Lovely hellebores @JessicaS. It's on my to-do list next weekend to cut off the leaves but I noticed none of the leaves are looking splodgy as yet so seems a bit churlish.
I didn't know there was a storm rolling in this weekend. I had a long walk planned today and there are trees and fences down everywhere. I saw two trees fallen literally just 2 metres from people's cars, but they still hadn't moved them🤔 Suppose the danger had passed.
I was a little worried what I might find when I got home as Storm Arwen sent both my 400litre water tanks over. Fortunately my ugly ratcheting system seems to work😬 Untangled some lengths of gardening fleece from Alba Max and also Lark Ascending/my new Julia Child (a combined tangle) don't know who that belongs to. Wrapped it around my railings in case they want to collect.
Was slightly concerned my new roots might have gone flying as I left them in a bucket outside but they were just dislodged slightly.
I’ve had a big thorny cane come crashing down on my head as well @Mr. Vine Eye Bloody painful, literally!! Had to extract big thorns from my scalp 😫 The things we put up with! Hope you’re ok.
Surprisingly it has been very windy here ever since yesterday evening, kept us awake for some of the night and still very gusty now. No damage though as far as I can see. Glad I left my two new TW roses in the porch overnight. Having though it over, I think I'll just bite the bullet and buy two more taller pots for them. I've got some Garden vouchers I can use.
Hope everyone is okay and their gardens haven't suffered.
@Fire Sorry, I've not grown it, but I would expect it to be a low thorn rose with continuous blooming performance, like most of these are, as they trace back to a thornless china rose called 'Bengale Pompon'.. which produced the early Poly-Pom roses, a name originally given to what we now call Polyantha.. all these have an interesting history worth exploring I think..
...but at least it's named after a worthy and heroic person. I wish certain other breeders would take note of that..
@Omori - poor you! Mine wasn't that bad, it just caught me. Did make me consider the virtues of goggles for windy weather pruning - with all the thorned octopus canes flying about!
Here are my efforts so far on the climbers
The Generous Gardener - defoliated, tied some bits down. There are buds pushing out in places where I'll be able to use them to fill in gaps and then remove some of the centre crossing branches.
Royal Jubilee - quite a nice shape on it now. Managed to get an awkward bit from behind the wires and reposition it.
Lady of Shalott - did lots of bending down in arches and tying to itself or the wire.
It was acting as a self closing mechanism on the shed door so it's nice to have it neatened up a bit - that was getting a tad irritating! 😁
..nice pruning Mr Vine Eye... do hope everyone is recovering from scratches too, we have to be so careful out there... I had to make sure my Tetanus was up to date recently..
@Marlorena, I wish mine was. My GP told me that I don't need any Tetanus boosters any more as I'm protected for life. Apparently they don't give routine Tetanus jabs. I'm not sure she's right 100% so am especially careful to immediately wash and disinfect particularly rose scratches because I do use horse manure to mulch.
@Lizzie27 .. this is what I know of it.. a few months ago I got bitten by a dog, so I had to go to local outpatients.. Saw the nurse there and she told me that at my age I should have had 5 Tetanus jabs which then covers you for the rest of life - my final jab was in the 1990's.. but she only had digital records of the last 3 jabs.. and told me to query with my GP to check paper records going back to childhood for the other 2 jabs.. I know I had one as young child [got bitten then as well], and I'm sure my mother would have got me a 2nd jab before leaving school but I can't recall this exactly.. so I've not asked for the paper records to be checked as I'm assuming I got that 2nd jab..
I think a jab lasts 10 years before a booster is needed, if you've not had the 5..
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I didn't know there was a storm rolling in this weekend. I had a long walk planned today and there are trees and fences down everywhere. I saw two trees fallen literally just 2 metres from people's cars, but they still hadn't moved them🤔 Suppose the danger had passed.
I was a little worried what I might find when I got home as Storm Arwen sent both my 400litre water tanks over. Fortunately my ugly ratcheting system seems to work😬 Untangled some lengths of gardening fleece from Alba Max and also Lark Ascending/my new Julia Child (a combined tangle) don't know who that belongs to. Wrapped it around my railings in case they want to collect.
Was slightly concerned my new roots might have gone flying as I left them in a bucket outside but they were just dislodged slightly.
Hope everyone else is still in one piece!😊
Hope everyone is okay and their gardens haven't suffered.
Sorry, I've not grown it, but I would expect it to be a low thorn rose with continuous blooming performance, like most of these are, as they trace back to a thornless china rose called 'Bengale Pompon'.. which produced the early Poly-Pom roses, a name originally given to what we now call Polyantha.. all these have an interesting history worth exploring I think..
...but at least it's named after a worthy and heroic person. I wish certain other breeders would take note of that..
Best get more info from HMF on this one..
I'm not sure she's right 100% so am especially careful to immediately wash and disinfect particularly rose scratches because I do use horse manure to mulch.
thanks very much
.. this is what I know of it.. a few months ago I got bitten by a dog, so I had to go to local outpatients.. Saw the nurse there and she told me that at my age I should have had 5 Tetanus jabs which then covers you for the rest of life - my final jab was in the 1990's.. but she only had digital records of the last 3 jabs.. and told me to query with my GP to check paper records going back to childhood for the other 2 jabs.. I know I had one as young child [got bitten then as well], and I'm sure my mother would have got me a 2nd jab before leaving school but I can't recall this exactly.. so I've not asked for the paper records to be checked as I'm assuming I got that 2nd jab..
I think a jab lasts 10 years before a booster is needed, if you've not had the 5..