I ordered and received a Malvern Hills rambler from DA last week. It was a runty little thing, nowhere as robust as my last one, with short roots and few canes - barrel-scraping from butt end of the bare root season. I'm now thinking that the sensible thing to have done was to have potted it up and grown it on through the summer. Would that have been the logical and obvious thing to do?
I find myself wondering - given that this thread has over 60k views and runs to 2000 posts on 213 in pages - in under three months - should it maybe think about do a monthly thread incarnation - like with Forkers and Resurrection? The post numbers are similar to those threads. I know it's nice to have the rose posts in one place, but it might get a tad unwieldy. Just putting the idea out there.
..see how it goes, I've no idea about chat threads, but other threads about roses might pop up during the summer anyway.. ..re your Malvern Hills, I would just have planted it... a rambler like that wouldn't need to be mollycoddled really, although if I remember, it doesn't really take off until the 2nd year..
@Mr. Vine Eye Crab Apple doing great... Butterball isn't it... you know I've often said Ancient Mariner has some of the best Spring foliage in the business.. imagine that as a large shrub, for about a week it's full of the most unusual colour mixes.. foliage alone makes it a Spring border plant..
Jubilee celebration was delivered today along with 2 others. I am posting this as this shipment was from Italy. Wasn't sure if they would ship DAs from abroad and DA said JC will be available only from November in UK.
I felt the responses for mail queries were prompt. Need to place a minimum of 3 for the delivery to happen.
Took almost a month since the order was made but the delay was blamed on the UPS services. 1 week to delivery from the time of dispatch, but the roses seems to have done okay. Looks a bit battered but packaging was good. A little watering and sunshine would help them I guess, not sure about the freezing nights...
@Mr. Vine Eye- your crabapple looks as though is going to be a stunner, I planted one in the late autumn and it’s just started to bud up, mine is Evereste so it will be good to compare blossom.
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@cooldoc ..thanks for that, delighted you got some roses off them, and good to know they still send to us.. they have a great selection of the most interesting roses, many no longer offered here..
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..re your Malvern Hills, I would just have planted it... a rambler like that wouldn't need to be mollycoddled really, although if I remember, it doesn't really take off until the 2nd year..
@Mr. Vine Eye
Crab Apple doing great... Butterball isn't it... you know I've often said Ancient Mariner has some of the best Spring foliage in the business.. imagine that as a large shrub, for about a week it's full of the most unusual colour mixes.. foliage alone makes it a Spring border plant..
Your Lady of Shalott is taking off I see...
..thanks for that, delighted you got some roses off them, and good to know they still send to us.. they have a great selection of the most interesting roses, many no longer offered here..