It is so nice seeing all the progress in everyone's gardens. I can't believe we're going back to freezing temperatures.
Your garden is looking great @Nollie, very smart fence. Can't see your RoseDR very well to compare but mine looks a lot less lush than my others, it is fine I think but not particularly attractive as a plant.Found my first bud on Heidi Klum and can see others forming elsewhere now I know what to look for Lots of colour around nowVery happy with the climbers, The Generous Gardener (top and left) and Claire Austin Wolleton Old HallBathsheba and Royal WilliamAnd the others are all sideways or too big so I will spare you more!
Some roses I haven't shown yet (it will be hard to choose photos this year... but there's no such thing as too many roses, right?). Rosengrafin Marie Henriette (I don't like boring names like Summer Romance or even worse, Lovely Parfuma, but I have to say they are easier to remember) - Amanda Peternotte - Empereur Charles IV. - Narrow Water Crépuscule finally leafing out, I hope for a good show this year and a lot of new growth. Silas Marner
The banksia probably will be another month until it blooms.
Here is a photo from last year I also got another couple of bare root DA roses. There may be too many stones, but at least there will be no chance of weeds.
That silas marner (above) that is reaching for the sky's with a solitary cane is worrying me a lot! I've just planted a couple in a mixed border thinking it would be neat and well behaved. Is that normal? , does any one else have any experience with silas?
@Rickyjones24 Silas is 2020 rose, nobody really has enough experience with it yet. From what I've heard, I am the only one with a cane like that, so far, but I am sure others will catch up I am curious if I get another cane like that or maybe more of them this year...
..don't go by me, but mine's a total dud.. it has diedback to about 4 inches tall.. I'd rather have edhelka's reaching for the sky than the one I have currently, even though I don't like how that's going, to be honest.. but it's typical of so many Austins to throw out a long cane.. even Kew Gardens does it but evens up later.. I should claim a refund for mine under their 5 year guarantee but I can't be a*sed..
@Littlegarden ..thanks for the photos... I thought your Banksia might have opened a few blooms during the warmer weather.. I see you pot up your roses the same way as I do.. which ones are those please?...
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..did you do that yourself? it looks quite professional.. what roses are you putting on it? that is the pertinent point .. of course ..
I found this from Rhapsody in Blue today which is good news as I took out 3 old canes last pruning.
Rosengrafin Marie Henriette (I don't like boring names like Summer Romance or even worse, Lovely Parfuma, but I have to say they are easier to remember) - Amanda Peternotte - Empereur Charles IV. - Narrow Water
Crépuscule finally leafing out, I hope for a good show this year and a lot of new growth.
Silas Marner
I also got another couple of bare root DA roses. There may be too many stones, but at least there will be no chance of weeds.
..thanks for the photos... I thought your Banksia might have opened a few blooms during the warmer weather.. I see you pot up your roses the same way as I do.. which ones are those please?...