Many thanks @Marlorena after reading this thread, I bought this rose. Bare root from David Austin.
'Felicia'... do try and fit this one in, a hybrid musk rose... beautiful blush pink bloom, 5 x 5 foot, spreading shrub, quite healthy, always in bloom... spectacular at its best..
I am very happy with the Quality and size, bonus was that there aren't many thorns!!
Eek! Feeling slightly guilty as I reread this thread that I started back in Autumn last year, as I then changed plans and decided to plant two climbing roses to grown on columns in my flower bed. I chose Blush Noisette and Aloha... I'm so glad that @Marlorena 's extensive advice didn't go to waste (and hope that the two roses I chose aren't complete no-nos!). X
Buzzy... I'm delighted you got 'Felicia'... this is one of the must have old roses loved by all of us who grow it... Vita Sackville-West loved it too at Sissinghurst, where you will still see it growing today... that's where I first clasped eyes on it...
Oh hi Janie, nice to talk with you again here... Aloha is wonderful, I had that years ago, very upright and well suited to a column... David Austin used it a lot in his breeding programmes too.. it's in the ancestry of quite a few of his roses..
As much as I love Blush Noisette... I'm not sure I would grow that on a column, so I wish you well with that... it does form an upright shrub that can be grown in many ways, including as a rambler, but it does spread outwards too... mine is on a fence.. I'd love to see how you grow it on a column, do keep me posted...
Look forward to that.. actually I'll correct myself and say that you should be ok with it, as I've just found a photo I took from another garden where they have them on arches, so they've trained them upright which shows it can be done alright.. they weren't in bloom when I visited mid May time, but you can see here how they've contained the roses.. on the arch centre-left just beyond the pond, with all the bloom clusters that's 'Blush Noisette'...
two rambling roses arrived this morning Malvern Hills and Ghislaine de feligonde . I can't plant out yet everything waterlogged, I've already prepared the planting holes which including drill through some concrete. they are heeled in for now inside the greenhouse
@Marlorena How do you go about pruning repeat rambling roses ? Do you prune them as you would with a once flowering rambler late summer back to the frame work or prune similar to a climbing rose ?
Fabulous advice and suggestions, dare I ask ine more question?......
we we live in a frost pocket but have a walled garden, you may recall we lost three climbers and 2 shrub roses last year. Even the Rhs were flummoxed the Wallis south west facing and really roses. I have pilgrim, but it s not exactly thriving gertrude iscoping just, any ideas welcome
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Buzzy... I'm delighted you got 'Felicia'... this is one of the must have old roses loved by all of us who grow it... Vita Sackville-West loved it too at Sissinghurst, where you will still see it growing today... that's where I first clasped eyes on it...
@Janie B
Oh hi Janie, nice to talk with you again here... Aloha is wonderful, I had that years ago, very upright and well suited to a column... David Austin used it a lot in his breeding programmes too.. it's in the ancestry of quite a few of his roses..
As much as I love Blush Noisette... I'm not sure I would grow that on a column, so I wish you well with that... it does form an upright shrub that can be grown in many ways, including as a rambler, but it does spread outwards too... mine is on a fence.. I'd love to see how you grow it on a column, do keep me posted...
Look forward to that.. actually I'll correct myself and say that you should be ok with it, as I've just found a photo I took from another garden where they have them on arches, so they've trained them upright which shows it can be done alright.. they weren't in bloom when I visited mid May time, but you can see here how they've contained the roses.. on the arch centre-left just beyond the pond, with all the bloom clusters that's 'Blush Noisette'...
Two wonderful ramblers Perki, I do hope you like them.. in flower all summer too..
..[photos from my garden]..
we we live in a frost pocket but have a walled garden, you may recall we lost three climbers and 2 shrub roses last year. Even the Rhs were flummoxed
the Wallis south west facing and really roses. I have pilgrim, but it s not exactly thriving
gertrude iscoping just, any ideas welcome
A A Milne