..oh gosh I like your wall... crikey I'd have a ton of roses along that.... but it's nice to have a fruit tree too....
...I'd also have that Bowles Mauve Erysimum out... they look ok for a couple of seasons before getting old and woody.. so there, I've found you a new rose hole !...
The Erysimum wasnt there until I moved things around to make space.I wasn't planning on keeping it. I've got another one in another spot and I think one is enough.
There's also space between the buddleia near the corner of fence/wall and the tree.
..sorry... don't believe you... but seriously your garden is larger than I expected... I think it'll look really nice in time, when the grass is edged too..
Yes on that plan I made, I missed out a section of the garden - it looks on there like Vanessa Bell and Eustacia Vye would be very close to each other, but they’re actually 4m apart
It might be more like 3.5m - It’s got Erysimum, agryanthemum (self seeded!) , lavender, sage, thyme, aubrietta and cistus - all currently swamped by a giant Cosmos octopus which has only just started flowering after being sown in Feb. It’s covered in buds so I don’t want to remove it.
Theres also a Deutzia and a Photinia around there.
The area for some reason is really sandy, even though the rest of the soil in my garden is quite heavy clay.
The area in front of the espalier tree was being used to grow veg this year, but since we got the allotment I’ve reclaimed it.
We'd just got back from Leicester this afternoon when my 5 cheap bare roots were delivered which was good timing. They look okay to me although the roots look a bit short. I've just soaked them for an hour then rewrapped them as I'm too tired now to pot them up. Hopefully I can plant them tomorrow, weather permitting.
They aren't named varieties, just 5 different colours so this is a bit of an experiment. They're all repeat flowering bush roses and looked like DA's to me, so we'll wait and see. What I'm not certain about is which colour one to plant in the garden where a yellow rose had been. (I've done all the prep for this). It will be opposite a white/cream 'Happy Birthday' rose. Below it to the right are two 'Little White Pet'. In the background on a wall is apricot 'Penelope' and to the right further up the garden are white 'Winchester Cathedral', deep pink GJ and cream 'Margaret Merrill. I have a choice of Blush White, Pink, Red, Apricot or Yellow to choose from. Any suggestions please?
Nah, I am not that bad I still have a lawn in my garden. And camellias, rhododendrons, japanese maples, flowering cherries and other plants taking way too much space but also being too pretty to get rid of. 1st stage of rose obsession: removing unproductive plants taking space and replacing with roses. 2nd stage: pots. 3rd stage: building vertical structures and getting creative in training. 4th stage: removing productive plants while crying. I am somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd stage
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...I'd also have that Bowles Mauve Erysimum out... they look ok for a couple of seasons before getting old and woody.. so there, I've found you a new rose hole !...
There's also space between the buddleia near the corner of fence/wall and the tree.
But I'm not buying anymore roses
It might be more like 3.5m - It’s got Erysimum, agryanthemum (self seeded!) , lavender, sage, thyme, aubrietta and cistus - all currently swamped by a giant Cosmos octopus which has only just started flowering after being sown in Feb. It’s covered in buds so I don’t want to remove it.
Theres also a Deutzia and a Photinia around there.
The area for some reason is really sandy, even though the rest of the soil in my garden is quite heavy clay.
The area in front of the espalier tree was being used to grow veg this year, but since we got the allotment I’ve reclaimed it.
They aren't named varieties, just 5 different colours so this is a bit of an experiment. They're all repeat flowering bush roses and looked like DA's to me, so we'll wait and see.
What I'm not certain about is which colour one to plant in the garden where a yellow rose had been. (I've done all the prep for this). It will be opposite a white/cream 'Happy Birthday' rose. Below it to the right are two 'Little White Pet'. In the background on a wall is apricot 'Penelope' and to the right further up the garden are white 'Winchester Cathedral', deep pink GJ and cream 'Margaret Merrill. I have a choice of Blush White, Pink, Red, Apricot or Yellow to choose from. Any suggestions please?
Do what I did, put pictures of them together. I just copied them off the internet, with a few of my own, and pasted them on to Word.
Used my iPad.
1st stage of rose obsession: removing unproductive plants taking space and replacing with roses. 2nd stage: pots. 3rd stage: building vertical structures and getting creative in training. 4th stage: removing productive plants while crying. I am somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd stage
I've not seen any others that are different enough from the ones I've got to be worth the space.
Well maybe there are actually, but they're climbers and I don't have any more climbing space.
I've already go more clematis than I know what to do with!
I am going to get some Rugosa for the allotment. But I saw them this spring in discount shops for £1.
I'll be interested to see what David Austin bring out for next year.
I like the sound of your garden edhelka - I seem to have done the stages in the wrong order! But then I'm not full yet.