@edhelka Lemongrass (if this is the one I’m thinking of - the one used in southeast Asian cooking) is absolutely delicious!! It’s perfect for any kind of meat dish and if shredded can be added to salads- it has the most beautiful mellow lemony aroma without the sharp zing of lemons (which I dislike). You could use it to flavour any kind of meat marinade - I smash the stalk and use it as a brush to oil my barbecued meat as they cook. I could go on and on..! I didn’t know they could be grown in our climate.. perhaps as an annual?
My thought on reading the rose thread is - how much public information is being shared for learning. It's like the Wikipedia of roses (and gardening, more widely). There are many similarities - a sort of citizen science. It's interesting to me (who is interested in the tech side) that this forum appears on Google search. Lots of platform content doesn't (like Instagram). A general Google rose search with show Mr Vine's and Nollie's and Marlorena's and everyone else's roses quite high in the search results.
So Nollie, every piece of rose info you are sharing is going into the public learning realm, including all the pics, and in my book, that has to be a good thing.
I just wish GW would invest a bit more in this valuable resource.
OK, one more, Noella Nabonnand, a climbing Tea (Paul Nabonnand, 1901) hugging the ground at the back of the border at the moment but supposedly a very vigorous climber. The blooms are very muddled and large - up to 15cm/6” across:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Desi_in_London .. thanks Desi... no problem at all, I'm delighted you noticed... I often miss any deluges of rain others might have here, I've had very little, just a few quick showers.. but that border is essentially a Gravel Garden, top soil then sand and hardcore rubble.. any amount of rain just drains straight through it, never anything on the surface... great for growing plants that demand sharpest of drainage... I have roses, but it's trial and error and they can take a long time to get established..
Kew Gardens, my first rose this year...well actually, technically, my first roses were in January and February before I pruned, but those were also on Kew Gardens so still counts!
New Lady Emma doing much better than last years did.
Rhapsody in Blue, lots of buds and many more forming on Ghislaine on the left. Blossom finished on the crabapple but looks like we’ll have a lot of crabapples this year.
Lavender Munstead, Sage coming into flower too on the left, Bathsheba behind.
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Sage was already flowering on this day last year - this came up as a memory on Facebook.
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@celcius_kkw I'd be interested to hear how you get one. I was tempted to buy some myself.
So nice to see people buds opening now, I think it's going to be a very exciting season.
@nollie....love all those colours, they look amazing.
@edhelka your rhododendron is gorgeous.
OK, one more, Noella Nabonnand, a climbing Tea (Paul Nabonnand, 1901) hugging the ground at the back of the border at the moment but supposedly a very vigorous climber. The blooms are very muddled and large - up to 15cm/6” across:
.. thanks Desi... no problem at all, I'm delighted you noticed... I often miss any deluges of rain others might have here, I've had very little, just a few quick showers.. but that border is essentially a Gravel Garden, top soil then sand and hardcore rubble.. any amount of rain just drains straight through it, never anything on the surface... great for growing plants that demand sharpest of drainage... I have roses, but it's trial and error and they can take a long time to get established..
California Poppies tell the story I think...