Hello and welcome @FledglingCottageGardener and congratulations on your new garden, how exciting! Well it’s probably too late to do any major pruning and best to wait and see what you have got first anyway. If there are any obviously dead rose canes you are safe to prune those right out, or any seriously crossing/rubbing canes - choose the weakest/most badly placed canes and ideally just shorten those to free it up. Otherwise, this is what I would do… First, clear away any weeds around the base of the roses. Then, if you can get hold of some slow release organic pelleted rose feed (like the DA one) you could give each rose a handful of that, then give them a good, deep drink of water and mulch the surrounding soil with a little compost or bagged manure. Keep the rose food and manure from direct contact with the base of the canes, just spread both in a circle around the rose. That should set them up nicely for the blooming season 😊Â
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Welcome, FledglingCottageGardener, it will be good to see your mystery roses when they flower and I'm sure they will be identified by the very knowledgeable rose growers here.
Thank you @Victoria Sponge, you have confirmed what I suspected, and I'll look for a fragrant alternative.
@Athelas .. roses coming along nicely. I'd like to get a Pheno Geno but I am constantly put off by too many names applied to them, I end up not knowing what to call it.. glad yours are doing well for you..
@WhereAreMySecateurs .. yes that shouldn't be a problem at all. We often grow roses on allotments, so having herbs/veg around them is traditional cottage gardening of old.. I've had French climbing beans with roses on obelisks..
..welcome to those newer to roses.. can't wait to see what you've got..
Is this a 'normal' ladybird or one of those foreign imposters. I've never seen one before. It's strange to have red spots on black rather than the other way round.Â
..I bet those smell good @Fire .. it also shows how these clg HT's grow producing both long and short lateral growth, which can get unruly in windy areas like mine, especially..
Lovely, just lovely. We're there, rose season has started properly, with this weather too. Hopefully we'll see the photos daily creep up the country with break outs from other parts. Let's not mention the dry! But that feels like summer too.
Welcome Fledgling. we look forward immensely to unknown established rose pictures, not least so we can guess and see what Marlorena thinks.
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Thank you @Victoria Sponge, you have confirmed what I suspected, and I'll look for a fragrant alternative.
.. roses coming along nicely. I'd like to get a Pheno Geno but I am constantly put off by too many names applied to them, I end up not knowing what to call it.. glad yours are doing well for you..
@WhereAreMySecateurs
.. yes that shouldn't be a problem at all. We often grow roses on allotments, so having herbs/veg around them is traditional cottage gardening of old.. I've had French climbing beans with roses on obelisks..
..welcome to those newer to roses.. can't wait to see what you've got..
'Tall Story'...[shrub]
'Marie Nabonnand' [clg HT]