way!

Love the colour redwolfdoc - would be nice to see when it opens a bit more.

Sharlene

Thanks Sharlene!

The first photo was taken at 8am; here it is about 12 hours later

and here it is two days later (it's the bloom on the right):

Thanks for posting more pics. Held the colour well, I would have expected it to be paler after two days.

Sharlene

I've got A Shropshire Lad right next door. Its blooms have been fading a lot faster than Carding Mill, though I find all the phases beautiful.

Beautiful!

Beautiful! My first yr with it and I'm in love

New blooms after a two-week-and-counting heat wave. This is the same plant as pictured in the photos above.

Very nice.

Beautiful! What's the blue flower you have planted with it? I just put a baby Carding Mill in this year and am looking to steal ideas. :D

Thank you all for the nice comments. The blue flower is a cantuerbury bell (campanula). It's a biennial, so you have to plant it and let it grow for a year and then it blooms the second year. On the other side of the carding mill is a pink campanula and the peach, pink, and blue looked really good together when they were blooming at the same time. Those Canterbury bells had so many blooms on them I eventually had to stake them to keep them from falling on their faces.

Here's what the carding mill looks like today. The Canterbury bells are all done for the year. Ther are some yellow marguerite daisies still blooming along with it though. It was just a band a year ago.

Would you say this rose blooms lighter in the heat? Or is the color intensified in the heat? I'm seriously considering getting it, but some austins (Perdita, The shepherdess) tun a bland shade of buff here. Seeing as the colors has held pretty well on yours makes me more confident. Color is so funny. Sometimes the sun/heat fades them, sometimes it intensifies it depending on the rose. My Clair Austin for example is butter yellow. Not white at all. :(

I really like the pink/apricot blend of your carding mill, but I'd be disappointed if it just bloomed pale pink or pale peach in my climate.

With all the rain in June and July our summer has not been as hot or dry as it can be. Weather in Indiana is very unpredictable. I imagine z10 gets pretty hot. My carding mill keeps its color pretty well when the temps are in the mid to upper 80s. I don't really know what it would do in higher temperatures for extended periods of time.