I assume that shrubby salvias includes bog standard Sage? I’ve got tons of that in the garden. I’m still feeling quite achey from yesterday; I spent the morning at my plot putting in posts to support some tayberry plants. Some of the holes I dug were right down into rocky, brick-filled soil and it’s been a while since I’ve done that sort of work.
Body could tell!
But was lovely being there, I saw several bumblebees and butterflies. The spring bulbs are up around the wildlife pond and it was warm and sunny.
Today I did a bit more spring snipping and tidying in the garden. I love seeing things starting to pop back up. I’ve seen that my echinacea are coming back again this year. Pleased as I’ve heard they can be short lived. Think I’ve lost helenium “short and sassy” though...
Best thing that I spotted today is that the crabapple is waking up and there are hints of green on the buds of my apple tree too.
@cooldoc, hope you enjoy a relaxing weekend at home after a busy week at work.
Super Trouper is my favourite orange rose. It repeats well, tolerates shade and lovely foliage in contrast to perfect orange rose. I hope you will like it too.
I too have shrubby salvias with roses. Can't say anything about blackspots control but a pink one was so aggressive, it was taking over roses on either side. I am going to move it soon. They do flower all summer and slugs and snails are not interested in shrubby salvias.
''use horsetail manure (mix 1 liter of horsetail manure + 1 half jar of black soap yogurt in 9 liters of water). Spray on the foliage. Repeat every 15 days''
Horsetail is a fungicide popular over here, I suspect the ‘manure’ is horsetail steeped in water to make a tea, black soap is potassium soap, another fungicide, bought in bars and so presumably mixed to a yoghurty sludge to add to the horsetail tea. The soap also acting as a surfactant. Potassium soap spray on it’s own did nothing for me, but I repeated it only sporadically - it’s just FAR too much faff and time spraying all the leaves including the undersides every other week plus reapplying every time it rains. I have decided that life is too too short to spray roses, organic or otherwise.
The only thing I do is perform basic hygiene tasks and mulch with manure. However I did give the soil a pre-season yellow sulphur soil drench but I’m not expecting miracles.
@zugenie that’s about the size of my new Alister Stella Gray, also planted against my new black fence. Paler roses do contrast really well with black, your MD will look great.
Great free gift @cooldoc, I bought a super trouper last year, compact, upright habit, good foliage and disease free in it’s first year. I think it gets too much sun where it is though, the blooms turned a really unattractive coral shade in summer. Others have said it’s shade tolerant and had a better orange colour.
I watched a series on Old Garden Roses this afternoon, one video per type, by Jason of Fraser Valley Roses. Ok an American with some amusing pronunciations but he’s very personable and was really interesting about their history and development. I recommend for rainy days 😆
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I watched a series on Old Garden Roses this afternoon, one video per type, by Jason of Fraser Valley Roses. Ok an American with some amusing pronunciations but he’s very personable and was really interesting about their history and development. I recommend for rainy days 😆
Oh and Sarah Raven said she planted Nachtvlinder with roses, that’s a hugely aggressively spreading and self-layering shrubby salvia with world domination tendencies - suffocates anything in sight - don’t do it!
The salvia thing is not new, the US seems to be into it and I don’t think it was confined to the shrubbies @Mr. Vine Eye. I haven’t come across any definitive allelopathic research on the subject though, something I originally developed an interest in for veg growing.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Oh and Sarah Raven said she planted Nachtvlinder with roses, that’s a hugely aggressively spreading and self-layering shrubby salvia with world domination tendencies - suffocates anything in sight - don’t do it!
oo, interesting. I have some newly planted in araised bed, so hopefully that will contain it.
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Body could tell!
But was lovely being there, I saw several bumblebees and butterflies. The spring bulbs are up around the wildlife pond and it was warm and sunny.
Today I did a bit more spring snipping and tidying in the garden. I love seeing things starting to pop back up. I’ve seen that my echinacea are coming back again this year. Pleased as I’ve heard they can be short lived. Think I’ve lost helenium “short and sassy” though...
Super Trouper is my favourite orange rose. It repeats well, tolerates shade and lovely foliage in contrast to perfect orange rose. I hope you will like it too.
''use horsetail manure (mix 1 liter of horsetail manure + 1 half jar of black soap yogurt in 9 liters of water). Spray on the foliage. Repeat every 15 days''
Horsetail is a fungicide popular over here, I suspect the ‘manure’ is horsetail steeped in water to make a tea, black soap is potassium soap, another fungicide, bought in bars and so presumably mixed to a yoghurty sludge to add to the horsetail tea. The soap also acting as a surfactant. Potassium soap spray on it’s own did nothing for me, but I repeated it only sporadically - it’s just FAR too much faff and time spraying all the leaves including the undersides every other week plus reapplying every time it rains. I have decided that life is too too short to spray roses, organic or otherwise.
The only thing I do is perform basic hygiene tasks and mulch with manure. However I did give the soil a pre-season yellow sulphur soil drench but I’m not expecting miracles.
@zugenie that’s about the size of my new Alister Stella Gray, also planted against my new black fence. Paler roses do contrast really well with black, your MD will look great.
Great free gift @cooldoc, I bought a super trouper last year, compact, upright habit, good foliage and disease free in it’s first year. I think it gets too much sun where it is though, the blooms turned a really unattractive coral shade in summer. Others have said it’s shade tolerant and had a better orange colour.
I watched a series on Old Garden Roses this afternoon, one video per type, by Jason of Fraser Valley Roses. Ok an American with some amusing pronunciations but he’s very personable and was really interesting about their history and development. I recommend for rainy days 😆
The salvia thing is not new, the US seems to be into it and I don’t think it was confined to the shrubbies @Mr. Vine Eye. I haven’t come across any definitive allelopathic research on the subject though, something I originally developed an interest in for veg growing.
oo, interesting. I have some newly planted in araised bed, so hopefully that will contain it.