@nollie That made me laugh because I too disappeared like Alice into the Groenloof website. Sooo little information on it that you spend all your time cross referencing with other sites. I eventually only ordered The Prince and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from there but Petersen dunkelrote RH jumped in and out of my basket. You can see from my rose choices that I follow you into rose excess.
I have added Alexandre Girault to my TCL order, a mature Mulberry tree will be its structure. I'm really excited about this project.
Edit: I have a lot of loose tea leaves and coffee grounds which I share around the garden. I certainly haven't had an aphid problem this year and the acidification from coffee can't be wrong can it to somewhat counteract hard water and alkaline soil.
Thanks for your comments @Marlorena and Tack, I'll continue putting my tea leaves around the roses then. My poorest rose is still looking very sickly (I think, due to rose replant sickness) compared to the other four which are going great guns. I think I'm going to leave it until the spring to see if it picks up.
I have been religiously collecting all tea leaves and giving it to the roses. No visitors due to all this distancing. Hopefully we will have more tea leaves next year!
...as newbie77 said... although I use Organic tea bags so they can be just slit open and included in the mulch, but ordinary bags contain plastic and won't rot, so they need to be discarded and the spent tea emptied out...
I dont know if the tea worked or not @sarinka I used them for the first time this year. The bush roses Celebration and Blue for You didn't suffer from greenfly or much black spot, and even a heavy year of blackfly didn't bother them. The standard flowered well, but the Sheila's Perfumed suffered badly putting on little growth, leaf or flower, so its been a mixed year. Must help in my area as we have clay and hard water.
Lovely to catch up again on this thread. Haven't been able to do much in the garden the last couple of weeks due to tooth ache and eventually two extractions.
@Nollie thank you for the info on using some ericaceous compost with roses.
I would be interested to hear what people will be using for mulch over the winter for their pots and beds.
I still have quite a few buds still to open on lots of my roses.
Only photo I have taken recently is of Royal Jubilee.
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Edit: I have a lot of loose tea leaves and coffee grounds which I share around the garden. I certainly haven't had an aphid problem this year and the acidification from coffee can't be wrong can it to somewhat counteract hard water and alkaline soil.
Id asked my wife to save her teabags so I’ve now got a huge pile of them that had just been sitting there all this time.
@Nollie thank you for the info on using some ericaceous compost with roses.
I would be interested to hear what people will be using for mulch over the winter for their pots and beds.
I still have quite a few buds still to open on lots of my roses.
Only photo I have taken recently is of Royal Jubilee.