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ROSES: Spring/Summer 2022 🌹

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    The deep red Dicentra comes into flower much earlier than the pink or white varieties @Marlorena , and has much darker foliage. I like it the best.
  • andrewnewtonandrewnewton Posts: 155
    Thanks to @Nollie and @Mr. Vine Eye for their earlier colour scheme advice in this thread. I've now cleared the border out and probably got carried away but a large mahonia, spotted laurel and numerous snowberry runners have been removed.
    I'm left with an L shaped border which is approx 20ft X 3ft widening to 7ft on one side. The other section is 18ft X 6ft. I've left the rake to give an idea of scale in the photos.
    After the ramble my questions  please are : 
    1) How many DA shrub roses should I consider planting, given I'm looking at mixing them with perennials.
    2) My original plan was to have a pink / purple and blue colour scheme but now I've effectively gained an extra border should I think about replicating each border or perhaps move more to a different scheme as it turns the corner. 
    Any input gratefully received


  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @purplerallim
    ..I saw one in the garden centre the other day, I nearly picked it up.. I wish I had done actually..

    @Woodgreen
    ..I like those logs. Do you prepare them or can you buy them like that in garden centres?  Are they specific for something?   just wondered, thanks..
    East Anglia, England
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    edited May 2022
    Oh well, I have suffered my first loss of the season.. a bare root of 'Prince Jardinier' which I had potted up and was doing really well earlier with vigorous growth, suddenly suffered dieback.  
    ..I've just emptied the pot out and the rootstock has died on me, cutting into it the roots I find they are brown and dead..
    No idea what happened there.. it's very rare I lose one in this way..

    ...this was it 6 weeks ago... 

    East Anglia, England
  • ImprevuImprevu Posts: 173
    Here the first colour is finally showing on my struggling pink cloud….:(
    And no clue what is wrong with one of my guirlande … the laterals on a main is dying for some reason, other mains are also becoming yellow…
     The plant is wilting in the sun this week.

    I think I will need to execute a soil test of something. Have given it a seaweed and iron feed and it is still deteriorating:(
    Any other advice … 

  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Woodgreen
    ..oh gosh, I'm sorry about the loss of your trees.. I would need a good few strong men to deal with all that, I wouldn't know where to start..  and they are all cut so neatly.  I just think a few cut logs look so homely.  Obviously you've got rather a lot of them in unfortunate circumstances.

    It's strange but I don't remember that particular storm, maybe it wasn't an issue so much here, it was the later one, forget its name, that tried to demolish the lot of us..

    I've just watched on youtube, videos of that tornado the other day ripping through a town called Andover, in Kansas.  Unbelievable destruction.  I can't help but think something like that will brew up here before too long..

    Meanwhile, I hope your roses do well this summer to bring some cheer.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    @Imprevu
    .. that's a shame about your Guirlande rose..  I wonder if that cane has snapped somewhere?.. otherwise I wouldn't know what's gone wrong there..  
    East Anglia, England
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    @Marlorena Yes, it was Storm Eunice I believe that affected the south.

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