Seems it’s very vigorous and can get to 6m tall by 2.5m wide, so how large and sturdy is your fence?! However it also says can be grown as a large, freestanding shrub. In the absence of more knowledgeable advice (@Marlorena can you help?) large climbers/ramblers are normally planted about 40-50cm from a structure/tree to grow through, on a slight angle leaning back - you could help it in it’s early days by inserting a few angled canes or a trellis to encourage it up.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I’m so disappointed with how my Soul has responded to the rain - OK its been relentlessly heavy and everything is a bit battered, but I choose a rose to cope better with my heat and then June is the coldest and wettest on record here. Can’t win!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I feel for you, Nollie. But I also think that the conditions at the moment are really bad and we shouldn't be so harshly judging. Two days ago, many roses still looked good despite the rain. Yesterday and today, everything looks bad, all roses drooping, petals everywhere, everything grey and bleak. I probably lost almost all strawberries, they are rotting or getting mouldy before having the chance to ripen. Most of my roses are in the middle of the first flush and it's getting ruined. Dry April, dry May and so wet June, that's a bad combination for many plants.
Hi all, I'm a little disappointed with Munsted Wood again. Whilst the blooms are stunning and so is the scent. It's without doubt produces the least amount of blooms of the 15 odd different DA that I grow. Just wondering how common that was?
Thanks @edhelka, yes it’s tempting to judge too early, I’m very guilty of that! On the other hand, having resigned myself to the designated three years waiting for some of my worst performing Austins to get better, most have just got worse, with the notable exception of Munstead Wood which is finally giving me a decent amount of blooms. On MW @Jason-3, how old is yours?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks @edhelka, yes it’s tempting to judge too early, I’m very guilty of that! On the other hand, having resigned myself to the designated three years waiting for some of my worst performing Austins to get better, most have just got worse, with the notable exception of Munstead Wood which is finally giving me a decent amount of blooms. On MW @Jason-3, how old is yours?
I bought it as a potted plant April/May 2018, it seems to have regressed in terms of flowering. It makes me wonder if alongside the thorns that the reason they are no longer producing it? Intresting is that it's not one of the roses they grow abundantly at DA in Albrighton
I bought mine as potted plants in May 2017 @Jason-3 and they only came good this year. I have a trio, which I think it needs. I’m probably not the best as a comparison as many DA’s don’t do so well in my climate so hopefully others will chip in. Lady Emma Hamilton bloomed the most for me from day one, but this year has been very sparse.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Seems it’s very vigorous and can get to 6m tall by 2.5m wide, so how large and sturdy is your fence?! However it also says can be grown as a large, freestanding shrub. In the absence of more knowledgeable advice (@Marlorena can you help?) large climbers/ramblers are normally planted about 40-50cm from a structure/tree to grow through, on a slight angle leaning back - you could help it in it’s early days by inserting a few angled canes or a trellis to encourage it up.
Intresting is that it's not one of the roses they grow abundantly at DA in Albrighton
My MW i planted last autumn. It is full of buds but will struggle to hold so many flowers.