@peteS thanks. It sounds like mine although I have never sprayed it. What do you use and how often. I was thinking of trying Uncle Tom's tonic on it next spring.
@Marlorena we have a tiny little nature pond. We got the tub from an aquatics shop and it's only 2ft in diameter. We have a pair of frogs happily living in there and have little froglets every year. We also have a miniature water lily and a calla lily which has beautiful flowers every year.
'Charles Darwin'... I won't see better blooms than this, it never opens well unless the weather is really nice.
'Paul Transon'/'Paul Noel', 3rd day of being fully open.
'Gabriel Oak'. I am not happy about the growth habit at the moment, there are some canes and strings holding it together. I hope this will get better, I plan to do a short hedge of GO in my front garden.
'Silas Marner'. I moved the pot to a spot where I can use the new cane (5ft long) and more similar canes if they come. It seems to be blackspot immune so far.
@edhelka ... I think your Gabriel looks quite nice but I wouldn't be happy with Silas M... I understood it has ''wide arching growth''.. yours looks like a climber almost, or it needs pegging.. some of these Austins are weird, when you consider the amount they invest in roses each year..
@poppyfield64 ..that's just what I'm looking for... I wouldn't have expected frogs to visit such a small pond, so that's good to know... I did try something like that last year but it was not a success, so I want to try again... you've done a great job...
@Marlorena Yes, very weird. It certainly isn't a variation on 'Scarborough Fair'. I had to stake the cane during the stormy weather so I am not sure how flexible it is but it feels quite stiff (not completely and not enough to stand on its own but not flexible either). Maybe it would arch under the weight of flowers and then grow new shoots up, putting even more weight on the cane... it could get there but then the shrub would be more like 7x4.5 or 8x5, certainly not 4.5x3.5. If it were smaller, I would have space for it in the ground. I guess it can be pruned but I am not in the mood to do that. For now, I will try to grow it as a pseudo-climber, staggering the canes around the pergola post and on the trellis. I need some screening there anyway. I have a clematis there but it struggles because the cat keeps breaking the stalks, with some help of the wind and local army of snails.
..yes I can see what they mean now... I think it needs to be grown that way, as an arching shrub, wide spreading, so you get lateral breaks along the cane... as it is, you are getting blooms only on the top by the looks of it... so if I keep this rose, it'll have to be allowed to grow outwards and arch over... I don't have support for it.. mine hasn't grown much in dry conditions..
Hi @Marlorena forgive my ignorance - is Maxicrop Seaweed the equivalent of Tomorite or other liquid feeds, or does it have special properties? I don't know what the notching method is.
My three SWE have each produced one strong basal, but the other canes are feeble - less than 5mm only (looking back, poor bare root specimens from DA IMO) so could do with a boost, otherwise they will be starting next year from a very weak position.
@poppyfield64...I just use 'Fungus Clear Ultra' sparingly, generally at the first sign of symptoms, and that seems to do the trick. There was a contributor to the forum (forgive but I can't remember who) who was going to give sulphur treatment a go, but I don't know how successful it's been. Apparently in the 'olden' days with all the air pollution from coal fires, BS was unheard of...that's what I've read anyway, whether it is true is another matter.
^yes that's true about the sulphur in the air due to the industrial revolution and coal fires, which is why we have to treat with caution historic references to roses we are still growing today, because up until the mid 20th C, their results would have been different.... they would be horrified to see the BS fungus on our roses today... but of course we have cleaner air now.. ..I think it was Jack Harkness, of Harkness Roses who wrote in the 1970's that he started to see levels of black spot he never saw as a young man in the 1940's and 50's..
@Pianoplayer ..no, not the same as tomorite exactly..although it is a liquid feed so you add it to a watering can the same way.. it's a very dark liquid.. .. it contains higher levels of nitrogen and more in the way of micro nutrients which act as a root stimulus... it does seem to work but one can never prove these things really..
...if you want to know more about notching, I can try and put something together on that..
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@Marlorena we have a tiny little nature pond. We got the tub from an aquatics shop and it's only 2ft in diameter. We have a pair of frogs happily living in there and have little froglets every year. We also have a miniature water lily and a calla lily which has beautiful flowers every year.
... I think your Gabriel looks quite nice but I wouldn't be happy with Silas M... I understood it has ''wide arching growth''.. yours looks like a climber almost, or it needs pegging.. some of these Austins are weird, when you consider the amount they invest in roses each year..
@poppyfield64
..that's just what I'm looking for... I wouldn't have expected frogs to visit such a small pond, so that's good to know... I did try something like that last year but it was not a success, so I want to try again... you've done a great job...
My three SWE have each produced one strong basal, but the other canes are feeble - less than 5mm only (looking back, poor bare root specimens from DA IMO) so could do with a boost, otherwise they will be starting next year from a very weak position.
Thanks, as ever.
..I think it was Jack Harkness, of Harkness Roses who wrote in the 1970's that he started to see levels of black spot he never saw as a young man in the 1940's and 50's..
@Pianoplayer
..no, not the same as tomorite exactly..although it is a liquid feed so you add it to a watering can the same way.. it's a very dark liquid..
.. it contains higher levels of nitrogen and more in the way of micro nutrients which act as a root stimulus... it does seem to work but one can never prove these things really..
...if you want to know more about notching, I can try and put something together on that..