Could anyone recommend small shrub type Rose's what would look good at the front of a boarder
Would help what conditions it would be in. It will get the afternoon sun, soil conditions is clay one side and boggy down the other end (but will be mixed with MPC/JI no 3
@Nollie ..I've never used freshly brewed tea, as it contains too much caffeine and nitrogen, as I understand it from various research... but if you've not seen any ill effects then all well and good, but I only use 'used' or 'spent tea.. as with coffee grounds... ..putting a couple of unused tea bags in water overnight to mildly acidify hard tap water, does no harm.. but pouring in freshly made up tea that would otherwise be ready to drink, doesn't seem wise to me, especially when the tea, or coffee, is supposed to be washed through then left to dry in the sun [to remove milk residues].. I skip that part though..
Thanks for clarifying that Marlorena, thats very helpful. I haven't been doing the freshly brewed tea (sans milk and sugar!) for very long. 2 teabags to a mug of hot water, emptied into a 12L can, but I then started to doubt if that was a good idea. Will chuck the liquid tea down the drain and just save the spent bags in future, just in case...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've a terracotta pot just begging to have a rose put in it, it's dimensions are approx 13inches x 13inches (see photo) What size of rose could you realistically grow in a pot this size.
..nice pot... anything in the 2.5 x 2.5 feet range, but you could grow larger if prepared to root prune... otherwise stick with smaller types..
@bradleywood32 please tell us what colour you like and what type of bloom form ... thank you.. it also helps to know where you would be buying from, this narrows down selections...
@Marlorena Respect for your dad. 40-45 is a very long time, it had to be horrible there, and also very early to get there... was he in RAF or in the expeditionary forces or something else? If you don't mind me asking... if you don't want to get into details, I fully understand. I am young and maybe today is a good day to watch some documentary or read something to educate myself better. I hate that they don't really teach modern history well in schools.
We're not that fussy on colour, we're open to having a colourful bedding. The bed is around 6metres long and one side 1m the other 1.4m in width.We are thinking about putting Rose's at the front to frame the bed. Currently at the back of the bed is the climbing red apollo and soon will be morning glory plants either side once they grow abit bigger. Bloom form again we are open for anything. We don't want anything tall. We aren't looking for anything to put in this year unless the price is right. Open to do the bare rooted option next year.
@peteS ...each winter, you take the rose out of the pot, trim back the thick anchor and tap roots by about half, then repot in fresh compost... this way the rose remains compact.. it's a bit like bonsai... but very easy to do and takes little time at all..
@edhelka ...thank you and for asking... just going o/t for a moment.. My dad was in the navy, his ship was sunk at sea mid Atlantic 1940... his ship was machine gunned as they scrambled for life boats.. many were killed [the German Captain was later tried on war crimes]... Dad was floating in the water covered in oil along with about 30 others.. the Captain decided to pick them up - he didn't usually do this, and they were all taken to Germany... he caught pneumonia along the way.. ..he was lucky to survive, other members of my family were not so fortunate like millions of others... and it's somewhat ironic that if the Captain had not picked him up, myself nor my siblings would be alive today... I sometimes think I must owe my life to a 'nazi' but I try not to look at it that way... fate is better..
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Would help what conditions it would be in. It will get the afternoon sun, soil conditions is clay one side and boggy down the other end (but will be mixed with MPC/JI no 3
..I've never used freshly brewed tea, as it contains too much caffeine and nitrogen, as I understand it from various research... but if you've not seen any ill effects then all well and good, but I only use 'used' or 'spent tea.. as with coffee grounds...
..putting a couple of unused tea bags in water overnight to mildly acidify hard tap water, does no harm.. but pouring in freshly made up tea that would otherwise be ready to drink, doesn't seem wise to me, especially when the tea, or coffee, is supposed to be washed through then left to dry in the sun [to remove milk residues].. I skip that part though..
@bradleywood32 please tell us what colour you like and what type of bloom form ... thank you.. it also helps to know where you would be buying from, this narrows down selections...
The bed is around 6metres long and one side 1m the other 1.4m in width.We are thinking about putting Rose's at the front to frame the bed. Currently at the back of the bed is the climbing red apollo and soon will be morning glory plants either side once they grow abit bigger.
Bloom form again we are open for anything.
We don't want anything tall.
We aren't looking for anything to put in this year unless the price is right. Open to do the bare rooted option next year.
...each winter, you take the rose out of the pot, trim back the thick anchor and tap roots by about half, then repot in fresh compost... this way the rose remains compact.. it's a bit like bonsai... but very easy to do and takes little time at all..
...thank you and for asking... just going o/t for a moment.. My dad was in the navy, his ship was sunk at sea mid Atlantic 1940... his ship was machine gunned as they scrambled for life boats.. many were killed [the German Captain was later tried on war crimes]... Dad was floating in the water covered in oil along with about 30 others.. the Captain decided to pick them up - he didn't usually do this, and they were all taken to Germany... he caught pneumonia along the way..
..he was lucky to survive, other members of my family were not so fortunate like millions of others... and it's somewhat ironic that if the Captain had not picked him up, myself nor my siblings would be alive today... I sometimes think I must owe my life to a 'nazi' but I try not to look at it that way... fate is better..
That red poppy opened in my garden today..