@Tack That looks so full.. in DA's site pic it appears as if it blooms from lower down.. will be interesting to see yours in full bloom...
noticed that you have a fairly large lawn.. and yet most roses in pots.. any reason why you prefer pots?
I almost made the trip to Tesco to buy a pesticide when I noticed a sparrow making multiple trips to pots at the back garden..
@cooldoc Fingers crossed it will look good, I was happy last year. I have various problems on the perimeters; very mature trees most of the way round, , as well as huge established hedges on the neighbours' sides infested with ivy, bamboo, mile a minute, bindweed, bramble. There are existing deep shrub borders, I've shoehorned 30 roses in but they all need a lot of water and are planted into very rooty ground. So pots seem easy and I have a large patio. I could carve new beds in the centre of the lawn, the lawn is big and I think small beds would look ridiculous so then I think that would be more work overall. The lawn also currently needs watering to stay green (we don't) so a flower bed would need more. I hate weeding. Gosh I've really talked myself out of a new bed again, so that was useful!
As if by magic, I've got home to my first rose bloom. It's been sunny all day so climbing Arthur Bell has taken advantage. I love the red edges as they open.
I didn't manage to sort out all the new growth so I've just let some grow skyward.
Good old Arthur Bell. I just bought and installed a hose and my first trip with it was right down the garden to my north-facing back fence to give my Arthur a drink. He was my first lockdown planting and I'm very fond of him. It'll be his third year with us.
I should get Vanessa Bell so he could have a wife....
Love the obelisks. I have three, but the two new ones are wobbling a bit and I need to bury them further.
I’ve seen that lovely photo @ciaranmcgrenera, I’ve admired Tacks SH, looks a great rose. Keep us posted on how it does. I grow La Rose de Molinard up the middle of an obelisk, another with stiffish canes, not strictly a climber, but it does. Never really got to grips with the whole winding thing, probably because I’ve never bought the right flexible rose to do it. Got the espaliering along a fence off pat tho!
I decided to strip Lady of the Lake right back. Looks like back in February again now. I've removed all the bad looking leaves and snipped off any shoots that had ended in a nub and stopped growing.Â
Gives room for the new growth that has started and makes it easier for me to get at the aphids too. But my, she looks bare!
Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be sharing photos of her looking much better and leafed out againÂ
Meanwhile, here’s a goldfinch.Â
We’ve got rain at the moment, quite heavy. All the birds have come with it! Had about 15 starlings pecking about on the lawn, sparrows in the roses and a male and female pair of these.
Malvern Hills more opened up. No other roses to report yet. But, counting all of my roses, there must be several hundred individual flower buds waiting to open in the garden this year!
@Tack that looks great, I’m glad to hear that it fits the bill for what I want to do with it. Your garden situation sounds similar to mine except that the hedge that’s ivy and bindweed infested is mine! I have to plead a certain amount of innocence though as I inherited it in that state! I’m taking it down though, and fencing that side instead. Once I’ve managed to prep the soil over the winter I plan on a rambler or two up that fence!
@Marlorena your obelisks look class! Having studied the DA photo it never occurred to me to plant off centre.
@zugenie that‘a exactly where I’ve put Strawberry Hill- by the front porch.
Enjoying the obelisk discussion! My lady of Shalott brought last year is very happily climbing mine and ive been pegging it in to shape, very excited to see it bloom. Ive got wild rover and bridge of sighs on the other obelisk with waltz time adjacent... and a clematis! Obelisk is almost touching fence so plants can sprawl on both. Tulips in the way currently but the former two newbies are leafing up. @edhelka lovely tulips! My double lates are still bursting out and the shadier ones by the house. I love them.
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I almost made the trip to Tesco to buy a pesticide when I noticed a sparrow making multiple trips to pots at the back garden..
I didn't manage to sort out all the new growth so I've just let some grow skyward.
Gives room for the new growth that has started and makes it easier for me to get at the aphids too. But my, she looks bare!
Hopefully in a few weeks I'll be sharing photos of her looking much better and leafed out againÂ
More roses
And the last of the tulips
@Marlorena your obelisks look class! Having studied the DA photo it never occurred to me to plant off centre.
@zugenie that‘a exactly where I’ve put Strawberry Hill- by the front porch.
@Nollie I will keep the group posted for sure.
This group is brilliant- so many knowledgable people happy to help. Thanks all!
@edhelka lovely tulips! My double lates are still bursting out and the shadier ones by the house. I love them.