Thank you so much. I'm really enjoying looking at the suggestions. I am a bit surprised how many DAs, especially since their own site only narrowed large shrubs to 3! Keep them coming please. This is making a very nice change from looking for roses suitable for containers. Frustrating how few photos there are of standalone specimens.
Nearly there. I just need to cut and level the plank that's running towards the brick wall, cut the end off the other plank in front of the patio where they join and then just fill in and level all the soil.
Liked the idea of being surrounded by planting! Tried first just having a bed level with the patio but the lawn levels are all over the place. Our garden slopes in two directions!! But I think this solution will look quite nice when it's finished and planted up.
I like @newbie77’s idea, I think a large standard rose would look fabulous there @tack, something like this Papi Delbard (or Ghislane de Feligonde?) repeat flowering, fragrant, I think on one of those upside down umbrella supports:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Wow, isn't that something @Nollie . I'm now looking where I could accommodate a Papi Delbard as a climber. I don't want to be looking at a structure in the winter. A standard would look nice @newbie77 but I would prefer not to be creating an actual flower bed. I keep reminding myself it was my decision to scrap the last one. Somehow just tending to one rose seems more straightforward in my head.
Standards haven't been available here for some time, at least not from DA.. they stopped doing them due to lockdowns.. no idea when they will be back..
So much is out of stock at the moment... I would personally be wary about planting a light pink rose because of the colour clash against the grass, which is often yellowy, as in the photo, or brownish during droughts.. if you imagine the colour of that pink hyacinth in the pot, against the grass... I dunno... not for me that one..
So, I would be wanting something apricot/yellow.. 'The Lark Ascending', really glows that rose and it's semi double informality would probably suit the grassy location better.. it also gets ZERO disease... however I found one plant of it quite enough..
@Mr. Vine Eye Your patio looks really good.. you must be pleased with it.. and the little border too, a great inclusion.. I can't wait to see what you do with that.. nice hedge of Lavender perhaps ?...
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Liked the idea of being surrounded by planting! Tried first just having a bed level with the patio but the lawn levels are all over the place. Our garden slopes in two directions!! But I think this solution will look quite nice when it's finished and planted up.
So much is out of stock at the moment... I would personally be wary about planting a light pink rose because of the colour clash against the grass, which is often yellowy, as in the photo, or brownish during droughts.. if you imagine the colour of that pink hyacinth in the pot, against the grass... I dunno... not for me that one..
So, I would be wanting something apricot/yellow.. 'The Lark Ascending', really glows that rose and it's semi double informality would probably suit the grassy location better.. it also gets ZERO disease... however I found one plant of it quite enough..
Your patio looks really good.. you must be pleased with it.. and the little border too, a great inclusion.. I can't wait to see what you do with that.. nice hedge of Lavender perhaps ?...