Your garden plan looks great, really colourful @Mr. Vine Eye, that's a really good idea to lay it out like that and I love the colour mix in the pink section too.
Nice roses @Mary370, I looked them all up. I was thinking about getting a bi-colour but I couldn't make a decision so still haven't ordered one.
Lots of rose news today, an excellent Friday. Got home and found a delivery from Beales, I didn't get a notification: It's Goldbusch, a Kordes rose. I bought this instead of the hybrid musk Francesca which I'd had on my wish list. I was concerned about the light levels and according to Beales this one can be grown in the dark. It's an experiment to be honest as I can't picture this grown at all.
First thing before work I ordered my first ever English roses, changed my mind after all the sensible research and ordered: It's done and can't be undone, so I'll have to live with them. Reverted to my comfort zone with Lark Ascending's open flower shape and I love an orange or yellow rose, they have more energy than the other colours.
...nice selection of roses..... I'm glad you went with Charles Rennie after all.. Beales never send out notifications of despatch these days... which I think let's them down a bit.. I do like to know when something has been despatched... otherwise you got a nice rose there..
It varies @Hazel-1, last winter was quite mild and some of my roses planted in late autumn started growing straight away. The Generous Gardener already had shoots that were a couple on inches long at the start of spring. Others just looked like mini bushes because they had an inch of growth with little leaves visible.
Mortimer Sackler didn't show any signs of growth until mid spring - no visible buds or anything - I was worried it might have been dead! It started growing several weeks after the other roses.
Dont worry if the little bits of growth from the buds get rubbed off, they’ll grow back. Or it’ll just shoot from another place on the cane.
Birds or something peck off the first shooting buds on my apple tree every spring and I always panic because I’m training it as an espalier and need those specific buds! But they always regrow.
At the moment out of the ones I planted a couple of weeks ago, Scarborough Fair looked like it was growing when I spotted it yesterday. The budding shoots were maybe a cm long. The others look much the same as they did.
I noticed yesterday as well that my roses are now starting to drop their leaves. Malvern Hills had quite a big pile at the base, so that’s a job for when it stops raining.
I'm waiting for a hard frost to shut down the roses... not had anything like one yet... a most unusual November, virtually frost free, and none in my forecast... anyone else had one?...
A few of my roses have still some blooms, a few new buds on them and a fair amount of leaves, but we have had a couple of frosts now and it’s much colder than it usually is in November. A very heavy frost this morning, so I feel we are going to have a hard winter.
I have stopped watering and deadheading and want them to go dormant now, so I can clear up, pick off the diseased leaves and put them to bed. If I defoliate too early they are encouraged to produce new ones, so timing is all..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
We've had one proper frosty start. We've had too much cloud and rain here most days for the temperature to drop that low.
My roses have mostly stopped flowering. There's one more bud on The Generous Gardener which hasn't opened yet. Rhapsody in Blue still has some flowers on it. It has flowered the most of all of them this first year.
Some progress on excavating new rose bed, the shape is dictated by the fig and olive tree, also constrained by set of steps in the corner of the house leading to a lower level. The little retaining wall slopes away to nothing by the time it gets to the olive, so I’m going to build it up there to get a bit more planting depth. I also plan to install a low fence on the straight section to train some low climbers against.
I have just noticed the shape looks like a pregnant lady from the last photo, taken from above!!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..oh wow @Nollie ... a low wall.... all sorts of things cascading over that I could see... including roses.. ....nice pots too, and I note the puzzled doggies in the background.. I can't wait to see how it develops...
The dogs are never far away, the black one, Sandra, is a keen gardener, loves to ‘help’ dig and weed!
The vague plan, so far, is:
Bonica to the left of the olive tree (left on the last photo), where it can sprawl out. Then working to the right... Burgundy Iceberg behind the olive (south) Diamond Eyes in front of the olive Ivor’s Rose in the big space between the olive and the fig Stormy weather against the to-be-installed fence La Rose de Molinard against a new obelisk with a purple clematis within the obelisk (still deciding which one) Sandringham or Gertrude Jekyll at at the end nearest the house
Plants in various spots to include Salvia Verticillata Purple Rain, Allium Atropurpureum and Gladioli The Bride, underplanting with Parahebe Avalanche, Euphorbia Blackbird, white geraniums Renardi and Sanguineum Album.
I think you can guess the colour scheme from all that!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Nice roses @Mary370, I looked them all up. I was thinking about getting a bi-colour but I couldn't make a decision so still haven't ordered one.
Lots of rose news today, an excellent Friday. Got home and found a delivery from Beales, I didn't get a notification:
It's Goldbusch, a Kordes rose. I bought this instead of the hybrid musk Francesca which I'd had on my wish list. I was concerned about the light levels and according to Beales this one can be grown in the dark. It's an experiment to be honest as I can't picture this grown at all.
First thing before work I ordered my first ever English roses, changed my mind after all the sensible research and ordered:
It's done and can't be undone, so I'll have to live with them. Reverted to my comfort zone with Lark Ascending's open flower shape and I love an orange or yellow rose, they have more energy than the other colours.
Mortimer Sackler didn't show any signs of growth until mid spring - no visible buds or anything - I was worried it might have been dead! It started growing several weeks after the other roses.
Dont worry if the little bits of growth from the buds get rubbed off, they’ll grow back. Or it’ll just shoot from another place on the cane.
Birds or something peck off the first shooting buds on my apple tree every spring and I always panic because I’m training it as an espalier and need those specific buds! But they always regrow.
At the moment out of the ones I planted a couple of weeks ago, Scarborough Fair looked like it was growing when I spotted it yesterday. The budding shoots were maybe a cm long. The others look much the same as they did.
I noticed yesterday as well that my roses are now starting to drop their leaves. Malvern Hills had quite a big pile at the base, so that’s a job for when it stops raining.
I have stopped watering and deadheading and want them to go dormant now, so I can clear up, pick off the diseased leaves and put them to bed. If I defoliate too early they are encouraged to produce new ones, so timing is all..
My roses have mostly stopped flowering. There's one more bud on The Generous Gardener which hasn't opened yet. Rhapsody in Blue still has some flowers on it. It has flowered the most of all of them this first year.
More mid pink now though rather than purple
I have just noticed the shape looks like a pregnant lady from the last photo, taken from above!!
....nice pots too, and I note the puzzled doggies in the background.. I can't wait to see how it develops...
I went to clean up the fallen leaves and found that Malvern Hills is still flowering.
Also planted some alium bulbs - Purple Sensation, Christophii and sphaerocephalon.
I did this with my 3 year old boy, which meant I had to redo each one as they all ended up going in upside down. But he was trying bless him!
Bonica to the left of the olive tree (left on the last photo), where it can sprawl out. Then working to the right...
Burgundy Iceberg behind the olive (south)
Diamond Eyes in front of the olive
Ivor’s Rose in the big space between the olive and the fig
Stormy weather against the to-be-installed fence
La Rose de Molinard against a new obelisk with a purple clematis within the obelisk (still deciding which one)
Sandringham or Gertrude Jekyll at at the end nearest the house
Plants in various spots to include Salvia Verticillata Purple Rain, Allium Atropurpureum and Gladioli The Bride, underplanting with Parahebe Avalanche, Euphorbia Blackbird, white geraniums Renardi and Sanguineum Album.
I think you can guess the colour scheme from all that!