@Mr. Vine Eye, I havent tried in this garden, but in my previous garden when i sowed over summer and planted out in autumn, the basic pink foxgloves, they were not eaten up. They flowered and set out seedlings too for next year. For me mostly biennials like sweet williams, wallflowers were slug proof. I cant say for snail proof though. The last garden was mostly slug infested, this one is less slug and more snails.Â
I dont have dense aphid population like that. There were tiny caterpillars on some roses, which whatever i could find, i have removed and disposed. So far, fingers crossed, not many have reappeared.
New blooms on The Prince have very droopy necks!  I scratched in some Vitax Azalea food in the pot (same NPK as DA rose feed) as I couldn’t get any Miracle Grow inorganic slow release food earlier on. It has put on a lot of green growth quickly, maybe it’s taken up the nitrogen but not the other nutrients like phosphorus? It will probably sort itself out in the end, but does anyone know a quick fix?
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Hello I have a very special (to me) climbing rose of which I would love to know more about. The rose is a cutting from a plant which would now be over 150 years old. The cutting was taken approximately 30 years ago and has survived several house moves. It was grown by my great granfer and grew on the front wall of his thatched cottage in south Devon. The colour is a very dark red on opening but lightens over time. The flower in the photo measures just over 4" (10cm) but the plant does produce larger flowers. This is the first flower this season. If anyone is able to provide any information/help/advice I would be very grateful. 😊
This is Strawberry Hill just planted about 3 weeks ago as a potted rose- took a while to get going but there’s good progress now. This is Olivia Rose Austin. Planted maybe a week later, much more outward growth than upward…
This is a Mothers Day Rose given to me by my Mother about 4 years ago. It’s flying…
This is A Trumpeter Rose that also came from Mum at the same time. It’s had two brilliant years on the trot but is badly struggling this year with a lot of rust. I didn’t get to top dress it this year as my Garden time has been impacted by our 4 month old son!
…and finally this is my Gertrude Jekyll, newly planted. It had started to grow very quickly in its delivery pot before I planted it out on Monday…
I’m no expert rose grower but I’m looking forward to learning!Â
... what a lovely old rose to keep going in the family like that, for so long.. back in those days, and I presume we're talking 1860's-1870's? red/crimson roses like these were made popular by a man called William Paul.. from his Cheshunt, and later Waltham Cross, Herts. nursery. He bred and introduced lots of them. They made their way into gardens across England. Most are long since lost to commerce. I suspect your rose might have been one of those, but I can only speculate. They would be classed at the time, and today, as Hybrid Perpetuals, tending to climb with quite lanky growth habits.Â
Is it scented?  You're very lucky to have it and such a nice wall to grow it on too..
@Nollie ..high potassium feed can improve weak necks in roses. Too late for that one, but future blooms might improve with a liquid feed.. tomato fertilizer, something like that.. but The Prince does appear to have a heavy bloom form doesn't it..?
Talking of Mr. Paul, @Marlorena, here are a couple of new buds on Toyah, Whilst this single budded stem is typical of most of the buds, a few stems have multiple buds forming like this one, is this what you were referring as a cluster? Does this help to confirm or dispel possible ID? suffering from early BS again, as last year, seems this may be typical tooÂ
@Mr. Vine Eye, I havent tried in this garden, but in my previous garden when i sowed over summer and planted out in autumn, the basic pink foxgloves, they were not eaten up. They flowered and set out seedlings too for next year. For me mostly biennials like sweet williams, wallflowers were slug proof.
Ah. I put in loads of bareroot sweet Williams and wallflowers last autumn. Half of both were eaten. All the foxglove seedlings.
@owd potter ..the foliage reminds me of it, but Paul's Scarlet tends to flower in clusters, whilst some are individual blooms, most are in groups of 3, 5 or 7 even.. and they are very red..  it was also only summer flowering for me, late May/June time.. I don't remember about the black spot but I expect that would be typical.
..we'll wait and see how it performs for you this year and take another look then.. I had it trained both sides of a path, and on wooden trellis. This is part of one of those plants showing the clusters but some single blooms... photo circa 1988..
@Mr. Vine Eye, I havent tried in this garden, but in my previous garden when i sowed over summer and planted out in autumn, the basic pink foxgloves, they were not eaten up. They flowered and set out seedlings too for next year. For me mostly biennials like sweet williams, wallflowers were slug proof.
Ah. I put in loads of bareroot sweet Williams and wallflowers last autumn. Half of both were eaten. All the foxglove seedlings.
I feel your pain. Every spring I go through so many catalogs and websites and then do some oo-aah this is so pretty, that is so lovely and then sigh - slugs/snails wont leave them.
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I dont have dense aphid population like that. There were tiny caterpillars on some roses, which whatever i could find, i have removed and disposed. So far, fingers crossed, not many have reappeared.
I have a very special (to me) climbing rose of which I would love to know more about.
The rose is a cutting from a plant which would now be over 150 years old. The cutting was taken approximately 30 years ago and has survived several house moves. It was grown by my great granfer and grew on the front wall of his thatched cottage in south Devon.
The colour is a very dark red on opening but lightens over time. The flower in the photo measures just over 4" (10cm) but the plant does produce larger flowers. This is the first flower this season.
If anyone is able to provide any information/help/advice I would be very grateful.
😊
This is Strawberry Hill just planted about 3 weeks ago as a potted rose- took a while to get going but there’s good progress now.
This is Olivia Rose Austin. Planted maybe a week later, much more outward growth than upward…
This is a Mothers Day Rose given to me by my Mother about 4 years ago. It’s flying…
This is A Trumpeter Rose that also came from Mum at the same time. It’s had two brilliant years on the trot but is badly struggling this year with a lot of rust. I didn’t get to top dress it this year as my Garden time has been impacted by our 4 month old son!
... what a lovely old rose to keep going in the family like that, for so long.. back in those days, and I presume we're talking 1860's-1870's? red/crimson roses like these were made popular by a man called William Paul.. from his Cheshunt, and later Waltham Cross, Herts. nursery. He bred and introduced lots of them. They made their way into gardens across England. Most are long since lost to commerce. I suspect your rose might have been one of those, but I can only speculate. They would be classed at the time, and today, as Hybrid Perpetuals, tending to climb with quite lanky growth habits.Â
Is it scented?  You're very lucky to have it and such a nice wall to grow it on too..
.. all lovely roses, doing well,.. some better than mine.. you don't need to be any kind of expert to grow nice roses..
@Mr. Vine Eye
.. impressive collection indeed. Puts mine to shame..
@Nollie
..high potassium feed can improve weak necks in roses. Too late for that one, but future blooms might improve with a liquid feed.. tomato fertilizer, something like that.. but The Prince does appear to have a heavy bloom form doesn't it..?
Whilst this single budded stem is typical of most of the buds,
a few stems have multiple buds forming like this one, is this what you were referring as a cluster?
Does this help to confirm or dispel possible ID?Â
suffering from early BS again, as last year, seems this may be typical tooÂ
Ah. I put in loads of bareroot sweet Williams and wallflowers last autumn. Half of both were eaten. All the foxglove seedlings.
..the foliage reminds me of it, but Paul's Scarlet tends to flower in clusters, whilst some are individual blooms, most are in groups of 3, 5 or 7 even.. and they are very red..  it was also only summer flowering for me, late May/June time.. I don't remember about the black spot but I expect that would be typical.
..we'll wait and see how it performs for you this year and take another look then..
I had it trained both sides of a path, and on wooden trellis. This is part of one of those plants showing the clusters but some single blooms... photo circa 1988..