I used the same map to discover I’m officially 8b, not 9a as I thought - it’s zoom facility is really good, but it does depend on how sheltered your garden is. -8 is the coldest its got over the last 4 years here and only one really heavy snowfall, Feb 2018:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It's definitely a general guide, the zones...my front garden is much more exposed and definitely gets far colder than my back garden, which is very sheltered.
@Tack, thanks for the video. I had thought i would watch it and then forgotten about it. I like yellow flowers. Buttercup is in my wishlist now. I have 4 yellow roses in garden, Julia child, golden celebration, the poet's wife and Charles Darwin. I like them all but CD and GC are blackspotted now.
I don't get much time to be in garden with full time job and a little one. So i enjoy my flowers in little bouquets indoors.
Today's selection - Gertrude Jekyll, The Poets Wife, Charles Darwin (yellow at back) and Desdemona.
I bought Buttercup for that reason too, especially as my Graham Thomas died after planting it as a bareroot and I never replaced it. Very much looking forward to it, though I don't know where it's going just yet
It was a fleeting wonder, @omori, the sun came out and it all melted by the end of the day!
I have a query regarding organic/inorganic feed for roses in the ground. We are supposed to use organic only in the ground given the effect of inorganic fertiliser on soil micro-organisms and soil health, but most of us use a potassium/tomato feed such as tomorite during the flowering season, which is inorganic. Does the fact that it is a soluble liquid feed, so doesn’t need breaking down mean this is OK? Is the effect on soil health negligible? Not sure anyone, unless they are a soil chemist, could answer this, couldn’t find out much from tinternet...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Pretty @newbie77 and Katsa. I'm thinking of doing the same @Katsa because I could take pretty much exactly the same pictures as I did 2 or 3 days ago. We buy unopened buds at the florist and they open, will these not?
According to the map, we are in zone 9a but have had temperatures lower than that, although not in recent years. Tend to get just a couple of days of snow late Jan or early Feb. Regardless, I prune my roses when I feel in the mood and the weather's suitable, often before Xmas, as I find most of them start growing early and I don't like cutting off new growth.
One thing that puzzles me about pruning though is the advice to cut off thin leggy branches- wouldn't these eventually grow thicker and stronger? If they are new shoots, don't they become older shoots in time? Yours, puzzled of Bath!
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It's definitely a general guide, the zones...my front garden is much more exposed and definitely gets far colder than my back garden, which is very sheltered.
I don't get much time to be in garden with full time job and a little one. So i enjoy my flowers in little bouquets indoors.
Today's selection - Gertrude Jekyll, The Poets Wife, Charles Darwin (yellow at back) and Desdemona.
I have a query regarding organic/inorganic feed for roses in the ground. We are supposed to use organic only in the ground given the effect of inorganic fertiliser on soil micro-organisms and soil health, but most of us use a potassium/tomato feed such as tomorite during the flowering season, which is inorganic. Does the fact that it is a soluble liquid feed, so doesn’t need breaking down mean this is OK? Is the effect on soil health negligible? Not sure anyone, unless they are a soil chemist, could answer this, couldn’t find out much from tinternet...
These are a mix of roald dahl, Desdemona, English Miss and proper job.
One thing that puzzles me about pruning though is the advice to cut off thin leggy branches- wouldn't these eventually grow thicker and stronger? If they are new shoots, don't they become older shoots in time?
Yours, puzzled of Bath!
These are so unique for autumn. In usual season we won't cut bunch of buds.