I am growing AG up a mature Mulberry tree @dabolem. It is not in an ideal position as the tree does have a low canopy, but it sheds leaves early in Autumn and leafs up relatively late in Spring. It needs to get up another 2m ish into a lit gap before I'll be happy it is getting enough light, I can't imagine a palm would be so shading. But I am surprised it has coped with that and being underwater last winter and is looking so healthy.
My Marie Pavie gets sun midday to dusk and is still covered in buds. I hope they open.
Thanks @Tack, I am curious to see the pics of the Mulberry with AG climbing up on it next spring.
My Marie Pavie totally stopped growing and budding since the end of June. Today I noticed ot has put out some new small canes and some buds, that’s why I am thinking that in my zone it might be better in half shade instead of full sun. Well it’s young, I’ll wait and see how it goes next year.
Well with all this talk and appreciation of The Prince, I thought I had better get on and order it’s partner for the other side of my doorway sooner rather than later, so thanks to @Imprevu for the dewilde.nl tip. I think it’s bare root, but not really sure as the site was a bit confusing. They do deliver to the UK, so if anyone wants to try sneaking one in their basket, you never know, it might just slip through the DA (not Brexit) diktat on importing their out of patent roses!
The canes are still reasonably flexible @Tack, but definitely stronger with age. I think yours is fabulous as a shrub, which mine resolutely refuses to be. You must have the perfect climate there for potted roses, but don’t underplay your own skills, they count for a lot too.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
It's impressive to have this kind of field going on in October (if it's from October). Poppies and cornflowers? Late seeding?
Must be I think. I've had late cornflowers from a July sowing before, and (especially if the summer is cool enough for them to get started which I suppose it would be at HC) lots of other hardy annuals are happy to flower in autumn.
I think the red ones are scarlet flax (Linum grandiflorum). I visited Harlow Carr a month or so ago and they were out then. If I remember rightly the pale blue ones are blue flax and there were a few darker blue cornflowers still doing their thing. We might be behind up North, but not so far behind that poppies flower in autumn
PS loving everyone's roses. They don't grow well here so I content myself with admiring from afar.
PPS the pic is there in the preview but disappears when I post. Oh well.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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The canes are still reasonably flexible @Tack, but definitely stronger with age. I think yours is fabulous as a shrub, which mine resolutely refuses to be. You must have the perfect climate there for potted roses, but don’t underplay your own skills, they count for a lot too.
https://www.dewilde.nl/en/roses
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https://www.dewilde.nl/en/roses/de-wilde/r-the-prince-kw/3829
I just typed dewilde nl in my search engine and it came up right away.