Pots do have a habit of proliferating newbie. Every year I vow to reduce them since they can suffer a lot in summer here. Somehow, soon as I get rid of a few, they come back with a vengeance! If you can move them to a shady spot or rig up some shade netting that would help keep them going in your absence.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Absolutely gorgeous roses everyone, I love Lady of Shallott and hope to have one some day.
My mum has just moved into a new house - new garden, very little in it. Spent a while removing suckers from a badly pruned rose today that the previous owners left behind. From the way it's been pruned it looks like a shrub rose, but very congested. Is the best thing to do just wait and see how it grows, then if necessary prune out old and crossing shoots next winter, and try to rejuvenate it a bit?
My mum has also asked for advice about climbing/rambling roses. She'd like to grow one up/along a fence in her garden, planted in the ground. Any recommendations for a climber that is relatively easy to manage?
Finally, potted up my new Anne Boleyn today. My first DA rose and I followed the instructions in the planting guide which seemed to show the graft union growing about 2 inches under the surface - the deepest I've planted a rose... anyway, I went with it - does this look too deep to your expert eyes?
My iris reticulata have started popping up. I’m really pleased with the crocus, there’s so many in the garden after all I planted. They’ll be even better in a year or two once they clumped up. Should have a carpet of them in Spring.
@BlueBirder I have found that when planting roses in pots the earth/compost always sinks afterwards so the rose is not as deep as you thought at first.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hi all, novice gardener but love roses. I’ve made a basket on TCL, included some DAs but worried they won’t arrive. Have any of you recently had some arrive to the UK or should I not bother? I know they’ve said they can’t ship them to the UK but hoping they might.
@DSrose I haven't bought from TCL but lots of people on Facebook have received DAs from there this season. They aren't apparently implementing that restriction anymore. Fingers crossed for you... what did you order?
@Marlorena, no recent sneaky acquisitions apart from Golden Beauty / South Africa. And Vanessa Bell.😇
There isn’t a great deal left but I do have a Desdemona and The Lark Ascending in the basket. I have a few others too but I think they’re mainly Kordes roses. Just waiting to hear back from them about sending standards. Fingers crossed! Think I have an unhealthy addiction to garden centres and roses 😆
@BlueBirder How big a rose do you want? 'Aloha' is a nice climber, not too big.. pink and scented.. 'Mary Delany' is another good one, lovely foliage and not many thorns, which is always a bonus..
Lovely bulbs Mr Vine.. dwarf Irises always good to see in Feb..
@Mr. Vine Eye gorgeous crocuses - mine have all fallen over in the wet weather we've had here, so are looking a bit sad and sorry! Which Iris is the blue one? It's beautiful. I love the white on the falls.
@Marlorena the fence is only about 7 feet tall I should say, but it's quite long (20 feet) so plenty of room to train something horizontally. I'll look into the two you suggest - thank you. In terms of training, are ramblers harder to contain? I think my mum likes the clusters of flowers on ramblers, and doesn't about once flowering, but I don't know what maintenence of a good rambler involves.
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My mum has just moved into a new house - new garden, very little in it. Spent a while removing suckers from a badly pruned rose today that the previous owners left behind. From the way it's been pruned it looks like a shrub rose, but very congested. Is the best thing to do just wait and see how it grows, then if necessary prune out old and crossing shoots next winter, and try to rejuvenate it a bit?
My mum has also asked for advice about climbing/rambling roses. She'd like to grow one up/along a fence in her garden, planted in the ground. Any recommendations for a climber that is relatively easy to manage?
Finally, potted up my new Anne Boleyn today. My first DA rose and I followed the instructions in the planting guide which seemed to show the graft union growing about 2 inches under the surface - the deepest I've planted a rose... anyway, I went with it - does this look too deep to your expert eyes?
@Marlorena, no recent sneaky acquisitions apart from Golden Beauty / South Africa. And Vanessa Bell.😇
How big a rose do you want? 'Aloha' is a nice climber, not too big.. pink and scented..
'Mary Delany' is another good one, lovely foliage and not many thorns, which is always a bonus..
Lovely bulbs Mr Vine.. dwarf Irises always good to see in Feb..
@Marlorena the fence is only about 7 feet tall I should say, but it's quite long (20 feet) so plenty of room to train something horizontally. I'll look into the two you suggest - thank you. In terms of training, are ramblers harder to contain? I think my mum likes the clusters of flowers on ramblers, and doesn't about once flowering, but I don't know what maintenence of a good rambler involves.