@dabolem aww thank you! I love being out in it. Busy planning spring bulbs currently! It was a real mudbath of a lawn this time last year! (5 dogs, bad drainage!) ____ We visited an open garden yesturday as part of national garden scheme, moreton hall. Very impressed with it. Lots of lovely roses too, austins, old roses, china roses allsorts. spotted a few munstead wood in the lovely cottage planting and got to have a sniff, beautiful, im very pleased ive ordered it! Ah found pics! https://mortonhallgardens.co.uk/south-garden
Lovely roses all, special likes to Odyssey and Buttercup
I lost track on whether you had decided on your white shrub @Rickyjones24 , but to let you know, Stephanie d'Ursel starts off rather apricoty, I think it would look nice with blue but might not be the look you are going for.
Still not much rosy from me, hopefully in a week or so...
Bistort and bog scabious. A nice blue, normally gets mildew even though it is in my pond
Fountain, I might have changed my mind again, this time I'm keeping it and not moving it. The red splodge in the background is Park Direktor Riggers.
Ness getting big on the left in the globe thistle border which also features one of my favourite persicaria, Sponge's Red Seedling. Also a pink one, another self seed.
The Lythrum seem to have been flowering for weeks this year, here with Yvonne Rabier. The dark pink is a named one but I've forgotten which, sorry. Others are species.
@Rickyjones24 that’s a fabulous Monarda, I love them but I suspect it’s too dry for them here. Nice roses too 😃.
Favourite Rose of the Year, hmm, how to choose 🤔 I have lots of promising newbies, of which my favourites so far are Marie Pavie, Palais Biron and Mme. Antoine Mari. However, I think top spot must go to Soul, a shrub rose by Tantau in it’s second season. Vigorous, healthy, floriferous and fabulously fragrant. It’s just thinking about it’s third flush, so these are earlier photos:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Special Mention (even a Lifetime Achievement Award) goes to Julia Child. It’s too easy to take her for granted, but she is consistently good and always in bloom:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
How large will mini roses grow? A friend has just given me a few mini roses, which I plan to put into a large pot, but have no idea if they remain small, or will grow to fill any sized pot?
@myclayjungle, anything from 30-50cm wide and high, in theory, but each pot will contain a few young own-root cuttings (garden roses are grafted onto a vigorous root stock) that might be swamped by putting them in a large, deep pot at this stage. I think I would repot each individually into slightly larger pots, 10 litres maybe, then grow them on until next Spring and see how they do. Keep them somewhere sheltered over winter, under the eaves of a south-facing wall or a cold greenhouse. I’m not convinced these little gift roses are destined for a long life, they are forced into flower too soon under artificial conditions, but nothing ventured.. 😊
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I lost track on whether you had decided on your white shrub @Rickyjones24 , but to let you know, Stephanie d'Ursel starts off rather apricoty, I think it would look nice with blue but might not be the look you are going for.
Thanks for the heads up, that does change things a bit. Still haven't settled on a colour scheme, its a new border going infront of a Laurel hedge. I had thought of making it all white, but it will adjoin a small border with young lycida and comte de chambord, so now wondering if it would look a bit odd. Not long to bare root season and the DA October discount so need to decide quick!
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We visited an open garden yesturday as part of national garden scheme, moreton hall. Very impressed with it. Lots of lovely roses too, austins, old roses, china roses allsorts. spotted a few munstead wood in the lovely cottage planting and got to have a sniff, beautiful, im very pleased ive ordered it!
Ah found pics! https://mortonhallgardens.co.uk/south-garden
Lovely roses all, special likes to Odyssey and Buttercup
I lost track on whether you had decided on your white shrub @Rickyjones24 , but to let you know, Stephanie d'Ursel starts off rather apricoty, I think it would look nice with blue but might not be the look you are going for.
Still not much rosy from me, hopefully in a week or so...
Bistort and bog scabious. A nice blue, normally gets mildew even though it is in my pond
Fountain, I might have changed my mind again, this time I'm keeping it and not moving it. The red splodge in the background is Park Direktor Riggers.
Ness getting big on the left in the globe thistle border which also features one of my favourite persicaria, Sponge's Red Seedling. Also a pink one, another self seed.
The Lythrum seem to have been flowering for weeks this year, here with Yvonne Rabier. The dark pink is a named one but I've forgotten which, sorry. Others are species.
Favourite Rose of the Year, hmm, how to choose 🤔 I have lots of promising newbies, of which my favourites so far are Marie Pavie, Palais Biron and Mme. Antoine Mari. However, I think top spot must go to Soul, a shrub rose by Tantau in it’s second season. Vigorous, healthy, floriferous and fabulously fragrant. It’s just thinking about it’s third flush, so these are earlier photos: