@B3 If it were mine, I would just cut the spirea back hard after flowering, if it was getting a bit too pushy with the AB. Regarding feeding/watering, you should be fine with the usual two annual feeds, and watering when dry etc. I’ve got a row of roses growing along a conifer hedge and they do fine.
If anyone has any contrary advice please feel free, I’m no expert just going off my experience.
@cats_and_dogs Hope it shows up! DA once sent an order to my old address, even though my new address was on the order 😖 Ugh I shudder to think what happened with those roses...
This is my first ever post on this forum, I have been lurking for a couple of years but finally took the plunge as I hope you can help me to identify a rose in my garden. We have been here about two years now and I’m slowly making changes which also involved adding some roses as I love them
This is “lucky” -planted last year: ‘Cécile Brünner’ planted autumn 2018 (one of my first additions to the garden). And ‘Iceberg’ planted a short three weeks ago - but doing very well. We inherited a very established climbing rose and I wondered if you can help identify it - I have no idea how old it is and it doesn’t seem to repeat flower. It doesn’t have much of a fragrance. The blooms are a very pale yellow with pink edging when mature. The buds are a stronger yellow with no pink at all. Any ideas?
Thank you @edhelka. I will pot it and be patient, let me know how yours is getting on over time please. I always have to dig much bigger holes than the container unfortunately as no my soil is not great. So am grateful to hear that for a short time a smaller pot will do.
Does anyone remember my Gentle Hermione? It is a good example to illustrate what I mean about the willingness of a rose to grow or not depending on its location.
This is what I inherited with Gentle Hermione tag, I guess many people would get rid of it as a lost cause. It was hard-pruned in spring, like an HT (I know because I've seen it in spring when viewing the house, this photo is from summer when we moved in).
A year later (2019) after a lot of TLC, feeding, mulching etc., still not happy. The location is shady in early spring (6-7 hours of sun in summer), windy, exposed, with poor soil and competition from that phormium. I don't have a better photo, it's the one that looks like a stick.
This year, in a pot, in a sheltered location, full sun. It clearly wants to live and prosper.
Wow, what a difference @edhelka, and I never would have thought its prior location was that bad. Makes me worry now whether I have matched roses to location well. More patience needed to wait and see I guess.
@Tack It's not that bad, I have other roses doing well there. It would have certainly help if there weren't bricks buried under the poor thing. The soil there is less improved than in my back garden but I am working on that. I have roses in worse places at the moment.
@Watsonia You have very pretty roses and doing well for their age. Your climber is very beautiful.
@Omori As always, breathtaking. I am envious about your Charles de Mills.
@edhelka What a turn around, loving all that lush new growth it’s putting out, you must be so pleased. You have a lovely garden. And thank you, that is too kind of you.
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@tack Those look great and nice prices!
@Katsa I wouldn’t worry 🌹
This is “lucky” -planted last year:
‘Cécile Brünner’ planted autumn 2018 (one of my first additions to the garden).
We inherited a very established climbing rose and I wondered if you can help identify it - I have no idea how old it is and it doesn’t seem to repeat flower. It doesn’t have much of a fragrance. The blooms are a very pale yellow with pink edging when mature. The buds are a stronger yellow with no pink at all. Any ideas?
Dame Judy Dench waiting patiently to be planted out:
Likewise Charles de Mills also waiting, weather is finally not hellish so will be able to soon:
Citrusy Well Being:
I love the ruffly easy going form of Albertine: