Well for the first time (I think), I shovel pruned a rose…not even worth giving it away. Poor Ballerina has never thrived for me so it’s sayonara I’m afraid. I feel a bit guilty as it takes an awful lot for me to bin a plant! It was always rather weak, bought for a fiver from B&M, probably where I went wrong 😬
Maid Marion finally starting to show some promise after a slow start, she has lovely blooms, just not many of them. My second flush of Munstead wood seems even lovelier than the first.
Interesting to hear all the purple skyliner praise. I’ve had it in and out of my basket so many times over the last few weeks and now I’m wishing I had gone for it! Is it strongly scented? Would it be a good choice for a pot on a north facing wall? 🤔
I had some new friends over today for a home ed get together with our kids and one of the mums was admiring my roses and asking about them 🥰
Hello everybody! This is my very first post here, but I am been reading all the “old” thread and 40 pages of this one (I’ll be reading the other 254 pages soon, but it takes time!). Please pardon me for my sometimes bad English, I am Italian and not English mothertongue. I live in Northern Italy, near Milan, and have a little garden and a patio, I have 9 cats plus the strays who come in my garden and have their little cathouses all over the place
In my garden and patio there are about 25 kind of roses and unfortunately there will be a lot more but not as many as I’d like to have, lol.
My first roses were Nostalgie from Tantau and Rose Gaujard, I planted them only because they were a gift, but I thought I’d would never be able to grow them properly because everybody told me roses are difficult plants. After a couple of year, in 2019, I saw that they were doing all by themself ad were beautiful and then was when I caught the “rose bug”. So I digged out all the lawn and started to create an informal garden, which right now is still so informal as to not even look like a thing with some sense or scope 😂 I also started to take away some of the big floor tiles in my patio in order to make more space for roses (the tiles are only resting on the soil but they are big and heavy, phew).
This year some of my roses never had a chance to bloom, some are even left with no leafs on them because I had sawflies worms and aphids invasions also, my garden is a mess right now, I still have to take out all the weeds and give it some sort of shape.
I think I’ll need a lot of advices from you experts, thanks in advance
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I had some new friends over today for a home ed get together with our kids and one of the mums was admiring my roses and asking about them 🥰
Please pardon me for my sometimes bad English, I am Italian and not English mothertongue.
I live in Northern Italy, near Milan, and have a little garden and a patio, I have 9 cats plus the strays who come in my garden and have their little cathouses all over the place
In my garden and patio there are about 25 kind of roses and unfortunately there will be a lot more but not as many as I’d like to have, lol.
I also started to take away some of the big floor tiles in my patio in order to make more space for roses (the tiles are only resting on the soil but they are big and heavy, phew).
This year some of my roses never had a chance to bloom, some are even left with no leafs on them because I had sawflies worms and aphids invasions
also, my garden is a mess right now, I still have to take out all the weeds and give it some sort of shape.
I think I’ll need a lot of advices from you experts, thanks in advance