I had a rose admin day yesterday, got my first delivery of bare roots planted, 7 in the ground and 1 in a pot. Looked like Lens had trimmed all the roots so the digging wasn't crazy apart from in Walferdange's space where I unearthed a brick works. I'm sure I already prepped that space and dug out a tonne of bricks🤔 Had some fun planning some perennials to mix with the roses, just easy things I can make out of existing plants.
Moved Charles Rennie Mackintosh to a tall thin location. I accidentally snapped one of the roots that had gone really deep and damaged another. Still, its new space has beautiful heavy soil, full of fat worms so theoretically it should be happy. Ideally I would have left the move for a few weeks but it was part of a plant-move chain involving another new rose and I wanted to get the final spaces ready. Still have to pick a billion Allium sphaerocephalon seedlings out of one space but no proper plants still to move.
Had to chop this off Golden Gate as it was too stiff to tie down. It looked like a new shoot or at least was from low down. I've chopped it (rather raggedly as it was very thick) lower than the fence in the hope it'll go out to the sides. I love this rose for scent, colour and health but it's a bit of a beast, thorns are a cm long.
@Mr. Vine Eye Russell Pritchard is absolutely lovely, it flowers from early spring till late October (only because I cut it back, otherwise it would probably still be in flower) and it trails beautifully over an edge.
You can see it here, under the Harlow Carr standard.
Different shades on my Sweet Honey rose compared to the summer.
I received four roses from Trevor White yesterday: Amanda Paternotte, Daybreak, Narrow Water and spin. Dunwich Rose. I would take a photo but it's raining. All Gabriel Oaks are in the ground and with them 70 tulips but I am behind with everything else. I haven't even planted my bulb lasagne and pots yet. I really ordered too much this year and it's raining every day with a forecast for more rain.
Interesting roses @edhelka. Are they going in the ground? I still have one unplanted bag of tulips but have done a lot into pots, never done a lasagne before so will be interested how that turns out. Squirrels have dug into the pots, I now have chicken wire over the top but maybe too late.
Very mild here so I am worrying I may have a lot of foliage to take off the roses by hand.There are still many buds forming, is this going to deplete the plants?
Wow! So many beautiful roses to see! It always cheers me up when i see new posts on this thread.
I finally got a chance to be in garden for couple of hours and now i am nearly ready for bare roots which will come.
Oh you all reminded me of bulbs. I had totally forgotten about them they have been in shed for over 2 months now!
@Mr. Vine Eye, that is a nice collection of plants. I am missing perennials. Unfortunately i had to remove all the companion perennials underplanted among roses. The bed is full of creeping buttercup and creeping cinquefoil and any underplanting makes it very hard to remove weeds.
I Started 2020 with no roses in the garden and no great love of them. For reasons unknown that's all changed and now I love them. Obviously there's been none to look at in the garden centres this year, so I've had plenty of visits to public gardens and on google. The upshot is Ive ordered 45 bare roots all now arrived and keeping me busy. A tad insane and impetuous on my part, but looking forward to next summer, when I hope to share them with you. Mostly Austin bar 3 Queen of Denmark and a Paul noel (I'm not sure the pn was a good choice, but time will tell) I blame reading this thread for my lighter wallet, tired back from digging and unknown garden next year. Cheers guys!
@Tack Do you need to remove the foliage? If it were me I would just prune them back when you normally do, and clean up any fallen leaves then, but maybe I’m missing something?
I’m way behind as well...not least of all because I’ve decided to completely re-do my beds 😐
@Rickyjones24 Welcome! Wow 45 new roses, that’s amazing. Looking forward to seeing them next year 👍
@Tack Yes, I have space in the ground for most of them. Narrow Water will get trellis/half arch. Dunwich rose is intended for a very plants-unfriendly spot in the front garden. It is a once bloomer but I absolutely love its foliage, hips and growth habit, and it can cope with the most challenging spots. I also have rosa glauca on order from TCL, that's it for species once bloomers this year. Daybreak will replace some unwanted roses in my rose bed. I've wanted one of Pemberton's hybrid musks for a long time. Amanda Paternotte is the only one I plan to grow in a pot, for now. It is not its true name, the correct name is most probably Joasine Hanet (known as Portland from Glendora in the US). I am curious if it gets that typical damask crud disease and I hope for strong damask fragrance. I am looking forward to next season a lot, I ordered some very interesting roses and can't wait to see them growing and blooming and also to see some of this year's newbies in their second season. Luckily, we don't have squirrels or anything else bulb-eating.
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Moved Charles Rennie Mackintosh to a tall thin location. I accidentally snapped one of the roots that had gone really deep and damaged another. Still, its new space has beautiful heavy soil, full of fat worms so theoretically it should be happy. Ideally I would have left the move for a few weeks but it was part of a plant-move chain involving another new rose and I wanted to get the final spaces ready. Still have to pick a billion Allium sphaerocephalon seedlings out of one space but no proper plants still to move.
Had to chop this off Golden Gate as it was too stiff to tie down. It looked like a new shoot or at least was from low down. I've chopped it (rather raggedly as it was very thick) lower than the fence in the hope it'll go out to the sides. I love this rose for scent, colour and health but it's a bit of a beast, thorns are a cm long.
Here is Sweet Honey and GJ picked yesterday in the pouring rain and placed on the dining table so we can enjoy the scent.
All Gabriel Oaks are in the ground and with them 70 tulips but I am behind with everything else. I haven't even planted my bulb lasagne and pots yet. I really ordered too much this year and it's raining every day with a forecast for more rain.
I finally got a chance to be in garden for couple of hours and now i am nearly ready for bare roots which will come.
Oh you all reminded me of bulbs. I had totally forgotten about them they have been in shed for over 2 months now!
@Mr. Vine Eye, that is a nice collection of plants. I am missing perennials. Unfortunately i had to remove all the companion perennials underplanted among roses. The bed is full of creeping buttercup and creeping cinquefoil and any underplanting makes it very hard to remove weeds.
Amanda Paternotte is the only one I plan to grow in a pot, for now. It is not its true name, the correct name is most probably Joasine Hanet (known as Portland from Glendora in the US). I am curious if it gets that typical damask crud disease and I hope for strong damask fragrance.
I am looking forward to next season a lot, I ordered some very interesting roses and can't wait to see them growing and blooming and also to see some of this year's newbies in their second season.
Luckily, we don't have squirrels or anything else bulb-eating.