I’ve got some cuttings in a jar of water in the kitchen. I took them after snapping a cane off Rhapsody in Blue. It wasn’t an attempt to tie it in to a wire or anything...I meant to snap it...totally deliberate and not poor decision making from someone who slept badly.
Even so, I might avoid making any other major gardening decisions this morning.
Such a contrast @Nollie between the best and worst. Rose breeders will perhaps be looking to produce more climate-proof varieties, and Astronomia looks to have some good genes in that respect.
Astronomia is pretty bombproof @Woodgreen, the thick, glossy foliage can take whatever extremes of heat, cold, drought or humidity my weather throws at it. Such a healthy, good doer and continuous bloomer. No fragrance though, if it had that it really would be the perfect rose!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I can't tell you then number of times I have done this. The clems I grow always have lots of brown, dead-looking bits that really aren't. Lots of coffee and proper attention needed for that job, but I always forget and get cavalier.
Hi @Nollie thanks for reassurance - I will just be patient and see what they do.
Incidentally, re Iceberg cl - since I paid DA a premium for it, I have emailed them for advice about the lack of climbing canes. I will let you know what they say.
I'm seeking some advice from the rose lovers here please. I'm going to create a mixed rose border which will accommodate 3/4 David Austin roses, along with perennials; this time I'm not going with my usual that looks nice and buying plants piecemeal but aiming to have a more designed look. However I can't decide whether to go pink roses with purple and blue tone perennial - I was thinking Gertrude Jekyll, Sceptre'd Isle, Olivia Rose Austin and perhaps Boscabel. Alternatively I keep toying with apricot tones such as Port Sunlight, Roald Dahl and possibly Lady Emma Hamilton. Again with purple/ blue perennials. I don't want to stray into orange or yellows though. The bed is west facing with well drained soil and I do have other roses growing in the garden plus there's the contents of two garden compost bins to be dug in after I've dug the existing plants out. Apologies for the ramble but would appreciate any thoughts and input plus if anyone has any images or links to pictures of what I'm looking at that would be great
I suspect they will say climbing roses take three seasons to get established @Pianoplayer, but yes be interesting to hear what they say..
Difficult decision @andrewnewton! I have both of those schemes but with some white too. The one thing I would say is that apricot tones can veer toward orange or yellow depending on the weather. They can also have touches of pink. So of you want to keep your colour scheme really strict, I have found the pinks to be more colour stable. Purple/lavender/blue perennials go with anything, it’s my link colour through different areas of the garden and those tones of perennials go so well with pink roses. A pink rose scheme also gives you the flexibility to include roses from blush to deep pink to purple/burgundy roses.Â
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@andrewnewton - either would be nice. Does it make a difference when you look at the area surrounding where your new bed is going to be, in terms of which colour will work best?
Ultimately you’ll just have to pick one won’t you!
Plenty of choice of blue/purple perennials: Alliums, asters (Monch is great), there are lots of purple/blue salvias - I grow Mainacht, hardy Geraniums.
Aster Monch
My pink purple bed - Scarborough fair there with Salvia Mainacht, Astrantia Roma behind
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Even so, I might avoid making any other major gardening decisions this morning.
My best and worst foliage..
Lady Emma Hamilton - impressively bad all over, all this year’s growth:
Astronomia - spotless and shrugged off frost, a tough rose:
Tucked into a protected wall, The Prince lost some outer shoots to frost, but managed to hang onto most of it’s foliage and this bud:
Rose breeders will perhaps be looking to produce more climate-proof varieties, and Astronomia looks to have some good genes in that respect.
Incidentally, re Iceberg cl - since I paid DA a premium for it, I have emailed them for advice about the lack of climbing canes. I will let you know what they say.
Alternatively I keep toying with apricot tones such as Port Sunlight, Roald Dahl and possibly Lady Emma Hamilton. Again with purple/ blue perennials. I don't want to stray into orange or yellows though.Â
The bed is west facing with well drained soil and I do have other roses growing in the garden plus there's the contents of two garden compost bins to be dug in after I've dug the existing plants out.
Apologies for the ramble but would appreciate any thoughts and input plus if anyone has any images or links to pictures of what I'm looking at that would be great
Difficult decision @andrewnewton! I have both of those schemes but with some white too. The one thing I would say is that apricot tones can veer toward orange or yellow depending on the weather. They can also have touches of pink. So of you want to keep your colour scheme really strict, I have found the pinks to be more colour stable. Purple/lavender/blue perennials go with anything, it’s my link colour through different areas of the garden and those tones of perennials go so well with pink roses. A pink rose scheme also gives you the flexibility to include roses from blush to deep pink to purple/burgundy roses.Â
Ultimately you’ll just have to pick one won’t you!
Aster Monch