Its so lovely seeing one’s new babies develop, George, I’m getting very excited about my new bare root roses too, one even has buds on already.
Hello @susie g and welcome! Beales have an excellent reputation. I have recently bought and planted some bare root roses from them, but as this is my first time with them I can’t tell yet, but based on what others say, go for it if you see something you like. Trevor White is another supplier that gets good reports.
Its really difficult to say this rose is good, this one bad, it really depends on what you want it to do and where you put it. Personally, I wouldnt buy Harlow Carr again, thorny, floppy, insipid flowers, imho, but others like it, so it is personal taste.
Hi no I wouldn’t buy Harlow Carr again either, I can recommend Ivor’s Rose from Beatles, and Macmillan Nurse both of which are ‘doers’. I don’t have a massive garden but have about 18 roses, love the hybrid mush’s, they grow anywhere even in poor soul. Do you buy your roses in Catalunya? I lived in Palma for 15 years......
Its so lovely seeing one’s new babies develop, George, I’m getting very excited about my new bare root roses too, one even has buds on already.
Hello @susie g and welcome! Beales have an excellent reputation. I have recently bought and planted some bare root roses from them, but as this is my first time with them I can’t tell yet, but based on what others say, go for it if you see something you like. Trevor White is another supplier that gets good reports.
Its really difficult to say this rose is good, this one bad, it really depends on what you want it to do and where you put it. Personally, I wouldnt buy Harlow Carr again, thorny, floppy, insipid flowers, imho, but others like it, so it is personal taste.
Having gone from having three roses to thirteen in three months...I've been bitten by the rose bug @Nollie no more for the next couple of years as the garden settles and I find my gardening feet.
Ha! You say that now George, bet you won’t be able to resist next season. I kept saying no more, but once bitten...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Haven’t worked out how to find this thread yet, unless by accident. I gave a smallish garden but about 16 roses. Recommend both Ivor’s Rose also Macmillan Nurse from Beales. Nollie can you buy these roses in catalyuna? I lived 15 years in Palma once.....
I love the hybrid musks, they grow anywhere even in poor soil or shade. I have Felicia and Prosperity which is more upright, also Penelope- so tough and hardy!
@susie g, I bought my first David Austin here when the local nursery tried a few (but didn’t get them in again, the locals love their hybrid teas!). Then from DA in the UK. I mainly buy bare root from a supplier in the Netherlands now (tuincentrumlottum, who have a fantastic selection and also ship to the UK) as they are about a quarter of the price of the UK, even for Austin roses. I only bought from Beales recently because they were sold out of the ones I wanted at TCL.
Quite a culture shock for you to be back in London I imagine!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Yes shock but the gardens here are incredibly lush, all that rain. I garden yo clay but it’s worked by me constantly, in Mallorca it baked so hard I couldn’t get a spade in the earth. I love Austin roses but wanted to branch out so added the hybrid musks, a few floribundas but I must admit all the roses bought at Beales do much better, he’s a great breeder. Austin sends out over a thousand roses per WEEK, can you imagine? They say Ronald Dahl is a great rose. I have Jubilee Celebration which is a great rose, strong - flowers twice and not excessively, nut reliable. I also have Blanc Double de Colbert, a rugosa, beautiful papery white flowers, stick it anywhere it doesn’t mind. And good old Iceberg as a standard, great show. I could go on.
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Quite a culture shock for you to be back in London I imagine!