I’ve managed to get a lot more done then I expected.
Far fewer rudbeckias - it was actually insane...there were new ones shooting up everywhere. Spotted one in the bed at the other side of the garden! I’ve then moved those sedum, the euphorbia, the grass and aster Monch. I also moved a thyme and replanted some of the allium bulbs.
In the middle of that, here’s Vanessa Bell - I haven’t actually seen her in months. She’s gotten quite tall and being all crowded for so long, I was expecting her to be all blackspotted and bare but nope. Only a hint of it lower down. The yellow colour in the background near the ground is an echinacea leaf.
Royal Jubilee still going, but collected a lot of leaves from the ground below it.
Sickly Lady Emma still with us and even trying to flower.
The Generous Gardener still going too. He brown leaves aren’t the rose, it’s a clematis.
Kew Gardens, strong and healthy - still holding onto those hips @marlorena
Lady of Shalott has really taken off. Several buds, she’s in a very sheltered spot there.
Bathsheba - again, you couldn’t really see her properly before this weekend.
Oh and my replacement Lady Emma Hamilton came today, but I looked out of the window to see the postman putting the Austin bag back in his van and driving off without having heard a knock or anything! Hope she’s not kept anywhere too warm before they redeliver on Thursday.
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Unknown Wilko Dahlia, love the colour but wish they all had the stamen showing. Might get some Bishop’s children seeds for next year.
Can i ask what maybe (more than likely is) a silly question. I haven't a clue about roses but as i want a couple for my allotment,maybe you could advise.A couple of weeks ago on GW Monty 'pruned' one of his roses simply by chopping at it with shears.Now the question;was it a shrub rose, a climbing rose,a bush rose?? I'll get my coat....
@Klink They were a Damask and an Alba rose . Does that help ? I'm not the one to ask about old roses (or any really) but I don't think that method of pruning got much support from the experts here.
Yes thank you @Tack. I thought it looked a bit brutal and something my mother would never have approved of but as i haven't the first idea about roses,never mind pruning,i thought i might go for the easy option,at least for my allotment.
I've just got notification from DA that they have posted my bare root order and it should arrive in the next day or so...but I thought it seemed a tad early, as I thought the bare root season only started going into November. So is it OK to dig up and pot up mine now, because the ones I intend moving do still have their leaves but have clearly stopped growing.
I do watch GW but missed that segment. It sounds barbarous!
Two bareroot DAs arrived today. I got them in a bucket and finally planted out by torchlight tonight. Think my husband was slightly underwhelmed by the sight.
@newbie77 Those are beautiful! I believe they introduced new roses at the beginning of this year, so hopefully similar again...? I’m not sure though, as I didn’t order new ones.
@sarinka lol at your husband’s reaction. I’ve done the torchlight thing as well, must seem bonkers...😅
@Klink - when and how much to prune does depend on what type of rose, whether its a repeat or summer-flowering and how established they are. Some should be pruned very hard, others only lightly.
I am no Monty apologist and absolutely no expert, but I thought how he took around a third off those two roses was perfectly OK - for him and in his situation in his rampantly fertile garden. His Kazanlik and Queen of Denmark were huge, vigorous and established shrubs (in the ground more than 10 years, I think, he mentions them in a book published in 2009) whose growth was obstructing a path. It has caused some controversy and confusion though, by omission. What he didn’t say is if you are planting new, once-flowering old roses such as the damasks and albas, prune lightly if at all for the first few years.
My SIL has been growing roses for over 40 years and every year whacks her bush roses down to the ground with a chainsaw - now thats what I call brutal 😆
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Far fewer rudbeckias - it was actually insane...there were new ones shooting up everywhere. Spotted one in the bed at the other side of the garden! I’ve then moved those sedum, the euphorbia, the grass and aster Monch. I also moved a thyme and replanted some of the allium bulbs.
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Two bareroot DAs arrived today. I got them in a bucket and finally planted out by torchlight tonight. Think my husband was slightly underwhelmed by the sight.
I am no Monty apologist and absolutely no expert, but I thought how he took around a third off those two roses was perfectly OK - for him and in his situation in his rampantly fertile garden. His Kazanlik and Queen of Denmark were huge, vigorous and established shrubs (in the ground more than 10 years, I think, he mentions them in a book published in 2009) whose growth was obstructing a path. It has caused some controversy and confusion though, by omission. What he didn’t say is if you are planting new, once-flowering old roses such as the damasks and albas, prune lightly if at all for the first few years.
My SIL has been growing roses for over 40 years and every year whacks her bush roses down to the ground with a chainsaw - now thats what I call brutal 😆