@edhelka.. yes it'll be fun to see how they all go... I usually get rose replant sickness on a few of mine, so yours will probably take off before mine do... the Commandant is quite a thorny brute... I hate to root prune Trevor's roses because they are so large but I had to do it with this one... and Sally Holmes was simply ginormous... I had to push the thing down, I could hardly dig a hole big enough.. I got them all planted today... I did intend to pot some up but when you see those roots !...
...can't wait for next March... I want the new Austin's already... [Mr Vine Eye better not read this ...]...
It's quite possible I will have problems with the rose replant sickness too, I am moving 6 roses and planting different ones in the same spot or very close... I still try to change as much soil as I can but it's getting hard to do. Luckily I still have some vegetable beds so I can dig out soil from the rose spots and toss it to the vegetable bed and get some nice soil (manured heavily last spring) from there but it's a bit crazy. My neighbour has a conservatory from where she can see both my front and back garden and she has to think I am crazy, moving buckets of soil between the gardens all the time Also, some roses will get better spots and some will get more challenging ones. I am sure this will be the case in your garden too.
I took these photos several days ago when planting the roses from TCL. This is what I am battling here. I think I have to be crazy doing this. Luckily it's not that bad everywhere.
@edhelka ...tell me about it.. I get all that... loads of stones, house bricks, … actually your soil isn't too bad, just a bit rooty there... I'd be wanting to fork over that a bit I think... ...oh my neighbours are all used to seeing my goings on... if they're not gardeners then they don't understand at all, they just see it as a huge problem they would rather not have too much... although most of them around here do garden, but nothing like the extent I do.. I often get comments like ''still at it?''... or ''you keep changing everything''... lol...
I also have tricky soil - get below 20cm and it’s hard clay with fist sized rocks and bricks have to get the mattock out for rose planting, a spade or fork won’t cut it.
But they seem happy growing in it. One problem I’ve got now is that I swapped fresh soil with a transplanted rose’s in one of the areas where I’m now planning to plant a rose! So I’ll have to do some more shuffling.
I hope the new DA roses are rubbish and not at all enticing! 😉
Say they last 3-4 days but better than Royal Jubilee? But the blooms on my Royal Jubilee have been the longest lasting of any of the roses in my garden. They last at least a week, some have been more like two weeks. Maybe that’s down to positioning and the fact mine’s tied in to support.
I cut one flower that had already been open a few days, brought it in for a vase and it lasted on the dining room table nearly a full week from then before petals fell.
@Mr. Vine Eye .... they make the fatal mistake of reviewing Austins when they've only had the plant for one season... no full review should be given until you've had it 3 years... so their reviews should be taken with caution... and as far as RJ is concerned... total rubbish... ....I've no idea how long Gabriels blooms last,... I used to keep cutting them off and walking around the garden with them... 3-4 days is fine with me... I should think a little longer when the rose is fully grown... lots of rose blooms only last a few days....so we shouldn't let that put us off... where I did agree with them was on the rose 'Imogen'... the blooms do shatter all too quickly for such a pretty rose...
.well I can raise you 16 wheelbarrows of smaller stones, turfs and roots plus this amount of larger rocks...
...Out of this trench:
Which is 90cmx3.5m up to the bags of manure. This is about a third of the area of my new rose bed, which has taken me 5 days so far to dig. Why is it that the amount of rocks coming out seems to be at least twice the volume of the space they come out of? A mathematical mystery!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Wow what nice plants never tried Trevor white. Will give them a go. Any one have any experience with pocock roses. They have some nice videos on u-tube and have a rating system on their web which seems helpful.
Nollie, think you have unearthed a old Roman site....That must have been the foundation!
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...can't wait for next March... I want the new Austin's already... [Mr Vine Eye better not read this ...]...
...oh my neighbours are all used to seeing my goings on... if they're not gardeners then they don't understand at all, they just see it as a huge problem they would rather not have too much... although most of them around here do garden, but nothing like the extent I do.. I often get comments like ''still at it?''... or ''you keep changing everything''... lol...
I also have tricky soil - get below 20cm and it’s hard clay with fist sized rocks and bricks have to get the mattock out for rose planting, a spade or fork won’t cut it.
But they seem happy growing in it. One problem I’ve got now is that I swapped fresh soil with a transplanted rose’s in one of the areas where I’m now planning to plant a rose! So I’ll have to do some more shuffling.
I hope the new DA roses are rubbish and not at all enticing! 😉
@Marlorena - have you found that?
Say they last 3-4 days but better than Royal Jubilee? But the blooms on my Royal Jubilee have been the longest lasting of any of the roses in my garden. They last at least a week, some have been more like two weeks. Maybe that’s down to positioning and the fact mine’s tied in to support.
I cut one flower that had already been open a few days, brought it in for a vase and it lasted on the dining room table nearly a full week from then before petals fell.
....I've no idea how long Gabriels blooms last,... I used to keep cutting them off and walking around the garden with them... 3-4 days is fine with me... I should think a little longer when the rose is fully grown... lots of rose blooms only last a few days....so we shouldn't let that put us off... where I did agree with them was on the rose 'Imogen'... the blooms do shatter all too quickly for such a pretty rose...
...Out of this trench:
Which is 90cmx3.5m up to the bags of manure. This is about a third of the area of my new rose bed, which has taken me 5 days so far to dig. Why is it that the amount of rocks coming out seems to be at least twice the volume of the space they come out of? A mathematical mystery!