@Skylarks ... can't advise on colour combinations as it's too personal, but Burgundy Ice is not the healthiest rose if that's important to you... I've not ordered from that supplier before, perhaps someone else has.. ?
Thanks for the advice @Marlorena, I will avoid Burgandy Ice.
Edit: Have found an old post about Beechwood Nursery. I’m not going to order from them and will find another supplier.
Advice please. This trio on my Generous Gardener come from consecutive nodes on a cane I bent horizontally last winter. Further up off the same cane is another main cane from last year. So all the main growth off the plant is off this one cane. There are minor canes from the graft area too. I have already snapped and splinted one of these canes trying to judge how bendy they are, I was really gentle. Do I let them all reach for the sky given that post on the right is 6ft above ground and the tallest is 2ft higher or should I prune? Please.It was a lovely day for gardening today, everything looks so lovely in the sun
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Wow those are some impressive canes @tack. No idea what you should do with them. Would they be classed as laterals? Your roses are looking lovely and Easy Does It is glowing.
We really have been having some lovely weather. Just in time for my new water butt which has stood empty for over a week now.
It's also been an odd time for the large oak tree that overhangs our garden. Have lived here for 26 years and have never seen so many green acorns. I could fill a bucket every day and in the evening all you hear is them bouncing off the decking.
A few of you have mentioned about getting seeds from hips. What is the process with these as far as planting goes. Do they have to be dried out first etc?
Caught up on 80 odd posts yesterday which was nice, beautiful photos and lots of good info.
Nothing looking amazing rosewise in the garden but the asters are starting to flower and with the helianthus and bistort, still have some strong indulgent colour. Poor Ness and Celebration2000 are looking pretty bad (blackspotted and partially defoliated). I thought C2000 was building up for a good second flush and then it just deteriorated.
I've decided to get rid of the HT Nostalgia. I've had it for ages and there's nothing really to dislike, foliage is good, nice new red canes; I'm just never excited to see it.
Blush Noisette looking ok, it's a nice low maintenance rose for me
@poppyfield64 - I picked the hip, cut into it, opened up and removed the seeds and left them on a paper towel to dry. They need to go through cold ‘stratification’ before they’ll start to grow. So I’ll sow mine in trays in autumn and put them outside in my mini greenhouse over winter. Just need to remember to check on them.
@Tack - mine’s similar, most of the structure coming from one main cane. I think it might depend on the conditions in your garden. If I left canes that high above my fence I’d be worried about them getting snapped in winds over autumn/winter. The other consideration is whether you want it to grow that way or not. If they can’t be budged without snapping then I’d cut them back to somewhere below the height of the fence. If they try to start growing again from those same canes start training the new growth in the right direction early before they get too stiff.
I had a super long cane coming straight out away from the fence out towards the garden, very strong sturdy one. After it finished flowering I cut it right back to three leaves long and it’s since become a short flowering spur for the rest of the year.
Thank you for your thoughts @Mr. Vine Eye . I am not too worried about wind, they can be tied to the trellis and then they'll only snap above that height if they do which solves that problem! I'd like to bend them and I've been thinking that my other 2 GG canes I did when they were much older and green and I got them really low. I suppose what I'm wondering now is a)whether 3 so close coming off one cane is a problem and b) if keeping them reduces my chance of getting a whole new separate basal cane.
..what Mr Vine Eye said, but I would use those canes to form part of the main framework, if using the rose as a climber... it can be kept to a shrubbier form if desired by cutting it back to the top of the trellis, but I think the intention is for a larger plant... so I would try and angle them across tying to the trellis at the top, and then arching over the canes and fix with string, which won't look very nice but they are too stiff to be brought down to horizontal, so you could only arch them over... if you tie them to the trellis first, if they do snap, it should only be what's above the trellis and not the whole length..
... a simple option, is to just prune off at the top of trellis, and when they shoot out, start again with them.. you've allowed the rose to get away from you a bit there... so you need to take back control... but I would try the first option as you will get laterals break on those canes next season..
Thank you for taking the time to explain that @Marlorena. Genius to tie the cane to the trellis so any break point will be above that. When I gently attempted to bend one a couple of weeks ago it went at the join 6ft down. The splint and tie in seems to have been a very successful repair, it has grown well since.
@Tack - What Marlorena said - I was assuming from what you'd said before that you weren't able to lower them. If you can then definitely do that as the first option!
I'm not sure if my repair attempt has worked or not. It's not dead, but the end of it has bent over and gone droopy - probably needs that bit cutting off.
The other one cane is growing ok though, but think I'll need to tie it again before it grows any more upright - they are very stiff!
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We really have been having some lovely weather. Just in time for my new water butt which has stood empty for over a week now.
It's also been an odd time for the large oak tree that overhangs our garden. Have lived here for 26 years and have never seen so many green acorns. I could fill a bucket every day and in the evening all you hear is them bouncing off the decking.
A few of you have mentioned about getting seeds from hips. What is the process with these as far as planting goes. Do they have to be dried out first etc?
Nothing looking amazing rosewise in the garden but the asters are starting to flower and with the helianthus and bistort, still have some strong indulgent colour. Poor Ness and Celebration2000 are looking pretty bad (blackspotted and partially defoliated). I thought C2000 was building up for a good second flush and then it just deteriorated.
I've decided to get rid of the HT Nostalgia. I've had it for ages and there's nothing really to dislike, foliage is good, nice new red canes; I'm just never excited to see it.
Blush Noisette looking ok, it's a nice low maintenance rose for me
Messy cluster on Rhapsody in Blue
@Tack - mine’s similar, most of the structure coming from one main cane. I think it might depend on the conditions in your garden. If I left canes that high above my fence I’d be worried about them getting snapped in winds over autumn/winter. The other consideration is whether you want it to grow that way or not. If they can’t be budged without snapping then I’d cut them back to somewhere below the height of the fence. If they try to start growing again from those same canes start training the new growth in the right direction early before they get too stiff.
I had a super long cane coming straight out away from the fence out towards the garden, very strong sturdy one. After it finished flowering I cut it right back to three leaves long and it’s since become a short flowering spur for the rest of the year.
... a simple option, is to just prune off at the top of trellis, and when they shoot out, start again with them.. you've allowed the rose to get away from you a bit there... so you need to take back control... but I would try the first option as you will get laterals break on those canes next season..
I'm not sure if my repair attempt has worked or not. It's not dead, but the end of it has bent over and gone droopy - probably needs that bit cutting off.
The other one cane is growing ok though, but think I'll need to tie it again before it grows any more upright - they are very stiff!