@Perki Your garden looks magical with all those colours. May I know the globular ‘dandelion - as I have seen in the fairy cartoons’ name please ? Am I missing fairies on the picture tagged by WAMS
@Marlorena The Wild Rover has spectacular colour and I can’t wait to see mine with such lovely flowers!
Lovely @Marlorena. I am really happy with Wild Rover, it is being trained on my balcony railings in a very large pot. It was the rose happiest up there in the heat of summer last year. August 2022Talking of ugly things in the photo I will move those canoes in the summer! I have considered putting half obelisks over fenceposts to grow clematis on .
@Perki Your garden looks magical with all those colours. May I know the globular ‘dandelion - as I have seen in the fairy cartoons’ name please ? Am I missing fairies on the picture tagged by WAMS
@Marlorena The Wild Rover has spectacular colour and I can’t wait to see mine with such lovely flowers!
I think you are referring my Alliums I am glad they not dandelions I'd be having a fit having so many . I am crazy mad on alliums they are everywhere, they actually going over on that picture but I do leave them they still look good weeks/months later .
Here a better picture of Allium Universe ( new last year ) at its peak they 4 in total , had 5 one rotted in bag at £5 per bulb not impressed think they are a lot more now . I wouldn't recommend this allium yet not all alliums reliably return every year but hopes are high this year that it will return. About 2 week before A.Universe opened other early variety's flowering these are Early Emperor also new so how reliable it is remains to be seen , and lots of other variety's at back. If I had to recommend some though Purple rain very strong grower and reliable - purple sensation - gladiator - Mount Everest and the Best saved till last Globemaster ( pic below ) , all these bulbs I've just mentioned can be bought from Lidl for cheap around September .
Absolutely stunning roses everyone. I'm having trouble with my right shoulder and fingers so haven't done any pics posting, apologies. You've all seen my roses anyway.
Looking forward to seeing my Nathalie Nypels, Elizabeths, Strawberry Hill and GdeF take off in their second year. I'm also hoping my Chandos Beauty will put a spurt on, it's very puny and I'm quite disappointed with it, should have sent it back.
@Rojas you have a superb heritage DA collection there and Reine des Violettes is stunning.
@Perki 😆 Your GC will probably get there, some roses can shoot up fast in my warmer climate, I would feed it really well and give it another season or two to show you what it can do.
As originally requested by @Tack, what was it, two year’s ago the consensus was I should move it into the ground? The Gertrude Saga..
Never compact, but a full, bushy shape for the first flush:
But after that it does this, and then shoots right back up again after I prune it back down by half after the ff is finished and again in winter:
It then bust the substantial pot:
Tipping it over nearly gave me a hernia and predictably the pot broke apart:
Even reduced to nearly half it’s size, the rootball weighed a tonne. Interestingly there was no tap root, which makes me wonder if it’s not on laxa:
But finally, here she is, settled into a new home:
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@Marlorena The Wild Rover has spectacular colour and I can’t wait to see mine with such lovely flowers!
Fabulous purples @Nollie ..'GJ' looks to have a good home.. nice neat borders too..
I wish I could move this rose as that ugly post always gets in my photos..
'Marie Nabonnand'.. probably my favourite rose of what I have left now..
..oh this is o/t but a nice box of Dahlias came today..
Here a better picture of Allium Universe ( new last year ) at its peak they 4 in total , had 5 one rotted in bag
About 2 week before A.Universe opened other early variety's flowering these are Early Emperor also new so how reliable it is remains to be seen , and lots of other variety's at back.
If I had to recommend some though Purple rain very strong grower and reliable - purple sensation - gladiator - Mount Everest and the Best saved till last Globemaster ( pic below ) , all these bulbs I've just mentioned can be bought from Lidl for cheap around September .
I'm having trouble with my right shoulder and fingers so haven't done any pics posting, apologies. You've all seen my roses anyway.
Looking forward to seeing my Nathalie Nypels, Elizabeths, Strawberry Hill and GdeF take off in their second year. I'm also hoping my Chandos Beauty will put a spurt on, it's very puny and I'm quite disappointed with it, should have sent it back.
noted @Tack added to extended waiting list.. as Eustace mentioned, Will need to buy a separate allotment for growing all these roses..
@Marlorena GAT is already a monster.. what I realised is that I can grow roses, but some of you can grow them gracefully
no need for apologies @Lizzie27 take rest.. take care.. will be looking forward to seeing all your pics in the new thread..
@Perki 😆 Your GC will probably get there, some roses can shoot up fast in my warmer climate, I would feed it really well and give it another season or two to show you what it can do.
As originally requested by @Tack, what was it, two year’s ago the consensus was I should move it into the ground? The Gertrude Saga..
Never compact, but a full, bushy shape for the first flush:
But after that it does this, and then shoots right back up again after I prune it back down by half after the ff is finished and again in winter:
It then bust the substantial pot:
Tipping it over nearly gave me a hernia and predictably the pot broke apart:
Even reduced to nearly half it’s size, the rootball weighed a tonne. Interestingly there was no tap root, which makes me wonder if it’s not on laxa:
But finally, here she is, settled into a new home:
(I was about to chide you for forgetting to give us a glimpse of Smudge and then I looked again.)
ETA: Ebb Tide (below) and her weird half-dead goth day-older sister (above).