@zugenie ..yeah, it's a real winner that rose, I'm so pleased I got to like it..
I take a mountain of photos, sometimes over 200 a day, but I won't put them all on here.. Â
'Desdemona' is always my first Austin to flower.... looking nice at the moment..
..however 'The Country Parson' might beat it, it has buds .. I'm liking this rose much more than I did.. 'Nathalie Nypels' is a vigorous Polyantha.. long season.. 'Kew Gardens'...
Just catching up. @Nollie thanks for the analysis of your Iceberg climber - I think this is exactly what I've got too - long laterals, but NO new basals. It is really strange - all the reports/reviews etc comment on its vigour. Very annoying.
@Suesyn thanks for the info on Sweet Symphony - looks lovely. It must have done really well to cover that size wall already!
My local GC doesn't stock DA but does have Harkness (including Sweet Symphony, which I resisted until I have decided what to do) and also a big display of the pheno-geno `grown in Cotswolds` as @Marlorena reported on from Peter Beales. Some of them looked quite odd - quite long (2-3 inch) root stock stem/trunk with the graft on the top - almost like `mini standards`. I zoomed in on Marlorena's photos and I could see the same thing. I'm not I would know what to do with this - how would you plant it?
@Pianoplayer ..oh ok, I didn't notice that, but I've had another look at my photos, and yeah, I can see what you mean.. the pots are a bit too small and they've had to plant them so the shank is showing above the compost by a few inches..
No problem, just plant it deeper so the graft union is level or just below the soil, as you normally would I take it.. I don't like the shank looking at me, so that's what I would do... I'm tempted now to get one next time I go back there.. I do like the red foliage on some..
@Marlorena thanks for that advice. I am also tempted to get one for a pot - if I can get my head round the confusing `multiple names for the same thing`!
Not been out much today, busy with work related stuff at home. But popped to the plot to check on the tadpoles. Couldn't see them at first, but then realised most of them were resting low down in the pond. Pond not frozen. Marsh marigold flowering and some plum blossom.
@BlueBirder yes my open arms is in the ground. Its in a rubbish spot and still vigarous.Â
@Victoria Sponge thank you! Yes munstead is going out front, probably mme antoine maari too, im thinking of curving the bed round to the left as that edge of lawns always patchy anyway. The shrubs onthe right are horrible scruffy spiky things.. Theres birds nesting currently though so I will wait before I put choisya and roses etc in. My hyacinths are deep which seems to help stability. Ive got them all over the garden. Those creamy yellow ones should be pink though! Ive had the wrong order somewhere this year
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..yeah, it's a real winner that rose, I'm so pleased I got to like it..
I take a mountain of photos, sometimes over 200 a day, but I won't put them all on here.. Â
'Desdemona' is always my first Austin to flower.... looking nice at the moment..
..however 'The Country Parson' might beat it, it has buds .. I'm liking this rose much more than I did..
'Nathalie Nypels' is a vigorous Polyantha.. long season..
'Kew Gardens'...
@Suesyn thanks for the info on Sweet Symphony - looks lovely. It must have done really well to cover that size wall already!
My local GC doesn't stock DA but does have Harkness (including Sweet Symphony, which I resisted until I have decided what to do) and also a big display of the pheno-geno `grown in Cotswolds` as @Marlorena reported on from Peter Beales. Some of them looked quite odd - quite long (2-3 inch) root stock stem/trunk with the graft on the top - almost like `mini standards`. I zoomed in on Marlorena's photos and I could see the same thing. I'm not I would know what to do with this - how would you plant it?
..oh ok, I didn't notice that, but I've had another look at my photos, and yeah, I can see what you mean.. the pots are a bit too small and they've had to plant them so the shank is showing above the compost by a few inches..
No problem, just plant it deeper so the graft union is level or just below the soil, as you normally would I take it.. I don't like the shank looking at me, so that's what I would do... I'm tempted now to get one next time I go back there.. I do like the red foliage on some..
@Victoria Sponge thank you! Yes munstead is going out front, probably mme antoine maari too, im thinking of curving the bed round to the left as that edge of lawns always patchy anyway. The shrubs onthe right are horrible scruffy spiky things.. Theres birds nesting currently though so I will wait before I put choisya and roses etc in. My hyacinths are deep which seems to help stability. Ive got them all over the garden. Those creamy yellow ones should be pink though! Ive had the wrong order somewhere this year