@LateralBreaks That's a beauty. I'm tending to like Gallicas, up until this year I had two, but I give one away because it grew so massive, so I'm interested to know how you find it's growing habits and how big it grows.
@LateralBreaks : I'm tending to like Gallicas, up until this year I had two, but I give one away because it grew so massive, so I'm interested to know how you find it's growing habits and how big it grows.
I have a shady garden on poor acidic sandy soil. Gallicas (and Albas) are planted with rhododendrons, where they run around on their own roots and just pop up here and there. Most of my gallicas grow to 4 feet-ish.
Not quite ready for pics, yet.
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."
@Fran IOM, Nice to hear from you. Wishing you speedy recovery and hoping you would be able to get back to gardening soon. Your roses are doing good and roses are some of the toughest plant. They would be all fine while you recover.
@Marlorena, I liked your vase of Bathsheba. I feel when all roses are of same variety in vase, it looks more luxurious. It is easier to arrange as well so this year I have been doing mostly same rose vases.
Jude the Obscure in flower. It doesn't repeat well and having two plants doesn't help either as both flower exactly same time.
Today I have a bouquet of JTO at my desk. I have smelled it way too much and it is in my head now!
Winchester Cathedral very floppy so far; Eustacia Vye (love the fragrance... will have a go at drying these petals along with Munstead Wood); Amazing Day; an astrantia, probably the basic one from Wilko (?).
Thank you @edhelka, I have not grown any gallicas. The once-flowering aspect would be alright and she does sound easy-going ( Belle de Crecy). What a shame that Purple Lodge is not available in the UK. The scent sounds like what I am missing. I have noticed fewer and fewer purple-red toned roses on the D.A. website for instance. Such a shame.
Gallicas are best treated as other garden shrubs. A little bit of feeding in spring, and after they flower, they can be completely ignored. No deadheading and no pruning needed (both can be done if desired after it finishes flowering and some very light pruning is ok in spring too).
I was gifted my Purple Lodge, but my parents ordered it and had it shipped to me in the UK from this website. Shipping is a bit intense, but if you order a few roses it balances out.
Yeah, Lottum has it. I bought it from them three or four years ago.
@LateralBreaks That's a beauty. I'm tending to like Gallicas, up until this year I had two, but I give one away because it grew so massive, so I'm interested to know how you find it's growing habits and how big it grows.
@peteS I've had my gallica versicolour in a pot for a year and planted it in the ground in March, so it's only 2 ft tall this year. I expect it to reach 3 to 4 ft.
As @bédé says they will sucker and spread themselves around, so if you have a grafted gallica, you may want to keep the bud union above soil to prevent this.
Don't grow up - grow sideways.
Gardening in the West Midlands on a mix of neutral loamy sand & Victorian building rubble.
@purplerallim congratulations from me too. You tied the knot when I was still in school . @Fran IOM get well soon. I hope, you can go outside even if you cannot work in your garden yet.
Another Gallica, healthy and living in a very dry, sunny spot without complaint, pestered by prunus laurocerasus. I like the button eye.
Looks like mecorhis ungarica has arrived in my garden. Lots of dead and drooping buds. But still, Veluvezoom has a great colour and scent. If only it would produce some basals.
Aging very nicely is Blackberry Nip. Colour and scent don't fade.
Astronomia / Sweet Pretty has died back to nothing above ground last winter. As a precaution I planted another one this spring. And, guess what, now I have two happily growing.
Forever Royal is another deep purple rose I like very much and would therefore like to encourage to grow taller than 10cm. Up, up you grow. Or I will turn into the Kiwi @Wams mentions and sniff on ground level among the foliage.
My Jacques Cartier is rather old, but was transplanted in 2019. It has not changed its appearance since then. It covers 1 cubic meter.
Bits from the garden. Eugène Fürst in the left corner.
@rojas, I am enjoying photos from your garden everyday. You have got an amazing collection and you grow these so well.
@WAMS, does Charles Rennie Macintosh has any noticable fragrance?
@elbfee, Dont think much about it, your garden is beautiful. Anyway those who actually garden understand there are always things which need doing and gardening is more of an experiment, learning and enjoying the process hobby and not really decorating.
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That's a beauty. I'm tending to like Gallicas, up until this year I had two, but I give one away because it grew so massive, so I'm interested to know how you find it's growing habits and how big it grows.
Not quite ready for pics, yet.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
@Marlorena, I liked your vase of Bathsheba. I feel when all roses are of same variety in vase, it looks more luxurious. It is easier to arrange as well so this year I have been doing mostly same rose vases.
Jude the Obscure in flower. It doesn't repeat well and having two plants doesn't help either as both flower exactly same time.
Today I have a bouquet of JTO at my desk. I have smelled it way too much and it is in my head now!
Winchester Cathedral very floppy so far; Eustacia Vye (love the fragrance... will have a go at drying these petals along with Munstead Wood); Amazing Day; an astrantia, probably the basic one from Wilko (?).
Yeah, Lottum has it. I bought it from them three or four years ago.
@Fran IOM get well soon. I hope, you can go outside even if you cannot work in your garden yet.
Another Gallica, healthy and living in a very dry, sunny spot without complaint, pestered by prunus laurocerasus. I like the button eye.
Looks like mecorhis ungarica has arrived in my garden. Lots of dead and drooping buds. But still, Veluvezoom has a great colour and scent. If only it would produce some basals.
Aging very nicely is Blackberry Nip. Colour and scent don't fade.
Astronomia / Sweet Pretty has died back to nothing above ground last winter. As a precaution I planted another one this spring. And, guess what, now I have two happily growing.
Forever Royal is another deep purple rose I like very much and would therefore like to encourage to grow taller than 10cm. Up, up you grow. Or I will turn into the Kiwi @Wams mentions and sniff on ground level among the foliage.
My Jacques Cartier is rather old, but was transplanted in 2019. It has not changed its appearance since then. It covers 1 cubic meter.
Bits from the garden. Eugène Fürst in the left corner.
How to make a girl feel old @ElbFee 🤦♀️😆