June is busting out all over?

Thanks for the tour - I enjoyed it! Your Heleniums are ahead of mine. Your downpours are similar. Just as I think it's safe to go out and get going, down it comes again.

I love, love, love the first patio rose. I want one! Note to self - look out for this beauty. :-))

Lovely tour and photos are great:)

the flowers are so nice, hope mine come out as good

Lovely trip round your planting, very enjoyable. That Rainbow Magic patio rose looks really interesting - I didn't even realise it was a rose till I read your description, unusual flowers.

Lovely blog Dorjac. I agree with Bamboo about Rainbow Magic where did you buy it please? The deep pink penstemon looks very much like 'Garnet', it flowers for weeks in my garden.

Now I'm totally confused Dorjac - just went online to track down that Rainbow Magic patio rose, and its orangey red, not like that pink and cream/yellowish vision that you show at the beginning at all! Is it actually Rainbow Magic or another one?

I'm even more confused now - just found another one called Rainbow Magic, it is a patio rose and its deep pink with a yellow centre, nothing like yours. What's going on? I want one exactly like yours, lol!

Hi Bamboo.The rose I have has a label with a small picture on the end and that picture does not look very like the rose on my patio. All the blooms a slightly different. It is budded onto inch thick rootstock. When I was last in ART Nursery at North Weald there were none left! Otherwise I would have bought another one, as it is so attractive. It is a sort of mum and dad run nursery with a lot of potting up being done on the premises. A tame robin that used to feed on the counter until nesting time! I don't think Digitals tell the whole truth colorwise but it is a very pretty rose.

Awwwww Bloomer its so frustrating when you see a bloom you like but cant seem to locate the corect one.
I bought a climbing rose "Golden Dawn" , on the label it looked yellow in bud fading to cream. I was so disappointed when mine flowered - pale pink fading to white.
Enjoyed the stroll Dorjac you have some lovely plants, especially "Rainbow magic".

A lovely trip round your garden Dorjac, I too like 'Rainbow Magic' but it sounds as if we're all out of luck.. I had County series 'Surrey' rose in my previous garden, it was lovely, very prolific and like yours, not attractive to pests.

How lovely it's all looking Dorjac. I lost all my penstemons last winter so am envious of yours. I can't believe you have heleniums in flower already! Last year I bought 3 Sahins Early which I fell in love with at Four Seasons garden. I keep watching, but they appear very temting to slugs or snails, well somethings eating them. They have gallantly made it to about 6 inch or so high, I wonder if I'll get any flowers this year:-( Perhaps I should have gone for moorheim like yours:-))

Hi Bornagain, have had Moorheim in the garden for ages. I split an old clump 2 years ago after reading on GoY that splitting equals better flowering. Lo and behold it was true. I tried another variety but it has failed to thrive. It was a more yellow one. I love the colours on Moorheim and the long blooming period. If one clump has the 'Chelsea Chop' at the right moment (around, give or take, 2 weeks or so of Chelsea?), if you dare, you get an extended blooming period as well! In Garden magazine. They blend well with Bonariensis, self seeded, then potted a while, and then planted together in a group. Bonariensis goes for crevices. Not allowed, so close together equals crevice + a few small garden stones round the base = happy Bonars.

That's interesting Dorjac, I have planted some v bonariensis by my helenium sahins early thinking they would look good. Also have aucuba picturata. I may have a moorheim too, not eaten by snails, I bought last year but only planted recently (lost name). I haven't grown heleniums before, but love them now and my garden was dull last autumn:-)

Hmm, how annoying. So the only way to be sure of getting a rose like yours, realistically, is coming round in the middle of the night and digging yours up, then, lol;-))

Hi Bamboo it is amazing how people have taken a shine to Rainbow Magic patio rose. Perhaps there are some B&Q plant racks groaning under the weight of many unsold specimens? Art Nursery is very unusual down our way. It is small with the owners living nearbye and middle aged. I first noticed the cheeky robin in their potting up area. A few weeks ago I went out into their shrub section for the first time, looking for 'patio roses' someone told me about. Loads of them, but alas not the second time I looked after it flowered. The Dream series seem very common everywhere. Can't pass a GC without a quick look round!

I particularly like the flower form on yours, but when I look for Rainbow Magic on the web, the pictures show, as I said, different colours, but also not this flower form. And as its the form I like, I'm not keen to order it in case its nothing like this. Shame...

Just had a look round the internet and I see what you mean Bamboo. The picture on the label matches up well to the samples on the internet but not this ever changing mix of colours and the different form on my rose. It remains to find if it blooms for long, repeat flowers, gets mildew or blackspot or pestered by aphids.

Hmm, might be that its a new one, and they often don't retain various features over time - if I could be sure it'd end up looking like this, I'd get one anyway.

I love the rainbow magic rose as it has so many variations of colour. You certainly have a lot of flowers in bloom - lovely !

There is a very large rose, well cared for, in a garden a bit of a walk away, that had the same sort of variety of colour. The owner saw me looking and came out to chat about it......didn't know the name Lol.....not long moved in, but treasures it already. Said chatting about had made her a couple of nieghbour friends!

I've been looking on loads of rose sites, but no luck. What shape would you call the flower? Have you asked the garden centre owners to identify it? Maybe some naughty customer had changed the label:-)

That's a good idea Born Again - Dorjac, any chance you can show a pic to the nursery where you got it to make sure its Rainbow Magic. Every time I click on this blog I see that rose, and I want it...

Hi Bamboo-We will be calling in to ART nursery today on the way to N.Weald Airfield historical naafi for a bacon sarnie. I always take my camera there, as there is a millionaire who hangars Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang and P40 vintage planes there. He sometimes takes off for airshows, so I take a movie clip. Will try and take the label, if I can get past the thorns. Over and out

But surely the label doesn't show your plant the way it looks now, does it? So unless you take a pic with you, they're not going to know what your rose actually looks like... I bet you've gone and come back by now ...

Back from the trip out. I had about 6 pictures on the camera to compare. Bamboo you were right to be cautious about my rose. Strange to say, the proprietor was near the roses. Strangely there was a row of Rainbow Magic, all in good flower, and I was on my way to the counter with one, same label as mine. He agreed they looked very different roses. Did I want any redress? I said no, I was well satisfied with my rose. As it's a 'rogue rose'. Are cuttings permissible? I wonder.

Yes they are lol...bags I one:-)

And so do I - it seems it is absolutely the only way we'll get one the same as yours. I guess the owner had no idea if it was another variety of rose and what it might be called if not rainbow magic?
I do wonder though whether they all end up looking like this after a year or so - how long have you had yours, Dorjac, and were the flowers like this when you bought it, or did they change to this?

It was in bud Bamboo when bought abought about 4 or five weeks ago......so were all the others. I fancied something on the orange side to keep Bonariensis company.When the first few blooms were open I was in there buying trailing plants with a friend. The door from the covered area was shut and it was raining. So I didn't look. The next time I went especially to look and there weren't any there. I will follow advice on Google that I looked at to answer a question, and try to strike cuttings. I have a very old 18 foot Paul's Scarlet climber on its own root so it might work.

Hmm, if you bought it that recently, my theory of its changing over time doesn't hold good then - I'm willing to bet this is not rainbow magic, but some other variety, who knows which. Be great if some cuttings took - I'm even prepared to schlepp over there on the tube to pick one up if they do take, lol.