We had a nice day out along the north Norfolk coast... around Blakeney Point, Morston and Wells next the Sea... ... all very nice.. extremely busy, crowds everywhere... no photos unfortunately.. 'Pink Martini'.. 'Golden Beauty'... 'Dr. O'Donel Browne'.. sweet scent today.. 'Donatella'... superb fragrance, like peaches and apricots.. ..another pic of 'Nathalie Nypels'... this is a healthy floriferous rose.. one of the best I have right now.. Lavender 'Gros Bleu'.. Geranium 'Russell Prichard'.. rose 'Mme Antoine Mari' in the background which has grown huge..
@Victoria Sponge are those poppies at the front? Gorgeous. I love the idea of "harvest colours"
Just earthy, country colours that make me think of pumpkins, baskets of apples and corn dolls Autumn colours I suppose but a bit early for that sort of thing.
Yes annual poppies, had millions of them this year. I banked up a lot of the top soil so as not to lose much when I had the drive paved and I suppose the disturbance made them all germinate.
Hi all not posted in an age. I have been waiting to move house for nearly 6 months, so the garden and roses have been put on hold. I was looking for people s opinion on the best method to move 30 odd fairly well established shrub/tea roses. The others are too big to move.
It's hardly ideal moving roses this time a year I know. My thoughts are to cut roses back quite hard and place into nylon , breathable sacks for a short period. Pots are going to be out of the question due to the volume of roses and other pernnials that I'm moving.
..that's a difficult one. How short is the short period going to be? a few hours? or much longer..?
The problem is that when you dig up roses, they do not come up with a root ball as such, yes there will be earth around the roots, clods etc. but essentially you will be bare rooting these roses. Even if they were planted originally from containers, with a root ball, they can quickly lose that even after just a few weeks. ... Roots as well as top growth can be pruned back to accommodate but unless they are kept hydrated in water, they will soon dry up and die.
I would have to find plastic buckets or some other containers, to half fill with water, so each rose I dig up goes straight into the bucket - I might manage more than one per bucket with root pruning - until I can replant in the new site. This will likely save most of them.. a few might not make it, just depends.. If it's just for a few hours and you can quickly heel and water them all in, in the new garden on arrival, you might get away with using those sacks..
If they were mine, as I'm not sentimental, I would leave them be, and buy new ones when I get around to it, for my new garden... or if the new owner didn't mind me popping back to dig them up in the autumn, but that's not usually the done thing..
@Jason-3, I moved two roses from my previous house to new one around end of July. They were 3 year old so not that old really. I dug deep, tried to get as much root as I could and immediately put them in large pots. Well watered. Kept in shade. Both survived but one really suffered and had almost died at one point of time. I felt it wasn't worth the effort and worries of loosing them.
I've just dug one up actually as I planned to do today... this is 'Scarborough Fair' which I moved 3 years ago from where it was totally happy, to a place where it sulked ever since.. so my intention was to pot it up and think on it..
As you can see, virtually bare rooted... straight into a bucket, but what I noticed, and is typical of Austins where the graft is buried, is that they grow their own roots... I found 3 canes with own roots, so I decided to saw off the rootstock and pot up the 3 canes with roots.. so now I have these 3 roses.. If one survives this treatment I'll be happy... too bad if they don't.. no idea why I bothered, as for what £30? I could get a new one tomorrow..
...nice roses from the DA garden... I've had most of those.. I think my Nathalie Nypels is better looking than theirs ... my Sally Holmes is struggling a bit though and should be trebled the size it is right now.. too dry here in summer..
@Perki ..love your Paul's Scarlet on the fence... best way to grow it I think..
@Victoria Sponge ..Rambling Rosie is quite a striking colour... my neighbour has one and I admire it.
..love your orange and lemon border... Blue For You would be totally out of place as you say.. do you have Westerland?.. I recently got one..
I also like the look of 'Well Being'.. Dame Judi Dench's blooms don't last long, rather flimsy petalled, anyone else have it agree? mine is gone now...... I see they grow it as a climber on DA's wall.. looks rather good in that position..
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'Gabriel Oak'..
'Nathalie Nypels'..
'Frilly Cuff'..
'Golden Memories'..
'Kew Gardens'..
'Tottering...'
... all very nice.. extremely busy, crowds everywhere... no photos unfortunately..
'Pink Martini'..
'Golden Beauty'...
'Dr. O'Donel Browne'.. sweet scent today..
'Donatella'... superb fragrance, like peaches and apricots..
..another pic of 'Nathalie Nypels'... this is a healthy floriferous rose.. one of the best I have right now..
Lavender 'Gros Bleu'.. Geranium 'Russell Prichard'.. rose 'Mme Antoine Mari' in the background which has grown huge..
Yes annual poppies, had millions of them this year. I banked up a lot of the top soil so as not to lose much when I had the drive paved and I suppose the disturbance made them all germinate.
It's hardly ideal moving roses this time a year I know. My thoughts are to cut roses back quite hard and place into nylon , breathable sacks for a short period. Pots are going to be out of the question due to the volume of roses and other pernnials that I'm moving.
Hi Jason..
..that's a difficult one. How short is the short period going to be? a few hours? or much longer..?
The problem is that when you dig up roses, they do not come up with a root ball as such, yes there will be earth around the roots, clods etc. but essentially you will be bare rooting these roses. Even if they were planted originally from containers, with a root ball, they can quickly lose that even after just a few weeks.
... Roots as well as top growth can be pruned back to accommodate but unless they are kept hydrated in water, they will soon dry up and die.
I would have to find plastic buckets or some other containers, to half fill with water, so each rose I dig up goes straight into the bucket - I might manage more than one per bucket with root pruning - until I can replant in the new site. This will likely save most of them.. a few might not make it, just depends..
If it's just for a few hours and you can quickly heel and water them all in, in the new garden on arrival, you might get away with using those sacks..
If they were mine, as I'm not sentimental, I would leave them be, and buy new ones when I get around to it, for my new garden... or if the new owner didn't mind me popping back to dig them up in the autumn, but that's not usually the done thing..
As you can see, virtually bare rooted... straight into a bucket, but what I noticed, and is typical of Austins where the graft is buried, is that they grow their own roots... I found 3 canes with own roots, so I decided to saw off the rootstock and pot up the 3 canes with roots.. so now I have these 3 roses.. If one survives this treatment I'll be happy... too bad if they don't.. no idea why I bothered, as for what £30? I could get a new one tomorrow..
..own roots, on closer inspection..
@Perki
..love your Paul's Scarlet on the fence... best way to grow it I think..
..Rambling Rosie is quite a striking colour... my neighbour has one and I admire it.
..love your orange and lemon border... Blue For You would be totally out of place as you say.. do you have Westerland?.. I recently got one..
I also like the look of 'Well Being'..
Dame Judi Dench's blooms don't last long, rather flimsy petalled, anyone else have it agree? mine is gone now...... I see they grow it as a climber on DA's wall.. looks rather good in that position..