Cool season grasses flower with the roses, as opposed to warm season ones like Miscanthus, Pennisetum and Panicum, which need the warmth of summer to flower..
..so one of the best for me is 'Achnatherum calamagrostis'... it also has autumn colour and good winter outline too..
..I like the very dark colours on Clematis 'Burma Star'... I also like the name.. Clematis 'Piilu'... is rather pretty... I normally get double blooms, but none this Spring.. I've had heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail.. so a good time to see which roses stand up to all that.. 'Vanessa Bell'.. shows no ill effects.. .nor does 'Ghislaine de Feligonde'... roses have to prove themselves this way, for me..
Hi Marlorena, I'm thinking about ordering my first HT, Mary Berry, a lovely looking pale yellow colour. Have you any views on hybrid tea's; are they floriferous and unfussy. I like gardens where you can't see the soil such as yours...and also Vanessa Bell is quickly heading up my wants list.
@peteS ...I don't have many hybrid teas, and those I do have mostly been imported... so if I have any I choose strictly ones that are reported to be strongly scented, otherwise I'm not really interested... I cannot say they are unfussy, but the few I have right now seem rather good.. I have Chandos Beauty, which is the parent of Mary Berry, and very similar to look at... the foliage is large and glossy... it's just coming into flower, strongly scented and grows well in a pot... I would expect the same result from Mary Berry..
@Marlorena I am happy to see your 'Ghislaine de Feligonde' looking so great. I have one arriving on Tue. Can you advise me how to train it like yours. Is it on a structure or tied into a fence (mine is going next to a wooden fence), how do you prune it, how old is yours and how big is it? Please. Sorry for all the questions but the DA site says it grows up to 3.75m, Trevor White says 2.5x2.5 and HMF 2-3m. This isn't the only rose I've chosen to then find I may have got the wrong size.
@Tack ...thank you... I'm delighted you are getting this wonderful rambler.. it takes getting to know, like everything but really it's quite an easy one... Take absolutely no notice of sizes quoted... Ghislaine will happily grow to whatever size you want her to be, or you can prune her to shape.. so if you want a 20 foot rambler, she will easily become that, but if you want a more arching type of large shrub, she can do that too.. An important point is to deadhead after the main flush, about late June time... during the first few years, she will repeat bloom in August/Sept... when established, she will bloom continuously through summer, even without deadheading, but that takes a few years to get into a rhythm... these types of roses need time to develop their characters..
I prune my rose in the winter, shortening the lengths if I need to, and shortening the lateral growths... My rose is on a fence, an old wooden one that should be replaced … to make things easier I do have trellis attached to the fence, but some wires going across would work as well, attached from post to post.. it will need some supporting if grown on a fence..
Here's an example of her versatility... growing as a Standard in Monet's garden at Giverny, France...
I forgot to mention the size of my rose.. it's about 6 foot tall, just above the fence line, and the spread must be about 12 feet, but as I said it could be double that spread, I used to allow it to get larger, must have been nearly 20 feet, but I keep it more compact nowadays.. I'll look for some photos I might have when it was bigger.. ..this was from a few years ago, she goes around to the left behind the conifer and off to the right out of shot, about 8 foot tall by 20 feet wide.. but really you don't have to grow it like this.. half this width is do-able.. say 2m x 3m, something like that..
@Marlorena This is such great info, thank you. I am going to put wires on a north/south aligned 7ft wooden fence and in one direction it can grow about 6ft and in the other (northwards) as far as it wants.Your notes give me the confidence I can bend it to my will At the moment it is such a dull expanse of wood, from your pictures I can see this rose will really brighten the area. Hmm, your burgandy clematis would be a good addition too!
@Tack ...oh good, I'm glad I haven't frightened you off this rose, I was worried that I might have done... another thing I love about it is that it's a chameleon as far as colour is concerned, sometimes she can be pink, apricot, yellow and white, and sometimes all those together at the same time, even on a single bloom... all according to temps I think,.. she can literally change colour overnight.. most times she's apricot/yellow/white..
..the clematis is Mme. Julia Correvon.. a vigorous group 3...
@Marlorena Thank you again, and for the clematis name, Taylors have it in stock! The rose's colour variation and its apparent tolerance of part shade make it ideal for the spot I think. It will certainly have space to ramble, I don't need something there to be neat and tight to the fence and it can spill over the top too.
Hi Marlerona, I’ve been enjoying the other thread and stumbled upon this one today and of course had to read all the posts! I really like the look of Jardin des Tuileries but is it thorny? I had to get rid of Gertrude Jekyll because I could not deal with her thorns 😥.
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..so one of the best for me is 'Achnatherum calamagrostis'... it also has autumn colour and good winter outline too..
..I like the very dark colours on Clematis 'Burma Star'... I also like the name..
Clematis 'Piilu'... is rather pretty... I normally get double blooms, but none this Spring..
I've had heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail.. so a good time to see which roses stand up to all that..
'Vanessa Bell'.. shows no ill effects..
.nor does 'Ghislaine de Feligonde'... roses have to prove themselves this way, for me..
...I don't have many hybrid teas, and those I do have mostly been imported... so if I have any I choose strictly ones that are reported to be strongly scented, otherwise I'm not really interested... I cannot say they are unfussy, but the few I have right now seem rather good..
I have Chandos Beauty, which is the parent of Mary Berry, and very similar to look at... the foliage is large and glossy... it's just coming into flower, strongly scented and grows well in a pot... I would expect the same result from Mary Berry..
...thank you... I'm delighted you are getting this wonderful rambler.. it takes getting to know, like everything but really it's quite an easy one... Take absolutely no notice of sizes quoted... Ghislaine will happily grow to whatever size you want her to be, or you can prune her to shape.. so if you want a 20 foot rambler, she will easily become that, but if you want a more arching type of large shrub, she can do that too..
An important point is to deadhead after the main flush, about late June time... during the first few years, she will repeat bloom in August/Sept... when established, she will bloom continuously through summer, even without deadheading, but that takes a few years to get into a rhythm... these types of roses need time to develop their characters..
I prune my rose in the winter, shortening the lengths if I need to, and shortening the lateral growths...
My rose is on a fence, an old wooden one that should be replaced … to make things easier I do have trellis attached to the fence, but some wires going across would work as well, attached from post to post.. it will need some supporting if grown on a fence..
Here's an example of her versatility... growing as a Standard in Monet's garden at Giverny, France...
..this was from a few years ago, she goes around to the left behind the conifer and off to the right out of shot, about 8 foot tall by 20 feet wide.. but really you don't have to grow it like this.. half this width is do-able.. say 2m x 3m, something like that..
...oh good, I'm glad I haven't frightened you off this rose, I was worried that I might have done... another thing I love about it is that it's a chameleon as far as colour is concerned, sometimes she can be pink, apricot, yellow and white, and sometimes all those together at the same time, even on a single bloom... all according to temps I think,.. she can literally change colour overnight.. most times she's apricot/yellow/white..
..the clematis is Mme. Julia Correvon.. a vigorous group 3...