I use Envii Seafeed Xtra (or Maxicrop from the garden centre when I run out) every couple of weeks, but I’m stopping now as it’s the end of September — and also all my bottles are empty. I’ll look up Flower Power for next year @Omori, it sounds good.
Only got them this year so still on the small side.
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Olivia Rose Austin
@MuseLea that is a lovely garden and arch, looking forward to seeing it planted up. I don’t think Olivia Rose Austin will be too much pink…
Thanks @Eustace. I haven’t decided if I want to prune it to the same height as the rest of the plant, or maybe (first time ever if I do) to try pegging it. Happy to get advice from everyone on it!
How easy would it be to take the bottom out of a terracotta pot? I've got two nice matching frost free ones (40cm by 30cm high ) either side of a Lutyens bench which were presents from my children. The current box balls have to come out due to disease and I'd quite like to grow roses in the pots instead (maybe Marlorena's Pink Martini) but I don't think the pots are tall enough? I know one of the box bushes has rooted into the ground through the hole but I'm not sure a rose would do that.
Very lovely roses @cooldoc@Athelas@Eustace@dabolem@Nollie , as expected and hoped for for this season a huge variety, so interesting. Lovely ongoing project @MuseLea, I think in this case I wouldn't go for 2 roses the same on the arch, not least because one side is so much shorter. I often wonder which roses I would make the effort to take @cooldoc, it would make it so much easier if any move was when the roses could be moved bare root
I have many reds at the moment, Diamond Eyes, Proper Job, Jingle Bells and Grafin DArgh, I was just looking for some other pics but seem to have lost all my September photos. Will need tech support from a family member. I may be some time
@Lizzie27 - I managed to make a hole in the bottom of a terracotta pot which had no hole in. I’d imagine taking he bottom off , or rather enlarging the drainage hole, could be done in a similar way - just being careful when you get to the edges.
Sit the pot in water for a while so the bottom is saturated. Place the pot upside down on a flat surface with something like an old sheet folded up or old towel underneath to cushion it. Then use a chisel (I used a screwdriver but this was a small pot and I was just doing a hole!) and go around the edge of the drainage hole at an angle, tapping the end with a hammer - terracotta is very soft when it’s wet! Just go easy at first until you’ve gauged how much oomph it needs. Keep going around enlarging the hole until you’ve got maybe an inch or two width ring of terracotta left on the bottom.
An alternative method which I've found highly effective for remodelling plant pots is to reverse a large estate car into them...
Although it's hard to be precise with that one!!
Feels like a long time since I've posted anything! I do have roses just very little time to notice them at the moment. Did spot this Lady of the Lake bloom this morning. She's not go big enough to tie to anything yet but I better start measuring up for where to place the vine eyes so it's all ready for next year.
Guinee, I think. Nice to see it out and about. I have five climbers on the large arch and it's hard to know which is which now that they are entwining. It sounds like a lot but they are also travelling down fences on both sides of the garden.
I passed a red rose bush in a front garden on the next street and it really stopped my breath. It was covered with such good roses. It was a 'proper' bush - almost a hedge - with a gorgeous scent. I don't know which it was but it looked modern,and in cracking health. I will have to go and knock up the neighbour, and take a notebook.
It's good to know, somehow, that my slight obsession with red roses isn't an intellectual preoccupation - it is a real, 'stand frozen in the street' type of love.
I saw a single, self-seeded snap dragon in my garden today, not scrunched by slugs and it made me gasp - this perfect, little, unexpected jolt of sunshine among the leaves.
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Only got them this year so still on the small side.
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Any suggestions please?
Sit the pot in water for a while so the bottom is saturated. Place the pot upside down on a flat surface with something like an old sheet folded up or old towel underneath to cushion it. Then use a chisel (I used a screwdriver but this was a small pot and I was just doing a hole!) and go around the edge of the drainage hole at an angle, tapping the end with a hammer - terracotta is very soft when it’s wet! Just go easy at first until you’ve gauged how much oomph it needs. Keep going around enlarging the hole until you’ve got maybe an inch or two width ring of terracotta left on the bottom.
Although it's hard to be precise with that one!!
Feels like a long time since I've posted anything! I do have roses just very little time to notice them at the moment. Did spot this Lady of the Lake bloom this morning. She's not go big enough to tie to anything yet but I better start measuring up for where to place the vine eyes so it's all ready for next year.
Beautiful photo and rose @Fire.