Given in and just ordered GdF bare root from Ashridge Nursery. No discount but I thought it was a reasonable price anyway.
Also looked at their potted roses (with 50% discount) but with postage I thought didn't make it economical. Will look at local GC's instead for my 2nd rose, I'm thinking a creamy white one for a 6ft obelisk - any recommendations please?
I found a Julia Child locally and resisted temptation...for 24 hours only. I went back the next day because I couldn't stop thinking about it. I blame all of you! Entirely too gorgeous - and I didn't even know I liked yellow roses!
Wonderful roses everyone, I’m back at home tomorrow and can’t wait to see what mine are up to, bet OH is too busy playing golf to have remembered to watered the pots 🙄
It took me some years to like yellow roses but now I find myself inexplicably drawn to them and their number is expanding @SYinUSA. Julia Child is entirely to blame since she was my first!
Glad to see your garden coming back to life @owd potter, Falstaff is magnificent. I suppose that’s a bad case of rust you have there on GdF, especially if are there powdery orange spots underneath the leaves too. Picking off and disposing of the affected leaves and a really deep water should hopefully sort it..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Mine had that on the lower leaves by late summer last year. I didn’t do anything with it, they just fell naturally and didn’t seem to cause any harm. Wasn’t sure if it was rust or just ageing leaves - which become more susceptible to such things anyway. Not noticed this year.
Agree, Lizzie, re Ashridge postage- I was eyeing up Ivor's Rose thanks to @Nollie but there's no real point in buying what works out to be a full-price potted rose in September, is there?
When one "trains a shrub rose as a climber" would you then prune it annual as you would a shrub rose (down by a third) or as a climber (taking out only woody canes after a few years)? Thanks
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Also looked at their potted roses (with 50% discount) but with postage I thought didn't
make it economical. Will look at local GC's instead for my 2nd rose, I'm thinking a creamy white one for a 6ft obelisk - any recommendations please?
Sweet honey, bought it after seeing @pitter-patter's
Enchantress
Macmillan nurse
Jacqueline du Pre
Summer song
Red finesse
Neon pink Mirabilis Jalapa starting to bloom, quite late this year, in spite of the warm/hot summer.
Glad to see your garden coming back to life @owd potter, Falstaff is magnificent. I suppose that’s a bad case of rust you have there on GdF, especially if are there powdery orange spots underneath the leaves too. Picking off and disposing of the affected leaves and a really deep water should hopefully sort it..
Ive been ill and bedridden for a few days so no recent pics but here’s an old one, just for the sake of posting something!
Agree, Lizzie, re Ashridge postage- I was eyeing up Ivor's Rose thanks to @Nollie but there's no real point in buying what works out to be a full-price potted rose in September, is there?