@Cambridgerose12 😉 I think some of them are so beautiful that they think they can get away without bothering to make an effort to please us ... I’ve met people like that ... they think looking good is an excuse for poor behaviour ... they all need taking down to size and the application of a rocket at the pertinent point 🚀 🌹
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well blow me down and call me Charlie! There is a sprout on Ena! I cut her down to the ankle, fed her with pellets, gave her a deep seaweed drench and it actually worked. She's in such a difficult spot (though I didn't realise how difficult eight years ago). She was also underplanted with Salvia Royal Bumble and I have taken the closest one out, so that a difficult spot isn't made even harder. I will put a collar around Ena as the graft isn't covered and fill with manure and see if that leads to more canes. I think it unlikely - but who knows. More canes was the original aim, but it's good to know I haven't killed her.
If there is no change to the plant this year, I will consider putting in some other rose else in winter. She does tick a lot of boxes, even if she doesn't repeat that well. The colour and the scent is breath taking. I love her best in the bud phase - just before breaking - like the platonic idea of the essence of a rose.
@Fire, I think you may want to give her around three years to prove herself with the better conditions. We’re used to DA humungous roses on steroids that are fully grown in two years and monsters in three. With other kinds, it pays to wait.
Well blow me down and call me Charlie! There is a sprout on Ena! I cut her down to the ankle, fed her with pellets, gave her a deep seaweed drench and it actually worked....
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"I think you may want to give her around three years to prove herself with the better conditions. "
@Cambridgerose12 - I would normally agree with you, but this is such an odd, small spot, by a house wall, between two concrete paths that I'm amazed she grew at all. I honestly don't know if I will be living in this house at all in three years, so I'm not very inclined to wait. Ena's blooms are so heavy and the flower stems weak that the flowers bend. I would ideally like a rose that is more of a repeater. But I know we can't have everything. I'll give it some more thought and see how she goes.
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That’ll wake it up 👍 😀
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.