@rock_hen ..I love The Poet's Wife.. I used to have one, but it got too big for me, like they usually do.. scent is wonderful and I found it to be a very long flowering rose, always in bloom.. rather gangly though..
oh dear, I was hoping to have it in a pot possibly all it's life but maybe not!
@Marlorena - oh the digging is exhausting. But fortunately for me my allotment has a good 40cm of top soil before you hit clay. Unlike my garden where it’s more like 10cm!
Ive ordered an EPDM rubber liner with underlay, but all of the websites were saying it would be 3-4 weeks due to the manufacturer being closed during lockdown and a surge in demand. EPDM cheaper than Butyl but meant to have the same benefits while being a bit more flexible too.
Have been watching lots of videos demonstrating different ways of approaching the next stage. I’ll probably need to go back and make sure the shelves are as flat and level as they can be for the plant baskets. I was originally assuming that I’d have a layer of sand on top of the liner to act as a bed to nestle the plants into so thought it wouldn’t matter if the shelves weren’t perfectly flat. But I can’t find any examples of that being done, so not sure where I got the idea from. Must have read it somewhere.
Here’s the dimensions length and width are at the widest points.
..oh gosh it's much larger than I thought from the first picture... I couldn't possibly handle anything like that, so best of luck with yours and looking forward to seeing the finished result... I was thinking it was a ready made one when I first looked, not a liner... I like the look of those small ones already done... don't know what they're made of exactly, but feel I might manage something along those lines... ...keep going !... I expect you'll have a nice water lily in the middle.. ?..
That’s really helpful, Thanks very much @Marlorena. The blackened bottom is all the way around, plus that last cane is clean at the bottom but curling at the top so I don’t hold out much hope for it. The rose is in quarantine away from all others, I have been using a separate pair of secateurs for it and disinfecting them so I’m confident it’s not my care, or overwatering so yes I guess it is just a dud. This happens sometimes of course, but I doubt I will get any redress from the nursery, going by their dismissive attitude to it’s problems so far..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@poppyfield64...BS is beginning to be an issue now, but during most of the Summer it isn't much of a problem, probably because I spray. Even now it isn't as noticeable as it would be if it was being grown as a shrub as it's growing up through another rose and a clematis. Having said that, because I don't bother spraying this time of year, it will probably suffer quite a bit of leaf loss in the next couple of weeks or so.
It was a lovely morning here. Inspecting the roses was very cheering, lots of flowers and if not, many are full of buds. What a great advantage roses provide with their long season. The first pics are of roses that are new this year but seem to like where they've been put.
Rhapsody in BlueEye of the TigerBlush NoisetteWollerton Old HallStrawberry Hill, which is finally producing the fragrance I chose it forSelected highlights : BathshebaJulia ChildRoyal William
Beautiful colour @Tack, especially Rhapsody in Blue and I love your posy of The Poet’s Wife in the striped vase @rock_hen. I have done a complete u-turn on yellow roses and now love them. It’s getting increasingly hard to dislike any rose colour, but I’m still holding out on coral tones 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
...hope you're all getting lots of nice basals on your roses this time of year... if not, there are ways and means of inducing some..
I'm pleased to see this on 'Chawton Cottage'.. there are 2 coming up.. been a bit slow this summer.. 'Armada' on obelisk after a hard pruning.. ..some perennials that have withstood the stormy weather recently, without staking.. Aster 'Monch'... Rudbeckia deamii... this makes a good splash for late summer and I prefer it to the more popular 'Goldsturm' which I find too orange and dumpy.. ..in the landscape.. ..hardy plumbago.. Ceratostigma willmottianum..
@rock_hen ...it's not too late to apply a root drench of Maxicrop Seaweed, which stimulates growth on roses.. without overdosing of course.. ..another is to use the notching method, although this is best done spring/summer, but worth a try as it's still late summer..
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Ive ordered an EPDM rubber liner with underlay, but all of the websites were saying it would be 3-4 weeks due to the manufacturer being closed during lockdown and a surge in demand. EPDM cheaper than Butyl but meant to have the same benefits while being a bit more flexible too.
Have been watching lots of videos demonstrating different ways of approaching the next stage. I’ll probably need to go back and make sure the shelves are as flat and level as they can be for the plant baskets. I was originally assuming that I’d have a layer of sand on top of the liner to act as a bed to nestle the plants into so thought it wouldn’t matter if the shelves weren’t perfectly flat. But I can’t find any examples of that being done, so not sure where I got the idea from. Must have read it somewhere.
Here’s the dimensions length and width are at the widest points.
...keep going !... I expect you'll have a nice water lily in the middle.. ?..
I'm pleased to see this on 'Chawton Cottage'.. there are 2 coming up.. been a bit slow this summer..
'Armada' on obelisk after a hard pruning..
..some perennials that have withstood the stormy weather recently, without staking..
Aster 'Monch'...
Rudbeckia deamii... this makes a good splash for late summer and I prefer it to the more popular 'Goldsturm' which I find too orange and dumpy..
..in the landscape..
..hardy plumbago.. Ceratostigma willmottianum..
...it's not too late to apply a root drench of Maxicrop Seaweed, which stimulates growth on roses.. without overdosing of course..
..another is to use the notching method, although this is best done spring/summer, but worth a try as it's still late summer..