@Mr. Vine Eye How much sun do all these tied to the shed/ fence get? sorry if you have mentioned before.. just wondering if most of these can tolerate some shade..
some welcome drizzle here..on and off for the past 2 hours.. enough to dampen the topsoil I hope...
@cooldoc - The photos from yesterday? The Royal Jubilee rose growing on the shed is West facing, but gets some shade from the North facing fence in early spring/autumn - that said I’d still say it was a sunny spot, through summer it gets sun all afternoon.
Other roses in that bed get much less because they’re closer to the fence.
The Generous Gardener is on a North facing fence, and the garden faces East-North East. So it gets full shade from the fence for most of the year, save for midsummer and 10 minutes to an hour in the late afternoon in early summer/late summer.
So it tolerates quite a lot of shade. Still flowers well enough to be worth having there. It repeated ok last year and flowered at a later time when the others had finished which was nice.
But I think the shade causes the leaves to yellow much earlier that in the other roses. They don’t drop off, just go blotchy. I looked at nutrient deficiency pictures but none of them matched, so I suspect it’s due to the low light. See how it does this year!
September leaves at the bottom of photo (they started going like that earlier though)
@Athelas - I’ve got that same crocus - Just one at the moment - flowering in my garden. I thought your photo was from my garden at first!
This was my first year pruning the clematis and taking them down from the rose. I was unsure how much of a faff it might be. Imagining having to trim off each “tie” it had made on the rose.
But nope, because the leaves and axils go brown and dry out, they just snap straight off with a gentle pull. So easy! One yank and had what looked like a giant bird nest in my hands.
Always nice to find a job much easier than you imagined!
@cooldoc - also, on the subject of shade, I'm not sure if this is because of growing in shade or just a natural feature of this rose - But GG has long stems with quite large gaps between lateral buds. Therefore I don't get as many lateral shoots off it.
I suspect that this is because it wants to reach up for the sun and so it's concentrating on throwing up long canes to find the light rather than trying to grow bushy.
@Mr. Vine Eye Thanks for info on shady parts of the garden.. Gardens at both the places I stayed so far are north/ north west facing I guess... Front of the house gets most of the sunlight.. so I am unable to plan, where to place my pots as I have moved in during the autumn months.. hope I get better light from late spring onwards..
Regarding GG- Possibly isn't it, could compare if someone else here grows GG..
I am missing out on my spring bulbs this time.. did not plant any in this new place.. my old place had crocus, tulips, hyacinths and lot more perennials that I planted.. now someone else can enjoy all that.. I will visit some local garden centres later to get instant impact...
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The Generous Gardener is on a North facing fence, and the garden faces East-North East. So it gets full shade from the fence for most of the year, save for midsummer and 10 minutes to an hour in the late afternoon in early summer/late summer.
So it tolerates quite a lot of shade. Still flowers well enough to be worth having there. It repeated ok last year and flowered at a later time when the others had finished which was nice.
But I think the shade causes the leaves to yellow much earlier that in the other roses. They don’t drop off, just go blotchy. I looked at nutrient deficiency pictures but none of them matched, so I suspect it’s due to the low light. See how it does this year!
September leaves at the bottom of photo (they started going like that earlier though)
This was my first year pruning the clematis and taking them down from the rose.
I was unsure how much of a faff it might be. Imagining having to trim off each “tie” it had made on the rose.
Always nice to find a job much easier than you imagined!
Rather dusty out there, leaves blowing all over the place..
I suspect that this is because it wants to reach up for the sun and so it's concentrating on throwing up long canes to find the light rather than trying to grow bushy.
Is this a problem?, should I be pruning to below the spotted areas?