...some more Spring-y pics.. Daphne 'Jacqueline Postill'.. just coming to the end of its long 3 months of flowering.. ..emerging shoots Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'... Pulmonaria 'Benediction'... so easy to grow and divide.. Primula 'Cisca'... tolerates drier conditions.. 'Munstead Wood' foliage..
David Austin has closed its online store. 2 days' back, I had added 2 Gabriel Oak and a Warm Welcome in my basket together with their Rose fertilizer and was meaning to complete my purchase but had wanted to be sure about the roses so had put off purchasing...shame!
It’s a glorious day today and I’ve been lucky to have a day off work. It almost feels like summer and it has been sunny this whole week. Call me impatient though, but my roses are still quite slow to kick into spring action..
Clockwise from top left: Queen of Sweden, Ronald Dhal, Desdemona and Sceptr’d isle
Clockwise from top left: Gertrude Jekyll (good few buds but hardly any growth), my unknown yellow hybrid tea, my terrace in the glorious weather today, boscobel
Oh well I’ll just have to cheer myself up with a glass of bubbly this afternoon
Immaculate Adrian, I wish I could be so neat.. all looking good... nights are still cold, so we have to be patient..
...just to add... Style Roses, an excellent nursery in Lincs are still open for business, mail order... they sell DA roses, moderns and lots of Standards... and I recommend them totally.. [no connection whatsoever]...
@Marlorena Thank you. To be honest I quite admire gardens that look more natural rather than clinically geometric like mine.. but I simply don’t have it in me to create a natural looking garden.. or rather the compulsion is too great for me to let go of my inner control freak..
I really must refrain from buying any roses this year as the best spots on my balcony have all been taken by my existing roses.. I am testing out the shady second balcony and the windy/exposed spots this year before investing in more roses.. would love to know what you think of Silas Marner and The country Parson this year.. they’re on my wish list (in addition to the generous gardener and Gabriel Oak, and Olivia Austin.. the list does sort of go on ha!)
My plant stock for the new pink/purple/white rose bed is coming along nicely in the poly. All the roses are now developing buds, with the exception of La Rose de Molinard, whose growth seems to have stalled in comparison to the others. There is even a little deep purple colour peeking out on Diamond Eyes:
In there (not all in view ) I have the following roses: Astronomia Bonica Rose de Molinard Ghita Aya Soul Burgundy Ice Diamond Eyes Stormy Weather
Plus: Clematis Kokonoe Clematis Durandii Salvia Verticillata Purple Rain Geranium Sanguineum White Geranium Coombland White Gladioli The Bride
Plus dark dahlias Mexican Star and Night Butterfly and Allium Atropurpureum. Oh and some cuttings of Gaura Whirling Butterflies that seem (fingers crossed) to have taken.
Hmm, I think some judicious editing of that list will be required. Just as well I have plenty of gaps to fill elsewhere!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I was finally able to do some spring jobs in the front garden - the 1st cut of the grass, tidying, spreading some manure and mulching. The plan for tomorrow is the same for the back garden.
Souvenir de St. Annes with buds, it looks like it will be my earliest rose flowering.
And some lovely turkestanica tulips, new for me this year and I think I need more of them (excuse the cat bombing the photo).
Looks great @edhelka - very envious, I’d love a front garden!
Our house is all paved drive at the front and to be honest at the time it was one of the things that attracted us to it, having moved from a rented house with a narrow single drive (raised higher than the neighbours - wife once dropped her car down the side!)
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Daphne 'Jacqueline Postill'.. just coming to the end of its long 3 months of flowering..
..emerging shoots Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'...
Pulmonaria 'Benediction'... so easy to grow and divide..
Primula 'Cisca'... tolerates drier conditions..
'Munstead Wood' foliage..
Scentimental and Flanders. Flanders has a fine tangle of roots! Both have gone in temp pots while I have some building work done.
Clockwise from top left: Queen of Sweden, Ronald Dhal, Desdemona and Sceptr’d isle
Clockwise from top left: Gertrude Jekyll (good few buds but hardly any growth), my unknown yellow hybrid tea, my terrace in the glorious weather today, boscobel
...just to add... Style Roses, an excellent nursery in Lincs are still open for business, mail order... they sell DA roses, moderns and lots of Standards... and I recommend them totally.. [no connection whatsoever]...
https://www.styleroses.co.uk/
..nice bare roots @Victoria Sponge I had been considering Flanders Rose myself..
I really must refrain from buying any roses this year as the best spots on my balcony have all been taken by my existing roses.. I am testing out the shady second balcony and the windy/exposed spots this year before investing in more roses.. would love to know what you think of Silas Marner and The country Parson this year.. they’re on my wish list (in addition to the generous gardener and Gabriel Oak, and Olivia Austin.. the list does sort of go on ha!)
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In there (not all in view ) I have the following roses:
Astronomia
Bonica
Rose de Molinard
Ghita
Aya
Soul
Burgundy Ice
Diamond Eyes
Stormy Weather
Plus:
Clematis Kokonoe
Clematis Durandii
Salvia Verticillata Purple Rain
Geranium Sanguineum White
Geranium Coombland White
Gladioli The Bride
Plus dark dahlias Mexican Star and Night Butterfly and Allium Atropurpureum. Oh and some cuttings of Gaura Whirling Butterflies that seem (fingers crossed) to have taken.
Hmm, I think some judicious editing of that list will be required. Just as well I have plenty of gaps to fill elsewhere!
Our house is all paved drive at the front and to be honest at the time it was one of the things that attracted us to it, having moved from a rented house with a narrow single drive (raised higher than the neighbours - wife once dropped her car down the side!)
But I wish we had the space for a garden too!