ooh beautiful astrantias in your garden photo @Mr. Vine Eye. Mine have disappeared from border again and they were not cheap. I think I will resort to plastic ones!
Snap re Gertrude Jekyll, Marlorena. DA used to do that ‘pretend there were two’ thing with Graham Thomas too, I recall.
@HarryWhite it was you asking earlier how to encourage hips, I think? For those roses that do set hips, you have to stop deadheading them at some point to allow the hips to form from the spent flowers. What that point is.. perhaps others can advise on that since most years I tend to prioritise late blooms over letting hips form. A few escape my deadheading, such as this huge one on Guy Savoy:
Saw some lovely hips on my morning dog walk, in front of an abandoned house:
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@Nollie - wow is that GT in top picture with blooms the same one as underneath in a pot? Looks amazing from one pot! Lovely blooms. Interesting about there being no climber version; didn’t know that. Thanks.
@Marlorena - thanks yes I would greatly appreciate this after I’ve had some time to think about what to grow up an obelisk.
@Mr. Vine Eye - your garden is absolutely packed with colour. Beautiful. I would love to achieve something like that.
Thanks to all for the Cottage Memories recommendations and also the rose recommendations. I hadn’t heard of CM before. Bare roots arrived today looking great:
Has anybody got any recommendations or advice on how to prune my MAC?
It flowered so well in the summer however is has obscured the window on the white rendered side and gone a bit wild. The main canes on the rendered side stop roughly in line with the windowsill. These are very thick, maybe 3-4 inches and more like tree trunks. I was wondering if I should prune all the green stems off? I would quite like to have it flowering around the rendered window so would I use some of the more flexible green stems and tie them next to and underneath the window? If so how many?
The brick side seems ok because it doesn’t obscure the window and has very established main canes in the right place so just need to prune the lateral growth.
This is its current state:
The red circle is where the main trunk like cane ends. Does MAC have a habit of growing like a shrub on the wall with lots of bushy outward growth away from the wall? As that’s what it’s like for me. Compared to other climbers I’ve seen on other houses that don’t protrude much outwards.
Any advice on pruning this to look its best is much appreciated.
@HarryWhite - sorry, realised I’ve only answered half of your question.
My Malvern Hills is four years old, it does have hips although they’re quite small and don’t really stand out. If you want to maximise hips then don’t deadhead its September flush.
@newbie77 - you’ve reminded me that I never did plant out my new red Astrantia. Hope it survives in its pot over winter
@Alfie_ - I don’t think there’s any trick to it really. Find some growth that’s going where you want it, tie that in, cut off anything else that’s badly placed or unwanted and then prune back the laterals to a few buds. Your MAC looks great!
Should see the state of my Malvern Hills, covered in super long 9ft octopus canes waving around looking like a kraken on the hunt. I’ll just prune them right back when it’s cutting time.
I did stop deadheading my Malvern towards the end of August in the hope that it would produce good hips, mainly for winter feed for the birds as much as anything, but they are so small (and so few) that i was beginning to think it was maybe because the rose is still young. My young Lark Ascending is fairing a bit better though. Not a huge amount of hips but at least 3 x bigger than the ones on my Malvern.
I've just seen Ronnie O'Sullivan at the garden center. I think he was eyeing up a plant.
@HarryWhite - it’s a small flowered rose so makes smaller hips. On mine they’re also quite scattered. Not very noticeable as I said.
I love the ramblers were you get large clusters of small flowers and then vast quantities of little red hips. That’s very pretty. But that’s usually on the once flowering kind so you sacrifice repeat flowering for the hips.
It may have been planted rather than a wild hedgerow rose Marlorena since it stands alone, a bunch of tall, upright canes in the middle then arching out, like a natural weeping standard. I will try and remember to take some photos when in bloom next year.
@Alfie_ yes, both GJ photos of the same rose, before and after it shoots up. It’s a bit of a running joke on here since it has been busting out of it’s big heavy pot for several years and I keep chickening out of repotting it. It’s so seriously cracked the pot there is now no saving it. I’m sure the rose will survive the extraction though, a tough old beast!
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@HarryWhite it was you asking earlier how to encourage hips, I think? For those roses that do set hips, you have to stop deadheading them at some point to allow the hips to form from the spent flowers. What that point is.. perhaps others can advise on that since most years I tend to prioritise late blooms over letting hips form. A few escape my deadheading, such as this huge one on Guy Savoy:
@Mr. Vine Eye - your garden is absolutely packed with colour. Beautiful. I would love to achieve something like that.
My Malvern Hills is four years old, it does have hips although they’re quite small and don’t really stand out. If you want to maximise hips then don’t deadhead its September flush.
@newbie77 - you’ve reminded me that I never did plant out my new red Astrantia. Hope it survives in its pot over winter
@Alfie_ - I don’t think there’s any trick to it really. Find some growth that’s going where you want it, tie that in, cut off anything else that’s badly placed or unwanted and then prune back the laterals to a few buds. Your MAC looks great!
Should see the state of my Malvern Hills, covered in super long 9ft octopus canes waving around looking like a kraken on the hunt. I’ll just prune them right back when it’s cutting time.
I did stop deadheading my Malvern towards the end of August in the hope that it would produce good hips, mainly for winter feed for the birds as much as anything, but they are so small (and so few) that i was beginning to think it was maybe because the rose is still young.
My young Lark Ascending is fairing a bit better though. Not a huge amount of hips but at least 3 x bigger than the ones on my Malvern.
I love the ramblers were you get large clusters of small flowers and then vast quantities of little red hips. That’s very pretty. But that’s usually on the once flowering kind so you sacrifice repeat flowering for the hips.
@Alfie_ yes, both GJ photos of the same rose, before and after it shoots up. It’s a bit of a running joke on here since it has been busting out of it’s big heavy pot for several years and I keep chickening out of repotting it. It’s so seriously cracked the pot there is now no saving it. I’m sure the rose will survive the extraction though, a tough old beast!