@ Marlorena Not sure if I can live without a plant that Ive tended for 10 years......I find it difficult to chuck the extra clump following division. Usually I pot them up and try to find a taker over several weeks... Only failing this will see them go to the bin....
Looking at Mattock, think they somewhat specialise in containerised climbing roses for show gardens such as Chelsey and have also seen in their catalogue that they grow them several meters in a tiny pot! Although doable think the watering needs would be quite painful fo an average gardener and would ruin coming home from a holiday!
M, a question for you. Many rose experts recommend for climbers pruning back the older, battered, woody canes in the early spring to promote growth in the newer, supple, young canes. They suggest constantly cutting off canes through the life of the plant. My six year old Ena has only one cane. I pruned off two battered canes two years ago, thinking more would grow back, but they haven't. So now I only have one and no signs of any other. If the single gets damaged and I cut it back might it kill the rose? It's in a tough spot under a wall, between to concrete paths in front of my house. I'm somewhat amazed it has grown at all given how much concrete it has had to negotiate and how little rain access it gets in the summer. But it seems healthy and is covered in flowers. Thanks
I do what Zimmerman does there in pruning out some canes from the middle, where you have a lot to work with, and some look unproductive... but with your rose which only has 1 main cane, I wouldn't like to tell you what to do there but your rose is a climbing hybrid tea, and like all hybrid teas they usually respond well to hard pruning, but you're getting lots of buds and the rose is blooming, so I would leave it for now.
Climbing and rambling roses often send up basals in late summer... so I would look at your rose then and if it's not doing that great, I might be inclined to prune it down to maybe 2 foot, and see if that makes it send up another one... do feed it end of June or early July...
'Bengal Crimson' [Tea.. of antiquity]..a rather odd but everblooming rose, even during winter in mild areas.. ..reaching full flush... for the collector..
My California poppies ready to burst..
..peeping out from under a rose is a little plant with a big name, but it will grow larger in time.. Rhodanthemum hosmariense 'Casablanca'...
I like a big splash of red in my rose gardens, and for that I choose Geum 'Blazing Sunset'.... mine are just coming into flower, so here's a photo from yesteryear just to remind me what they look like... I find this Geum longer blooming than the similar Mrs Bradshaw... however they don't last long without division or growing fresh from seed..
I'm an impatient gardener... so here's a quick way to get a new rose, without doing seeds or cuttings and waiting for them to root..
You can't do this with all roses, but you might be lucky.. I saw a nice red shoot coming up from the ground last autumn [not a sucker], on 'Wild Rover' which is about 8 foot on an arch.. when the shoot, which was a few inches away from the main trunk of the rose, was about a foot high, I yanked it out of the soil and it came up with a piece of the rootstock attached... I planted this the other side of the arch... so here it is today, growing away.. so now I have 2 Wild Rovers, one each side..
I lost some primulas to last years drought... but Primula japonica 'Miller's Crimson' has come back again... I did have a lot more but seem to have only 2 left..
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Looking at Mattock, think they somewhat specialise in containerised climbing roses for show gardens such as Chelsey and have also seen in their catalogue that they grow them several meters in a tiny pot! Although doable think the watering needs would be quite painful fo an average gardener and would ruin coming home from a holiday!
Climbing and rambling roses often send up basals in late summer... so I would look at your rose then and if it's not doing that great, I might be inclined to prune it down to maybe 2 foot, and see if that makes it send up another one... do feed it end of June or early July...
..reaching full flush... for the collector..
My California poppies ready to burst..
..peeping out from under a rose is a little plant with a big name, but it will grow larger in time.. Rhodanthemum hosmariense 'Casablanca'...
You can't do this with all roses, but you might be lucky.. I saw a nice red shoot coming up from the ground last autumn [not a sucker], on 'Wild Rover' which is about 8 foot on an arch.. when the shoot, which was a few inches away from the main trunk of the rose, was about a foot high, I yanked it out of the soil and it came up with a piece of the rootstock attached... I planted this the other side of the arch... so here it is today, growing away.. so now I have 2 Wild Rovers, one each side..
'Octavia Hill'.. a floribunda..