Roses in May!

They're a pretty colour too ... there are none near me that are in flower.

Not yet Balcony. I have lots of buds so won`t be long ,theres a lot of blooms on this one as well....

I have one called fellowship which started flowering on the 13th May last year. No such luck this year though.

Yes, I was surprised to find that the very old roses at work, which where the first I had pruned (ever)! where a beautiful red and looking great, that was last week!

these comments are driving me scatty, I think they haven't gone click again and find they go twice!

You're in good company then, Sandygirl, you'll find it has happened to many people!

It's strange that after such a hard winter that roses should be blooming so soon!

When I still lived at home, back at the beginning of the 70s, I tried everything to try to get at least one flower by the time the Chelsea Flower Show came around at the end of May. I never got a flower before the end of the 1st week of June, if then! Yet I was very, very surprised to see that roses flowered before Chelsea in people's gardens when I returned to the UK after 19 years in Spain! You never, ever saw roses in gardens in May in the 70s! At least not here where I live. Perhaps it wasn't so rare in warmer, more sheltered areas of the country. I don't know.

Sandygirl, you should be able to erase a duplicate post/comment if you click on the "Edit Comment" button that appears above your post.

Sorry I just tried it - doesn't work!

i heard on news that england, may, was hottest in many years
so that with global climate change or warming

My first flower on my Jaquline de pre rose has popped out today I shall put a pic on later.

I've never seen them so early. I've seen them flowering at hristmas time, but never as much as this in early May.

PD, you have mistaken your months - it was April not May! Check out BeyondSpace - Meteorology.

http://beyondspace.info/forum/index.php?topic=2115.msg11783;topicseen#msg11783

May is very, very unlikely to go down as the warmest month. Unless we have a couple of weeks with temps in the range of 25C!

Treesandthings, I'd very much like to see a photo of your rose!

I've also seen the odd rose still open here at Christmas, but not this last Christmas!

No not last year - it was too cold. Most years my fuchsias are in flower until nearly Christmas but not last year for them either. I've found one with buds. I didn't realise it had any :o)

18th march weer hot = 16C - this wood make plnts grow for sumer - rose flower in may is of no surprise as hte may flower roses flower in april this yeer- my memry say htat 2nd Feb was first day of spring at 8C - it never hte cold htat makin plnt grow, but warm, an once it hapen, hte cold only slow hte process, not stop it- hopin it bhelp :)

lovely roses..... mine are still all in bud...

Piersdad - may bein hotist is weather-nothin to do wiht climate wich happen over decades.eons- big difrence. this long winter in uk was intrestin in htat some area weer not as cold as last yeer in htat 2009/10 had one day at -7C in one area but in 2008/09 theer weer many days at -6C in hte same area. Nothin is ever simpal.

Balcony I have uploaded a pic of Jaqulin du pre.

I've been along & seen your picture, it's a nice looking rose. Is it a new introduction?

Today I've seen many more roses open in different gardens. Almost every rose bush now has buds about to show colour on it. I have some miniature roses on my balcony & they have buds well advanced on them. :-) I also have a shrub rose, Fred Loads, which has semi double bright orange red blooms in big clusters. That shows no sign of buds for the moment. :-(

Hmm, no roses yet just buds covered in greenflies - aargh!
Actually, I was exagerating for effect there as there is one climber where you cannot see the buds for flies, but its neighbour and all the other rose bushes of whatever variety are free of the little devils. Is it a coincidence that this is the rose which gets so badly attacked by black spot that by the time I have taken off affected leaves, halfway through the season it is bald but still gamely flowering?
Have not seen any roses in bloom round here yet though.

lovely roses to balacony, everything seems to have been forced with cold winter then lovely spring ;o))

Felinfan, practically ALL the rose buses & climbers around here are in bloom! I have buds on my shrub rose "Fred Loads" on my balcony as well as on my miniature roses that live permanently on the balcony railing all year round.

I have been surprised by the great quantity of roses that have opened since the middle of May!

Nice pic Balcony the roses are early. We have one that has just some small buds on at the moment.

I don't think you live far from me but here many roses are already coming to an end! :-( There are still many more to come & with the cooler weather back for a time they should last longer.

Looking forward to seeing a new dark red rose flowering that our son and daughter bought us last week for our anniversary :-)

When it does don't take long in uploading a picture to share with us all!

BTW, congratulations on your anniversary, which one was it, Silver? :-)

We will be celebrating our 35th this year!

It was our 35th too Balcony - congratulations to you and yours also :-)

Thank you! :-)