I have recently planted four new bare root roses (three in the ground and one in a pot) and was curious about how much and often to water them, with temperatures around 2-8 degrees I wasn't sure? tia
I have a similar problem in my poly @WhereAreMySecateurs where I keep newly 6L potted up bare roots, especially with the deep freeze/fast thaw cycles I get most winter nights/days. I insulate the pots well in there with anything I can get my hands on - large cardboard boxes lined with bubblewrap, cork insulation.. plus fleece thrown over the top that gets removed during the day. So far they have been fine 🤞
@Meomye, if watered in well and then mulched, roses in the ground may not need watering at all until early Spring, unless you have very free-draining soil and/or a very dry winter. It’s hard to say how often and how much really, it depends on your conditions. Keep a close eye on the potted one, it shouldn’t need much, kept just damp but not sodden or standing in water.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
BTW @Marlorena I asked Trevor White and he said he will consider budding Bolero next year (as fragrant whites are always popular). I don't know whether it's worth other people making the same suggestion, or whether he'd smell a rat and suspect a conspiracy among online rosy people lol
Thanks for that @Nollie... I must get some fleece to throw over these beauties. My husband's silence when I was filling the house with even more outdoor pots last night was a little pained.😆
I too hope my GdeF standard will be epic and am looking forward to see how it develops. I have high expectations for it so it better deliver! Similarly some other roses new this season too, such as this one. Ps - and thanks to Tack for showing Dames de Cenonceau, a lovely rose!
Lady Hillingdon, Tea, Shrub [Lowe & Shawyer, UK 1910]:
The climbing sport of Lady Hillingdon looks a fabulous rose and will be more familiar to most, but I don’t have a ton of spaces for climbers so I chose the shrub form. As tea roses are naturally twiggy and slow to fill out I wasn’t expecting much in the first year so was pleasantly surprised. Currently around 3ft high. Early growth is a lovely purple shade and overall the shrub is healthy, still retaining most of it’s leaves with only a little end-of-season blackspot. It should be hardy enough but I will be giving it some winter protection shortly, just in case..
Bush shot of LH taken today:
The canes aren’t ripened enough to fully support the nicely fragrant blooms yet, but they do have a naturally nodding habit (the advantage of growing it as a climber rather than a shrub). Spring/Autumn blooms:
Summer blooms are paler in my climate, edged in creamy white and looking like a fried egg sometimes, but there were a decent amount of them and repeat was fast:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Can you ask him to bud Plum Perfect and Quicksilver and start deliveries to the EU while you are at it WAMS?! It’s so annoying when you can’t buy certain European roses in the EU, never mind the UK. I too have been hankering after Bolero.
Marlorena, Beales do sell the shrub form of Lady H if anyone is interested..
My Loubert order just arrived, L -R Crépuscle, Marie Nabonnand and Indigo:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
''Mostly this variety will hide its fragrant secret just to show it spontaneously in the evening. Then an earthy, narcotic rose fragrance will nuzzle the nose. Beneath the spicy aspects of myrrh and anise deeper and enchanting accords in the heart note emerge reminding of frangipani and ylang-ylang. This flower cocktail rests on a base which is creamy and sweet.''
I just looked up a rose and found the above, translated from German. I now have to look up just what ylang-ylang is supposed to be.. lol..
Think the ylangylang is a pretty-smelling Aussie/SE Asian tree similar to the beautiful New Zealand kōwhai tree, which probably won't mean much to people here. As a Kiwi it vexes me a bit that only the ugliest of our trees (such as the cabbage tree) seem to make it over here. The vast majority are unique and beautiful.
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@Meomye, if watered in well and then mulched, roses in the ground may not need watering at all until early Spring, unless you have very free-draining soil and/or a very dry winter. It’s hard to say how often and how much really, it depends on your conditions. Keep a close eye on the potted one, it shouldn’t need much, kept just damp but not sodden or standing in water.
Thanks for that @Nollie... I must get some fleece to throw over these beauties. My husband's silence when I was filling the house with even more outdoor pots last night was a little pained.😆
Lady Hillingdon, Tea, Shrub [Lowe & Shawyer, UK 1910]:
The climbing sport of Lady Hillingdon looks a fabulous rose and will be more familiar to most, but I don’t have a ton of spaces for climbers so I chose the shrub form. As tea roses are naturally twiggy and slow to fill out I wasn’t expecting much in the first year so was pleasantly surprised. Currently around 3ft high. Early growth is a lovely purple shade and overall the shrub is healthy, still retaining most of it’s leaves with only a little end-of-season blackspot. It should be hardy enough but I will be giving it some winter protection shortly, just in case..
The canes aren’t ripened enough to fully support the nicely fragrant blooms yet, but they do have a naturally nodding habit (the advantage of growing it as a climber rather than a shrub). Spring/Autumn blooms:
@WhereAreMySecateurs
That's good to know.. we could do with 'Bolero' over here.. I'm surprised it's not already offered, maybe there is some issue..
Marlorena, Beales do sell the shrub form of Lady H if anyone is interested..
My Loubert order just arrived, L -R Crépuscle, Marie Nabonnand and Indigo:
Roots look good, and it appears to be a genuine MN as I can't see any thorns on it so far.
I just looked up a rose and found the above, translated from German. I now have to look up just what ylang-ylang is supposed to be.. lol..