Looking fabulous Owd, excellent bit of construction there. It is hard to maintain the planting distances but you have done the right thing. I have a new rose bed in progress too, one rose is no more than two sticks but is meant to get to 5x6ft eventually - might have to temporarily fill in some of the vast empty space with some annuals!
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Looking fabulous Owd, excellent bit of construction there. It is hard to maintain the planting distances but you have done the right thing. I have a new rose bed in progress too, one rose is no more than two sticks but is meant to get to 5x6ft eventually - might have to temporarily fill in some of the vast empty space with some annuals!
Thanks @Nollie, building stuff is right in the centre of my fairway It is indeed hard to discipline myself to maintain planting distances. Every time I view the actual bed I think it will take more roses than I have planned on, especially as you note, they look completely lost as a few bare twigs and it is hard to visualize what they may become in a few years time. I have now, I think, finalised my remaining choices and shall order my bare roots once they become available again
Hiya folks. It's been some time since I revisited this thread, so time for an update for any interested and following (as I originally promised to do). Roses performed well and flowered beautifully and throughout the season. They were still blooming into December. Ghislaine de Feligonde especially was prolific which was a bit of a pleasant surprise to me as a first year plant. They have been very healthy, only Lichfield Angel spotting lightly late in season, but I did suffered a fair bit with aphids early and then sawfly damage on all. Fragrance was a factor in my rose choices, but I found scents to be quite light (maybe my nose, or maybe scent will intensify as they age) My favourite rose here is Vanessa Bell. Stunning bloom colour and shape and which I found holds up well in the rain and the best scent of these 4. The underplanting of mainly Cerastium & Stachys has done it's stuff and colonised well between the roses. I have also added a couple small fescue grasses in bare spaces for colour and foliage contrast. Oh, and I finished a bit of hard landscaping round bed. Some overall pics from last year May. June July Sept
A few aphids on GdF But she got over it... Beautiful Vanessa Bell. (Lichfield Angel behind) Lichfield Angel, lovely bloom and foliage colour, but no scent that I can detect. Droopy sprawling habit in it's first year which I hope will improve with age Roald Dahl, I was expecting better of this one, bit of a disappointment in first year, i'm sure it will improve
Jan 22. As the bed is currently. Ghislaine de Feligonde, lightly pruned, and tied into trellis, but as yet not defoliated I have relocated my large yellow shrub rose from front garden (in centre behind the stachys on this pic), and added Desdemona and Lady Emma Hamilton (far end of bed) as new bare root plantings. I've also added approx 100 tulip bulbs for an early season colour injection. Bit of trimming and cutting of tatty underplantings required here and there before spring and off we go into year 2. I'll try to stay on top of updates this year...
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I'd guess it isn't, but it is a guess as i'm a novice rose grower myself.
You would do better to ask in the rose thread here, https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1053256/roses-spring-summer-season-2021#latest where you will get better exposure to all of the brilliant rose people we have on here or else start a new dedicated thread likewise.
It is indeed hard to discipline myself to maintain planting distances.
Every time I view the actual bed I think it will take more roses than I have planned on, especially as you note, they look completely lost as a few bare twigs and it is hard to visualize what they may become in a few years time.
I have now, I think, finalised my remaining choices and shall order my bare roots once they become available again
It's been some time since I revisited this thread, so time for an update for any interested and following (as I originally promised to do).
Roses performed well and flowered beautifully and throughout the season. They were still blooming into December. Ghislaine de Feligonde especially was prolific which was a bit of a pleasant surprise to me as a first year plant.
They have been very healthy, only Lichfield Angel spotting lightly late in season, but I did suffered a fair bit with aphids early and then sawfly damage on all.
Fragrance was a factor in my rose choices, but I found scents to be quite light (maybe my nose, or maybe scent will intensify as they age)
My favourite rose here is Vanessa Bell. Stunning bloom colour and shape and which I found holds up well in the rain and the best scent of these 4.
The underplanting of mainly Cerastium & Stachys has done it's stuff and colonised well between the roses.
I have also added a couple small fescue grasses in bare spaces for colour and foliage contrast.
Oh, and I finished a bit of hard landscaping round bed.
Some overall pics from last year
May.
June
July
Sept
But she got over it...
Beautiful Vanessa Bell. (Lichfield Angel behind)
Lichfield Angel, lovely bloom and foliage colour, but no scent that I can detect. Droopy sprawling habit in it's first year which I hope will improve with age
This is what became of them
Ghislaine de Feligonde, lightly pruned, and tied into trellis, but as yet not defoliated
I have relocated my large yellow shrub rose from front garden (in centre behind the stachys on this pic), and added Desdemona and Lady Emma Hamilton (far end of bed) as new bare root plantings.
I've also added approx 100 tulip bulbs for an early season colour injection.
Bit of trimming and cutting of tatty underplantings required here and there before spring and off we go into year 2.
I'll try to stay on top of updates this year...