Roses at 7 AM
The same roses at 10 AM
By 3 PM they were completely shrivelled. Sun scorches them regardless of how much I water them at night. So I cut them early in the morning and put them in vases before they get ruined by the sun, furthermore the flowers are smaller during these hot months. Only when heat subsides by April/May they will look better. Patience is paramount in gardening....
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Good morning dear MDN,
ResponderEliminarIt's a wonderful rose you are sharing. I would do the same to bring in the roseflowers inside before they get burned by the sun.
Have a wonderful day.
Rosehugs Marijke
Marijke, summer is a hard time for roses here but on the other hand water lilies love the heat! Have a lovely week!
EliminarWe face the same challenges when the weather gets scorching hot. Cutting the blooms when you can is the best strategy!
ResponderEliminarHello Kris, this is the problem with roses here no other plant in my garden resent heat so much as roses, for them summer here is like winter in colder latitudes.
EliminarVery interesting and beautiful. It never (well, rarely) gets so hot here to cause such damage to roses.
ResponderEliminarHello Peter! I have this problem every year with roses, I gave up on peonies, lupines, tulips and other plants that would make up the english cottage garden of my dreams but I can't give up on roses!
EliminarWhat else you could do to conserve your roses: pick the rose petals from very strong smelling roses and dry them. So you could use it as decoration for times without roses. There are many other possibilities how to use rose petals in case there are not treated with chemicals.
ResponderEliminarWish you a nice week, MDN
Sigrid, one of the effects of harsh sun on roses is they lose their fragrance, many roses that in cooler months are strongly scented are odorless during these hot months. Now I just have to be patient and keep them alive.
EliminarI think you do quite well with the roses, and how can we garden without them?!! Here I have begun letting mine go semi-dormant during the summer months in hopes they will bloom more strongly the rest of the year. I slow the watering and stop feeding as temperatures go over about 37 - 40 C. It seems to help as long as I then get enough water and food to them in autumn. I don't know whether this would work in your moister climate though... I'm still looking for good ways to grow them! ;-) They are so beautiful...
ResponderEliminarAmy, the climate during the hottest months here is weird despite the almost weekly rains the heat and sun dry out everything at ferocious rate, the evaporation excedes precipitation in summer, Roses can't go dormant despite the heat because the rain wake them up all the time and they send up new shoots, all I can do is cutting the blooms and put them in vases before the sun scorches them, I don't have roses in the garden in summer but have lots of roses inside the house! But with the cool days of fall (and if it doesn't rain too much) my roses will put forth a nice, making-up-for-lost-time display.
Eliminar