@newbie77 ...yesterday I was perusing Langthorns Plantery website... I had loads in my basket, some I really wanted, perennials not roses, only to find the delivery charge was calculated at £66 !!... I ain't payin' that... lol...
@newbie77 - shame you're not near me, I've got lots of aster cuttings on the go.
@Marlorena - first year here we just bought random plants that we liked the look of from the garden centre. Most of them died after winter as of course they were one shot things, but we didn't know that at the time!
Planted them in the three raised beds but we didn't like it like that and said we needed to get rid at some point and replace with a border.
Mostly we were planning to just plant things for screening to cover the MOT garage behind our neighbours garden which we have a "lovely" view of since they removed their trees. On the other side I removed some of the path and planned to plant something like cherry laurel as a screen across the fence on the other side.
But then we went to Scotland and visited a lot of lovely gardens like Glamis and I spotted the espalier fruit trees and fell in love with those.
I wanted one in our garden so planted a maiden fruit tree against the brick wall. Reading up on that and going through all the selecting the fruit tree and planting/initial pruning etc was my first proper gardening.
I then started to gather my first seeds hoping to fill my new spaces in the garden up..I've still got most of the plants I grew.
Then I decided that I wanted to put something on the shed like an espalier, and also on the north facing fence. But realising that those positions wouldn't be great for fruit trees I decided on wisteria and possibly something like Garrya Eliptica on the fence (because it came up as suitable for shade)
Then I wanted something for the extension to pretty it up. While looking at climbers and spotted climbing roses which I didn't even know existed to be honest - I just hadn't registered them before.
I started looking at photos on David Austin and watching Paul Zimmerman videos on YouTube.
Then I posted on here asking for recommendations and ended up deciding to scrap the other ideas and just have roses in all those places, and I'm very pleased I did.
Now I'm interested in all sorts, growing things from seed and cuttings and growing our own fruit and veg at our allotment which weve had for just over a year now.
So I went really from no interest in gardening to it feeling like a passion in a very short time.
Only been really keen on gardening for 3 years - My love of gardening is as old as my Apple tree which is 6 months younger than my eldest son!
@Mr. Vine Eye ...not at all, I found that really interesting and thanks for going to the trouble.. it's a journey many would be familiar with really, I think it's kind of how we all get going.. I love reading personal bio's of gardening.. I had no interest in gardening at all, zilch, nada, until I was well over 30... and I remember thinking that roses were really so very BORING !... lol..
That's sounds rather like my daughter. She really hasn't had a garden before so I'm hoping now she's got one, she will develop an interest. I didn't get interested until my thirties either and it just sort of crept up on me. Went to Chelsea one year and that was it. ;
@Marlorena roses in my head were thorny sticks with no leaves and a few blooms perched on top. I was amazed when I saw the photos of climbing roses on David Austin. I then suddenly started spotting them at the gardens we visited even though they’d always been there.
I love now visiting gardens and recognising many of the plants, being able to tell my son what they are.
I wish I knew more about different bird species though and I’m not very good with recognising British woodland trees!
Have I said before that one of my youngest’s first words was ‘rose?’ 😄
lol.. yeah, I think you did... I'm hopeless with trees too, apart from the regular ones... and I can't tell one weed from another, after all these years...
@Lizzie27 ...funny isn't it Lizzie, just one thing sets it off...
if anyone else wants to share their personal garden auto bio's please go ahead... always fun to read..
I had no interest in gardening until I was 30. In fact I didnt even want to live on groundfloor. Always liked an apartment in a high rise with far reaching view. Then we moved to a rented new built house in with a little garden where i first time planted some bulbs, but i didnt live there even till spring to see them flower and moved to an apartment in london. For years i searched for a house on rent with garden in my budget in this area and then gave up. Eventually we saved enough to buy our first own first place. In fact first place our offer accepted was apartment but sell fell through. That made me realize how much i longed for a garden and not just our own place. So more search and eventually we found a bungalow with garden in our budget.
For the roses first time i got interested in was when i saw jparker ad with six different colour roses. I used to follow houzz(gardenweb) then i searched more and found out about david austin roses. I got a few and planted. still those were just one of the different plants.
It is only when we moved to current house in 2019 and i came across rose threads and started looking for which ones to get, i totally got hooked to roses.
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...yesterday I was perusing Langthorns Plantery website... I had loads in my basket, some I really wanted, perennials not roses, only to find the delivery charge was calculated at £66 !!... I ain't payin' that... lol...
@Marlorena - first year here we just bought random plants that we liked the look of from the garden centre. Most of them died after winter as of course they were one shot things, but we didn't know that at the time!
Planted them in the three raised beds but we didn't like it like that and said we needed to get rid at some point and replace with a border.
Mostly we were planning to just plant things for screening to cover the MOT garage behind our neighbours garden which we have a "lovely" view of since they removed their trees. On the other side I removed some of the path and planned to plant something like cherry laurel as a screen across the fence on the other side.
But then we went to Scotland and visited a lot of lovely gardens like Glamis and I spotted the espalier fruit trees and fell in love with those.
I wanted one in our garden so planted a maiden fruit tree against the brick wall. Reading up on that and going through all the selecting the fruit tree and planting/initial pruning etc was my first proper gardening.
I then started to gather my first seeds hoping to fill my new spaces in the garden up..I've still got most of the plants I grew.
Then I decided that I wanted to put something on the shed like an espalier, and also on the north facing fence. But realising that those positions wouldn't be great for fruit trees I decided on wisteria and possibly something like Garrya Eliptica on the fence (because it came up as suitable for shade)
Then I wanted something for the extension to pretty it up. While looking at climbers and spotted climbing roses which I didn't even know existed to be honest - I just hadn't registered them before.
I started looking at photos on David Austin and watching Paul Zimmerman videos on YouTube.
Then I posted on here asking for recommendations and ended up deciding to scrap the other ideas and just have roses in all those places, and I'm very pleased I did.
Now I'm interested in all sorts, growing things from seed and cuttings and growing our own fruit and veg at our allotment which weve had for just over a year now.
So I went really from no interest in gardening to it feeling like a passion in a very short time.
Only been really keen on gardening for 3 years - My love of gardening is as old as my Apple tree which is 6 months younger than my eldest son!
But I had no interest in roses at all, in fact I'd say I probably had it in my head that I disliked roses.
Update on cuttings, skinny in the middle isn't looking very likely but the the other two seem to be doing ok.
...not at all, I found that really interesting and thanks for going to the trouble.. it's a journey many would be familiar with really, I think it's kind of how we all get going.. I love reading personal bio's of gardening.. I had no interest in gardening at all, zilch, nada, until I was well over 30... and I remember thinking that roses were really so very BORING !... lol..
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I love now visiting gardens and recognising many of the plants, being able to tell my son what they are.
I wish I knew more about different bird species though and I’m not very good with recognising British woodland trees!
Have I said before that one of my youngest’s first words was ‘rose?’ 😄
@Lizzie27
...funny isn't it Lizzie, just one thing sets it off...
if anyone else wants to share their personal garden auto bio's please go ahead... always fun to read..
I had no interest in gardening until I was 30. In fact I didnt even want to live on groundfloor. Always liked an apartment in a high rise with far reaching view. Then we moved to a rented new built house in with a little garden where i first time planted some bulbs, but i didnt live there even till spring to see them flower and moved to an apartment in london. For years i searched for a house on rent with garden in my budget in this area and then gave up. Eventually we saved enough to buy our first own first place. In fact first place our offer accepted was apartment but sell fell through. That made me realize how much i longed for a garden and not just our own place. So more search and eventually we found a bungalow with garden in our budget.
For the roses first time i got interested in was when i saw jparker ad with six different colour roses. I used to follow houzz(gardenweb) then i searched more and found out about david austin roses. I got a few and planted. still those were just one of the different plants.
It is only when we moved to current house in 2019 and i came across rose threads and started looking for which ones to get, i totally got hooked to roses.