I think I’m going to have to bite the proverbial bullet and get rid of The Wedgwood Rose. It balls like mad and ends up looking like old wadded up toilet tissue…
@pitter-patter thanks for the info on Peach Melba! the flowers look gorgeous, don't they? but that growth pattern is not suited for the place my friend had in mind either...Â
This thread has fallen off the front page so I feel beholden to share! Mostly pics from the garden .
Top left clockwise: Mountbatten, The Lark Ascending, Golden Beauty and Susan Williams-Ellis
So pleased Marlorens showed us hers, MidsummersNDEden, Royal William, Pink Martini and Queen ElizabethWollerton and Ghislaine have been going for agesThere is a rose under there! and Blush NoisetteI am going to be ruthless with a couple of roses too Omori, this week, but Double Delight looks very good
Royal Jubilee has filled in a lot - not sure if you remember my previous pics showing how it was quite patchy. Proper flush coming on it now. Not sure if this is second flush or flush 1.5!
These two look good together - Lady Emma Hamilton and Gabriel Oak.
Help please - suckers on TOP grafts of a Standard rose trunk!
Has anyone had this before and are they in the habit of growing back from the same place?
I have just removed these two suckers from my Ghislaine de Feligonde standard. Each growing from two different top grafts on the trunk. Tearing them off has left big gouges out of the graft - see example pic 2.
Modern wisdom is that you leave tree wounds uncovered/untreated to callous over by themselves, would this be the case here too? I’m now wondering if a sharp knife might have done a better job!
The GdeF scions don’t appear to be spliced into the main trunk but into little side branch nubs coming off it, is this usual? I’m not at all familiar with the grafting techniques for standards..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Colours.. New front garden that was lawn till March, Gertrude has been great. Now it's the other stuff's turn for a bit.
Chandos Beauty has smelt wonderful but the insects have really gone for it. Always flies on it. Is it the fault of the unopened lilies beside it?
Middle one in collage is Galway Bay, bought a few weeks ago from Trevor White. Very glossy and pretty and cheerful climber, and I see what TW mean by "camellia-like." Hope it climbs the obelisk OK.
Hi all, finally managed to change my username from sarahlynch1.
Loving the photos. Here's a few from me.
Alberic Barbier & Crocosmia Lucifer. I'd planned to pull Albie up in autumn... He's in completely the wrong spot and had done nothing in previous years. I kept him pruned very short this year and have been rewarded with continuous blooms that are still going strong. He may have a reprieve 😉 Joie de Vivre & clematis Purpurea Plena Elegans. I absolutely love this clematis. 1st rose from Blue Diamond for me. Pink flower carpet staked up.
I am searching for a shrub rose to put where now I have a Lagerstroemia (because I find out that, despite my specifications, the Lagerstroemia they sold me is not a dwarf type and I don’t have the space for a tree).
I think a rose like Reine de Violettes would be perfect for that spot, it seems she has very few thorns, is continually in flower, it grows about 1,20 m taller, and most of all she is shade tolerant.
Anyone here has this rose and can confirm those info and maybe tell me something more about her? Thanks
Hi folks, I haven't got round to putting the 2nd lot of rose fertiliser on my roses yet, mainly because they kept on flowering throughout June/early July. Now that their first flush is going over, is too late to do it now and also, should I wait until it has rained and is cooler?
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I think I’m going to have to bite the proverbial bullet and get rid of The Wedgwood Rose. It balls like mad and ends up looking like old wadded up toilet tissue…
And here is Double Delight:
thanks for the info on Peach Melba! the flowers look gorgeous, don't they? but that growth pattern is not suited for the place my friend had in mind either...Â
These two look good together - Lady Emma Hamilton and Gabriel Oak.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Has anyone had this before and are they in the habit of growing back from the same place?
I have just removed these two suckers from my Ghislaine de Feligonde standard. Each growing from two different top grafts on the trunk. Tearing them off has left big gouges out of the graft - see example pic 2.
Modern wisdom is that you leave tree wounds uncovered/untreated to callous over by themselves, would this be the case here too? I’m now wondering if a sharp knife might have done a better job!
The GdeF scions don’t appear to be spliced into the main trunk but into little side branch nubs coming off it, is this usual? I’m not at all familiar with the grafting techniques for standards..
New front garden that was lawn till March, Gertrude has been great. Now it's the other stuff's turn for a bit.
Chandos Beauty has smelt wonderful but the insects have really gone for it. Always flies on it. Is it the fault of the unopened lilies beside it?
Middle one in collage is Galway Bay, bought a few weeks ago from Trevor White. Very glossy and pretty and cheerful climber, and I see what TW mean by "camellia-like." Hope it climbs the obelisk OK.
Loving the photos. Here's a few from me.
Alberic Barbier & Crocosmia Lucifer. I'd planned to pull Albie up in autumn... He's in completely the wrong spot and had done nothing in previous years. I kept him pruned very short this year and have been rewarded with continuous blooms that are still going strong. He may have a reprieve 😉
Pink flower carpet staked up.
I am searching for a shrub rose to put where now I have a Lagerstroemia (because I find out that, despite my specifications, the Lagerstroemia they sold me is not a dwarf type and I don’t have the space for a tree).
I think a rose like Reine de Violettes would be perfect for that spot, it seems she has very few thorns, is continually in flower, it grows about 1,20 m taller, and most of all she is shade tolerant.
Anyone here has this rose and can confirm those info and maybe tell me something more about her? Thanks