Lots of lovely rose photos. Mine are winding down and I had started pruning, but now my little one has caught that awful flu so all gardening is postponed for few days.
@WhereAreMySecateurs, we don't keep track of money spent. That would be hard to justify. A tally of roughly how many roses, though I don't count the ones which came with the house or the pots I have put in driveway because I have nowhere sunny to keep them lol.
I just meant the tally of bare roots ordered, WAMS, not a financial breakdown of your annual accounts - now that I really don’t want to know, yours or mine 😆
My tally is down to 13 after Filroses disappointment but of course I’m now eying Roses Loubert since they do have the elusive Crépuscle in stock plus lots of other tempting goodies..
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Just counted and this autumn have or will add 28 roses, plus the secondhand roses my friend gave me like The Pilgrim, Lark, Susie, Nostalgia, W&Catherine, WS2000, Prospero and Lochinvar. The only one I have still to order is Souvenir du Dr J. I think there is one year everyone goes mad filling the garden up and this appears to be mine.
Good thing my dog is adepting at shredding bank statements. 😉
WAMS, that was very tempting but I have managed to resist. Yes there is a time when you totally fall in love with roses and buy a whole lot to fill up the garden. Mine was in 2019 and 2020. Now to get any I need to get rid of one and I want to give them some more time.
Very wet here still. Ive taken the very tops / long whippy bits off roses that have finished as the winds rough in the back. Ill try Austins jan / feb proper prune. Ive been planting little spring bulbs round the potted ones and repotting those in smaller pots into bigger pots. Found wretched vine weevil grubs in my bedding pots though! Managed to just about save a few fuschia but theyve destroyed the bizzie lizzies still flowering. I will need to get rid of those horrible beasts before I can replant.
Welcome @trevor.biggins. looking forward to seeing more of your garden
I have just come in for a half time scone and cup of tea. Actually I had two scones
I've managed to get the last of my new rose admin done this weekend. Had a few boo boos; I mixed up a hulthemia pot rose with a climber and planted in wrong place (now corrected), one space turned into a waterlogged mushy mess over the last week of rain and another space contained more bricks than soil. I've got two left to move, Crown Princess Margareta which I'm not looking forward to and Autumn Delight which I'll attempt this PM.
Butts are full already thanks to this fun weather (and I have a 4200 litre capacity), am going to decant some into some tubs for extra storage, can never have enough. Having said that it has turned out nice today, there's a sunbeam on a small patch of the south facing fence.
I think my tally is 29, of which 7 were purchased/given this year.
Still debating whether or not to get rid of two poor performers, find it very, very hard to bin any viable plants!
We had a frost the night before last and heavy rain overnight with probably more to come over the next week so I'm hanging fire on planting my last DA potted rose just yet.
Lovely roses @trevor.biggins, you are definitely welcome here.
I hope all those with ailments are recovering well.
Vine Weevils are horrible Jessica. Other than roses I now severely limit what I have in pots. I do have Hellebores but cover the surface in gravel to deter the egg-laying.
It's been a lovely day here but the window for it being pleasant outside is only about 4 hrs.I think we may have the first frost tonight. I would quite like the roses to defoliate, I just noticed fresh orange rust developing again. I have started pruning the climbers anyway, apart from Strawberry Hill which still looks too nice. Another upside to this mild, wet autumn is that the perennials have established well in new spots, I have moved a lot.
More roses have been given away or shovel pruned and my total rose tally before the 10 from TCL arrive is 74, 48 of which are currently in pots, 3 are new this autumn. So only 13 new and 11 disposed of. Drat I thought I'd stuck to one in, one out. It was my impulse buy of Mutabilis and William Shakespeare from the Trevor White sale that was my undoing. I know who to blame...
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Lots of lovely rose photos. Mine are winding down and I had started pruning, but now my little one has caught that awful flu so all gardening is postponed for few days.
@WhereAreMySecateurs, we don't keep track of money spent. That would be hard to justify.
A tally of roughly how many roses, though I don't count the ones which came with the house or the pots I have put in driveway because I have nowhere sunny to keep them lol.
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My tally is down to 13 after Filroses disappointment but of course I’m now eying Roses Loubert since they do have the elusive Crépuscle in stock plus lots of other tempting goodies..
Just counted and this autumn have or will add 28 roses, plus the secondhand roses my friend gave me like The Pilgrim, Lark, Susie, Nostalgia, W&Catherine, WS2000, Prospero and Lochinvar. The only one I have still to order is Souvenir du Dr J. I think there is one year everyone goes mad filling the garden up and this appears to be mine.
Good thing my dog is adepting at shredding bank statements. 😉
Found wretched vine weevil grubs in my bedding pots though! Managed to just about save a few fuschia but theyve destroyed the bizzie lizzies still flowering. I will need to get rid of those horrible beasts before I can replant.
I have just come in for a half time scone and cup of tea. Actually I had two scones
I've managed to get the last of my new rose admin done this weekend. Had a few boo boos; I mixed up a hulthemia pot rose with a climber and planted in wrong place (now corrected), one space turned into a waterlogged mushy mess over the last week of rain and another space contained more bricks than soil. I've got two left to move, Crown Princess Margareta which I'm not looking forward to and Autumn Delight which I'll attempt this PM.
Butts are full already thanks to this fun weather (and I have a 4200 litre capacity), am going to decant some into some tubs for extra storage, can never have enough. Having said that it has turned out nice today, there's a sunbeam on a small patch of the south facing fence.
Still debating whether or not to get rid of two poor performers, find it very, very hard to bin any viable plants!
We had a frost the night before last and heavy rain overnight with probably more to come over the next week so I'm hanging fire on planting my last DA potted rose just yet.