Good question about watering roses @Meomye, I don't water in-the-ground
ones but I aim to keep the pots damp, it is difficult to tell by touch
if the soil is damp or just cold I find so I use a wetness probe to take
the guesswork out of it.
Everyone's bare roots seem to be good this year, hope they fulfil their promise.
That LH shrub looks good Nollie, mine are really blackspotty and unattractive now apart from Blush Noisette, Strawberry Hill and GdeF. Some are still budding but the blooms don't open fully eg Proper Job and Gruss an Aachen. But the following do open, all taken today.
Dames de C
Forever Royal, Snovit, Scarborough Fair and Diamond Eyes.
@WhereAreMySecateurs aah, but we do grow lots of NZ plants, especially Pittosporums, which are trees really, and I've also grown Sophora japonica Pendula, which is a form of Kowhai.. I think there are named varieties available of the yellow flowering tree.. I've also had one of NZ rarest plants, a leafless Chordospartium, very few left in the wild.. I don't think we could grow Pohutakawa's though.. as much as I'd like to see them..
I know what you mean about the Cordyline's.. they used to get the name wrong and called them 'Dracaenas'.. still do in some places..
Styles roses also offer a range of NZ bred roses, so all is not lost WAMS..
Finger’s crossed Marlorena, hope it’s not another Noella in disguise, can’t remember of that one had thorns to begin with, but it does now.
Browsing rose forums and looking up roses is fatal! I just looked up Frédéric II de Prusse on hmf and my socks were duly knocked off. Frangipani and Llang Llang sounds heady..
I’m concerned about my health of my Lens order, it should have arrived last Friday but it’s been entrusted to a particularly unreliable courier who I know can sit on a parcel for a week, on top of how long it would’ve taken to get here from Belgium. They claim the delay is with the French. Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
I think Tack is going to win the last rose in bloom competition.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@owd potter, beautiful roses and amazing photography.
Yesterday afternoon I pulled out and potted up a few tender plants (not roses) and put those in a makeshift Noah's Ark next to house. Those may not make it but at least I won't feel bad that I did not even try.
Today I am at office. I keep saying that my busy work comes in the way of gardening but to be honest I would not have this garden if I didn't have this job and I do enjoy my work.
Beautiful frosty photos Owd, and Discandied earlier.
My many petalled ones continue to try and bloom but badly ball and brown in morning frosts, but I do have a secret weapon in the last to bloom stakes Mr. V! I stopped deadheading a good month or so ago, but it ignores that:
Astronomia:
Harlow Carr is mostly bare but slipped out a little bloom at the base:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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aah, but we do grow lots of NZ plants, especially Pittosporums, which are trees really, and I've also grown Sophora japonica Pendula, which is a form of Kowhai.. I think there are named varieties available of the yellow flowering tree..
I've also had one of NZ rarest plants, a leafless Chordospartium, very few left in the wild..
I don't think we could grow Pohutakawa's though.. as much as I'd like to see them..
I know what you mean about the Cordyline's.. they used to get the name wrong and called them 'Dracaenas'.. still do in some places..
Styles roses also offer a range of NZ bred roses, so all is not lost WAMS..
Browsing rose forums and looking up roses is fatal! I just looked up Frédéric II de Prusse on hmf and my socks were duly knocked off. Frangipani and Llang Llang sounds heady..
I’m concerned about my health of my Lens order, it should have arrived last Friday but it’s been entrusted to a particularly unreliable courier who I know can sit on a parcel for a week, on top of how long it would’ve taken to get here from Belgium. They claim the delay is with the French. Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
I think Tack is going to win the last rose in bloom competition.
Tie possibly. 😁
My Kew Gardens never stops it would bloom continuously through the whole year if left unpruned.
Yesterday afternoon I pulled out and potted up a few tender plants (not roses) and put those in a makeshift Noah's Ark next to house. Those may not make it but at least I won't feel bad that I did not even try.
Today I am at office. I keep saying that my busy work comes in the way of gardening but to be honest I would not have this garden if I didn't have this job and I do enjoy my work.
Astronomia:
Harlow Carr is mostly bare but slipped out a little bloom at the base: