@Marlorena you wont be disappointed, I used them all last year and got some fantastic bargains, great delivery and clever packaging too and 0 issues with immediate refunds if there are any issues. We're all curious what you chose!
@pitter-patter @JessicaS ..thanks.. well, it's all stuff I would have got from local garden centre as I buy in every year now, no longer grow from seeds... so lots of Foxgloves, I always use the Excelsior, Dalmatian and Camelot strains... Aquilegias, Hollyhock, Scabious, Gaura, Geum, and my usual Hesperis..
..if you have not grown Scabious 'Perfecta Blue' before, or Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen', then I do recommend these.. they are superlative stand-out varieties.. the Scabious flowers all summer into late autumn, and especially good if you have dry pebbly conditions.. the Aquilegia is great with dark coloured roses like Munstead Wood..
...as they are in small 9cm pots, I shall grow some on in greenhouse and plant out in Spring..
That’s incredible! The north west (and I thought the whole country) has plunged below zero degree this week and everything is frozen here..
My roses seem to have shed most of their leaves this year.. seemingly more so than last winter, not sure if they’re trying to tel me something 😟
There’s really not been much going on with my roses in the last two months.. two of them became waterlogged so I had to repot them.. which turned out to be a bigger job than I thought as there’s so much compost in those huge pots..
I ended up not placing my order with TCL because there’s less space than I thought at the allotment and I am likely to move to a different plot after one season.. but I did have lots of fun doing my virtual shopping even if that never materialised..
Great pictures of lovely healthy roses. Just a little tip, I noticed in your pictures that some of your roses are planted a bit too deep. I would advise that you take some soil away from the base to expose the crown as leaving them planted this deep will cause problems with rotting and gangrene and you may lose your roses altogether. Happy gardening.
Some of my roses still have buds, even with the snow around, but they never open well these days. Even if I cut them for the house, they are usually too damaged to open properly. I have Princess Alexandra of Kent (semi-open) in the kitchen right now. Regarding scabious, I have 'Butterfly blue', it still had some flowers in December and it starts very early (early May).
Great pictures of lovely healthy roses. Just a little tip, I noticed in your pictures that some of your roses are planted a bit too deep. I would advise that you take some soil away from the base to expose the crown as leaving them planted this deep will cause problems with rotting and gangrene and you may lose your roses altogether. Happy gardening.
Sorry Catherine, I’m afraid this is totally incorrect advice for roses, so everyone please disregard. Roses consist of a rootstock grafted onto the chosen rose variety - the graft is buried underneath the soil to firmly embed the rose, guard against wind rock and encourage the development of new canes from the base. Whilst some still plant with the graft above ground, it is now more widely recognised (for many decades) that it is better to bury it a couple of inches below the soil level for the reasons stated. Not burying the crown applies to a lot of plants, but not all, e.g. roses, clematis.
The rose cannot rot by burying the graft, not can it contract gangrene, which, so far as I’m aware, only applies to organisms with a blood supply - but @punkdoc, as a medic, you will know better than most 😊
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..thanks.. well, it's all stuff I would have got from local garden centre as I buy in every year now, no longer grow from seeds... so lots of Foxgloves, I always use the Excelsior, Dalmatian and Camelot strains... Aquilegias, Hollyhock, Scabious, Gaura, Geum, and my usual Hesperis..
..if you have not grown Scabious 'Perfecta Blue' before, or Aquilegia 'Yellow Queen', then I do recommend these.. they are superlative stand-out varieties.. the Scabious flowers all summer into late autumn, and especially good if you have dry pebbly conditions.. the Aquilegia is great with dark coloured roses like Munstead Wood..
...as they are in small 9cm pots, I shall grow some on in greenhouse and plant out in Spring..
My roses seem to have shed most of their leaves this year.. seemingly more so than last winter, not sure if they’re trying to tel me something 😟
I ended up not placing my order with TCL because there’s less space than I thought at the allotment and I am likely to move to a different plot after one season.. but I did have lots of fun doing my virtual shopping even if that never materialised..
Regarding scabious, I have 'Butterfly blue', it still had some flowers in December and it starts very early (early May).
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The rose cannot rot by burying the graft, not can it contract gangrene, which, so far as I’m aware, only applies to organisms with a blood supply - but @punkdoc, as a medic, you will know better than most 😊