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  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Fire said:
    Marlorena said:


    ''Rosa glauca is perhaps another good rose for those of us who don’t really like roses!''

    ..and this from a gardener at Hidcote of all places..
    ... I read that just as a plant suggestion for some people who don't like roses. Maybe the 'us' here are the readers.
    I understand it that way too but I still wouldn't call it that. It almost implies there are two types of people - 1) People who want huge blooms, hundred petals, and are willing to care for a high-maintenance plant and 2) People, who would like a big shrub, once-blooming with very simple single blooms... I don't think so.
    It's possible that roses are becoming less popular and maybe are seen as too high maintenance for modern gardens, but the divide certainly isn't like that.
    A rose for someone, who doesn't like roses, could be a DA rose (if their only experience is hybrid teas). Or it could be an easy-care modern groundcover (if they see roses as too difficult). Or it could be a tea rose, to completely step away from usual expectations. But glauca?
    And are there so many people who don't like roses? How many of them would plant something like glauca?
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    If the Hidcote gardener had wrote instead ''...for those of you who don't really like roses'' I would have understood because of course glauca is known for its foliage more than the flowers, and hardly looks like a rose at all..
    ... but saying ''for those of us...'' implies the writer does not care much for them either, which I found extraordinary from within a garden renowned for them..  however, we can all do jobs that we don't much care for, so I suppose you can work in a garden with roses, without liking them too much..
    East Anglia, England
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ''for those of us...''

    I use that structure sometimes in writing to be inclusive of all readers. Maybe it was just a sloppy article.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    newbie77 said:

    But it is true, most of my friends think roses are high maintenance plants.

    @newbie77 - for sure. Most of my friends and neighbours think roses are too difficult to even try. They feel very inimidated - by pruning and the risk of 'doing everything wrong' - like with fruit trees. I would say that it's quite hard to get roses to look stunning.

    @Marlorena That Armada is astonishing, the arrangement with the clem.
  • cooldoccooldoc Posts: 853
    Nice shot of midsummers ND.. as if its glowing...
    A rose lover from West midlands
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