Doggie feeling a little better, ate a little minced chicken last night, no overnight accidents and is wandering around a bit this morning. Suspect she ate something disgusting, it has been known! Thanks for your concern everyone.
New patio looking good @Mr. Vine Eye, I like the different sized slabs.
@cooldoc just think of all that maintenance you don’t have to do!
First bloom on a new rose, Forever Royal:
And especially for @Marlorena, some photos of the rest of the terraced land, not garden as such..
First terrace above the house, pool, with Bill photo bombing:
Pool terrace retaining wall and path up to higher terraces:
The ‘orchard’ with quince tree and half a dozen non-fruiting pear trees:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
..fabulous @Nollie .. and it looks so private with the woodland and as I enjoy slim conifers, I love those Italian Cypress, I think that's what they are.... ..I didn't know you had a pool but needn't tell you what I would do with that retaining wall.... I couldn't let that go unblemished, unless it was impractical for some reason..
..thornless of course,... wouldn't want any mishaps..
How stunning, @Nollie - the garden, the pool, the dog and that rose. The first rose of our collective season, perhaps. A red to make the heart sing.
My Jamain and Moonlight have tiny buds today.
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I'm quite interested in plant hormone signals. Last year on an anon climber , I trained a cane horizontally late in the spring. The whole of that summer it bloomed only on the end of the cane. This year I trained it horizontally early in the new year. Now lot of laterals have broken out all along, which I presume might bud. It seems there is some point in the year at which the apical dominance switching signal is given. After that it seems to stick, no matter how I train a cane, the signal holds for the rest of the year.
Also enjoyed the many photos from all of you capturing the lovely sights of new leaves and buds on your 🌹. Keep sharing 🙂
Today I spotted the first rose bud on my Golden Showers. Also spotted a few aphids on some roses which I had not sprayed with ginger-garlic last week as an experiment; other ones seem unaffected.
I think I have lost one of my recently planted HT rose, Duftzauber; the tender leaves were all crisp after being exposed to frost a few weeks ago - I have moved it to a shaded area in the hope that it recovers.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
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I have been looking at daisy roots drought resistant plants this morning, but there is no room for anything if I count the seeds yet to be sown.
@Perki
..thanks so much for getting back on that... good to know..
New patio looking good @Mr. Vine Eye, I like the different sized slabs.
@cooldoc just think of all that maintenance you don’t have to do!
First bloom on a new rose, Forever Royal:
And especially for @Marlorena, some photos of the rest of the terraced land, not garden as such..
First terrace above the house, pool, with Bill photo bombing:
Pool terrace retaining wall and path up to higher terraces:
The ‘orchard’ with quince tree and half a dozen non-fruiting pear trees:
..I didn't know you had a pool but needn't tell you what I would do with that retaining wall.... I couldn't let that go unblemished, unless it was impractical for some reason..
..thornless of course,... wouldn't want any mishaps..
I started to wonder;
Did thorns develop as a defense mechanism for the plants? The tiny ones are those that always get me!
Eyes for you.
Also, does the leaf colour give any indication of flower colour, both my oranges have red serrated edges to their leaves.
Port Sunlight - bare root in Nov
Also enjoyed the many photos from all of you capturing the lovely sights of new leaves and buds on your 🌹. Keep sharing 🙂
Today I spotted the first rose bud on my Golden Showers. Also spotted a few aphids on some roses which I had not sprayed with ginger-garlic last week as an experiment; other ones seem unaffected.
I think I have lost one of my recently planted HT rose, Duftzauber; the tender leaves were all crisp after being exposed to frost a few weeks ago - I have moved it to a shaded area in the hope that it recovers.