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ROSES - Spring/Summer Season 2021

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  • JessicaSJessicaS Posts: 870
    @Omori thank you! Hubby took it for me, need to get him to take some more of it with all the flowers out for summer :smiley:
  • JessicaSJessicaS Posts: 870
    edited August 2021
    @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!)
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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
  • 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?
    Coastal Suffolk/Essex Border- Clay soil
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    @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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