Lol! I have no such scruples. I just started adding the new plants to my helpmefind garden page (that Marlorena showed us how to make)... it's topped 50 altogether. Now I just have to not kill/ misprune/ underwater/ overwater / overcrowd them or allow them to succumb to blackspot / mildew / ants / a hundred other plagues and lurgies.
Everyone has completely different set ups, budgets, desires, land size etc. That's one of the beauties of the forum. My growing space is about 3x7 metres so I have to be careful. I growing pretty much only climbers or roses trained to climb - around the edges.
Haven't posted for some time, I have been reading though.
I am not shovel pruning any roses but getting rid of some asters, dahlias, strawberries and lilies in pots. My heucheras all eaten up by vine weeivils and I couldn't find my astrantias (most likely got eaten up). I won't be doing any tomatoes or annual plants next year. So hopefully I will have a bit less work next year.
Grass has grown really high, either it is wet or I am busy. It will be nightmare to mow with my small electric Bosch mower 😒
Thanks WAMS, it’s always interesting why people get rid of certain roses. Trouble I find, no matter how much research I do and no matter how suitable a rose sounds on paper, I just don’t know how it will do in my climate until I try it. I’m also endlessly fascinated by the history of roses, plant biology, nutrition and disease, the different characteristics of rose classes or sometimes I’m just curious to see what certain rose is like in the flesh. I love conducting trials and don’t feel guilty about my hobby at all. At least roses are generally a lot cheaper in the EU!
Calling EU residents, Promesse de Fleurs has a flash sale of potted roses if you’re interested..
Waltz time is out for me... Its awful, tall, leggy, blackspot covered with weird insipid pinky beige to barbie pink petals, but worst of all in rain goes like old tissues which then stay screwed up stuck to the plant 7ft in the air... My friend is going to try it see if it does better in her garden more sheltered. Shes also having harkness 95th celebration which I brought purely as it was advertised as a pretty two tone pink but ended up being rephotographed/ changed and is just a plain pink now. Its nice, lovely crisp shape blooms, but I have lots of better pinks and limited space, so happy to rehome it.
Rust on roses , mildew on phlox and dahlias and snails back in action.. brrrt. Colors way more vibrant then in the summer.
Climbers are still throwing out new growth and sporadically some blooms. Walferdange seems to have found a 3rd flush.
I have started with defoliating the most affected rose and removing dead wood. Regarding cream abundance .. they have also a red one 😉. just have noticed Ducher has added a new sport of GdF ( peach colours following the description) is it then similar to feuerwerk?
AP must have a stunning fragrance if it beats RdeR @Discandied, how is the overall health and habit?
It is has been entirely healthy, no disease at all. It is unexpectedly tall, but fairly narrow. It responded well to being pruned hard after the first flush. It could probably be grown as a small climber based on the length of some of the canes it has put out.
An update from Lens Roses (cut and pasted from an email, it wouldn't let me paste a snip):
Shipping of bare root plants to Great Britain is possible.
You signed up to be notified when there was news about shipping to the UK. Good news, we ship plants again!
Despite the difficult import requirements, we decided to ship roses to the UK during the winter season. In bare root the plants can survive a long transport without worries, in pot this is more difficult.
How does it work?
We ship our roses with Bpost (Belgian Mail) and are delivered by Royal Mail. Shipping will cost €29.
Great Britain requires each shipment crossing the border to have a phytosanitary certificate provided by the Belgian government. This is a mandatory document we request and arrange for and costs us a fixed price (€57), to be paid by the client.
Since we do not take any profit on the shipping nor the phytosanitary certificate and this is quite an organizational undertaking for each order. It seems fair that we only accept orders over €100 order value.
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I am not shovel pruning any roses but getting rid of some asters, dahlias, strawberries and lilies in pots. My heucheras all eaten up by vine weeivils and I couldn't find my astrantias (most likely got eaten up). I won't be doing any tomatoes or annual plants next year. So hopefully I will have a bit less work next year.
Grass has grown really high, either it is wet or I am busy. It will be nightmare to mow with my small electric Bosch mower 😒
https://www.promessedefleurs.com/ventes-flash.html?p=1&utm_campaign=S40_VF-Rosier&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendinblue
My friend is going to try it see if it does better in her garden more sheltered. Shes also having harkness 95th celebration which I brought purely as it was advertised as a pretty two tone pink but ended up being rephotographed/ changed and is just a plain pink now. Its nice, lovely crisp shape blooms, but I have lots of better pinks and limited space, so happy to rehome it.
Walferdange seems to have found a 3rd flush.
I have started with defoliating the most affected rose and removing dead wood.
Regarding cream abundance .. they have also a red one 😉.
just have noticed Ducher has added a new sport of GdF ( peach colours following the description) is it then similar to feuerwerk?
Shipping of bare root plants to Great Britain is possible.
You signed up to be notified when there was news about shipping to the UK.
Good news, we ship plants again!
Despite the difficult import requirements, we decided to ship roses to the UK during the winter season. In bare root the plants can survive a long transport without worries, in pot this is more difficult.
We ship our roses with Bpost (Belgian Mail) and are delivered by Royal Mail.
Shipping will cost €29.
Great Britain requires each shipment crossing the border to have a phytosanitary certificate provided by the Belgian government. This is a mandatory document we request and arrange for and costs us a fixed price (€57), to be paid by the client.
Since we do not take any profit on the shipping nor the phytosanitary certificate and this is quite an organizational undertaking for each order. It seems fair that we only accept orders over €100 order value.