Wow, @Tack I want one of your unknown whites! Was it a TCL purchase by any chance? I wonder if itās possible to narrow it down by the vendorās list..
Oh good pointĀ @Marlorena, I wasnāt really thinkingĀ potted roses, although the couple I got from Italy recently were pruned back veey short. Iāve now got nightmares of someone being presented with a huge potted DA rose in full flower and them chopping the lot down in front of the giverās horrified eyes!
@cooldoc I only very recently came across that passage from PB (post GC chop) itās not something Iāve heard of before. I was curious to know if anyone did chop back new [bare root!] roses like that, but in theory yes, shrubs too.
After the night of the sharp secateurs, Golden Celebration is about half the height of previous years. It put out one octopus cane in May but none since. Itās currently about 75x75cm and a nice rounded shape, no support needed. Itās resting right now, but if it has a sudden growth spurt and goes all octopussy again Iāll let you know!
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I have a feeling it will go allĀ octopussy. How old is yours? Mine 3 year old keeps growing back to its nature. Hopefully it will get better eventually once mature or fed up with our pruning.
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Your eryngium is wonderful @murasaki and well combined with the yellow.Ā I think that yellow plant or something similar I tried to grow from seed over winter but I ended up with a pot full of other things.Ā
Thank you @WhereAreMySecateurs, much appreciated.Ā I ended up ordering it from Beales container sale (and also Raymond Carver, which I have wanted for a while to grow as a small climber). I'm going to try and grow PB on the shady side of the arch where I have the yearling Rosengarten Zweibucken on the sunny side.Ā I had a early flowering clematis but it appears to have rotted.
Agree with Nollie and Marlorena @Tack, I love the unknown white, it's wonderful.
@Tack echoing others, your no-label white floribunda is fabulous. I never pruned the bareroots before planting. I'm now thinking, may be, if I had done that I wouldn't have too many floppy branches on some.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
I'm liking the white rose appreciation, thank you. I have no other white that does not go pink or brown in heat and/or rain but there is no scent to speak of.
I wish I could sleuth my way to an identity but it was bought as Artemis from an online company (Garden Plants Online) who sell only one of a colour for each type of roseĀ eg a pink climber, a pink shrub, a pink ground cover etc.Ā The first one I was sent was pink when it bloomed a while later. The courier who brought the replacement surprised me on the doorstep that he was collecting the wrong one. I hastily tipped the pink rose into a carrier bag, they were not getting my pot! I do know the rose came from an Italian nursery but I know not which one. The rose was merely an additional item for me to make use of the delivery expense in buying a specific ivy-leafed hydrangea which luckily appears to be correct.I am very much enjoying the climber discussion, toying with growing one on a living willow arch that is baldish on the west facing side. It is 3+metres tall and 2.5 m wide. I would ideally like a distinct colour and repeat flowering, some scent would be good.
I don't think I have posted this one before as my phone can't handle the colour, Fellowship with a glimpse of a Goldbusch limb behind.Ā Fellowship is a tolerant little plant so far (year two) is is more orange less pink than shown here.Ā In fact I'm not sure it has any pink at all. Mean & bare spiky stems though.
First flower on Grace new from bare root this year.Ā I bought this after seeing one posted on here, maybe @Eustace or @Fran IOM I might have shown this one before ( ) my much revered Gallica officinalisĀ Ā Family portrait of Leah Tutu, Midnight Blue (purple blob), Fellowship, a sprinkling of Goldbusch and at the rear Yvonne Rabier and Global Beauty.Ā The flowers have faded on GB but it is holding on to them in spite of the heat and winds.
I caught a pleasant rosy waft today and tracked it down to this one, Portland rose
Thank you, Omori.Ā They thrived in my parent's garden in Wimbledon, so I hope they will be ok up here in Shetland.Ā The Rosa rugosa that I inherited thrive here and I have a lovely, thick hedge about 8 feet high on one side of my garden, right in the way of the salt laden winds that we get here!
Hi all I have another question about Peace - when is the best time to buy and plant roses?Ā Also, is it better to buy them bare rooted or in a pot?Ā I've not had a lot of experience with roses (or many other plants, to be honest!).Ā Do you have any recommendations for a highly scented rose I can plant in a raised bed (about 10 by 8 feet) where I also grow herbs and the inherited white lupins?Ā Not worried about colour, but would prefer a standard (is that what you call a free standing rose???) that would grow by the sea?
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Oh good pointĀ @Marlorena, I wasnāt really thinkingĀ potted roses, although the couple I got from Italy recently were pruned back veey short. Iāve now got nightmares of someone being presented with a huge potted DA rose in full flower and them chopping the lot down in front of the giverās horrified eyes!
@cooldoc I only very recently came across that passage from PB (post GC chop) itās not something Iāve heard of before. I was curious to know if anyone did chop back new [bare root!] roses like that, but in theory yes, shrubs too.
After the night of the sharp secateurs, Golden Celebration is about half the height of previous years. It put out one octopus cane in May but none since. Itās currently about 75x75cm and a nice rounded shape, no support needed. Itās resting right now, but if it has a sudden growth spurt and goes all octopussy again Iāll let you know!
Best spam I've seen in a long while, startlingly beautiful Thomas A Becket @Omori
Your eryngium is wonderful @murasaki and well combined with the yellow.Ā I think that yellow plant or something similar I tried to grow from seed over winter but I ended up with a pot full of other things.Ā
Thank you @WhereAreMySecateurs, much appreciated.Ā I ended up ordering it from Beales container sale (and also Raymond Carver, which I have wanted for a while to grow as a small climber). I'm going to try and grow PB on the shady side of the arch where I have the yearling Rosengarten Zweibucken on the sunny side.Ā I had a early flowering clematis but it appears to have rotted.
Agree with Nollie and Marlorena @Tack, I love the unknown white, it's wonderful.
Although honestly, I would probably use more than one variety.
I never pruned the bareroots before planting. I'm now thinking, may be, if I had done that I wouldn't have too many floppy branches on some.
First flower on Grace new from bare root this year.Ā I bought this after seeing one posted on here, maybe @Eustace or @Fran IOM
I might have shown this one before (
Family portrait of Leah Tutu, Midnight Blue (purple blob), Fellowship, a sprinkling of Goldbusch and at the rear Yvonne Rabier and Global Beauty.Ā The flowers have faded on GB but it is holding on to them in spite of the heat and winds.
I caught a pleasant rosy waft today and tracked it down to this one, Portland rose
I have another question about Peace - when is the best time to buy and plant roses?Ā Also, is it better to buy them bare rooted or in a pot?Ā I've not had a lot of experience with roses (or many other plants, to be honest!).Ā Do you have any recommendations for a highly scented rose I can plant in a raised bed (about 10 by 8 feet) where I also grow herbs and the inherited white lupins?Ā Not worried about colour, but would prefer a standard (is that what you call a free standing rose???) that would grow by the sea?
ThanksĀ