Sorry folks, I wrongly named one of my rose photos as 'Royal Jubilee', when it is of course 'Silver Jubilee'. Just walked around the garden after a long stint of deadheading and counted 28 roses. Gosh, didn't realize I had that many, but I did buy 5 unnamed Old English roses very cheaply last autumn on a whim. Interesting to see that 3 have flowered beautifully and I'm very pleased with them, the yellow one has just one bud now showing and the red one has a tiny, tiny bud on it tonight. All except the yellow one are in pots so I can decide whether or not to keep them and if so, where to plant them. Big dilemma coming up! Thinking of naming each one after the women in my family.
Hi everyone. Would love to hear some recommendations for a climber with good fragrance to go around a front door. It would get around 8 hours of full sun but would have to be suitable for a very large pot as the front of house is all blocked. I do have Alibaba currently in a pot growing up an arch at the front. Doing very well so far but is only the first season there and wondered if there were any others that might work. Thank you.
I can’t wait for next week’s supposed stretch of sunshine.. this endless rain is just ruining my roses.. my lady of shallot has finally started to flower but they really don’t do well in this rain at all.. it takes just two days of rain to cause a fresh bloom to ball and shatter..
@seakale With regards to the question you asked on Marlorena’s rose garden thread - I have about 17 roses all grown in pots - and they’re of a variety of shapes and sizes. The ideal pot size has always been quoted as 18x18inches (width and depth) for shrub roses. In my limited two years’ experience I find that my roses that are grown in pots that are smaller than that still perform very well. I think my smallest pot is about 12x14 inches - and I still get good results from them. Obviously bigger is better when it comes to roses but in my case I have limited space so I have accepted the fact that my roses may never grow to their full size.
In terms of types of pots - it depends what you’re after. I personally find terracotta ones most attractive but I cannot afford to have them on my balcony as they’re way too heavy. I actually find plastic ones really good, they’re very cheap but can still look incredibly modern and attractive. Some are even painted to look like an old terracotta pot and rather convincingly so. I don’t bother with wood and fibreglass as much - as they’re also quite heavy - and they also cost a fair bit too.
A decent well designed plastic pot of 18x18in dimension would cost you probably a tenner.. but a wooden/terracotta/fibreglass one is likely to cost 25-30 quid minimum.. some even go up to hundreds of pounds..
The thing about size is for longevity. You can grow any plant in a small pot for a certain amount of time until it outgrows it, becomes completely rootbound and the potting mix becomes exhausted. Water just drains straight through, it can’t hold nutrients and the plant suffers.
Like when you put seedlings into little pots to get them started, they’ll do really well to start with but if you leave it too long before repotting then they start slowing down, going yellowy and become weak and spindly.
So if you want to keep a plant that wants to grow large, like a rose, in a small pot you’ll find yourself having to repot, root prune etc. every couple/few years. Whereas a larger pot with enough space to make replacement of the top inches of potting mix easier will last much much longer.
All that said I was shocked the other day as I saw a photo of a Claire Austin that was climbing the front of someone’s house. It was a very good size, but what surprised me was seeing the tiny pot it was coming out of! Can’t have been more than a 12 inch pot.
It looked like a genie coming out of a lamp 🧞♂️
And yet the plant looked great. Must have been some magic involved!
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@Nollie I can feel the smell of HC quite well from my sitting area. It’s wonderful.
Rosa Joie de Vivre with geranium.
It's a good thing I'm yanking out a hedge as I'm not entirely where where these roses would go!
Interesting I was looking at this earlier and the pics on the tag in the garden centre looked more apricot than this.
Just walked around the garden after a long stint of deadheading and counted 28 roses. Gosh, didn't realize I had that many, but I did buy 5 unnamed Old English roses very cheaply last autumn on a whim. Interesting to see that 3 have flowered beautifully and I'm very pleased with them, the yellow one has just one bud now showing and the red one has a tiny, tiny bud on it tonight. All except the yellow one are in pots so I can decide whether or not to keep them and if so, where to plant them. Big dilemma coming up! Thinking of naming each one after the women in my family.
Blue for you has loads of new clusters about to pop. I've had to to put a short obelisk behind it as it's getting a bit top heavy.
Also, out of interest do all roses have yellow stamens or does it depend on the type of rose?
@seakale With regards to the question you asked on Marlorena’s rose garden thread - I have about 17 roses all grown in pots - and they’re of a variety of shapes and sizes. The ideal pot size has always been quoted as 18x18inches (width and depth) for shrub roses. In my limited two years’ experience I find that my roses that are grown in pots that are smaller than that still perform very well. I think my smallest pot is about 12x14 inches - and I still get good results from them. Obviously bigger is better when it comes to roses but in my case I have limited space so I have accepted the fact that my roses may never grow to their full size.
@seakale
The thing about size is for longevity. You can grow any plant in a small pot for a certain amount of time until it outgrows it, becomes completely rootbound and the potting mix becomes exhausted. Water just drains straight through, it can’t hold nutrients and the plant suffers.
Like when you put seedlings into little pots to get them started, they’ll do really well to start with but if you leave it too long before repotting then they start slowing down, going yellowy and become weak and spindly.
So if you want to keep a plant that wants to grow large, like a rose, in a small pot you’ll find yourself having to repot, root prune etc. every couple/few years. Whereas a larger pot with enough space to make replacement of the top inches of potting mix easier will last much much longer.
All that said I was shocked the other day as I saw a photo of a Claire Austin that was climbing the front of someone’s house. It was a very good size, but what surprised me was seeing the tiny pot it was coming out of! Can’t have been more than a 12 inch pot.
It looked like a genie coming out of a lamp 🧞♂️