@Nollie and @Omori - Hi both! I've been very quiet on the garden front. Mainly as I didn't have anything of note to show. Thanks for your tips! I've pruned all the roses, and cleared the dead leaves from the ground. Done a 'light' prune/shape for the bourbons and was a little more radical for the HTs/Floribundas.
I'll take some photos of the garden when it's looking less like sticks in mud and more green. Still need to think of two roses to put in 60x60x60cm boxes. Will need to like a little shade and be not particularly thorny.
Hi @Katsa ..nice to see you around here again.. I've been wondering about your garden and many others who posted last year with their beautiful roses... I hope they return this season..
... as regards pruning.. as Nollie and Omori have said, but with a Bourbon it depends on the actual rose I would say there... they're not all the same, and require more individual treatment accordingly.. sometimes minimalistic, othertimes ruthless..
..ruthless can give one a good feeling ... but you can regret it afterwards..
@Perki ... you surprise me Perki, I didn't have you down as a 'new' Austin man.. do let us know if they reply... they're very secretive about these things I find..
I’m going to try using Empathy After Plant rose food this year on my roses, but I’ve also heard good things about Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic. Is it too much if I use both? Although planted at the same time, some of my roses are lagging behind in growth. Also I bought a Wollerton Old Hall climber from DA two years ago, and still waiting for it to start climbing up a trellis; it’s about 4 feet tall.
I did some gardening today. Amazing the effect it has on your mood isn’t it? Instant fix.
I started weeding my shed bed, and edged the lawn. Also removed all the weeds and grass from the little gaps in paved path next to shed. I’m planting creeping thyme in it.
Saw lots of perennials starting to wake up! Will try and take some close up photos if the weather is ok tomorrow.
It really does have a good effect, on my mood certainly. I sat outside for a short while on Fri eve and yesterday and it was so peaceful.
Yesterday before the wind started up I got all the roses pruned (although I might revisit Blush Noisette) and tied in all the climbers, one of my least favourite jobs.
Snipped the trimmings into tiny pieces to reduce bin space as the garden bin collection doesn't start until April.
Warm Welcome, a rose I always forget I have, was flailing about so I ratcheted it down to the arbour roof. I neglected it last year as I'm currently using the arbour to store shed junk while I have some building work going on.
Fru Dagmar Hastrup doesn't have any new growth and I snipped a few soft bits off. It does seem to have an idea about growth from the tiny dots on the stems so I hope it just a slow starter. One I'm most concerned about is Countess of Wessex. I'd already taken a stem and a half off it as it was dying back. I hope I've stopped it just above a bud of growth but shall see over the next few weeks. It's an inward facing bud but I now only have 1 1/2 stems left so can't be choosy
Everything else is looking ok and I didn't take anything off Flanders, it looked like it had sorted itself out, it's been an obliging cheerful fellow so far.
@Marlorena, anybody? re my previous question on anything to share on rose William and Catherine? Apologies if this was not the right place to post or if I should have started a new thread. t i a
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I'll take some photos of the garden when it's looking less like sticks in mud and more green. Still need to think of two roses to put in 60x60x60cm boxes. Will need to like a little shade and be not particularly thorny.
..nice to see you around here again.. I've been wondering about your garden and many others who posted last year with their beautiful roses... I hope they return this season..
... as regards pruning.. as Nollie and Omori have said, but with a Bourbon it depends on the actual rose I would say there... they're not all the same, and require more individual treatment accordingly.. sometimes minimalistic, othertimes ruthless..
..ruthless can give one a good feeling ... but you can regret it afterwards..
... you surprise me Perki, I didn't have you down as a 'new' Austin man.. do let us know if they reply... they're very secretive about these things I find..
Be patient! 😉
I started weeding my shed bed, and edged the lawn. Also removed all the weeds and grass from the little gaps in paved path next to shed. I’m planting creeping thyme in it.
Saw lots of perennials starting to wake up! Will try and take some close up photos if the weather is ok tomorrow.
Yesterday before the wind started up I got all the roses pruned (although I might revisit Blush Noisette) and tied in all the climbers, one of my least favourite jobs.
Snipped the trimmings into tiny pieces to reduce bin space as the garden bin collection doesn't start until April.
Warm Welcome, a rose I always forget I have, was flailing about so I ratcheted it down to the arbour roof. I neglected it last year as I'm currently using the arbour to store shed junk while I have some building work going on.
Fru Dagmar Hastrup doesn't have any new growth and I snipped a few soft bits off. It does seem to have an idea about growth from the tiny dots on the stems so I hope it just a slow starter. One I'm most concerned about is Countess of Wessex. I'd already taken a stem and a half off it as it was dying back. I hope I've stopped it just above a bud of growth but shall see over the next few weeks. It's an inward facing bud but I now only have 1 1/2 stems left so can't be choosy
Everything else is looking ok and I didn't take anything off Flanders, it looked like it had sorted itself out, it's been an obliging cheerful fellow so far.