The Alexandre Girault in my long list is for my fantasy of putting a rose into a Bramley tree which is currently a fully branched 6-7m high. Any opinions on this from anybody please. I would prefer a coloured rose with some repeat flowering ideally, are there better contenders? How actually do you do this? Having helped the canes up the trunk how high do you need to keep guiding until they do the clambering themselves?
..sorry you haven't had a reply to this... I noticed it earlier and meant to get back..
...once the rose has reached the lower limbs of your tree, they use their prickles to attach themselves as they weave through the branches.. they will always aim towards the sun.. so you might have to use a long handled tool to push some canes in other directions... ..if you want it to scramble all the way through, then you are not going to be able to maintain it as it gets taller, so it will be left to its own devices... occasionally I think you might have to remove an old cane or two as pruning will be impossible... Alexandre Girault will repeat bloom until autumn, giving a few blooms here and there, if it is not deadheaded after the first flush, which you won't be doing 20 feet up a tree... if it is deadheaded and the laterals pruned back, it will not rebloom because the buds that are available to offer rebloom, are just behind the old spent blooms, and they will be cut off by pruning..
..it's a beautiful rambler and a favourite of mine... I have grown it before... best of luck..
Amazing what a few weeks make. I like to photograph the beds progress, there isn't much properly in flower yet, but in another week or two, it will look as different again.
Wow, I go out for the day - lovely day at a bird sanctuary btw - and there are pages and pages of lovely roses and chat to catch up with!
That’s Ok @Marlorena, it’s not often I am researching roses for northern climates either, but you have given me some excellent steers nonetheless. @Mr. Vine Eye better be careful though, else he is off the Christmas card list 😆
@Watsonia, hello and welcome, look forward to more photos of your roses. Your Lucky is gorgeous, so mature looking already. It was on a previous list of mine but somehow slipped the net, but seeing yours it’s just this minute slipped back on my current list.
Here is my wish list, that will doubtless change again. Five are to replace existing DAs that are not doing too well here, so they don’t count as ‘extra’ roses!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Do you know I expect a bloom from 'Purple Lodge' soon? And from 'Eye of the Storm'? If these look good (which is yet to bee seen), they could be a good adepts for your list
Oh I didn’t know you had Eye of the Storm, @edhelka, it looks a deeper colour than Djamila, but postage costs can mount up using lots of different sources, so I’m trying to limit myself to just one UK supplier. It has to be Beales, as Ivor’s Rose is a must-have. If they, or TCL had ‘Storm I would have it like a shot. I remember Purple Lodge, though, looking forward to seeing it. Because I so need to be adding to my already too long list!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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...once the rose has reached the lower limbs of your tree, they use their prickles to attach themselves as they weave through the branches.. they will always aim towards the sun.. so you might have to use a long handled tool to push some canes in other directions...
..if you want it to scramble all the way through, then you are not going to be able to maintain it as it gets taller, so it will be left to its own devices... occasionally I think you might have to remove an old cane or two as pruning will be impossible... Alexandre Girault will repeat bloom until autumn, giving a few blooms here and there, if it is not deadheaded after the first flush, which you won't be doing 20 feet up a tree... if it is deadheaded and the laterals pruned back, it will not rebloom because the buds that are available to offer rebloom, are just behind the old spent blooms, and they will be cut off by pruning..
..it's a beautiful rambler and a favourite of mine... I have grown it before... best of luck..
That’s Ok @Marlorena, it’s not often I am researching roses for northern climates either, but you have given me some excellent steers nonetheless. @Mr. Vine Eye better be careful though, else he is off the Christmas card list 😆
@Watsonia, hello and welcome, look forward to more photos of your roses. Your Lucky is gorgeous, so mature looking already. It was on a previous list of mine but somehow slipped the net, but seeing yours it’s just this minute slipped back on my current list.
Here is my wish list, that will doubtless change again. Five are to replace existing DAs that are not doing too well here, so they don’t count as ‘extra’ roses!
I like to see beds in progress photos, before after ones but i myself always forget to take photos. Here are some from my garden
Miss England, pure poetry, and Jacques Cartier.
Here's pure poetry (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rose) in situ:
It smells amazing, as does English Miss. I'm a bit underwhelmed by Jacques Cartier at the moment. I hope it improves.