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..the ROSE Season...2019...

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  • FfoxgloveFfoxglove Posts: 538
    @edhelka my roses are similarly swamped by aphids especially my frau dagmar hastrup!

    @Marlorena sorry to hear about the drought over there. We've just been forecast 5 days of rain in South Wales. I've had to pack away all the garden furniture. I'm gutted because my jasmine polyanthum has just started flowering and I wanted to sit out and enjoy the scent. Looks like that'll have to wait! 
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ..that certainly has a heady scent, be a shame to miss it.. but I wish that rain would move further east... I think we really need about 10 inches... no joke.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It is raining in Dordogne tonight. We are off to Norfolk on Thursday, wonder how dry it will look.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    The grass is still green where I am...  but the soil is very dry on top...
    East Anglia, England
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    AT LAST good to be able to post buds on roses (been very jealous)🙂 the Arthur Bell and Blue have buds (knew the blue would take time as drastically reduced from four foot to one ) and the Arthur is only a year old. 
    Blue ?
     Arthur Bell
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    On the 14th of April I posted a pic of an LD Braithwaite bud looking as if it was close to opening - its taken 10 days more but it has finally opened. Shortly after, the weather turned cool and wet, for which I am extremely thankful as the garden has lost that parched look. Its amazing to see in action just how sensitive they are to temperature.

    Can’t get a good pic of it as its at the back and obscured by foliage!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A couple of years ago, I dug out an old ,pretty much dead rose. The main stem was about 3or 4inches in diameter.
    How long before it's safe to plant roses without that microch..... stuff and how far away is safe?
    I have some roses in containers that could do with being planted out.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2019
    Thanks @Eglantyne. I think I'll plant something else there!
    I was wondering how come it's ok to plant roses near live roses but not in place of dead ones?
    Can you dig out a live rose and plant another in its place? Just wondering -  don't intend to do it😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    ...this is the one time I advocate use of mycorrhizal fungi at planting time... I've never used those cardboard boxes, but I always try to amend the soil somewhat..  I have found it also helps if you plant the new rose just a couple of feet to the side from where the centre of the original one was growing...  when they planted up a new rose border at Hampton Court a few years ago, they used the mycorrhizal, as the old rose bed had been in place for a long time.. old diseased roses were taken out and replaced... 

    @purplerallim  lovely photos, I do like the foliage on that rose..
    East Anglia, England
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    I grow lots of Geraniums with my roses, I expect most everyone else does too..

    ..my first one opened today.. this is Geranium pyrenaicum 'Isparta'...

    East Anglia, England
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