Still have a jolly good show there @Tack. One thing I like about Rambling Rosie is that it seems to hold its colour really well and I like Odyssey more and more each time I see it. I don't have any more room though, maybe a couple for containers next year.
I ordered another 75 bulbs today, alliums and camassia, was waiting for the sale, also still have 200 crocus, but they aren't too bad to plant. Feel like I've broken the back of my winter gardening tasks by getting the new waterbutts installed, planting all the previously ordered bulbs and prepping the rose spaces/perennial move around. I've increased the water buttage from 1300 litres to 3100. I do wonder how much tap water I could have used for the costs of the butts but haven't calculated it as I want to believe they are an investment.🤔
Some sweet roses there @edhelka , different too, haven't seen those mentioned before on here.
Welcome @Rickyjones24, cool - 45 roses, I'd love to know which ones, if you have time, I only have a few DA.
That's interesting @Omori . I thought you had to clean all old foliage off so as not to transfer disease between the seasons. I thought I read that on here but maybe elsewhere. I only had a couple of roses last winter and I ended up pulling old foliage off in a panic when there already were new leaves. I must have read something somewhere which prompted that.
Yes, lots of new roses to look forward to. @Rickyjones24 I am curious too about which roses, what sort of planting are you doing ie rose beds or all mixed in with other things? Underplanted or not? Exciting project either way but ouch, yes, your back!
@Victoria Sponge Thank you. Odyssey has become a favourite, totally healthy with the flowers still happily opening fully. Popular with the bees. A bit lanky but maybe because it is still growing strongly in these short daylight hours
Hi, I have just planted a large bed of 9 gabriel oak with 3 queen of sweeden where our drive meets the road. Then 9 eustacia vye by the front door for a welcome fragrance. Onto the back garden, my long but narrow perenial border is now mixed with the ancient mariner, maid marion, mayflower and harlow Carr. I have a paul noel to grow on a fence by our veggie patch (subsequently read it looks a brown mess after rain, so may regret?) and a border on a slope, which now has Olivia rose austin, gertrutde J and silas m. I've overdone the pinks but struggled to see how I could get yellows to blend with my existing colour scheme. I got one solitary munstead wood, which on reflection last week(having read this thread) thought I should turn into a trio, but when I tried to order a few days ago da had sold out. I live minutes away from harlow Carr, so their few roses have caught the eye, I quite liked their alan Titchmarsh and brother cadfiels, but wasn't sure I had the room. They also have a lot of mortimer sackler as a shrub, I love its radiant colour and form, but da only seem to sell it as a climber now . (is it the same rose cut short or on different roots?) I had to pass over so many roses finding it hard to chose, I may still have room for one of ispahan or mme Ernst calvert, which have also caught the eye. I could use some contrast from the reds, the only rose that caught my eye prior to this year was darcy bussell, but for some reason I never bought it! I need a bigger garden! Needless to say my wife and kids think I'm mad, but i hope they enjoy them all next summer!
@Rickyjones24 Mortimer Sackler can be grown as a shrub or climber, it’s the same rose. The reason DA sell it as a climber is because DA felt it worked better as a climber as the growth is upright and stiff as a shrub. However, this lends itself to being a good candidate for the back of the border, if grown as a shrub.
I like this rose too, have been mulling it over...
@pitter-patter - yes I’d seen Russell Pritchard recommended on here by @Marlorena and others. I wanted geraniums that would pick up in time for when the cantabrigiense had finished. Yours looks lovely spilling over like that.
I also wanted some rosemary to replace the early flowering Erysimum that I ripped out of the garden and since my cuttings didn’t take I ordered a Miss Jessop (also recommended by Marlorena)
Nepeta is pretty and smells nice. I wanted Alchemilla mollis but think I’ve gone off it a bit so bought the dwarf version.
Love Thyme. I’ve got lots grown from seed all around, front of border, and it’s so nice when I’m weeding or planting as the smell wafts around.
My boys love running their hands through it to get “Thyme hands” to sniff 😄
Last Desdemona of the year. Brilliant first year rose.
@Rickyjones24, welcome to the rose thread. Your list of new roses is very impressive and I look forward to seeing pics next year when they flower. I can recommend 'Isaphan' a very good 'doer' here with many blooms over a fairly long period and keeps its leaves well. Mine wants to grow higher than the rose arch it's on so I prune it back once or twice through the year because it can get very windy here. It's now climbing and being trained through the nearby magnolia stellata.
I've been enjoying keeping up with the rose thread but haven't contributed much because I don't have much in the way of roses at the moment. However, I took delivery at the weekend of a bare root 'Inspiration' which went into the ground today - very exciting! And I've had an email from Trevor White Roses to let me know that another 5 are on their way! Then there's just a Peter Beales order to come with another 5 and another singleton from Sarah Raven. All being well, I'll have gone from 5 roses this year to 17 next year!
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I ordered another 75 bulbs today, alliums and camassia, was waiting for the sale, also still have 200 crocus, but they aren't too bad to plant. Feel like I've broken the back of my winter gardening tasks by getting the new waterbutts installed, planting all the previously ordered bulbs and prepping the rose spaces/perennial move around. I've increased the water buttage from 1300 litres to 3100. I do wonder how much tap water I could have used for the costs of the butts but haven't calculated it as I want to believe they are an investment.🤔
Some sweet roses there @edhelka , different too, haven't seen those mentioned before on here.
Welcome @Rickyjones24, cool - 45 roses, I'd love to know which ones, if you have time, I only have a few DA.
I also wanted some rosemary to replace the early flowering Erysimum that I ripped out of the garden and since my cuttings didn’t take I ordered a Miss Jessop (also recommended by Marlorena)
Nepeta is pretty and smells nice. I wanted Alchemilla mollis but think I’ve gone off it a bit so bought the dwarf version.
My boys love running their hands through it to get “Thyme hands” to sniff 😄
Last Desdemona of the year. Brilliant first year rose.
Your list of new roses is very impressive and I look forward to seeing pics next year when they flower. I can recommend 'Isaphan' a very good 'doer' here with many blooms over a fairly long period and keeps its leaves well. Mine wants to grow higher than the rose arch it's on so I prune it back once or twice through the year because it can get very windy here. It's now climbing and being trained through the nearby magnolia stellata.