@Katsa, Haa haa... Can't stop anyone from buying anything 😂 though looking at your post, i got an idea. I am going to create collage of all roses i have ordered, so i can look at it again and again 🤣
Gosh @Katsa, they all look so lovely and very healthy - my roses don't look like that.
What do you feed them with?
I think those are photos taken off t’internet (like DAs website) to illustrate Katsa’s order.
@Loxley I love Lowther Castle, we usually visit every year, at Easter though so well before rose season. We visit when we stay near Keswick. Saw last year that they were making the rose garden area.
Nice to see it done. I know what you mean though. I'm not a huge fan of rose gardens that are just roses planted on mass with no other planting. Does nothing for me.
Hello helpful rose growers! I'd love some suggestions for a rose to grow over a short tree stump in an open sunny border, please. Scented and repeat flowering, with lax stems, colour - anything considered.
Also: the range of varieties available from growers here in Ireland seems very limited. I'm guessing there are some good suppliers in the EU who'll deliver here; I've had a quick look at the Tuincentrum Lottum site but I'm sure there are others. Which suppliers do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
How tall do you want it to be @Liriodendron ? What immediately sprang to mind was a ground cover rose like Scented Carpet but maybe you meant a wide or large shrub?
@Katsa I Think we haven't seen this part of your garden yet, where is it? Is it your front garden?
I have to take a photo of my 'Our Beth' and put it next to your 'English Miss'. It looks like Beth gets a lot from her daddy (weird to call a rose with Miss in its name daddy but that's what it is ).
Stump is not huge, @edhelka - maybe 60cm tall and wide. Currently new (tree blew down a few weeks ago) and sticks out like a sore thumb... Thanks, @Tack - hadn't thought of a ground cover rose because I hadn't realised any were scented. I'll look up Scented Carpet.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@edhelka - yup all of the front garden. I've also cleared out the hedge and took out a HUGE fern so it looks much more open. Need to arrange for a delivery of manure to improve the soil before the big delivery of roses in November...
Also hoping that the shed will be built by then so I can create the new garden bed.
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Haa haa... Can't stop anyone from buying anything 😂 though looking at your post, i got an idea. I am going to create collage of all roses i have ordered, so i can look at it again and again 🤣
What do you feed them with?
@Loxley I love Lowther Castle, we usually visit every year, at Easter though so well before rose season. We visit when we stay near Keswick. Saw last year that they were making the rose garden area.
Nice to see it done. I know what you mean though. I'm not a huge fan of rose gardens that are just roses planted on mass with no other planting. Does nothing for me.
I noticed the other day that Rhapsody in Blue's colours were looking really vibrant in the overcast light.
Same with Ghislaine de Feligonde
Also: the range of varieties available from growers here in Ireland seems very limited. I'm guessing there are some good suppliers in the EU who'll deliver here; I've had a quick look at the Tuincentrum Lottum site but I'm sure there are others. Which suppliers do you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
But these are 'real'
English Miss
Raymond Blanc
Calendula with bees
A solitary Roald Dahl
...and my cat chewing the catnip!
She spends hours munching away
Also hoping that the shed will be built by then so I can create the new garden bed.