@newbie77 - I've got lots of slugs but very few snails. In fact I don't think I've seen any snails in the garden!
My pot corner is full of them, every pot has slugs and eggs underneath.
@Fire - Ghislaine is good and much more vigorous than some online info suggests. Mine is colossal now - because she really bushes out all over. I remember Marlorena saying in the past that you get growth breaking out all the way up. So she needs good pruning to keep her in check.
Lady of the Lake is definitley regrowing. I'm so pleased, as I genuinely started to think she might have canker or something and was about to dieback.
This happened to the apple tree two years ago. In fact you can still see the wonky twisted section on the trunk where it got stunted by aphid attack - it later started growing again.
The warm sheltered spot helped her start growing earlier but also encouraged vast aphid growth very early in the season and she just couldn't cope with it.
I'm now rubbing the aphids off every time I go in or out of the house. Give her a fighting chance this time.
My new Ghislaine looks like a startled, upside down mop. The mop head is leafing out nicely, but a way to go yet before it transforms into a large, dramatic weeping standard. I’m willing it on, anyone got a magic wand?
Two sneaky but not hugely impressive blooms, Stormy Weather hiding at the back of the rose fence and Cramoisi Supérieur, which is impossible to photograph as the camera turns it into a neon red blob:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie I like that your Stormy Weather takes her cue. Poor startled rose tree. What I see is a nub of pure potentiality. It will be wonderful! She's taking an in-breath.
I have set my GdF to grow through hedging of beech and crab apple, and possibly holly and pyracanthus - depending on how far she gets. It's all going to be messy and very possibly high, when when in full flower, and could look fantastic. If it works. I've not grown a rose through anything else before.
I look out some evergreen lonicera as part of my front hedge because it seemed a bit useless and put in some crab apple instead. This doesn't really work as it is deciduous. Hopefully the rose (though also losing leaves) will thicken the space up a bit and create more of a screen. If it doesn't, I will at least have a rosy hedge or more use than the non flowering beech and non fruiting holly. It might encourage birds to nest there.
Finally some rain, first in such a long long time that my puppy had forgotten what it was.
That's an impressive umbrella thing on your standard rose, Nollie. I'm more excited by my new standard rose than by almost anything else in the garden.
I planted Armada bareroot from Peter Beales recently- end of March. There were two canes. Now one of them is leafing up nicely, the other appears frozen in time. Is it too soon to be concerned?
As predicted, I am indeed likely to miss Peak Rose on my arches, but hopefully they will go for a while. Not each to deadhead seven ft up, but at least I know my dream is possible and the plan is working. That's something. The pic would look better in sun.
It's certainly the most massed effect I have achieved to date.
Four climbers (partial picture) - two Crimson Glory (right), Etoile dH (left) and Guinee (right). There are two newer Etoile on the left which won't reach the top of the arch until next year. Probably overkill. High rose riot was the general aim.
Fox and cubs. The blooms are dark red, not pink.
And, yes, I was trying to focus on the foxes. Lol. Four new pups under the shed next door.
Thanks. I think with more rain and/or hot sun they would have flowered earlier. They have been covered in static buds for weeks. Ena has these as parents (I think) and she usually flowers mid April by me, not in full sun.
It will be interesting to see how the three pictured repeat - this is their first proper year of flowering. I do hope it's not all then nothing.
Rain has just arrived.
I don't really need mobile tech. I'm glad I saw this degree of flowering. I worried that I might miss the whole thing.
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My pot corner is full of them, every pot has slugs and eggs underneath.
@Fire - Ghislaine is good and much more vigorous than some online info suggests. Mine is colossal now - because she really bushes out all over. I remember Marlorena saying in the past that you get growth breaking out all the way up. So she needs good pruning to keep her in check.
Lady of the Lake is definitley regrowing. I'm so pleased, as I genuinely started to think she might have canker or something and was about to dieback.
This happened to the apple tree two years ago. In fact you can still see the wonky twisted section on the trunk where it got stunted by aphid attack - it later started growing again.
The warm sheltered spot helped her start growing earlier but also encouraged vast aphid growth very early in the season and she just couldn't cope with it.
I'm now rubbing the aphids off every time I go in or out of the house. Give her a fighting chance this time.
Two sneaky but not hugely impressive blooms, Stormy Weather hiding at the back of the rose fence and Cramoisi Supérieur, which is impossible to photograph as the camera turns it into a neon red blob:
Maybe you can install a camera in the garden that you can view from mobile.
@WhereAreMySecateurs the support was from Louis Moulin, France, I got it direct, but French amaz*n also sells them, not sure if they deliver to UK:
https://www.louismoulin.com/Tuteurs/Parapluie-Colonnes/Parapluie-Tube-rond