Everything a rose catalogue should be.. from Peter Beales... glossy, beautifully photographed, enticing, full of detail plus all the prices including Standards..
The Peter Beales catalogue looks amazing. I picked up one of his books in the charity shop recently. Really lovely and beautifully photographed. I quite like reading the older books, to see what roses were fashionable 40 years ago.
I am watching my new standard weeping rose growing in great excitement, and also fretting in advance about pruning the thing next year!
No rose blooms here yet (nor on my clematis or azalea). Arthur Bell and Boule de Neige are slugging it out to be first.
Pffft just discovered that the powdery mildew has spread from pink cloud towards Already 2  other roses …my 2  guirlande rose are affected now also… pruned the diseased  foliages away  and sprayed with potassium bicabornate ( in the hope I can turn the tide still for those 2)
Purchased today salvia ost Friesland and sea lavender so some planting to do this weekend…
My Etoile D'H has started blooming! High on the shed. Too dark to take pics now.
Salvia Bumble has started too. It's the benefit of risking a pruning in Oct and hoping for a mild winter. If I prune after the frosts (April/May) I don't get flowers until early July. The bees will be happy and it's good to have a red jolt so early in the year.
Very tired, today was mostly spent working on this at the allotment. It's going to be a raised bed for strawberries with a hinged top. Will attach netting when it's finished.
Quick query please, I'm down at my daughter's in Devon sorting out her garden. I couldn't prune her roses earlier because of the storms, then covid etc. I'm planning to prune all the tallish ones with 2-3ft bare stems at the bottom, down to 2ft. We don't know the varieties. She's not that bothered if there are any flowers this year. Will they re-grow at all? What do you think?
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I bought a Ruby Wedding Astrantia today at a small nursery next to the gardens we visited. This is my third attempt at getting a red astrantia.
First one, Gill Richardson, died.Â
So here’s hoping for lucky number 3!
I am watching my new standard weeping rose growing in great excitement, and also fretting in advance about pruning the thing next year!
No rose blooms here yet (nor on my clematis or azalea). Arthur Bell and Boule de Neige are slugging it out to be first.
Purchased today salvia ost Friesland and sea lavender so some planting to do this weekend…
Rose seedlings
Colour on Royal Jubilee
Will they re-grow at all? What do you think?