Clockwise - Lady of Shalott, The Generous Gardener (just spotted that I missed a lateral!), Mortimer Sackler and Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Left - Emily Brontë, right - Scarborough Fair
Vanessa Bell - felt very mean!
Royal Jubilee - I'm really excited to see what it does this year!
For some of the roses, especially Munstead Wood and Scarborough Fair - if I'd removed the weak growth, then I'd have been cutting pretty much the entire plant down to the base! So I left those pretty much as they were and just reduced the height. Used a bamboo cane as a height gauge.
@JessicaS I’m sure Lady Em wouldn’t be as spotty for everyone else, not until summers get to plus 40degC anyway!
Sun has just come out here too and the dogs are pestering me to stop wandering around the garden with my tablet and play with them. The big advantage about being obsessed with photographing roses at all stages is that you do notice the dead bits and things you forgot.
I’m looking forward to seeing what Soul does in this, it’s second year. Not many blooms last year, but the fan training will hopefully pay off - lots of promising new growth shooting off the arched canes:
Meanwhile, new bare root roses in the poly coming along but need to get out the secateurs and snip off those dead ends:
Also new, Marie Pavie in a pot outside has raced ahead of most others:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
...well, it's warmed up a bit and turned out quite nice today..
..your 'Soul' surely will look really good this year Nollie, with all those breaks appearing.. and I like the way you gravel top your potted roses.. I do that...
@Lizzie27 ... if those pots of Nollie's were mine, then I would just be liquid feeding until late May/June when I would have to transfer them, as a containerised rose, to the ground or in a larger pot.. at which point pelleted feed would be applied to the top and the gravel would be removed or added to.. depending which way I go.. ..this one I did today, but already in its permanent pot, so I will be applying pelleted feed to this in 2 weeks time, then applying the gravel top... liquid feeding from then on.. most of my garden is gravel, as you see, so it blends in with it..
@Lizzie27, those are new root-pruned bare root roses only in 6L pots temporarily so as Marlorena says, to be transferred into bigger pots/the ground later this year, when the grit ends up falling off when I tip the roses out of their pots. I find it helps keep the moisture in the pots as the top of the soil mix doesn’t dry out so quickly and makes watering easier. They have some slow-release granules mixed in already and apart from maybe a seaweed feed, that’s all they will need until planted out.
@fromtheshires, that size will be fine for a couple of years, so no worries, no rush to dig a flowerbed! For permanent pot life you need a pot 60x60cm really, so you can plant it in the ground/bigger pot when it’s outgrown the current one. Hope you enjoy it, the blooms are lovely.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Guess I will need to work on my husband then @Nollie cos we have spent a fortune hard landscaping and re-turfing and he isn't keen on my ideas to have some flowerbeds and destroy the nice new grass.
At least i will have a couple of years for him to come round i guess 😂.
He doesn't know it yet but i have the perfect spot for a flowerbed in the garden and it will help our terrible drainage.
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Started pruning and the sun even came out.
Clockwise - Lady of Shalott, The Generous Gardener (just spotted that I missed a lateral!), Mortimer Sackler and Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Left - Emily Brontë, right - Scarborough Fair
Vanessa Bell - felt very mean!
Royal Jubilee - I'm really excited to see what it does this year!
For some of the roses, especially Munstead Wood and Scarborough Fair - if I'd removed the weak growth, then I'd have been cutting pretty much the entire plant down to the base! So I left those pretty much as they were and just reduced the height. Used a bamboo cane as a height gauge.
Got about half way around the garden!
I’m looking forward to seeing what Soul does in this, it’s second year. Not many blooms last year, but the fan training will hopefully pay off - lots of promising new growth shooting off the arched canes:
Meanwhile, new bare root roses in the poly coming along but need to get out the secateurs and snip off those dead ends:
Also new, Marie Pavie in a pot outside has raced ahead of most others:
..your 'Soul' surely will look really good this year Nollie, with all those breaks appearing.. and I like the way you gravel top your potted roses.. I do that...
... if those pots of Nollie's were mine, then I would just be liquid feeding until late May/June when I would have to transfer them, as a containerised rose, to the ground or in a larger pot.. at which point pelleted feed would be applied to the top and the gravel would be removed or added to.. depending which way I go..
..this one I did today, but already in its permanent pot, so I will be applying pelleted feed to this in 2 weeks time, then applying the gravel top... liquid feeding from then on.. most of my garden is gravel, as you see, so it blends in with it..
I've got a potted magnolia at the front and I really need to take the gravel off and top up with a layer of ericaceous compost - when I've got some.
@fromtheshires, that size will be fine for a couple of years, so no worries, no rush to dig a flowerbed! For permanent pot life you need a pot 60x60cm really, so you can plant it in the ground/bigger pot when it’s outgrown the current one. Hope you enjoy it, the blooms are lovely.
He doesn't know it yet but i have the perfect spot for a flowerbed in the garden and it will help our terrible drainage.