It is in a pot @Tack and it has not thrown huge canes like Golden celebration or Scepter'd isle.. as you see from the pics, the branches are flexible and kinda arch downwards (most Austins do that).. It's only its first year and I am impressed by the scent and blooms..
A fine tangle of roots @tack and @owd potter, I look forward to seeing them
I managed to get all my bareroots from TW and Beales planted out/up apart from two I have in a temporary pot. I've made a serious dent in the 700 litre bag of JI3 I had delivered although that was for repotting some other shrubs as well, not just roses.
TCL say my order is on the way and most of the spaces are prepped apart from an area I am replanting (removing/adding three). The weather, after a stiff frost the other week has now turned exceptionally mild again so I am loathe to do the move around prep as yet...
Oh, I meant clearing a space and jabbing a stick in the ground rather than digging the holes @WhereAreMySecateurs
Hopefully on route: Nadia Zerouali - a pheno geno in a fun yellow Odyssey - since everyone has it and it looks fab Duchesse d'Angouleme - expanding my gallica collection since they have all been so good Jenny Duval - as above Trendy Babylon Eyes - I got hooked on everyone's Eyes this year Eyeconic - as above Matthias Claudius x2 - this is an experiment, I wanted a large cream rose as a buffer between the pink and the citrus parts of the bed Lichtkonigin Lucia - I have wanted this large, lovely yellow for years and have put it on a pedestal beyond all proportion Florence Delattre - I added this to the order without thought based on one photo Sibelius - I wanted Magenta but DA was out of stock. My other Lens are good though so worth a shot. I would have bought Lens' Violet Hood if I could have found it in UK. Sunny Siluetta - someone else on the thread has a Siluetta and I liked it but I ordered it in yellow
After these I just have Rose de Alhambra, a friend of Rose de Rescht from Jones which I hope is as good as RdR but in a slightly different colour
I'm quite pleased with our efforts this morning to prop up my very rigorous Claire Austin. It's supposed to arch over the nearby arbour which it does but throws up so many long canes they tend to get blown to pieces in our strong South Westerlies. I bought two metal trellis panels which we've put at right angles attached to steel uprights (excuse the temporary twine) and pegged them into the ground. The idea is that next year's canes will grow through and over the top of the trellis. That's the grand plan anyway! Here's the last rather pinky Claire Austin and the last Eglantine. (Transposed, sorry).
A fine tangle of roots @tack and @owd potter, I look forward to seeing them
I managed to get all my bareroots from TW and Beales planted out/up apart from two I have in a temporary pot. I've made a serious dent in the 700 litre bag of JI3 I had delivered although that was for repotting some other shrubs as well, not just roses.
TCL say my order is on the way and most of the spaces are prepped apart from an area I am replanting (removing/adding three). The weather, after a stiff frost the other week has now turned exceptionally mild again so I am loathe to do the move around prep as yet...
They are indeed rooty. Sort of upside down Austins, lots of root but the top growth is a bit twiggy. Think I've been spoiled on DA's sturdy specimens. Maybe that's how these old roses are tho' and I'm sure they will be fine. That's quite a haul of roses you have @Vic, plus how ever many you have already planted from TW & PB...where are you putting them all?
@Lizzie27 even though David Austin bill Claire Austin as a climber it’s better grown up a pillar or a post as when you try growing it against a wall or a fence it looks messy.
Wish I'd known that before @rossdriscoll13! It is indeed very vigorous even though it's got competition from two nearby shrubs. We had tried tying it down across the top of the arbour, which we'd wired beforehand but it didn't want to do that! I don't mind the messiness but hadn't bargained on just how windy it gets here. Barrels straight up the Bristol Channel, up and over the hills and gets funnelled down our valley. The arbour plus rose tried to take off during Storm Arwen!
5 new bare roots planted today and, following the recent discussions here, I decided to hard prune them. They look really lost now... We'll see if it makes any noticeable difference
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It is in a pot @Tack and it has not thrown huge canes like Golden celebration or Scepter'd isle.. as you see from the pics, the branches are flexible and kinda arch downwards (most Austins do that).. It's only its first year and I am impressed by the scent and blooms..
I managed to get all my bareroots from TW and Beales planted out/up apart from two I have in a temporary pot. I've made a serious dent in the 700 litre bag of JI3 I had delivered although that was for repotting some other shrubs as well, not just roses.
TCL say my order is on the way and most of the spaces are prepped apart from an area I am replanting (removing/adding three). The weather, after a stiff frost the other week has now turned exceptionally mild again so I am loathe to do the move around prep as yet...
Hopefully on route:
Nadia Zerouali - a pheno geno in a fun yellow
Odyssey - since everyone has it and it looks fab
Duchesse d'Angouleme - expanding my gallica collection since they have all been so good
Jenny Duval - as above
Trendy Babylon Eyes - I got hooked on everyone's Eyes this year
Eyeconic - as above
Matthias Claudius x2 - this is an experiment, I wanted a large cream rose as a buffer between the pink and the citrus parts of the bed
Lichtkonigin Lucia - I have wanted this large, lovely yellow for years and have put it on a pedestal beyond all proportion
Florence Delattre - I added this to the order without thought based on one photo
Sibelius - I wanted Magenta but DA was out of stock. My other Lens are good though so worth a shot. I would have bought Lens' Violet Hood if I could have found it in UK.
Sunny Siluetta - someone else on the thread has a Siluetta and I liked it but I ordered it in yellow
After these I just have Rose de Alhambra, a friend of Rose de Rescht from Jones which I hope is as good as RdR but in a slightly different colour
I'm quite pleased with our efforts this morning to prop up my very rigorous Claire Austin. It's supposed to arch over the nearby arbour which it does but throws up so many long canes they tend to get blown to pieces in our strong South Westerlies. I bought two metal trellis panels which we've put at right angles attached to steel uprights (excuse the temporary twine) and pegged them into the ground. The idea is that next year's canes will grow through and over the top of the trellis. That's the grand plan anyway!
Here's the last rather pinky Claire Austin and the last Eglantine. (Transposed, sorry).
That's quite a haul of roses you have @Vic, plus how ever many you have already planted from TW & PB...where are you putting them all?
They look really lost now...
We'll see if it makes any noticeable difference