Hi all, (first of all apologies if you see this question elsewhere, I will go and delete the other two now, long sorry and silly me for posting in the wrong places... and also sorry about the bold, I can't seem to get it to disappear, tried all my usual tricks, but no luck...)
Anyway!
I popped into Nutcutts the other day wanting to pick up a few delphiniums when I walked past a beauty that stopped me in my tracks! If I could have drawn my PERFECT rose, of the perfect shade of the pink, with the perfect shape etc, I would have drawn this one.
As I had been "on the market" for a rose anyway, I bought it immediately!
When I got home and started researching it, it certainly looks like she might be a bit of a high maintenance girl!
I have read up on it a bit, but I am still a little confused and wondered if anyone here had any top tips.
Perhaps you have the exact same rose? Or perhaps you know a lot about rosed and can throw some general high-level advice my way?
I am particularly interested in advice on pruning (when / how much etc) as that's something I've never done - and any other important things to look out for. Throw it all at me, I'll take my time to digest it...
She is still in her original pot, I was waiting to get some advice before deciding on size of pot and exact area (she will have to stay in a pot I am afraid, but I am happy to invest in whatever she may need.
@Rojas many thanks for the Salma update, pleased to hear about the fragrance, I’m very tempted! Do let me know how it does in other aspects in due course - health, reblooming etc. Strange you don’t get much from WS2000, one of my strongest.
Lady Em standard is filling out, not a lot of blooms from it yet and needs another sequestered iron treatment - this rose does hate my hard water:
Oh you’re welcome @Busy-Lizzie, glad that was useful. The odd thing is I haven’t had cold nights but it could’ve been earlier temperature swings I suppose.
@Athelas I’m amazed you haven’t had any thefts out there in 6 years, but still very annoying - let’s hope they die on the miscreants!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie there have been a handful of thefts over the years — I think the last one was a couple of years ago (and instead of properly digging up the lavender plant, they ripped it apart and left half uprooted). The tricky thing is when I put in a new replacement plant, it’s even easier for them to hoik it out.
Hi @alexemmersonuk . Congratulations on your new rose. Have a look at this site and its advice. I think most of us follow this more or less. I do sometimes start with a smaller than ideal pot but do pot it into a bigger one in a year or 2 if I want the rose in a container long term. I think getting your rose potted up quickly is a priority because it will dry out so quickly in that small one. Watering is key at the moment https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/blogs/news/how-to-plant-a-rose-in-a-pot
Hi @Tack Thank you so much for the link. I guess this is the issue with being such a beginner, is that I often get confused 30 seconds into a tutorial haha! The man just said I want a mixture of John Innes #3 and some multi-purpose compost. Surely John Innes #3 is compost???? What am I missing? Sorry if this is silly question, I just don't know what I may be missing and I'd rather ask and learn something than assume and mess up the lovely rose.
Also, does the pot have to be terracotta? Or can any ceramic pot do?
The pot can be any material you like. Mine are plastic because the correct type of soil is heavy and I like to move my roses around. Terracotta also has the disadvantage in summer that too much water evaporates through the sides but if you have lots of rain that can be an advantage. Metal can get very hot in the sun. Now about the growing medium; Multipurpose compost is not enough for roses, you need a much more soily (loamy) soil! John Innes number 3 is a recipe that is more suited to shrubs, like roses. The other John Innes numbers are for different types of plants
@PeterAberdeen You can see the culprits on the 10 and 1 o'clock leaves on Our Molly. They start tiny but you know they're there from the damage. I look for the freshest still green scars and they are usually right there underneath the leaf, then I squish em.
If the leaf is very damaged I remove it with caterpillar on and put it on the bonfire heap. I have bonfires extremely rarely so maybe the critturs survive, but they are a long way from the roses there.
Thanks @Tack I never noticed them till you pointed them out. Do you know what they are?
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Good link, Nollie. That Fraser Valley Roses fella is the only gardening YouTuber who doesn't get up my nostrils.
Maxima Romantica. Got this on behalf of my friend, so just keeping it watered. Nice, but the blooms are quite smug-looking.
Hi all,
(first of all apologies if you see this question elsewhere, I will go and delete the other two now, long sorry and silly me for posting in the wrong places... and also sorry about the bold, I can't seem to get it to disappear, tried all my usual tricks, but no luck...)
Anyway!
I popped into Nutcutts the other day wanting to pick up a few delphiniums when I walked past a beauty that stopped me in my tracks! If I could have drawn my PERFECT rose, of the perfect shade of the pink, with the perfect shape etc, I would have drawn this one.
As I had been "on the market" for a rose anyway, I bought it immediately!
When I got home and started researching it, it certainly looks like she might be a bit of a high maintenance girl!
I have read up on it a bit, but I am still a little confused and wondered if anyone here had any top tips.
Perhaps you have the exact same rose? Or perhaps you know a lot about rosed and can throw some general high-level advice my way?
I am particularly interested in advice on pruning (when / how much etc) as that's something I've never done - and any other important things to look out for. Throw it all at me, I'll take my time to digest it...
She is still in her original pot, I was waiting to get some advice before deciding on size of pot and exact area (she will have to stay in a pot I am afraid, but I am happy to invest in whatever she may need.
Thank you so much in advance,
Alex
Lady Em standard is filling out, not a lot of blooms from it yet and needs another sequestered iron treatment - this rose does hate my hard water:
Oh you’re welcome @Busy-Lizzie, glad that was useful. The odd thing is I haven’t had cold nights but it could’ve been earlier temperature swings I suppose.
@Athelas I’m amazed you haven’t had any thefts out there in 6 years, but still very annoying - let’s hope they die on the miscreants!
Thank you so much for the link.
I guess this is the issue with being such a beginner, is that I often get confused 30 seconds into a tutorial haha!
The man just said I want a mixture of John Innes #3 and some multi-purpose compost.
Surely John Innes #3 is compost???? What am I missing? Sorry if this is silly question, I just don't know what I may be missing and I'd rather ask and learn something than assume and mess up the lovely rose.
Also, does the pot have to be terracotta? Or can any ceramic pot do?
Thank you!
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