We are well into the frosty mornings stage with minus temperatures overnight, but some roses are continuing to put out new growth and trying to bloom. The big, many-petalled ones are not opening and going a bit mouldy..
But Blush Noisette is coming into a new flush and apart from a little browning the blooms aren’t looking too bad:
Mme. Antoine Mari, lots of new growth, blooms opening if a little ragged:
Astronomia showing no sign of slowing down:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Hope those who had the lurg are recovered and those with it are not too unwell.
Good looking bareroots above. I look forward to seeing Dame Deborah and all the roses novel to this forum.
I have heard nothing about my TCL order yet, I got it in nice and early in the summer so fingers crossed it is despatched soon. I did think the ones I received this year in the spring had a slow start compared to ones delivered earlier. I definitely wouldn't plant March delivered bareroots straight into the ground again, a season in pots worked better to bring them on.
Photos of the GJ repot will have to do @Nollie, video of the blood and swearing would be more entertaining. Mind you, if the pot just falls off half the job is done. Also lacking pupdates...
Dribs and drabs of rose blooms on Blush Noisette here too, also on Scarborough Fair, Proper Job and Dames de C, enough not to prune these yet. Strawberry Hill and Snovit still having an impact, poor photo into the sun, sorry.
@Tack I totally agree about March bare roots.. best planted up in pots first year... I've so often found they take too long to get going planted in the ground that late..
I’ve taken to ordering early the last couple of years to avoid disappointment @Tack, but even though I have ordered from TCL as early as the end of August they still often take until February to reach me. I wonder if that means early orders sit at the bottom of the pile.
Can’t say I’ve noticed retarded development on the late arrivals but it could be my harsher winters hold back the early ones but early springs get the late ones off to a flying start so it all equals out. Either way, the potted ones in the poly do bloom quicker.
Haven’t got the energy to tackle Gertie yet, so the crime scene shots will have to wait, but here’s a quick pupdate. Typically for a female Spanish Water Dog she is developing a very strong, not to say bolshie personality! Smudge at 21 weeks:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Nellie: Good to see a good old-fashioned pedigree, rather than a "modern" poodle-cross mongrel. Although I understand they do shed a bit. But so do many -oodles.
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."
SWDs don’t shed at all @bédé, that’s the big plus. Their coats develop into rasta-style cords like a puli if left to grow long, but ours get clipped several times a year so they have curls instead. The little one still has her puppy coat, but will be getting her first clip soon. They are not a breed for the faint-hearted though!
Here is Sandra, her dear-departed predecessor for illustration:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Some hip pics - Arthur Bell again top and left, The Generous Gardener right
Seen a few blooms today, but the impending freeze will probably finish them before some of them get chance to open.
Also Kew Gardens at the plot
I thought some of you might find this interesting to see. This is a two year old Generous Gardener cutting that's been in the same pot all that time. It wasn't showing roots at the bottom of the pot so I hadn't repotted or planted it. It hasn't grown very much.
I decided to take it out and report it into a larger pot with fresh soil. The root growth is interesting. Must have been quite a long cutting with three nodes below the soil, you can see three distinct patches of root growth, one near the top, one in the middle and the largest at the bottom.
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But Blush Noisette is coming into a new flush and apart from a little browning the blooms aren’t looking too bad:
Mme. Antoine Mari, lots of new growth, blooms opening if a little ragged:
Astronomia showing no sign of slowing down:
I totally agree about March bare roots.. best planted up in pots first year... I've so often found they take too long to get going planted in the ground that late..
Can’t say I’ve noticed retarded development on the late arrivals but it could be my harsher winters hold back the early ones but early springs get the late ones off to a flying start so it all equals out. Either way, the potted ones in the poly do bloom quicker.
Haven’t got the energy to tackle Gertie yet, so the crime scene shots will have to wait, but here’s a quick pupdate. Typically for a female Spanish Water Dog she is developing a very strong, not to say bolshie personality! Smudge at 21 weeks:
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Here is Sandra, her dear-departed predecessor for illustration:
Seen a few blooms today, but the impending freeze will probably finish them before some of them get chance to open.
Also Kew Gardens at the plot
I thought some of you might find this interesting to see. This is a two year old Generous Gardener cutting that's been in the same pot all that time. It wasn't showing roots at the bottom of the pot so I hadn't repotted or planted it. It hasn't grown very much.
I decided to take it out and report it into a larger pot with fresh soil. The root growth is interesting. Must have been quite a long cutting with three nodes below the soil, you can see three distinct patches of root growth, one near the top, one in the middle and the largest at the bottom.
Here it is after repotting