I have just increased my bare root rose order to 24 🙊 I found both the hard-to-find Excellenz von Schubert, Arthur de Sansal and an incredible selection of OGRs on Roses Loubert, so for the obligatory third rose I chose Mme. Antoine Mari. It was a toss up between that and Yolande d’Aragon (big, pink and perfumed!) but I really need to try a Tea rose here, so went with MAM. Fab photos/comments from Marlorena combined with HMF saying its a great choice for a first tea rose won the day. So here are the final three for my rose trials:
Excellenz von Schubert, Polyantha, Lambert 1909: Arthur de Sansal, Portland Damask/H Perpetual, Cochet 1855:
Mme. Antoine Mari, Tea, Mari c1900:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I feel so much better having ordered only 9 bareroots and I'm sure my husband is relieved now I've told him others order 24! Gorgeous day here today, most of it spent in the garden.
Odyssey starting a new flush, Arthurde Sansal and Julia Child behind.
I have ordered around 25 too. Half are new variety, half are same ones which i already have but i liked them so got more of those. I am not telling number to DH 🤫 5 will go in ground. Rest in pots. I am going to get rid of some dahlias, some hostas and will cut down on my veg gardening. I really can't fight slugs and snails 🙄 they are eating even salvias and marigold now!
@celcius_kkw - feeling the lack of time as well! It’s been weeks since I’ve actually gardened at all. I have been trying to keep up with reading on here.
I need to get a new bed cleared at the allotment so that I can move some plants from home to there. Then there’s a lot of plants that I want to rearrange in the garden. So many things ended up in the wrong place this year. I’ll have to draw up a plan as I think it could get quite complicated.
@Nollie I’m well jealous of the fact that you get to have a go at growing these more specialist (or some might say obscure? 😝) roses.. I simply just don’t have enough space to even grow half of the ‘popular/common’ varieties let alone these rather exotic sounding ones 😞
@Tack May I just say I absolutely love your anthracite elho pots.. I have bought two for my new roses this year.
@Mr. Vine Eye Sounds like a big project (although seeing as lockdown is going to start again you might just find time to complete it over winter..? Unless you’re a key worker 😁)
My rose shopping list this year has (sort of) been finalised..
I’m getting Gabriel Oak, Eustacia Vye and Tottering by Gently. All three are rated suitable for windy spots by DA, and given my Roald Dhal (Also rated wind resistant by DA) has really stood up to the windiest spot on my balcony this year I thought I could now give these three a go.
Was contemplating getting Blanc Double de Coubert before but having seen some pictures online the blooms seem to risk turning to a rather unpleasant ‘creased paper’ look.. I’m not sure if I liked that really..
@Tack I intend to sow the seeds from the Scented Garden hips. I am not sure when, leaving them on for now to colour a little bit more. I don't have high hopes because I haven't done enough this year, I plan to do many more crosses next year. The small Claire Jolly hips are quite decorative, they could be used in autumn/winter flower arrangments but I'll leave them to birds. Maybe I'll sow some seeds but I think CJ is a dead-end for breeding purposes.
Glad to see you have beaten my tally by one @newbie77, my OH has no idea either, fortunately bare root bundles come in smallish packages so I can sneak off to the poly with them 😆
@celcius_kkw, and there’s me envious of everyone else’s ability to grow gorgeous DA roses! Many are miserable, stingy bloomers/poor repeaters here, so are being hoiked out and replaced. My new ones are a search to find ones that can cope better with my hot summers, rather than heritage/obscure varieties for the sake of it, honest!! Plus some chosen purely for fragrance now I’m more relaxed about BS.
Hope you and @Mr. Vine Eye get some more time in the garden soon.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Ooh, I'm feeling very restrained, I've only ordered two roses, might have to go and have another look....😅
It's started off very wet at the beginning of the week and some poor blooms got a bit beaten up, but this little beauty has been soldiering on (Blue for You). Looks lovely next to geranium and Scabiosa, lavender and nepata, all of which are trying to make a come back.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I agree @D0rdogne_Damsel Blue for You is a real fighter. It flowers first, from low down on the bush, has a mid season rest ( when everything else is out) and then comes back stronger and finishes last. Its scent is beautiful and the range of colours lovely, its blooms last well too.😁 One of my best buys.
The Generous Gardener still has several flowers and new ones opening.
Lady of Shalott
Have flowers on Royal Jubilee, Rhapsody in Blue and Ghislaine de Feligonde too.
Still a lot of colour in the garden which is nice to see. Some of these shuffles I want to do are going to be awkward. I planted a cistus (got a few cheap evergreens from Aldi last autumn) one that gets quite large and is already growing very vigorously, right plonk in the middle of the herb bed. It’s swamping it so that’ll need to be moved but there’s not much room to manoeuvre. There’s another smaller one at the front but that’s also too big for the space.
The coreopsis patch on the left I’m going to shrink. It’s six plants at the moment and I think I’ll reduce it down to three, spread the others around. I do love it but deadheading is a major chore, and the spent flower heads aren’t attractive, they go brown and mushy. I do like how long it’s flowered for though! May to now.
The Erysimum is going, will replace with some of these lavender plants I’ve grown, salvia and rosemary eventually, although none of my rosemary cuttings took. Will try again next year.
I also want to do something with the corner that has Gabriel Oak in. It’s right next to Penstemon Firebird and they are almost identical shades of red/pink. So there’s no contrast.
I want to move the Aster Monch further back and put the euphorbia closer to the front. I also need to make a space for the second Lady Emma Hamilton when she arrives. Which I’m thinking will go somewhere near where the second Erysimum is on the right.
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Excellenz von Schubert, Polyantha, Lambert 1909:
Arthur de Sansal, Portland Damask/H Perpetual, Cochet 1855:
I need to get a new bed cleared at the allotment so that I can move some plants from home to there. Then there’s a lot of plants that I want to rearrange in the garden. So many things ended up in the wrong place this year. I’ll have to draw up a plan as I think it could get quite complicated.
@Tack May I just say I absolutely love your anthracite elho pots.. I have bought two for my new roses this year.
My rose shopping list this year has (sort of) been finalised.. I’m getting Gabriel Oak, Eustacia Vye and Tottering by Gently. All three are rated suitable for windy spots by DA, and given my Roald Dhal (Also rated wind resistant by DA) has really stood up to the windiest spot on my balcony this year I thought I could now give these three a go.
The small Claire Jolly hips are quite decorative, they could be used in autumn/winter flower arrangments but I'll leave them to birds. Maybe I'll sow some seeds but I think CJ is a dead-end for breeding purposes.
@celcius_kkw, and there’s me envious of everyone else’s ability to grow gorgeous DA roses! Many are miserable, stingy bloomers/poor repeaters here, so are being hoiked out and replaced. My new ones are a search to find ones that can cope better with my hot summers, rather than heritage/obscure varieties for the sake of it, honest!! Plus some chosen purely for fragrance now I’m more relaxed about BS.
Hope you and @Mr. Vine Eye get some more time in the garden soon.
It's started off very wet at the beginning of the week and some poor blooms got a bit beaten up, but this little beauty has been soldiering on (Blue for You). Looks lovely next to geranium and Scabiosa, lavender and nepata, all of which are trying to make a come back.
Malvern Hills:
Still a lot of colour in the garden which is nice to see. Some of these shuffles I want to do are going to be awkward. I planted a cistus (got a few cheap evergreens from Aldi last autumn) one that gets quite large and is already growing very vigorously, right plonk in the middle of the herb bed. It’s swamping it so that’ll need to be moved but there’s not much room to manoeuvre. There’s another smaller one at the front but that’s also too big for the space.
The coreopsis patch on the left I’m going to shrink. It’s six plants at the moment and I think I’ll reduce it down to three, spread the others around. I do love it but deadheading is a major chore, and the spent flower heads aren’t attractive, they go brown and mushy. I do like how long it’s flowered for though! May to now.
The Erysimum is going, will replace with some of these lavender plants I’ve grown, salvia and rosemary eventually, although none of my rosemary cuttings took. Will try again next year.
I also want to do something with the corner that has Gabriel Oak in. It’s right next to Penstemon Firebird and they are almost identical shades of red/pink. So there’s no contrast.
I want to move the Aster Monch further back and put the euphorbia closer to the front. I also need to make a space for the second Lady Emma Hamilton when she arrives. Which I’m thinking will go somewhere near where the second Erysimum is on the right.
Headache 😁