@Marlorena makes perfect sense to treat the rose like a bare root from mid October as suggested, thanks.
All beds are open to soil below but the ones on the right are quite deep so I’m not sure any plants would get all the way to the bottom of those. The beds are sort of behaving like retaining walls as we cut into the slope to flatten out a sitting area. The garden sloped towards the house AND right to left and this seemed the best way of coping with that. Because of this the beds are largely clay soil dug out from the patio with the top foot being new topsoil.
View from the house back door to show depths of the beds:
@MuseLea .. oh that's nice and deep... plant what you like in those I'd have thought.. all ready to go... I bet you can't wait to get things growing there... we shall look forward to following your progress with updates..
@MuseLea its looking fabulous so far! I have a new build too (year 7 now), ive planted some rampant climbers and trees for privacy in mine and the gravel, fencing etc was done march this year. My neighbours both sides apparently love the roses climbing over which is nice! They help prune it for me too. Montana clematis has eaten the side of the other shed, maybe not that one! ...few pics from earlier in the year,
@dabolem, Astronomia does exceptionally well for me, another thrifty, undemanding rose, like Julia Child 😊 It does flower repeatedly and the dark green, healthy foliage set off the blooms well. I cut it back about a month ago (so lost blooms for a while) as it does have a tendency to sprawl, but it has put on lots of new growth and buds since. I like to keep it at about 4ft/120cm wide and tall, but it would like to be bigger. It gets morning sun/dappled shade only.
Here are some photos on May 23rd:
Today, recovering from the haircut. My dog likes to pee on it, but it doesn’t seem to mind too much!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena thank you very much for your hints, I am taking note of everything. i am starting only now to think about a design for my very difficult garden
It is difficult because it is not at ground floor but you must do a flight of stairs to enter it, it is of a strange triangular shape and sloping on every side from the front porch on. I cannot correct the sloping in any way. There also already were 4 medium tall palms.
So I really don’t know how to start to make something at least decent with it right now, sigh.
As of now I just took away the lawn, put a Photinia and Camelias hedge for privacy and planted some things in the middle. Instead of the grass I put Phyla Nodiflora, bees friendly and low maintenance. But I don’t know where to go from here, lol.
When I see your beautiful gardens here I’d really like to be able to do something so good, but I know I am not.
@Jessica your garden is just faboulous!
White does really brighten a shady corner @dabolem. Souvenir de St Annes is another white rose that has ended up in shade most of the time, because the rose behind it (Soul) has very thick foliage and blocks out the light. It’s a new baby rose though, so I don’t know how it will cope with these conditions in the long-term.
Souvenir de St Annes - the leaf-cutter bees seem to like it!
A few David Austin blooms..
Lady Emma Hamilton:
Golden Celebration:
Climber Graham Thomas:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
If I had to choose a favourite rose in my garden this year, it would be very hard to choose.But there is a strong chance it would be Eglantine, lovely scent, colour, growth and so far healthy, no idea why DA discontinued this , not sure what they think replaced it.sorry images wrong way round
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View from the house back door to show depths of the beds:
.. oh that's nice and deep... plant what you like in those I'd have thought.. all ready to go... I bet you can't wait to get things growing there... we shall look forward to following your progress with updates..
...few pics from earlier in the year,
Here are some photos on May 23rd:
Today, recovering from the haircut. My dog likes to pee on it, but it doesn’t seem to mind too much!
A few David Austin blooms..
Lady Emma Hamilton:
Golden Celebration:
Climber Graham Thomas: