It’s true we probably don’t take enough time to just sit and enjoy the fruits of our labour, there always seems to be another area to sort out or a new project..
Talking of which, the hinge and bracket combo is proving adequate to hold the curve. The final angled pieces will be the most fiddly to finesse and it will then need filling and sanding. Here’s what it will roughly be like, currently on temporary props:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Allyblueeyes Your clematis is a vigorous type, the flowers seem to be white-ish with a mauve edge.. I'm not sure I'd want an orange rose with that..
I'd also be wanting something quick off the mark to cope with that kind of clematis - no slouchers.. so for a north facing position I'd look at 'James Galway'..
I have no personal experience of this rose though..
@Allyblueeyes Your clematis is a vigorous type, the flowers seem to be white-ish with a mauve edge.. I'm not sure I'd want an orange rose with that..
I'd also be wanting something quick off the mark to cope with that kind of clematis - no slouchers.. so for a north facing position I'd look at 'James Galway'..
I have no personal experience of this rose though..
Thank you again @Marlorena. You’re right, an orange wouldn’t work at all. Funnily enough James Galway is in my DA basket, along with 4 shrub roses 😬. Your advice is appreciated as always!
I was waiting patiently for the arrival of March to feed my roses but have still not got round to it because of it being so cold. Should I get on with it regardless or wait a bit? Thank you.
I think the huge Malvern Hills rose in OH's garden in Norfolk has died . It was enormous when he bought this cottage in 2018, growing over an arch and reached the ground, couldn't walk through the arch. Don't know when it had last been pruned. I cut out the mass of dead wood underneath and shortened it. Couldn't reach the top.
It was fine in 2020 when we were here during the lockdown. I live in France so I'm not here a lot of the time, we met in later life, his family are in England, mine in France.
In March 2020 it was covered in new young shoots. Now there is nothing. It looks dead. I don't have photos of last year. We weren't here in July and mid August last year when it was hot and didn't rain but a lady gardener sees to the garden when we aren't here. No other roses have died. Does M. Hills have a life span? It looks pretty old. Do you think it's dead. Why?
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Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That's quite a surprise to see it like that, I think if possible I would try and remove all that dead twiggy mass and take it back to the thick trunks, and see what happens.. I also don't think it's outright dead, unless killed by honey fungus..
Although this rose appears to survive in colder climates than ours, I've always regarded it as slightly suspect, because when I had it around 2010, my plant was huge by 2013 yet it suffered badly in a severe winter then, and part of the centre of the plant died on me, due to freezing winds and low temps lower than -10c.. that's what I put it down to.. it is an offshoot of a Noisette rose after all, so loss of some top growth could be expected in some years..
Rather catastrophic with your plant, yet the weather hasn't been that cold this winter in north Norfolk, I've had a lot worse since I've been here..
@Allyblueeyes No problem, best of luck with your roses, you're going to be busy..
@Nollie Quite a handiwork, I've no idea how to deal with that.. but it looks promising.. When younger, I'd have loved to have made a rockery with those boulders, I've always been partial to a rockery with alpines.. You have a nice spade and a good fork by the looks of it..
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Talking of which, the hinge and bracket combo is proving adequate to hold the curve. The final angled pieces will be the most fiddly to finesse and it will then need filling and sanding. Here’s what it will roughly be like, currently on temporary props:
Your clematis is a vigorous type, the flowers seem to be white-ish with a mauve edge.. I'm not sure I'd want an orange rose with that..
I'd also be wanting something quick off the mark to cope with that kind of clematis - no slouchers.. so for a north facing position I'd look at 'James Galway'..
I have no personal experience of this rose though..
It was fine in 2020 when we were here during the lockdown. I live in France so I'm not here a lot of the time, we met in later life, his family are in England, mine in France.
In March 2020 it was covered in new young shoots. Now there is nothing. It looks dead. I don't have photos of last year. We weren't here in July and mid August last year when it was hot and didn't rain but a lady gardener sees to the garden when we aren't here. No other roses have died. Does M. Hills have a life span? It looks pretty old. Do you think it's dead. Why?
21st March 2020
30th May 2020
Now
I also don't think it's outright dead, unless killed by honey fungus..
Although this rose appears to survive in colder climates than ours, I've always regarded it as slightly suspect, because when I had it around 2010, my plant was huge by 2013 yet it suffered badly in a severe winter then, and part of the centre of the plant died on me, due to freezing winds and low temps lower than -10c.. that's what I put it down to.. it is an offshoot of a Noisette rose after all, so loss of some top growth could be expected in some years..
Rather catastrophic with your plant, yet the weather hasn't been that cold this winter in north Norfolk, I've had a lot worse since I've been here..
No problem, best of luck with your roses, you're going to be busy..
@Nollie
Quite a handiwork, I've no idea how to deal with that.. but it looks promising..
When younger, I'd have loved to have made a rockery with those boulders, I've always been partial to a rockery with alpines..
You have a nice spade and a good fork by the looks of it..