Everything has slowed right down here, cold weather and icy wind, due -2 on Sunday, brr.
Your poor Roundelay @iaincd! I find leathery, shiny foliage is the toughest at resisting weather damage, whether heat, freeze or wind. Julia Child and Golden Celebration are in the same bed/same exposure but JC is fine while GC has a lot of frostbite and withered tips. Must be very exposed there if your JC got bitten!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The overnight freezing temperatures keep getting pushed back and back The old roses and rugosa hybrids are doing fine but the delicately leaved Austins and Hybrid Teas are looking rough.
Last year (following discussion on the forum) I tried under planting leggy climbing roses with bush roses. It seems not to have worked - I imagine because I planted too close to the established climbers and encountered, essentially rose replant disease. The roses are tiny and sickly looking. I'll see what happens.
I have just Bought A Felicia Rose Bush, bought one a while ago on Marlorena's advice for a lightly spined one and am delighted with it. Bought one from Penmans? and it has different colour leaves and small spines under the Leaves. which my Felicia definitely doesn't have can any one tell me which it would be
That’s a shame @Fire, how close is too close? I am about to ‘underplant’ Soul (espaliered on a fence) with Souvenir de St Annes, but a reasonable distance, about 70cm away and Soul was only planted last year so I’m not too worried about that.
Might be worth lifting them, potting them up and seeing if they recover?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Would have thought that enough, providing you didn’t chop through the roots of the climber when planting, the soil was well prepared etc.., but I’m no expert on RRD, having managed to avoid it so far. Yes, maybe just give them time and extra cosseting.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
We were very careful with planting. I planted a Crimson Glory about four years ago and it did nothing at all, at all, (re RRD), but I kept it in because it was the right plant in the right place and it didn't die. This year looks like it's going to be its first real growth year and I'm strangely delighted that I kept it. It will be worth the wait.
I'm kind of concerned that 'gardening' can, in fact, become equated with 'shopping'. I agree that every plant has to work hard in a small garden, but patience is always going to be the key, and working with what we have. I have a tendency to be too Paypal-happy, especially if I'm having a hard week and I see some oh-so-lovely-plants. I don't really want to get into the habit of tossing out plants because of niggles.
That said, mine has been a vertical garden learning curve (mostly thanks to this forum) and I have done a huge amount of experimenting before finding plants that really work in the garden and to my taste. And, good god, it has been an expensive hobby.
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Your poor Roundelay @iaincd! I find leathery, shiny foliage is the toughest at resisting weather damage, whether heat, freeze or wind. Julia Child and Golden Celebration are in the same bed/same exposure but JC is fine while GC has a lot of frostbite and withered tips. Must be very exposed there if your JC got bitten!
...how will you keep those Proteas going ? you will have to bring them in for the winter won't you?..
Bought one from Penmans? and it has different colour leaves and small spines under the Leaves. which my Felicia definitely doesn't have
can any one tell me which it would be
Might be worth lifting them, potting them up and seeing if they recover?