...Trevor is my no. 1 supplier for bare root roses.... if they don't have the one I want, then I look elsewhere... be prepared for huge roots... you'll be reluctant to cut those back..
I've tended to just do photos of my rose flowers - so I thought I'd do a few to show how the plants have grown this year.
All of these roses were planted as bareroots between November and January this last season.
This is Royal Jubilee, still flowering but slowing down. Definitely a favourite. I'm growing it against the garden shed and training as a climber. It's about 1.5m wide and tall.
On the left are the raggety remains of the sunflowers I grew with my little boy
This is The Generous Gardener which is growing on a North Facing fence. The plant is about 6ft wide. It would have been larger but unfortunately I was too slow at tying in a long cane that it was throwing out and that snapped in the wind. That would have balanced the growth on the left side of the photo.
It's been decent and I've had quite a few flowers from it - although you can see I've got some discolouration on the foliage.
Below is Ghislaine De Feligonde which has started bushing out and thrown up a tall cane. That is going to be trained on the wall to the left of the photo - both across below the window and zigzagging vertically up the side. I had a lot of flowers early on and then no second flush.
The rose in the foreground on the right is Kew Gardens, which I've just moved - it looks packed in but there's more space than it appears in the photo.
Below is Rhapsody in Blue - which is still flowering. I've been very pleased with it. It has also thrown up a tall cane.
And last rose today is Malvern Hills - which Marlorena was correct about - it's a beast! Already climbed up 9ft and that's with zig zagging - so the longest must be at least 12ft in the first year - and that was also damaged by the wind but just recovered, threw out several new shoots and just kept going.
It looks like its grown an extra half foot since last week when I last did tying in.
I wasn't able yo train it exactly as intended because the vigorous cane was in the wrong place and started out very stiff, so I was only able to start tying it in about half way up - I'm sure it'll fill in quickly next year.
It'll easily cover the extension and it already looks good from the kitchen window (left - out of frame - of the doors in photo) having the leaves their against the brick - foliage is a lovely shade and shape on this.
This is one of two astrantias which I planted from bareroot (Wilko pack) unnamed variety, it just said Astrantia. First flowering - since it must have been too small at the usual time. Posting here as I specifically bought Astrantia to plant with the roses - and I was excited to see this today!
@Mr. Vine Eye Thank you for the photos. Your Generous Gardener is much bigger than mine, like two times bigger or almost three times. It is one of my healthiest roses but true 1st year sleeper, no sign of any cane long enough to be worth tying in.
I am just preparing my enormous terracotta pot to plant a climbing rose Masquerade - against a south facing wall. I took this rose cutting from an established plant last Autumn and now have a well rooted plant ready to move on to it's final home in this large pot. So far we have put rotted horse manure, leaf mould, compost and some grit into the pot, any suggestions for other mediums to add to fill the pot prior to planting please?
@Marlorena Could you please tell me more about your experience with Sir Walter Scott? How bad conditions can it take? Does it have more upright habit or rather low growing, sprawling? I don't mind the suckering and thorns if it can grow where no other rose could.
I like hybrid spinosissimas as a group for their toughness and suitability for coastal areas but most of them are big, Sir Walter Scott looks easy to accommodate.
@edhelka … oh yes, this is an easy rose to accommodate,.. it grows wider than tall and would probably do better for you... I got the impression it was not drought tolerant, and I can go long periods without rain here... being a Scots hybrid I tend to think they need more moisture.... also possibly a single plant on its own I felt didn't make much impact.... pretty little flowers though...
...as you like these types of roses, you might like to wait until early next March before ordering as they will release their new roses for 2020 at that time, bare roots... one of them will be a new scented yellow Spinossimima hybrid rose.... you might prefer it..
@Guernsey Donkey2 .. I would say your mixture is quite sufficient... a touch of luxury there...
@Mr. Vine Eye ... your roses are doing just brilliantly... some house eaters coming along nicely... they will look great next summer and GdeF will get into a repeat rhythm next season I expect... it takes time for roses of this type to get established with repeat performance... but it gets better each year for me with this rose in particular...
...this is my 'Chawton Cottage' climbing rose I got today from Harkness roses, the breeder... I have to say I'm a touch disappointed.. I see this as a Grade B rose with only 2 canes, albeit they are thick ones... normally there should be at least 3 for a Grade A rose... but as it's a climber I don't mind too much as it will grow from these... very thorny isn't it?.. but often roses can be excessively thorny at the base, with fewer farther up … so I hope that's the case..otherwise it may not last long here...
...as a comparison... here's a similar type of climbing rose I got from Trevor White..
@Marlorena I remember you talking about this new yellow rose in spring. So are they finally releasing it? It would be nice to see something different than another two or three pink roses.
I wanted to wait for spring, thinking about ordering one or two roses, but I received their promo brochure today with a discount code which got me thinking But I am sure there will be discount codes again in spring.
Chawton cottage is an intersting rose, I haven't known there are climbing hulthemias. I hope it does well for you.
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All of these roses were planted as bareroots between November and January this last season.
This is Royal Jubilee, still flowering but slowing down. Definitely a favourite. I'm growing it against the garden shed and training as a climber. It's about 1.5m wide and tall.
On the left are the raggety remains of the sunflowers I grew with my little boy
This is The Generous Gardener which is growing on a North Facing fence. The plant is about 6ft wide. It would have been larger but unfortunately I was too slow at tying in a long cane that it was throwing out and that snapped in the wind. That would have balanced the growth on the left side of the photo.
It's been decent and I've had quite a few flowers from it - although you can see I've got some discolouration on the foliage.
Below is Ghislaine De Feligonde which has started bushing out and thrown up a tall cane. That is going to be trained on the wall to the left of the photo - both across below the window and zigzagging vertically up the side. I had a lot of flowers early on and then no second flush.
The rose in the foreground on the right is Kew Gardens, which I've just moved - it looks packed in but there's more space than it appears in the photo.
Below is Rhapsody in Blue - which is still flowering. I've been very pleased with it. It has also thrown up a tall cane.
And last rose today is Malvern Hills - which Marlorena was correct about - it's a beast! Already climbed up 9ft and that's with zig zagging - so the longest must be at least 12ft in the first year - and that was also damaged by the wind but just recovered, threw out several new shoots and just kept going.
It looks like its grown an extra half foot since last week when I last did tying in.
I wasn't able yo train it exactly as intended because the vigorous cane was in the wrong place and started out very stiff, so I was only able to start tying it in about half way up - I'm sure it'll fill in quickly next year.
It'll easily cover the extension and it already looks good from the kitchen window (left - out of frame - of the doors in photo) having the leaves their against the brick - foliage is a lovely shade and shape on this.
Still flowering too!
This is one of two astrantias which I planted from bareroot (Wilko pack) unnamed variety, it just said Astrantia. First flowering - since it must have been too small at the usual time. Posting here as I specifically bought Astrantia to plant with the roses - and I was excited to see this today!
...as you like these types of roses, you might like to wait until early next March before ordering as they will release their new roses for 2020 at that time, bare roots... one of them will be a new scented yellow Spinossimima hybrid rose.... you might prefer it..
@Mr. Vine Eye ... your roses are doing just brilliantly... some house eaters coming along nicely... they will look great next summer and GdeF will get into a repeat rhythm next season I expect... it takes time for roses of this type to get established with repeat performance... but it gets better each year for me with this rose in particular...
...as a comparison... here's a similar type of climbing rose I got from Trevor White..
...you be the judge....