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ROSES: Autumn/Winter 2022-23

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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    That’s my concern too newbie, my winters can be harsh so there is always further dieback. I am getting a cold, hope that’s all it is and not your horrible flu since I’m flying to the UK to see my elderly parents on Saturday!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Wow, some impressively foliated and blooming roses there. What an odd year it’s been, whilst it’s great to see things in bloom so late, I’m praying for a less punishing summer next year. Weeks of 40+ temps is just not on!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just got back from a couple of days away and I don't have many roses in bloom left, probably due to the torrential rain yesterday. I can see a few flowers on Eglantyne, Claire Austin and Zephirine Drouhin so will try to post pics tomorrow.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Yet another approach to add to the plethora of contradictory advice I see WAMS! No wonder people get unnecessarily scared of pruning 🙄

    Cants say to do the 8cm hard prune only of newly planted bush roses (in mid March) but no after-plant pruning for shrub roses general except by 50% for English and renaissance but not any other modern shrubs.

    So far we have had:

    a) don’t do it at all
    b) do it to bush roses only
    c) do it to bush roses and some selected shrubs
    d) do it to everything, climbers, old roses the lot

    Take your pick guys or just relax and ignore the lot of them!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • owd potterowd potter Posts: 979
    edited November 2022
    Oh boy!,
    Whilst not really giving it much conscious thought, I have always sort of considered the terms 'bush' and 'shrub' as interchangeable, basically distinguishing them from climbers and ramblers.
    But it seems that these are terms that actually identify a distinction between different types of roses?
    So what/which are considered Bush roses and what/which are Shrub roses?

    ETA, I have just taken a quick scamper through DA catalogue and see that they identify roses as many different types such as Shrub, Climber, Rambler, Old rose, Wild rose, Floribunda, HT, etc, but what I don't find is any described as Bush rose. 

    Just another day at the plant...
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    So what/which are considered Bush roses and what/which are Shrub roses?
    Send off for catalogues from Peter Beales and David Austin, they describe the differences.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédé said:
    So what/which are considered Bush roses and what/which are Shrub roses?
    Send off for catalogues from Peter Beales and David Austin, they describe the differences.
    I do have both catalogues, and have had a quick look at the DA one per my edit above.
    I'll take a look through the PB catalogue now too.
    Just another day at the plant...
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