@Bullfinch, yes lots of options, I wouldn’t grow a monster shrub or climber in that size pot or most HT’s, but there are lots of more compact, fragrant roses that would suit in the pink/peach range, maybe Joie de Vivre or even Eustacia Vye? Rachel (aka Augusta Luise) is an HT but allegedly a compact, bushy one suitable for a pot. I suspect the peach/pink range gives you more options than red, but others will have better ideas, I’m sure, especially re the shade tolerance. If the rose outgrows the pot, you can always move it to a bigger one!
@edhelka and @JessicaS, thanks so much, that’s really helped me decide. Happily your descriptions of growth habit suits perfectly the two locations I was dithering about, so SdeSA will go in the spot where there is width but I was worried about it getting very tall and obscuring the roses on the fence behind. EfY will go in the more constrained site near Harlow Carr.
@Loppers my HC threw out the occasional new cane a distance from the mother plant in it’s early years, not quite as far away as yours though. I just cut off below ground level any canes that spoilt the look of the plant. Growth patterns can be awkward to start with and it does take a 2-3 years for a lot of roses to settle down, look and perform at their best. I have often nearly given up on some Austin roses, only for them to finally come good in year 3 so don’t give up!
Thank you @owd potter, my elderly iPad still takes fairly decent photos.
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Very busy and stressed but coming back here to read all posts helps a lot to calm my mind. Got a chance to just go in garden for few mins and found fox had again messed up lots of pots. Any idea how to deter her from there.
Sorry to hear of the fox troubles @newbie77, I have no foxes here so not sure if this would work, but perhaps some largish cobbles placed on top of the soil to block the fox from digging?
Three more nights of freezing temperatures here...it's causing a lot of damage to all of the new growth in the garden, hope things bounce back
@newbie77 Gosh that must be so irritating. What do you think it is after, did you plant with Blood, Fish and Bone? I noticed the DA plant food smelt very fishy, I deliberately don't use BFB because we have fox in the garden but I was worried that my plantfood would attract them. When the badgers dig areas I don't want I place a lot of sharp terracotta bits in a layer and that does make them move on. Worth a try?
These freezing nights are a pain @Omori. Some things I cover and uncover every night, I wish it would stop.
@Bullfinch I have been growing roses in pots but only for 1 year so far and all in a sunny spot. They don't match your colour preference but Absolutely Fabulous, Charles Darwin and Ebb Tide have been happy and very rewarding. I'll have a lot more to recommend or discount after this season though as I now have 36 in pots (eek I just counted!).
@Omori maddening isnt it? Frosts nipping all the new growth on roses, hydrangea, clematis... I wish whatever row the sun and the frost have had they'd make friends and stop destroying each others work
@newbie77 Do you know what shes after in there? Is it the fertiliser youve been using perhaps or digging up bulbs? Other than cubs who might be playing I would guess adult foxes would be "after" something when digging in pots? I would actually try chicken wire collars round pot tops, cut strips and bend round the pot edges to stop her getting in them to dig - she wont waste all the effort getting through that if shes chasing after a smell that could be food. Once the plants are bigger etc and filling pots you can remove. You could also try distraction as well if you think its food related (Im thinking if theres fertiliser in there attracting her?), if you dont mind her being around you could put out a few dog biscuits or something as well for her so she dosent need to trash pots looking.
My 'Graham Thomas' is looking very exciting this year...loads of new growth so I'm expecting a bumper year for blooms. I've had it in the ground for a number of years now with not much happening, but since I started mollycoddling it in the last couple of years, it has really taken off. There are a number of branching canes out of shot as well.
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@edhelka and @JessicaS, thanks so much, that’s really helped me decide. Happily your descriptions of growth habit suits perfectly the two locations I was dithering about, so SdeSA will go in the spot where there is width but I was worried about it getting very tall and obscuring the roses on the fence behind. EfY will go in the more constrained site near Harlow Carr.
@Loppers my HC threw out the occasional new cane a distance from the mother plant in it’s early years, not quite as far away as yours though. I just cut off below ground level any canes that spoilt the look of the plant. Growth patterns can be awkward to start with and it does take a 2-3 years for a lot of roses to settle down, look and perform at their best. I have often nearly given up on some Austin roses, only for them to finally come good in year 3 so don’t give up!
Thank you @owd potter, my elderly iPad still takes fairly decent photos.
Three more nights of freezing temperatures here...it's causing a lot of damage to all of the new growth in the garden, hope things bounce back
@newbie77 Do you know what shes after in there? Is it the fertiliser youve been using perhaps or digging up bulbs? Other than cubs who might be playing I would guess adult foxes would be "after" something when digging in pots? I would actually try chicken wire collars round pot tops, cut strips and bend round the pot edges to stop her getting in them to dig - she wont waste all the effort getting through that if shes chasing after a smell that could be food. Once the plants are bigger etc and filling pots you can remove. You could also try distraction as well if you think its food related (Im thinking if theres fertiliser in there attracting her?), if you dont mind her being around you could put out a few dog biscuits or something as well for her so she dosent need to trash pots looking.