@Ilikeplants - not too late, best to do asap now. Best to prune even if it were a bit late.
Thank you @Mr. Vine Eye - my asap is tomorrow so I hope I won’t lose too many blooms. I’ve always been unsure about pruning too hard with roses as well as shrubs in general.
Lovely @edhelka and @newbie77 , from now on there really is loads that flowers. Nicer weather and longer days means we're almost there and certainly far enough into Spring to enjoy the garden again. I hate the cold so winter chores are done unhappily. I bought a lot of bulbs last autumn it turns out. I really like miniature daffs so tried these, Tête Bouclé and Golden Bells
These came today. I saw Black Knight at Painswick Roccoco Garden last summer and thought I had to have some! I love scabious. I'm also hoping that my giant scabious seeds will germinate this year.
Tête Bouclé is so beautiful. I will try it next autumn.
I also wanted to order dark colour scabious plants but didnt feel like paying delivery for just that. I didnt know seeds come for it. I have ordered seed now
A few years ago, you recommended I plant my Astronomia rose that had all it’s canes and growth leaning to one side, with the bare side facing East (or maybe it was south-east?). This was to encourage it to produce new basals on the bare side thanks to heliotropism. Worked a treat and it filled out into a rounded, well-branched shrub. Well I have another one like that, a ground cover rose from Delbard called Avalanche Abricot.
If I orient the bare side in a similar easterly direction, this time it would be facing a tall black fence, so into the shadow. Do I assume the rose will ignore the fence and put out new canes on the bare side anyway?
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I also wanted to order dark colour scabious plants but didnt feel like paying delivery for just that. I didnt know seeds come for it. I have ordered seed now
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.. I've not seen that view before, so lucky to have that backdrop.. that walled border is a treat with those Camellias...
A few years ago, you recommended I plant my Astronomia rose that had all it’s canes and growth leaning to one side, with the bare side facing East (or maybe it was south-east?). This was to encourage it to produce new basals on the bare side thanks to heliotropism. Worked a treat and it filled out into a rounded, well-branched shrub. Well I have another one like that, a ground cover rose from Delbard called Avalanche Abricot.
If I orient the bare side in a similar easterly direction, this time it would be facing a tall black fence, so into the shadow. Do I assume the rose will ignore the fence and put out new canes on the bare side anyway?